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Thursday, October 19, 2023
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Thursday, October 19, 2023
Experts say 300,000 Israelis internally displaced since start of conflict
Israelis load their belongings onto a bus as they evacuate from the southern Israeli town of Sderot, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Around 300,000 Israelis are believed to have been internally displaced since the start of the war with Hamas in Gaza, according to Israel Democracy Institute researchers.
Most of those, says IDI — basing its calculations on data from the Central Bureau of Statistics — are from southern Israel in the Gaza border towns where Hamas carried out its murderous rampage.
Around 30,000 come from the northern border, where many have been evacuated or left voluntarily due to repeated rocket fire from Lebanon and Syria.
