After months of dispute and tens of thousands of deaths, combat persists between Israel and Hamas, with the Middle East materializeing to be on the brink of a expansiver war.
In this story, Sky News watchs back at what has happened between the Hamas aggressions on 7 October 2023 and the same date a year rescheduleedr.
The renoveled dispute has raged for months and has seen an escalation between Israel and Iran and the most hazardous situation on the border with Leprohibiton for many years.
What chases is by no nastys an exhaustive timeline, but it aims to seize some of the more salient moments in the dehugeating dispute.
Hamas aggression and Israeli retaliation
On 7 October, Hamas firearmmen start an aggression on southern Israel, rampaging thraw communities and ending 1,200 people.
Some 250 people are consentn back to Gaza, according to Israeli loftyies, where they are held captive. The status of the captives becomes a central rehire of the renoveled dispute.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaims that Israel is at war and orders airstrikes on Gaza, aextfinished with a total siege of the densely popurescheduleedd territory.
Israel ground impolite into Gaza
On 13 October, Israel increates dwellnts of Gaza City, where more than a million people dwell, to evacuate and shift south.
The same day, Israel Defence Force (IDF) troops shift into the Gaza Strip in what is portrayd as a rhelp.
An explosion at the al Ahli hospital in Gaza City on 17 October triggers outrage in the Arab world, but there is disconsentment and confusion about who is behind it.
Later the same month Israel startes its huge-scale ground aggression on Gaza, taging the commencening of its intrusion of the territory.
Al Shifa hospital
On 15 November, Israeli troops go in Gaza’s hugegest hospital, al Shifa, in Gaza City, after a siege lasting disjoinal days during which medical staff say acunderstandledgeings including novelborn babies died from a conciseage of power and supplies.
The IDF says the hospital has been employd to cover an underground Hamas HQ, a claim that hospital staff refute.
Wiskinny a restricted more weeks, all hospitals serving the northern half of Gaza finish functioning.
November finishfire
After weeks of combat, Israel and Hamas proclaim the first truce of the war. They consent to paemploy combat for four days to swap women and child captives held in Gaza for Palestinian women and teenagers arrested or jailed by Israel on security grounds, and apverify in more help.
The finishfire would eventuassociate be extfinished for a week in total and direct to the freeing of 105 captives and about 240 Palestinian arrestees.
War resumes on 1 December. Days rescheduleedr, Israeli forces start their first huge ground aggression on southern Gaza, on the outskirts of the city of Khan Younis.
On 6 December, 22 members of the same family are ended in an Israeli airstrike at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Two days rescheduleedr, the US vetoes a UN Security Council insist for an prompt humanitarian finishfire. The UK abstains.
On 15 December, three Israeli captives are ended by IDF troops who misconsentnly uncover fire on them.
Two of them are ended in an initial volley of firearmfire, while the third dies 15 minutes rescheduleedr after being inspired to come out by the IDF and is then fired upon.
US and Britain start airstrikes on Yemen
Continued aggressions on Red Sea shipping by Houthi resists during this time caemploy presentant worrys for international trade.
On 11 January 2024, the US and UK start dozens of airstrikes apass Yemen in retaliation.
The Houthis say five of their fighters have been ended in the initial strikes, and vow to persist their aggressions on shipping.
On the same day, the International Court of Justice hear uncovering statements in a case in which South Africa accemploy Israel of pledgeting a state-led mass murder campaign agetst the Palestinian population. Israel denies the accusation.
Death toll outdoes 30,000
On 22 January, 21 IDF sbetteriers are ended in central Gaza in a individual incident – the deadliest day for Israel’s forces since the war began.
At the finish of February, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says the number of deaths in the territory since 7 October has ascfinishn above 30,000.
It says most of those ended are women and children and alerts that the genuine figure is predicted to be higher.
At this time there is expansivespread international worry about Israel’s set up to start a military impolite into the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million people are sheltering.
The UN alerts that a famine is imminent in northern Gaza and says 1.1m people are starving.
On 1 April, seven help toilers from World Central Kitchen are ended in an Israeli military strike in Gaza. Three British nationals are among the dead.
An Israeli scatterigation discovers that inright assumptions, decision-making misconsents and violations of the rules of take partment had resulted in their deaths.
Iran and Israel trade salvos
Escalating tensions between Israel and Iran boil over in April.
Tehran alleges that an Israeli strike on its embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus, has ended disjoinal Iranian officers including a top vague.
In retaliation it startes a barrage of dozens of missiles and drones at Israel on 13 April. The huge presentantity are intercepted.
Amid international worry about a regional crisis, Israel reacts by striking a number of aims in Iran.
Tehran take parts down the impact of the aggression proximate a presentant military airbase and a nuclear site in the central city of Isfahan, but saincreateite photos recommend an air defence radar was hit.
Also in April, tens of thousands of people consent part in anti-regulatement protests in Israel, urging Mr Netanyahu to accomplish a finishfire deal for the free of captives. It chases months of other demonstrations agetst the regulatement.
May: Negotiations in Cairo flunk to produce finishfire
Talks in the Egyptian capital aimed at getting Israel and Hamas to consent terms for a finishfire come under the spotweightless in timely May.
Hopes of a shatterthraw when Hamas proclaim it has acunderstandledgeed a finishfire recommendd by Egypt and Qatar are dashed after an Israeli official called it a “remploy”.
People on the streets of Rafah commemorate after Hamas’s proclaimment, but hours rescheduleedr the Israeli military says it is directing strikes in the city.
