Israel has attacked 100,000 targets since the Hamas massacre

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Lerato Khumalo

Middle East

Israel has attacked 100,000 targets since the Hamas massacre

Updated on October 7th, 2026 – 09:51 amReading time: 1 min.

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Since the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023, Israel says it has attacked 100,000 targets in the region, most of them in the Gaza Strip. (Source: Jehad Alshrafi/AP/dpa/dpa-bilder)

Three years ago, Hamas terrorists murdered around 1,200 people in Israel. The attack sparked the Gaza War. Israel has since attacked tens of thousands of targets in the region.

Since the Hamas attack in southern Israel three years ago, the Israeli armed forces say they have attacked around 100,000 targets in the region. Of these, 65,000 are in Gaza Strip been, 28,000 in Lebanon and in Syria as well as 4,500 in IranIsraeli radio reported, citing the military. 970 Israeli soldiers have been killed in the line of duty in the past three years.

In the attack on October 7, 2023, around 1,200 people were killed and 251 were kidnapped as hostages in the Gaza Strip. According to Israeli information, around 6,000 terrorists from the Islamist Hamas and other extremist groups arrived at that time Israel. In the war that followed the raid, more than 74,000 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas-controlled health authority.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Monday that 4,000 of the 6,000 terrorists had been killed so far. The military was instructed to also pursue and kill the remaining 2,000.