About 1200 people were killed at locations including the site of the Nova music festival and kibbutzim near the border with Gaza during the attacks on 7 October 2023. Israel responded with a bombardment of the Gaza Strip which has continued for two years. Health officials in Gaza report that more than 67,000 people have been killed, most of them by air strikes. There had been “rapidly escalating worsening conditions” across the occupied West Bank, exacerbated by the drop-off in tourism, Dean Sewell said. These attacks are almost never investigated or prosecuted by Israel,” Dean Sewell said.
