Palestinians look for their belongings among the rubble of their destroyed home in Gaza City (Picture: Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The conflict between Israel and Hamas has reached its tenth day, as Israel gears up to launch a ground invasion in the West Bank.
The fighting began on October 7 when Hamas militants took dozens of hostages and attacked a music festival in southern Israel.
Since then, thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have been killed or injured.
Read the latest on our Israel-Hamas live blog
Today marks the tenth day of fighting, and prime minister Rishi Sunak confirmed six British citizens were killed in Hamas’ incursion on Israel, with a further 10 still missing.
Below are the main developments since the Israel-Hamas conflict began
Israel-Hamas war: 10 days of conflict
Hamas invaded Israel and attacked the Supernova music festival.
Hamas, which runs Gaza, said its offensive was a response to the desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and increased settler violence.
At least 232 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, launched in retaliation to the Hamas offensive against Israel.
At least 250 Israelis were killed and Hamas said it captured ‘several times greater’ than dozens of Israelis.
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told residents of the besieged enclave to ‘leave now’, saying Israel’s forces ‘will turn all Hamas hideouts to rubble’.
Gun battles continued between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters in Ashkelon and other areas of southern Israel.
Palestinians in Gaza received messages on their phones from Israeli authorities to evacuate immediately.
Netenyahu promised ‘mighty vengeance’ against Hamas.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health said 370 people had been killed and 2,200 wounded, while the death toll in Israel reached 600.
Gun battles between Hamas fighters and Israeli troops continued in three main areas: a kibbutz in Karmia, and in the cities of Ashkelon and Sderot.
A senior Hamas official said the group is holding more than 100 Israelis captive in Gaza.
The IDF said it had regained control of most of the border with Gaza, killed hundreds, and taken dozens as hostages.
Israeli forces continued to investigate the site of the Supernova music festival, where 260 bodies were found.
The IDF said it regained ‘full control’ of the Gaza fence, cutting off water and power supplies.
Hamas said it would execute an Israeli captive for every civilian house bombed without warning.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an end to the ‘vicious circle of bloodshed, hatred and polarisation’.
Israel’s death toll rose to 900, with 794 Palestinians killed.
The IDF says its fighter jets struck more than 200 targets in a neighbourhood of Gaza City.
Hamas fighters from the Gaza Strip rampaged through parts of southern Israel in the deadliest Palestinian attack in Israel’s history.
Israel called up 300,000 reservists.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Israeli strikes had destroyed more than 22,600 residential units and 10 health facilities, and damaged 48 schools.
Two members of Hamas’ political office were killed in an air strike in Khan Younis.
Israel’s military said it was conducting a ‘large-scale strike’ on Hamas targets in Gaza.
Gaza was placed under ‘total siege’, stopping food and fuel from reaching the area.
Israel formed an emergency unity government.
The death toll in Gaza rose to 1,200, while the number of people killed in Israel rose to 1,300.
Israel said it attacked 750 ‘military targets’ overnight in the Gaza Strip, including high-rise buildings.
Hamas called on Palestinians to rise up against Israel’s bombardment, urging them to march to East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Israel ordered for 1.1 million people to evacuate Gaza within 24 hours.
The UN said Israel’s relocation order would be ‘impossible without devastating humanitarian consequences’.
The UK deployed two Navy ships and surveillance aircraft to the Mediterranean to support Israel.
Israel told nearly half of the population of the Gaza Strip to relocate as it plans an assault, with tens of thousands of people estimated to have fled south.
An Israeli missile strike on journalists working in southern Lebanon killed a cameraman and wounded several other journalists.
Human Rights Watch accused Israel of using white phosphorous – which the Israeli military denied.
The death toll reached 1,900 for Palestinians and remained at 1,300 for Israelis.
Israel’s forces, supported by the deployment of US warships in the region, positioned themselves along Gaza’s border.
The IDF confirmed the number of hostages in Gaza currently stands at 126, and at least 279 of its soldiers had been killed.
The Al-Quds hospital in Gaza said it would not evacuate after Israel issued an evacuation deadline, saying it would not abandon its patients.
Ambulances were no longer working in Gaza due to running out of fuel.
The IDF vowed to hunt down Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who they compared to Osama bin Laden.
A US official said water pipes in southern Gaza had been turned back on.
Amnesty International verified six videos of an attack on Salah al-Din road – a supposedly safe route for Palestinians fleeing Gaza – which killed at least 70 people.
Iran warned Israel of escalation if it failed to end aggressions against Palestinians.
A ‘massive fireball’ was reported in Gaza after ‘multiple air strikes’ from the Israeli military.
The latest death toll is at least 1,400 dead and 3,400 injured in Israel, with at least 2,670 dead and 9,600 injured in Palestine.
Reserves of fuel at hospitals at the Gaza Strip are expected to only last for around another 24 hours.
Joe Biden warned Israel that any occupation of Gaza would be a ‘big mistake’.
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The fighting began on October 7 when Hamas militants took dozens of hostages and attacked a music festival in southern Israel.
