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As fighting intensifies across Gaza and Israel, CNN is visualizing the war through maps, charts and more.
Oct 7, 2023 · Israel says that Hamas, the armed group that rules Gaza and was responsible for the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, has concealed bases inside hospitals, and it has begun releasing videos that it...
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- What towns has Hamas attacked?
- What is a kibbutz?
- Where is the Gaza Strip?
- What Middle East countries surround Israel?
Images from the grisly attack by Hamas militants in southern Israel near the Gaza Strip reveal some of the devastating aftermath from the surprise strike. A map shows the highly coordinated assault that ignited a war struck several parts of Israel surrounding the Palestinian territory.
Communities in southern Israel, near the Gaza Strip, were targeted by Hamas gunmen who broke through the border barricades or infiltrated by boat or paragliders.
Among those killed in the attack were American Deborah Matias and her husband Shlomi, who lived in a kibbutz near the Gaza border, according to Matias' father, Brandeis University professor Ilan Troen. He was on the phone with his daughter during the attack.
"She could only say to us that, 'I hear glass breaking and voices in Arabic and they're shooting,'" Troen told CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes.
Matias' 16-year-old son was also shot, but he survived.
"It was she who saved his life, by design, falling on him," Troen said. "And the bullet that reached his abdomen came through her."
In the Kfar Aza kibbutz, just a few miles from the Gaza border, Israeli Maj. Gen. Itai Veruv described the scene to reporters as "something that we used to imagine from our grandfathers, grandmothers in the pogrom in Europe and other places," according to the Reuters news agency.
A kibbutz is an Israeli collective settlement. Other kibbutzim attacked by Hamas include Nir Oz, Gevim and Zikim.
The Gaza Strip is a narrow, 25-mile-long stretch of land located on the eastern Mediterranean coast with Egypt to its west and Israel to its south and east. The territory is controlled by Hamas, which took power in 2007.
The strip's border with Israel is about 36 miles long and its border with Egypt is about eight miles. Gaza's 25-mile coastline has been blocked by the Israeli Navy since 2009 and is closed to all maritime traffic. Fishermen operating out of Gaza can only go six nautical miles from the shore.
Israel shares its western border with Egypt. Jordan is east of Israel. Between part of Israel and Jordan is the Palestinian territory of the West Bank. Lebanon is north of Israel, and Syria is to its northeast.
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