Oct 7: Over 26,000 rockets, missile, drones launched at Israel

As the country marked one year since the onset of the war on October 7, 2023, the Israel Defense Forces on Monday published new data, revealing that over 26,000 rockets, missiles and drones have been launched at the country from multiple fronts.

The Times of Israel who made the publication stated that this launch includes 13,200 projectiles fired from Gaza, at least 5,000 on October 7 alone, 12,400 Lebanon, around 60 from Syria, 180 from Yemen, and 400 from Iran and the latter of which in two direct attacks on Israel on April 13 and October 1.

The war began when some group of Hamas terrorists penetrated Israel on Oct 7, 2023, rampaged through southern communities, massacred 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251 to Gaza. Israel responded with a military campaign to topple the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip.
Speaking further on the launch, the IDF did not detail how many drones and missiles had been launched from Iraq at Israel amid the war, stating that figures not include rockets said by Israel to be at least in the hundreds.

According to the data, some 17,000 Hamas operatives and other terror groups have been killed by the IDF in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war and hundreds missiles launched by Gazan terrors that misfired and landed in the Strip, as well as those launched by Hezbollah that landed short in Lebanon.

The Hamas-run health ministry has said over 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, though the figure cannot be independently verified and is believed to include civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza.
The IDF’s data said that the military has killed eight Hamas brigade commanders and those of an equivalent rank, as well as more than 30 battalion commanders and 165 Hamas company commanders, operatives with a similar rank have also been killed.

According to the IDF’s data, nearly 11,000 Hezbollah positions have been struck by the military and Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 interrogated some 7,000 Palestinian suspects in the Gaza Strip, many of whom were arrested and brought to Israel for further questioning.

In his messages to mark one year of the war in Middle East, the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer said over a thousand people were brutally murdered, men, women, children and babies killed, mutilated, and tortured by the terrorists of Hamas.
He said, “A year on, that collective grief has not diminished or waned. Yet their strength and determination to cherish the memories of those they had lost continues, and our determination to bring those still captive home endures.

“One year on from these horrific attacks we must unequivocally stand with the Jewish community and unite as a country. We must never look the other way in the face of hate.  We must also not look other way as civilians bear the ongoing dire consequences of this conflict in the Middle East”.

UK Prime Minister reiterated his call for immediate ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, and for the removal of all restrictions on humanitarian aid into Gaza.

“We will not falter in our pursuit of peace and on this day of pain and sorrow, we honour those we lost, and continue in our determination to return those still held hostage, help those who are suffering, and secure a better future for the Middle East”, he said.