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The Gaza–Israel conflict is a localized part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict beginning in 1948, when 200,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes, settling in the Gaza Strip as refugees. [ 3 ] Since then, Israel has fought 15 [ 4 ] wars against the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip is a major part of the Israel–Hamas war. Starting on 7 October 2023, immediately after the Hamas-led attacks, Israel began the bombing of Gaza Strip; on 13 October, Israel began ground operations in Gaza, and on 27 October, a full-scale invasion was launched. Israel's campaign, called Operation Swords of ...
Following the incident and in response to numerous rocket firings by Hamas from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, fighting broke out between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip. In the summer of 2007, a Fatah–Hamas conflict broke out, which eventually led to Hamas taking control of the Gaza Strip, which in practice divided the Palestinian ...
An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups [ab] has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. The fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008, it has been the deadliest for Palestinians in the entire Israeli–Palestinian conflict , [ 122 ] and the most significant military ...
Israeli officials counter that a solution must be found to better control the Egypt-Gaza border, which has long been used for smuggling. ... from Gaza, and Israel has agreed to that,” said ...
Israel strikes 1500 sites in Gaza, [172] including rocket launchpads, weapon depots, government facilities and apartment blocks. [173] Gaza officials said 133 Palestinians had been killed in the conflict of whom 79 were militants, 53 civilians and 1 was a policeman [174] and estimated that 840 Palestinians were wounded. Hamas fired over 1,456 ...
The center of Gaza's second-largest city, Khan Younis, has also seen fighting amid Israel’s widening air and ground offensive in the southern part of the territory that has displaced tens of ...
Israel's attack on Gaza in 2009. Although closure has a long history in Gaza dating back to 1991 when it was first imposed, it was made more acute after 2000 with the start of the second intifada. Closure was tightened further after the 2005 disengagement and then again in 2006, after Hamas’s electoral victory. [206]