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What is the Gaza war?

October 7, 2023 was the trigger; the catastrophe was what followed. Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 74,016 Palestinians killed as of September 26, 2026.

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On October 7, 2023, Hamas-led fighters attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking around 251 hostage. What followed in Gaza was a war of a scale the enclave had never endured — a catastrophe measured above all in Palestinian lives.

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October 7, 2023 was the trigger; the catastrophe was what followed. Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 74,016 Palestinians killed as of September 26, 2026.…

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