Month of Israel-Gaza war changed everything as ‘Gaza has become a graveyard for thousands of innocent people’: Al Quds

The territory of 2.4 million people has been transformed into an apocalyptic battleground by air and ground assaults after Israel vowed to eradicate Hamas

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says nearly 9,500 have been killed, two-thirds of them women and children, and mostly civilians

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Palestinians comfort a crying man after losing relatives under the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. Photo: AP

Published: 12:07pm, 5 Nov 2023

One month after Israel was wracked by Hamas attacks, life has been upended for both the Palestinians and Israel after it launched a war of reprisal in the Gaza Strip.

The October 7 attacks by Hamas militants who stormed across from Gaza and struck kibbutzim and southern Israeli areas killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and deeply scarred the nation.

Images of charred and mutilated bodies invoked comparisons to the horror of the Holocaust, and the abduction of more than 240 people by the Hamas gunmen continues to stir political and emotional turmoil.

Gaza – a territory of 2.4 million people packed into one of the most densely populated areas on Earth – has been transformed into an apocalyptic battleground by air strikes and ground assaults after Israel vowed to eradicate Hamas.

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says nearly 9,500 have been killed, two-thirds of them women and children, and mostly civilians.

Al Quds, the most widely read Palestinian daily, said “Gaza has become a graveyard for thousands of innocent people”.

A woman does household chores among the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli air strikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Photo: Xinhua

“It feels like we have to pinch ourselves to make sure that this is truly the new reality,” the left-wing Israeli daily Haaretz wrote this week.