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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 the 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 [b] | End date [b] | Belligerents | Result | |
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2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel | Southern District | 2023-10-07 | 2023-10-16 [1] | Israel | Palestinian Joint Operations Room: | Hamas victory [2] |
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip | Gaza Strip | 2023-10-27 | Israel | Ongoing | ||
Insurgency in the North Gaza Strip | Gaza City, Jabalia, Beit Lahia | 2024-01-07 [3] [4] | Israel | Ongoing |
This table's factual accuracy is disputed .(April 2024) |
Early in the morning of 7 October 2023, approximately 3000 militants, [28] [29] from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, and DFLP, [30] breached the Gaza fence and attacked multiple locations in Southern Israel. [28] [29] 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) | total = 1,139 | total = | total = | total = 200+ Hostages | 2023-10-07 (Dawn) | |
Battle of Sderot | Sderot | 15 [32] | |||||
Re'im music festival massacre | Near Re'im | 364 [33] [34] | 40 Hostages [35] | ||||
Be'eri massacre | Be'eri | 117+ [36] | |||||
Nahal Oz attack | Nahal Oz lookout base [37] | 15+ [37] | none | 15+ [37] | 7+ Hostages [37] | 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+ [38] [39] | |||||
Zikim attack | Zikim | 35+ [40] | 19 [41] | ||||
Nir Oz massacre | Nir Oz | 27+ [42] | 2023-10-07 09:45 [d] | ||||
Netiv HaAsara massacre | Netiv HaAsara | 21+ [43] [44] | |||||
Alumim massacre | Alumim | 19+ [45] [46] | |||||
Kissufim massacre | Kissufim | 16+ [47] [48] | |||||
Holit attack | Holit | 13+ [49] | |||||
Ein HaShlosha attack | Ein HaShlosha | 5+ [50] | |||||
Nirim attack | Nirim | 5+ [51] [52] | |||||
Nir Yitzhak attack | Nir Yitzhak | 5+ [50] | |||||
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+ [53] | Unknown |
2024 Nuseirat rescue operation | 8 June 2024 | Nuseirat | 4 | 270+ | 698 |
On August 1 Gaza's media office released an updated statistic stating that Israeli forces had committed over 3,457 massacres since 7 October. [54]
Event | Accused | Location | Deaths | Date | |||
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Total | Civilian | Military [a] | Start | End | |||
Shadia Abu Ghazala School massacre [b] [56] [57] [55] | Israeli Ground Forces [c] | Shadia Abu Ghazala School in the Gaza Strip. [d] | "dozens" [55] | "dozens" [e] | 0 | 2023-12-12 | 2023-12-13 |
Flour massacre | Israel Defense Forces | Nablusi junction, Gaza | 118+ [58] | 118+ [59] | 0 | 2024-02-29 | |
Al-Maghazi playground massacre [60] [61] | Israel Defense Forces | Al Maghazi | 13 [ citation needed ] | 13 [ citation needed ] | 0 | 2024-04-15 | |
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 [ broken anchor ] | 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+ [63] | 200+ [63] |
Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion | 2023-10-18 | Israel PIJ | Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza | 100–300 (United States Director of National Intelligence) [64] [ citation needed ] | 314 (Gaza Health Ministry) [65] |
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.
An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. It is the fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008, and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. It is the deadliest war for Palestinians in the history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
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 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. More than 35,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Israeli operation began, including more than 7,800 children and 4,900 women, with another 10,000 people missing and presumed dead under the rubble of destroyed buildings. There are allegations that Israel has committed war crimes and genocide during the invasion.
The siege of Gaza City 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, there are 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.
Since the outbreak of the Israel–Hamas war on 7 October 2023, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has conducted numerous airstrikes on more than 200 educational facilities, including universities, in the Gaza Strip. The IDF states such airstrikes are the result of the placement of military infrastructure and rocket launching from civilian areas, including schools. By late March 2024, the United Nations recorded more than 200 Israeli attacks on schools in Gaza, with at least 53 schools totally destroyed. By July 2024, all 19 Gaza universities had suffered severe damage with 80% of university buildings destroyed, 103 academics killed, and 90,000 students enrolled in higher education no longer able to pursue their studies. In June 2024, UNOCHA stated 76 percent of Gaza's schools required "full reconstruction or major rehabilitation", and in August 2024, UNICEF stated 564, or 85 percent, of all schools in Gaza had been hit by Israeli attacks.
Events of the year 2024 in Israel.
Events in the year 2024 in Palestine.
On 6 May 2024, Israel began a military offensive in and around the city of Rafah as part of its invasion of the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war.
On 12 February 2024, Israel Defense Forces launched an assault on Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip, killing over 83 people. The airstrikes destroyed at least one mosque and multiple inhabited homes, killing most or all of their occupants.
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.
The siege of North Gaza is an ongoing engagement of the Israel–Hamas war in the North Gaza Governorate, Gaza Strip, between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian forces. It began on 5 October 2024 when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reinvaded Jabalia and its refugee camp for the first time in months since earlier fighting.
… Israel Defense Forces battled Hamas militants to regain control of the city and its police station.