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PARIS: From Hamas’s brutal attacks in Israel, and the fierce retribution it provoked, to the kiss that caused a revolt in Spanish football, here are 10 events that marked a tumultuous 2023: Israel-Gaza war On October 7, hundreds of Hamas gunmen pour across the border from Gaza, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking about 240 people hostage in the worst attack in Israel’s history, traumatising the country and stunning the world. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to “destroy” Hamas and Israel launches air bombardments followed by a ground offensive that reduces entire neighbourhoods in the densely packed Palestinian territory to rubble. As Gaza’s destruction and death toll mount, international pressure grows on Israel to pause its offensive. Seven weeks into the war, the two sides agree to a four-day truce. Gaza’s Hamas-run government estimates around 13,000 Palestinians have been killed, mostly civilians and including thousands of children. Hamas releases 50 women and child hostages in return for 150 Palestinian prisoners, all women and minors, leading to emotional reunions. On November 27, the two sides agree to extend the ceasefire by two days. Ukraine’s laboured fightback Sixteen months after Russia invaded its neighbour, Kyiv launches a highly anticipated counteroffensive after amassing billions in powerful Western-made weapons and training new recruits. But the pushback fails to make much of a dent in Russia’s deep defensive lines. In late November, Ukraine announces it has made inroads along the Russian-held left bank of the Dnipro River, its first major success in months. But as winter sets in, both sides still appear largely dug in. Devastating quakes In the early hours of February 6, one of the deadliest earthquakes in a century flattens entire cities in southeast Turkey, killing at least 56,000 people, with nearly 6,000 others killed across the border in Syria. Two images come to define the devastating 7.8-magnitude tremor: that of a father holding the hand of his dead 15-year-old daughter, protruding from under a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, the epicentre, and that of a newborn baby rescued from the rubble while still umbilically attached to her dead mother. Seven months later, on September 8, Morocco suffers the deadliest quake in its history, centred on the Atlas mountains. Nearly 3,000 people are killed. More coups in Africa The spate of coups that have marked a brutal democratic backsliding in francophone Africa continues in 2023, with Niger and Gabon the latest countries to overthrow an elected president. An unpopular France is forced to withdraw both its ambassador and counter-terrorism troops from Niger — the third time its forces are sent packing by a former African colony in under two years. In August, meanwhile, Gabon’s president Ali Bongo Ondimba, heir to a dynasty that ruled for 55 years, is deposed after a presidential election which the army and opposition declared fraudulent. Hollywood on strike The existential dread caused by generative AI in the creative economy spreads to Hollywood in 2023, where writers go on strike in May to demand curbs on the use of the […]
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