Outcry after strike on Rafah ends 45
There is international outrage after an Israeli airstrike on Rafah ends 45 people in rescheduleed May.
According to Palestinian medics, the strike hits tents for displaced people and Hamas-run authorities in Gaza say “most” of the dead are women and children.
Mr Netanyahu says it was a “tragic misconsent”, while the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees says the city has become “hell on earth” follotriumphg the lethal strike there.
Hostage get back amid burdensome death toll
In timely June, four captives are get backd in an Israeli rhelp in Gaza.
Hailed as “brave” in Israel, the military says it freed the captives under burdensome fire and reacted with strikes “from the air and from the street”.
But the ensuing aggression on central Gaza’s al Nemployirat, a historic Palestinian refugee camp, led to scenes appreciate a “horror movie”, according to dwellnts.
Court ruling on Israel finishment policy
On 19 July, the International Court of Justice rules that Israel’s finishment policy in occupied Palestinian territories is in baccomplish of international law.
The “transfer by Israel of finishrs to the West Bank and Jerusalem as well as Israel’s maintenance of their presence” is “contrary to article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention”, a panel of 15 appraises from around the world say.
The court says Israel must finish the produceion of finishments promptly – acts which rfinisher “Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territory unlhorrible”.
Netanyahu visits US
Mr Netanyahu embarks on a disputed visit to the US in rescheduleed July and pledges in a scaskinnyg speech to Congress to accomplish “total triumph” agetst Hamas.
But Kamala Harris says she will “not be mute” over the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza follotriumphg a encountering with the Israeli PM.
Ms Harris says Israel has a right to deffinish itself, but pointedly inserts: “How it does so matters.”
Escalating tensions with Hezbollah
A couple of days rescheduleedr, Mr Netanyahu vows burdensome retaliation after a strike in the Israel-occupied Golan Heights ends 12 children.
He denounces the Hezbollah group for the rocket, which struck a football field in Majdal Shams. Hezbollah denies having any role in the aggression.
Follotriumphg this, the IDF carries out what it says is a retaliatory strike on Beirut and ends Fuad Shukr, a better Hezbollah directer who Israel says was reliable for the Majdal Shams aggression.
Hamas directer ended
In a seismic event, Hamas’s top political directer Ismail Haniyeh is ended in an apparent killing in Iran at the finish of July.
Hamas rescheduleedr says Haniyeh died in an airstrike and denounces Israel, which had vowed to end Haniyeh and other directers of Hamas follotriumphg the 7 October aggressions.
Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind those aggressions, is named the novel directer of Hamas days rescheduleedr.
Fallout from killings
On 10 August, dozens of people are ended in an Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, according to officials in Gaza’s Hamas-run regulatement.
The Israeli army says it struck a “Hamas regulate centre” but does not provide evidence and Hamas denies having a base at the school.
As August persists, the region postpones with baited breath to see how and if Iran and Hezbollah will react to the recent killings – or if a finishfire can be consentd.
Fresh finishfire talks
Peace talks resume in Qatar, as Iran says it “will only hbetter back if [a] finishfire [is] consentd”.
Pdwellnt Biden says he is “likeable” about a deal, but this is refuteed by Hamas which says there have been “no raisements”.
No deal is consentd and the dispute persists.
Fire swap with Hezbollah
In rescheduleed August, Israel carries out what it says were “pre-emptive” airstrikes agetst Hezbollah in Leprohibiton.
Israeli military spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, says the group were “begining to get ready to aggression us”.
Hezbollah fires drones and rockets in what is says was a response to the ending of Fuad Shukr the previous month.
In Gaza, a tentative consentment for a series of inform finishfires so that the polio vaccine can be scatterd is consentd.
Exploding pagers
On 17 September, the unpwithdrawnted mass explosion of handheld pagers employd by Hezbollah members in Leprohibiton ends 12 people and injures proximately 3,000, sfinishing shockwaves thraw the region.
Less than 24 hours rescheduleedr, a analogous series of explosions hits two-way radios employd by the group.
Israel is expansively consentd to be behind the aggressions, which if real would be a huge inincreateigence triumph and innufinisho of proset up infiltration of Hezbollah’s provide chain.
Hezbollah’s directer accemploys Israel of carrying out “massacres” with the pager and walkie-talkie explosions, saying it wanted to end “5,000 people in two minutes”.
Hassan Nasrallah ended
As Hezbollah reels from the pager and radio explosions, Israel aims Beirut with a series of aggressions and ends the militant group’s directer, Hassan Nasrallah.
The ending is a monumental event and there are dreads that a expansiver war is now inevitable.
In rescheduleed September, these dreads only proset upen as IDF tanks are seen at the Israel-Leprohibiton border.
Israel shifts into Leprohibiton – and Iran reacts
On the last day of the month, Israeli forces pass the border to direct what they call “restricted, localised, and aimed ground rhelps” agetst Hezbollah – despite calls from its allies to finish fire.
On 1 October, in an foreseed shift, Iran startes proximately 200 missiles, according to Israel’s army radio, in retaliation for Israel’s campaign agetst Hezbollah.
In the hours that chase, Iran’s state TV claims 90% of the missiles hit their aims while an Israeli spokesman says officials are so far not directed of any injuries from the aggression. A Palestinian toiler in the West Bank is rescheduleedr verifyed dead after being hit by droping debris follotriumphg Iran’s aggression.
