JERUSALEM: Prior to now 12 months within the Gaza Strip, Israel has bombed greater than 40,000 targets, discovered 4,700 tunnel shafts and destroyed 1,000 rocket launcher websites, the navy stated on Monday’s (Oct 7) one-year anniversary of the Hamas-led militant assaults that triggered Israel’s assault on the enclave.
Tallying troops whose names it obtained permission to publish, Israel’s navy stated 726 Israeli troopers had been killed since Oct 7, 2023. Of these, 380 died within the Oct 7 assaults and 346 in Gaza fight beginning Oct 27, 2023.
Injured troops numbered 4,576 since that date. Fifty-six troopers died on account of operational accidents, which the navy didn’t outline.
In knowledge to mark the Oct 7 anniversary, the Israeli navy stated it enlisted 300,000 reservists for the reason that begin of the conflict – 82 per cent males and 18 per cent ladies and almost half of them aged 20 to 29.
For the reason that begin of the conflict, 13,200 rockets had been fired into Israel from Gaza. One other 12,400 had been fired from Lebanon, whereas 60 got here from Syria, 180 from Yemen and 400 from Iran, the navy stated.
It stated it killed greater than 800 “terrorists” in Lebanon, the place 4,900 targets have been struck from the air together with about 6,000 floor targets. Over the previous 12 months, Israel arrested greater than 5,000 suspects within the West Financial institution and Jordan Valley.