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This is a list of notable engagements during the Israel–Hamas war, encompassing land, naval, and air engagements, covering events which took place or began during the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, events and immediately afterwards, Israel's declaration of war on 8 October, the imposition of the 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, and active operations in the Gaza Strip.
Name | Location | Start date [a] | End date [a] | Belligerents | Result | |
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October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel | Southern District | 2023-10-07 | 2023-10-16 [1] | Israel | Palestinian Joint Operations Room: | Hamas tactical victory [2] [3] |
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip | Gaza Strip | 2023-10-27 | Israel | Ceasefire [4] | ||
Insurgency in the North Gaza Strip | Gaza City, Jabalia, Beit Lahia | 2024-01-07 [5] [6] | Israel | Ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal [4] |
This table's factual accuracy is disputed .(April 2024) |
Early in the morning of 7 October 2023, approximately 3000 militants, [12] [13] from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, and DFLP, [14] breached the Gaza fence and attacked multiple locations in southern Israel. [12] [13] Following this the IDF blockaded, bombed, and then invaded the Gaza Strip.
Attack | Location | Deaths | Hostages | Date | |||
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Total | Civilian [a] | Military [b] | Start | End | |||
2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel | Southern District (Israel) | 1,139 | total = 200+ Hostages | 2023-10-07 (Dawn) | |||
Battle of Sderot | Sderot | 15 [16] | |||||
Re'im music festival massacre | Near Re'im | 364 [17] [18] | 40 Hostages [19] | ||||
Be'eri massacre | Be'eri | 117+ [20] | |||||
Nahal Oz attack | Nahal Oz lookout base [21] | 15+ [21] | none | 15+ [21] | 7+ Hostages [21] | 2023-10-07 | |
Kibbutz Nahal Oz | 80+ | 12+ | 46+ | 20+ missing [c] | |||
Nahal Oz | 100+ | 12+ | 61+ soldiers | 7 to 30 Hostages | |||
Kfar Aza massacre | Kfar Aza | 52+ [22] [23] | |||||
Zikim attack | Zikim | 35+ [24] | 19 [25] | ||||
Nir Oz massacre | Nir Oz | 27+ [26] | 2023-10-07 09:45 [d] | ||||
Netiv HaAsara massacre | Netiv HaAsara | 21+ [27] [28] | |||||
Alumim massacre | Alumim | 19+ [29] [30] | |||||
Kissufim massacre | Kissufim | 16+ [31] [32] | |||||
Holit attack | Holit | 13+ [33] | |||||
Ein HaShlosha attack | Ein HaShlosha | 5+ [34] | |||||
Nirim attack | Nirim | 5+ [35] [36] | |||||
Nir Yitzhak attack | Nir Yitzhak | 5+ [34] | |||||
Name | Date | Location | Rescued | Deaths | Injuries |
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Rescue of Ori Megidish | 30 October 2023 | Al-Shati refugee camp | 1 | Unknown | Unknown |
Operation Golden Hand | 12 February 2024 | Rafah | 2 | 67–100+ [37] | Unknown |
2024 Nuseirat rescue operation | 8 June 2024 | Nuseirat | 4 | 270+ | 698 |
On 1 August 2024, Gaza's media office released an updated statistic stating that Israeli forces had committed over 3,457 massacres since 7 October. [38]
Event | Accused | Location | Deaths | Date | |||
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Total | Civilian | Military [a] | Start | End | |||
Shadia Abu Ghazala School massacre [b] [40] [41] [39] | Israeli Ground Forces [c] | Shadia Abu Ghazala School in the Gaza Strip. [d] | "dozens" [39] | "dozens" [e] | 0 | 2023-12-12 | 2023-12-13 |
Flour massacre | Israel Defense Forces | Nablusi junction, Gaza | 118+ [42] | 118+ [43] | 0 | 2024-02-29 | |
Al-Maghazi playground massacre [44] [45] [46] | Israel Defense Forces | Al Maghazi | 13 [45] | 13 [45] (11 children) [47] | 0 | 2024-04-15 | 2024-04-15 (this particular massacre) |
Al-Awda School massacre | Israel Defense Forces | Abasan al-Kabira, Khan Yunis Governorate | 31+ | 31+ | 0 | 2024-07-08 | |
Name | Date | Attacker | Weapons | Target |
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Rocket barrage into Israel | 7 October 2023 | Hamas [ citation needed ] | Rockets and drones | Numerous civilian and military locations in Israel, mostly near the Gaza strip. |
Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel in 2023-2024 | 8 October 2023 – Ongoing | Hamas PIJ PFLP DFLP [a] | Rockets | Israel |
Name | Date | Accused | Location | Deaths | Injured |
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Attacks on Palestinians evacuating Gaza City | 2023-10-13 | Israel Hamas | Gaza City | 70+ [49] | 200+ [49] |
Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion | 2023-10-18 | Israel PIJ | Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza | 100–300 (United States Director of National Intelligence) [50] [ citation needed ] | 314 (Gaza Health Ministry) [51] |
Al-Mawasi is a fertile area for agriculture in the Gaza Strip. It is along the coast and has many sand dunes. Al-Mawasi is fourteen kilometers long and one kilometer wide, making up about 3% of the Gaza Strip. It is a Palestinian Bedouin town and prior to the 2005 unilateral Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip, it was a Palestinian enclave within the Israeli settlements of Gush Katif. Al-Mawasi had a population of 1,409 in the middle of 2006. Prior to the Israel–Hamas war, al-Mawasi had a population of 9,000. It has a number of buildings with a maximum of 100 structures.
