One year of Israeli aggression on Gaza, protest all over the world including Pakistan, expressing solidarity with Palestinians held

ISLAMABAD, Oct 7 (SABAH): One year of the Israeli aggression on Gaza has been completed, millions of people around the world, including Pakistan, came to the streets to protest for the end of the war and express solidarity with the Palestinian people.

A Palestine Day rally was held in Islamabad under the leadership of Emir Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Hafiz Naeemur Rehman. Meanwhile, Israel continued its airstrikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut, where the Iran-backed group has a majority, during its campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israeli warplanes also hit targets related to Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters, including Hezbollah bases and weapons storage facilities in Beirut.

On the other hand, Hezbollah also claimed to have hit a military base south of Haifa, Israel’s third largest city, with Fadi-1 missiles. Israeli media reported that 10 people were injured in the north of the country. In the past year in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military says it has bombed more than 40,000 targets, found 4,700 tunnel shafts and destroyed 1,000 rocket launcher sites.

According to media reports, Israel’s military said that 726 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, 2023, 380 of them in total in the October 7 Hamas attacks and 346 in the Gaza war, which began from October 27, 2023. The Gaza war, which began when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 last year, killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 hostages.

Hamas gunmen attacked a music festival, including military bases, a civilian community about 3 miles from the Gaza border. Israel retaliated the next day.

Palestinian civilians have suffered the most in Gaza. Since October 7, at least 41,788 Palestinians have been killed and 96,794 injured. On the other hand, Lebanese authorities reported that over the past year, almost 2,000 people have been killed and more than 1.2 million displaced in Israeli attacks on Lebanon.