March 2010 Israel–Gaza clashes

2010 Gaza clashes
	Part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Gaza-Israel conflict
	; Map of the Gaza Strip
Date	26-27 March 2010
Location	Gaza Strip, Palestine
Result	Israeli withdrawal from Gaza
Belligerents
Israel	Gaza Strip Hamas ; Palestinian Islamic Jihad ; Jaljalat ;
Commanders and leaders
Benjamin Netanyahu ; Ehud Barak ; Maj. Eliraz Peretz X	Ismail Haniyeh ; Mohammed Deif
Units involved
Israel Defense Forces Golani Brigade ; ;	Al-Qassam Brigades ; Al-Quds Brigades
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
2 soldiers killed; 3 soldiers wounded	3 fighters killed; 2 fighters wounded
	1 Palestinian civilian killed; 12 Palestinian civilians wounded

Last updated November 12, 2024

The 2010 Gaza clashes were military clashes in the Gaza Strip between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups that occurred in March 2010.

Background

Tensions between Israel and Hamas ran high after the Gaza War, although fighting ended after a cease-fire was signed. No serious armed incidents had taken place before these clashes. However, tensions ran high, especially with the Mossad suspected of assassinating Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, and a rocket launched from Gaza killing a Thai farm worker working an Israeli field. The Israeli naval blockade of Gaza was also still in place, while rockets continued to be fired at Israeli cities and towns.

Clashes

The fighting began on March 26, 2010, when a team of soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) entered the Gaza Strip.^[2]^[3] The soldiers were from the elite Golani Brigade,^[4] and had entered after several men placing what appeared to be explosives on the border fence. Gunmen then attacked the soldiers with mortars and gunfire, as well as an explosive device. Two Israeli soldiers, Major Eliraz Peretz of Eli, and Staff Sergeant Ilan Sviatkovsky of Rishon LeZion, were killed when a grenade on a soldier's vest was hit and exploded. Israeli soldiers returned fire and killed two militants.^[5] Another IDF unit also fired on a separate group of militants planting explosives along the border, wounding two. On March 27, Israeli troops backed by tanks, armored vehicles, helicopters, and mortars entered Gaza in retaliation and clashed with Palestinian fighters.^[6] According to Palestinian sources, five Israeli tanks and two armored bulldozers entered Gaza and fired shells at targets near Khan Younis before withdrawing. An Israeli spokesperson confirmed that Israeli bulldozers were used to flatten infrastructure used by terrorists. One Palestinian gunman was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the fighting. According to Palestinian medical sources, a Palestinian civilian was also killed and twelve more wounded.

Aftermath

The Palestinian armed groups Hamas, Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, and Jaljalat, claimed to have been involved in the fighting. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed condolences to the families of the dead and the wounded, while a Hamas spokesperson claimed the deaths of the two soldiers as revenge for Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

The IDF took note that both the soldiers killed during the hostilities died when a single hand grenade carried in one of the soldiers' vests was hit and exploded as a result. Israeli engineers subsequently developed an upgraded version of the M26 grenade, designed not to explode when struck by a bullet.

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References

↑ "2 Israeli soldiers, 1 Palestinian killed in Gaza". CTVNews. March 26, 2010. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
↑ "IDF tanks leave Gaza after clashes". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
↑ "Israeli troops killed in Gaza clash". Al Jazeera. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
↑ Bronner, Ethan (March 21, 2009). "A Religious War in Israel's Army". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved March 20, 2020.
↑ "Maj. Eliraz Peretz". mfa.gov.il. March 26, 2010. Archived from the original on June 21, 2013.
↑ Brown, L. Carl; Cordesman, Anthony H.; Moravitz, Jennifer (2006). "The Israeli-Palestinian War: Escalating to Nowhere". Foreign Affairs. 85 (2): 201. doi:10.2307/20031954. ISSN 0015-7120. JSTOR 20031954.

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[1] "2 Israeli soldiers, 1 Palestinian killed in Gaza". CTVNews. March 26, 2010. Retrieved April 18, 2024.

[2] "IDF tanks leave Gaza after clashes". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved March 20, 2020.

[3] "Israeli troops killed in Gaza clash". Al Jazeera. Retrieved April 18, 2024.

[4] Bronner, Ethan (March 21, 2009). "A Religious War in Israel's Army". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved March 20, 2020.

[5] "Maj. Eliraz Peretz". mfa.gov.il. March 26, 2010. Archived from the original on June 21, 2013.

[6] Brown, L. Carl; Cordesman, Anthony H.; Moravitz, Jennifer (2006). "The Israeli-Palestinian War: Escalating to Nowhere". Foreign Affairs. 85 (2): 201. doi:10.2307/20031954. ISSN 0015-7120. JSTOR 20031954.

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