Nuseirat is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the middle of the Gaza Strip, five kilometers north-east of Deir al-Balah. The refugee camp is in the Deir al-Balah Governorate, Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the refugee camp had a population of 31,747 and the surrounding Nuseirat municipality had a population of 54,851 in 2017. The camp was established after the 1948 Palestinian expulsion during the 1948 Palestine war.
Jabalia Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp established in 1948 by the United Nations to house those displaced by the 1948 Palestinian expulsion. Located 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) north of Jabalia in the Gaza Strip, it is the largest refugee camp in Palestinian territory, with more than 100,000 inhabitants. Due to Israeli attacks during the Israel–Hamas war, the refugee camp was described as "destroyed".
The year 2023 in Israel was defined first by wide-scale protests against a proposed judicial reform, and then by the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, which led to a war and to Israel invading the Gaza Strip.
Events in the year 2023 in Palestine.
From 9 October 2023, as part of the Israel–Hamas war, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has conducted airstrikes in Jabalia refugee camp, claiming it was a stronghold for Hamas and other militant groups.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Wikipedia articles available about the Israel–Hamas war. It is an evolving list.
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 on Israel, it began bombing the Gaza Strip; on 13 October, Israel began ground operations in Gaza, and on 27 October, a full-scale invasion was launched. Israel's campaign has four stated goals: to destroy Hamas, to free the hostages, to ensure Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel, and to return displaced residents of Northern Israel. After more than a year of the invasion, fighting in the Gaza Strip was halted with the implementation of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on 19 January 2025.
On October 31, 2023, Israel bombed the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip – an event that was called the Jabalia camp massacre in the Muslim world.
The siege of Gaza City was an engagement of the Israel–Hamas war that began on 2 November 2023, when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) surrounded Gaza City, amid the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, which was a counterattack to the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel. Gaza City is the most populated city in the Gaza Strip and the battle started on 30 October 2023, when Israel and Hamas clashed in Gaza City. According to Oxfam, about 500,000 Palestinians, along with 200 Israelis and other captives, were trapped in a "siege within a siege" in northern Gaza.
Since the outbreak of the Israel–Hamas war on 7 October 2023, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has conducted numerous airstrikes in densely populated Palestinian refugee camps in both the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Al-Maghazi refugee camp was struck several times.
In the Israel–Hamas war, as part of the bombing and invasion of Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has conducted numerous airstrikes in densely populated Palestinian refugee camps in both the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Events in the year 2024 in Palestine.
The bombing of the Gaza Strip is an ongoing aerial bombardment campaign on the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Air Force during the Israel–Hamas war. During the bombing, Israeli airstrikes killed thousands of civilians and militants, and damaged or destroyed Palestinian schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, and other civilian infrastructure including refugee camps.
On 31 October 2023, the Israeli Defense Forces struck a residential building in the Gaza Strip during its operations in Gaza in the Israel–Hamas war, killing at least 106 people, including 54 children. Human Rights Watch said there was no evidence of any military targets in the area at the time of the attack, making the strike an apparent war crime.
On 26 May 2024, the Israeli Air Force bombed a displacement camp in Tel al-Sultan, Rafah. The attack, which set the camp on fire, killed between 45 and 50 Palestinians and injured more than 200. Sometimes referred to as the Rafah tent massacre or as the Tent Massacre, it was the deadliest incident of the Rafah offensive.
The June 2024 northern Gaza City airstrikes or Al-Shati and Tuffah dual airstrikes took place on 22 June 2024, when two airstrikes conducted by the Israeli Defense Forces occurred at roughly the same time in northern districts of Gaza City, striking the al-Shati refugee camp and the Tuffah district, killing at least 43 people and wounding dozens more.
On 17 October 2024, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bombed the UNRWA-run Abu Hussein primary school, which had been turned into a shelter for Palestinians displaced by the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The airstrike killed at least 28 Palestinians and wounded 160 others.