By: Naveya Scott 1/8/2024

The Gaza war has been paused for two months in exchange for over 100 hostages that were captured in October. This being the 15th war between the countries of Israel and Pakistan after the first in 1914. Israel is receiving an annual fund of 3.3 billion dollars from the USA. “The reality is that military cooperation benefits the United States as well as Israel.” according to  ABC News.

¨The Gaza war started on October 7, 2023, because of conflict when Hamas fighters stormed border defenses to attack Israeli bases and towns, killing more than 1,200 people and seizing more than 200 hostages.¨ -BBC The war began with the Israel Defense Forces conducting air strikes on the Gaza Strip, and weeks later by the incursion of ground troops and armored vehicles, after that, war was forged between the two countries of Israel and Palestine, against the Gaza Strip.

Gaza had a war like this that was prior to this war called the ¨1914 Gaza War this war started on July 8, 2014 – August 26, 2014¨-RAND, when the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Protective Edge on 8 July 2014, in response to Hamas rocket attacks, which were launched following an earlier Israeli air strike against Gaza and on 17 July 2014, Israel troops entered the Gaza Strip.