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- In the early hours of October 7, 2023, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas launched a deadly offensive against Israel that would provoke a destructive response from Tel Aviv in the Gaza Strip, before setting the rest of the Middle East on fire.
- The attack by Hamas commandos from the Gaza Strip led to the deaths of 1,205 people on the Israeli side, most of them civilians, according to a count by Agence France-Presse. Israeli military reprisals have left more than 41,000 dead in the small Palestinian territory, most of them civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health of the Hamas government for Gaza, considered reliable by the UN.
- The conflict has since spread to southern Lebanon, a stronghold of the pro-Iranian Shiite militia Hezbollah. Under threat from the “axis of resistance” forces, Israel is waging a war on several fronts, having “deleted” the top executives of Hamas and Hezbollah, starting with their leader Hassan Nasrallah.
- How did journalists find out about World Did they experience and cover the deadly October 7 attack and its dramatic consequences? A year later, they tell the story.
- At 10 a.m., Samuel Forey, who manages part of the correspondence for the World in Israel, He will answer your questions about how he lived on October 7, 2023 and covered the beginnings of the war that is igniting the region.
- At 3 p.m., the infographics department World, represented by Delphine Papin and Francesca Fattori, will discuss with you how they managed to map the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip and the visual treatment given to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the newspaper’s history.
- At 5:30 p.m., Gilles Paris, columnist and former correspondent in Jerusalem, will return, on the occasion of the newspaper’s 80th anniversary, to the way in which the world has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since its inception.
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Find all our articles on the October 7 attack and its consequences.
Find all our articles on the war in the Middle East
Our live on the war in the Middle East
The editorial of the director of “Le Monde”. October 7: an atrocious day, a tragic year
Chronology. Since October 7, a year of war
Investigation. Why does the Palestinian-Israeli conflict unleash so much passion in France?
Large format. How “Le Monde” has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for 80 years