IDF hits 40,000 Hamas targets in Gaza in one year of war

The military said Monday that in the past year, Israel has bombed more than 40,000 targets in the Gaza Strip, found 4,700 tunnel shafts, and destroyed 1,000 rocket launcher sites. This comes one year after the Hamas-led militant attacks that led to Israel’s invasion of the region.

Israel’s military said that 726 Israeli soldiers had been killed since October 7, 2023. They did this by counting soldiers whose names they were allowed to publish. 380 of them died in the attacks on October 7 and 346 died in fighting in Gaza that began on October 27, 2023.

Since then, 4,576 troops have been hurt. Officially, the military did not say what caused the deaths of 56 soldiers: tactical accidents.

Since the war began, the Israeli military has signed up 300,000 reservists, with 82% being men and 18% being women. Almost half of them are between the ages of 20 and 29.

13,200 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel since the war began. The army said that another 12,400 came from Lebanon, 60 from Syria, 180 from Yemen, and 400 from Iran.

It said that it had killed more than 800 “terrorists” in Lebanon. About 6,000 ground targets and 4,900 targets in the air had been hit. Israel has caught more than 5,000 criminals in the West Bank and Jordan Valley over the past year.

In the past year, the military said it killed eight brigade leaders of militant groups in Gaza, as well as 30 battalion commanders and 165 company commanders.

According to Israeli counts, the war in Gaza began when Palestinian militants from Hamas struck southern Israel on October 7, 2023. They killed 1,200 people and held about 250 as hostages. Hamas still has more than 100 prisoners in their possession.

Since then, Israel’s military attack on Gaza has killed almost 42,000 Palestinians, according to the health minister in Gaza.