Six Months From October 7th, The IDF Gives A Military Update

Courtesy of Mannie Fabian, we provide an update given by the IDF on the military actions taken since October 7th, 2023.

As the country marks six months into the war against Hamas, the IDF publishes new data on its operations in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Lebanon, from the number of terror operatives killed to the number of sites struck.

– According to the data, more than 13,000 Hamas operatives and members of other terror groups have been killed by the IDF in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war, in addition to some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7, when gunmen rampaged through southern communities massacring some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 253 to Gaza.

– The Hamas-run health ministry has said over 33,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, though the figure cannot be independently verified and is believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires.

– The IDF’s data says the military has killed five Hamas brigade commanders and those of an equivalent rank, as well as more than 20 battalion commanders. More than 100 Hamas company commanders and operatives with a similar rank have also been killed, according to the data.

– In Lebanon, the IDF says it has killed more than 330 terror operatives, mostly members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah. The number includes 30 Hezbollah commanders, according to the IDF.

– Some 32,000 targets have been struck in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war, including more than 3,600 that were discovered as Hamas sites during the fighting.

– In Lebanon, some 4,700 Hezbollah positions have been hit, according to the IDF’s data.

– Since the beginning of the war, some 9,100 projectiles fired from Gaza crossed the border into Israel, alongside 3,100 from Lebanon, and around 35 from Syria. These figures do not include rockets — said by Israel to be at least in the hundreds — launched by Gazan terror groups that misfired and landed in the Strip.

– The IDF says the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 has interrogated some 4,600 Palestinian suspects in the Gaza Strip, many of whom were arrested and brought to Israel for further questioning.

– A total of 604 soldiers, reservists and local security officers have been killed and another 3,193 have been wounded since October 7. Of them, 260 were killed and 1,552 were wounded during the ground offensive in Gaza.

– The IDF also lists 41 soldiers killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and another military-related accidents.

– Since October 7, in the West Bank, the IDF says troops have arrested more than 3,700 wanted Palestinians, including more than 1,600 affiliated with Hamas. Another 420 gunmen have been killed by troops in the West Bank, the IDF says.

– The IDF says 70 brigade-level raids have been carried out in the West Bank, and 19 homes of Palestinians accused of terrorism have been demolished.