Benajmin Netanyahu stands before a map of the Gaza Strip covered in cartoon figures to tell viewers that Palestinian group Hamas got arms into the territory since Israel's withdrawal in 2005, during a news conference on September 2, 2024. The Hebrew on the screen reads: 'Gaza after the disengagement, oxygen pipe of Hamas' [Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via AP Photo]
On September 2, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on TV to talk about the war on Gaza.
After the Palestinian group Hamas led an operation on October 7, during which 1,139 people in Israel died and another 250 or so were taken captive, Israel launched a war on Gaza, killing more than 40,000 Palestinians there.
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