Here's What Happened In Gaza In September
Here’s what happened during Israel’s war on Gaza in September 2024.
Here’s what happened during Israel’s war on Gaza in September 2024
1. Israel detonated hundreds of pagers and walkie talkies in Lebanon, killing at least 42 people and injuring nearly 3,000 others
Israel has been launching thousands of missiles on southern Lebanon after declaring it is expanding its war goals to allow Israelis who fled areas near the Lebanese border to return home safely.
First, on Wednesday Sep. 18, hundreds of pagers and electronic devices exploded simultaneously across Lebanon, killing 12 people, including two children and injuring 2,800 others
While Israel hasn’t commented on the explosions, multiple sources said the operation was carried out by Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad.
The next day on Thursday, Sep. 19, Israel then detonated hundreds of walkie talkies and other wireless electronic devices across Lebanon, raising the death toll to 37 killed and almost 3,000 injured.
2. Speaking at the UN, Netanyahu said Israel “wants peace” but will keep attacking Gaza and Lebanon until “total victory”
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a mostly empty room at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), while giving no indications of ceasefire deals and threatening to escalate tensions between Iran and Lebanon.
On Friday, Sep. 27, after several delegations walked out as he approached the podium to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its attacks on Lebanon, Netanyahu started his speech by saying he had not planned to come to the meeting this year because his country is at war, but after he heard what he described as “the lies and slanders” directed at Israel, he felt the urge to attend to “set the record straight.”
He stated that Israel would continue its military efforts until it could ensure the safety of its citizens from threats posed by Iran and its proxies, saying that Israel has to defend itself against six more war fronts organized by Iran.
3. Israel assassinated Hezbollah’s longtime leader by intensely bombing a densely populated suburb in Beirut
Hezbollah’s longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah has been assassinated by massive Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon’s capital, Hezbollah has confirmed in a statement.
Israel launched a wave of massive air raids on Dahiyeh, a suburb in southern Beirut, on the evening of Friday, Sep. 27, saying it was targeting Hezbollah’s headquarters.
Israel’s military then announced on X on Saturday, Sep. 28, that it had killed Nasrallah, who has been leading the Iran-backed militant group that controls large parts of Lebanon since 1992.
4. Israeli soldiers were filmed throwing Palestinian men’s bodies off a rooftop in the occupied West Bank
Israeli soldiers have been filmed throwing three Palestinian men’s bodies off the rooftop of a building during a raid in the town of Qabatiya in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The Israeli military stormed the town on Thursday Sep. 19 along with bulldozers, fighter jets and drones, attacking it for hours and killing at least seven people, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.
In a video that has gone viral on social media, Israeli soldiers were seen pushing what looked like lifeless bodies of Palestinian men off the rooftop of a building they had attacked during the raid.
5. Gaza health authorities published a 649-page document of every Palestinian killed, with 14 pages being babies aged 0
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has published a 649-page document identifying the 34,344 Palestinians who have been killed in Gaza from Oct. 7 to Aug. 31.
The document, shared on the Ministry’s Telegram on Monday, Sep. 16, includes the name, age, gender and ID number of each person it was able to identify.
The first 14 pages are children who are 0 years old.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has now killed at least 41,252 Palestinians and left 95,497 injured, with another more than 10,000 people believed to be buried under the rubble.
6. Israel bombed the Al-Mawasi “safe” camp in Gaza again, leaving huge craters and entire families missing
Israel has bombed a camp in Gaza sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians it had designated as a “safe zone”, killing at least 19 people and injuring more than 60 others in the early hours of Tuesday, Sep. 10.
Israel launched at least four missiles on the densely populated area in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, leaving three craters nine-meters deep and flattening at least 20 tents.
Entire families went missing under the sand, according to witnesses.
Experts said the amount of destruction left by the bombing is clear evidence that Israel used 2,000 pound bombs in the densely populated humanitarian zone, according to the New York Times.
7. Israeli forces raided Al Jazeera’s office in the occupied West Bank and forced it to shut down for 45 days
Israeli forces have raided Al Jazeera’s bureau in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and ordered it to shut down for 45 days for “inciting and supporting terrorism”.
Live footage streamed by Al Jazeera showed heavily-armed Israeli troops storming its office in Ramallah in the early hours of Sunday, Sep. 22.
Soldiers handed a notice to the bureau’s head, Walid al-Omari, ordering the office to be shut down.
Soldiers then told the team to leave the office with only their personal belongings and began confiscating documents and equipment, Al-Omari said.
Al Jazeera later aired footage showing Israeli soldiers tearing down a banner on a balcony it said bore the image of Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist who Israeli forces shot and killed while she was reporting on an Israeli raid in the West Bank in 2022.
8. People in Israel held huge, unprecedented protests against Netanyahu after six more hostages were killed
Huge, unprecedented anti-government protests have erupted across Israel after the Israeli military said it had found the bodies of another six hostages in Gaza.
More than 700,000 people, including 550,000 in Tel Aviv, poured onto the street as part of a general strike on Sep. 2 to protest against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding an immediate deal for a ceasefire and for the remaining hostages to be returned home safely.
Although people in Israel have regularly been holding anti-government protests calling for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza, this was the biggest demonstration since Israel declared war on Hamas on Oct. 7.
9. Israel’s military admitted it shot and killed this Turkish-American activist in the West Bank but said it was “unintentional”
Israel has admitted it shot and killed a 26-year-old Turkish-American woman activist while she was protesting against illegal Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank but said it did so “indirectly and unintentionally”.
Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, who is from Seattle and has American and Turkish citizenship, was taking part in a protest in Beita village on Friday, Sep. 6, when Israeli forces shot her in the head.
On Tuesday, Sep. 10, the Israeli military released a statement, saying it is “highly likely that she was hit indirectly and unintentionally by Israeli forces which was not aimed at her, but aimed at the key instigator of the riot.”
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Isha Jain
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