A Hamas official says Benjamin Netanyahu's post-war plan "will never succeed" The document that the Israeli prime minister has in the government security cabinet indicates that the army "will exercise security control over the entire area west of Jordan, including the Gaza Strip" The war between Israel and Hamas was sparked by an unprecedented attack by the Islamist movement in southern Israel on October 7 that resulted in the deaths of around 1,160 people. The Israeli retaliatory offensive has so far killed more than 29,500 people, mostly civilians, in Gaza.