# Columbia Gaza encampment sparks nationwide campus protests

Date: 2024

The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the military wing of the political organisation Hamas led an attack on Israel, in which 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed and 251 were taken hostage. Since the start of the Israeli offensive that followed, over 73,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed; several studies in The Lancet indicate this figure is likely a…

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- 2024 US campus Gaza-war protests: https://factrail.ai/drivers/2024-us-campus-gaza-war-protests

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