Live updates on the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Fighting is ongoing after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on Saturday.
Israel At War
At least 1,200 people have died and 2,900 others have been injured in Israel after the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented incursion from air, land and sea on Saturday, Israeli authorities said.
Hamas fired thousands of rockets toward Israel and an estimated 1,000 fighters crossed into the country from the neighboring Gaza Strip. Israeli officials said at least 100 civilians and soldiers have been taken hostage.
The Israel Defense Forces has since declared « a state of alert for war » and launched retaliatory airstrikes on Gaza, a 140-square-mile territory where 2 million Palestinians have lived under a blockade imposed by neighboring Israel and Egypt since Hamas seized power in 2007. Palestinian authorities said at least 1,527 people have died and another 6,612 have been injured in Gaza since Saturday. Unlike Israel, the Gaza Strip has no air raid sirens or bomb shelters.
Israel Defense Forces called for « all residents of Gaza City to evacuate their homes » and « move south for their protection » early Friday morning local time in a series of posts on X.
The IDF told residents to move « and settle in the area south of the Gaza River.
