--- title: Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported», a lesson of the politics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Two peoples, Israeli Jews and Palestinians, see the same small land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / Israel and Gaza: what happened, as wid… # Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported Lesson 26 of the politics course of Mova's primary school: 23 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/0/) — Two peoples, Israeli Jews and Palestinians, see the same small land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea as home, and they have fought over it for more than seventy years. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/1/) — Each people tells the story of how it began in its own way. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/2/) — On 7 October 2023 fighters from Hamas, the armed group that ran Gaza, attacked the south of Israel; news reports said about 1,200 people were killed, most of them ordinary people, and about 250 were taken to Gaza as hostages. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/3/) — Israel then bombed Gaza and sent in soldiers to fight Hamas and bring the hostages home. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/4/) — Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry reported tens of thousands of deaths, many of them women and children, and news reports said most homes were damaged or destroyed. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/5/) — Picture two children: one in a shelter room in Israel as a siren wails, one in a tent in Gaza holding his only toy. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/6/) — Both are frightened and both families are grieving. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/7/) — You can feel for both, and you can say which points are agreed and which are contested. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/8/) — Some words are fought over: South Africa accused Israel of genocide at the UN's top court, and some UN experts and rights groups used the word; Israel and its supporters strongly reject it and call the war self-defence against Hamas. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/9/) — The court had not given its final ruling at the time of writing. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/11/) — On 7 October 2023 Hamas fighters broke into southern Israel; news reports said about 1,200 people were killed, most of them civilians, and about 250 were taken to Gaza as hostages. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/12/) — Gaza is a small, crowded strip of land by the sea between Israel and Egypt, home to about two million Palestinians. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/13/) — After 7 October Israel's army bombed Gaza and sent in soldiers to fight Hamas and free the hostages; news reports said most homes were damaged or destroyed and almost everyone had to flee at least once. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/14/) — Gaza's health ministry, part of the Hamas-run government, reported tens of thousands of deaths, many of them women and children; Israel disputed the counts and said thousands of the dead were fighters, while the UN and researchers said the ministry's counts in past wars had proved fairly close. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/15/) — UN agencies reported severe hunger in Gaza, and in August 2025 food experts used by the UN said there was famine in Gaza City; Israel disputed this and said it let in a lot of food and Hamas stole aid. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/16/) — Hostages' families campaigned to bring them home; some hostages were freed in deals, a few were rescued by soldiers, and some died while held, news reports said. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/17/) — A one-week pause came in November 2023; a ceasefire began in January 2025 and broke down in March; another began in October 2025 under a US-backed plan, when the living hostages came home and many Palestinian prisoners were freed, though deadly incidents were still reported afterwards. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/18/) — During the war rockets and missiles were fired at Israel from Gaza, by Hezbollah in Lebanon, by the Houthis in Yemen and by Iran, and many Israeli families had to leave their homes for months, news reports said. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/19/) — Most schools in Gaza were damaged or used as shelters, and many families lived in tents with little clean water, news reports said. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/20/) — South Africa accused Israel of genocide, trying to destroy a whole people, at the International Court of Justice, the UN's top court; Israel strongly rejected the claim, and the case was expected to take years. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/21/) — Israel was founded in 1948; Jewish people celebrate its independence, while Palestinians mourn the Nakba, «the catastrophe», when hundreds of thousands fled or were forced from their homes. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/22/) — In 1967, after a war, Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/26-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported/23/) — The best-known peace idea is two states, Israel and Palestine, side by side; talks have failed many times, and some Israeli and Palestinian families who lost children meet to talk together. - ← previous: [Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/25-ukraine-refugees-aid-sanctions-and-childrens-lives/) - next →: [Israel and Gaza at school and online](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/27-israel-and-gaza-at-school-and-online/) - ↑ back to [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/)