The Brief

It’s been two years since Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel, plunging the region into war .

By the numbers:

Around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack and 251 others were abducted. Forty-eight remain in Gaza, around 20 of them believed to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefires or other deals.

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More than 67,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. It does not say how many were civilians or combatants but says women and children make up around half the dead.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled from one end of the blockaded territory to the other and back again, some in trucks stacked high with mattres

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