On 9 October 2023, Israel intensified the blockade of the Gaza Strip after the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel and the ensuing Israel–Hamas war. Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced a "total blockade", blocking the entry of food, water, medicine, fuel and electricity.
El-Remal aera in Gaza City on 9 October 2023
Israel–Hamas war
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An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place chiefly in the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023. Clashes have also occurred in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and with Hezbollah along the Israel–Lebanon–Golan Heights border. The fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008, it is part of the broader Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War 50 years earlier.
Satellite view of widespread fires in Israeli areas surrounding the Gaza Strip on 7 October 2023
Destruction of a residential building in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike
Remains of the Sderot police station, following recapture by IDF
The Israeli General Staff confers during a meeting on 8 October 2023