Siege of Gaza City

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Siege of Gaza City
Part of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip and the insurgency in the North Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war
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Gaza City in December 2023
Date2 November 2023 – present
(1 year, 3 weeks and 2 days)
Location
Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Flag of Israel.svg  Israel

Flag of Hamas.svg  Hamas
Black flag.svg Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Red flag.svg Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Flag of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.svg  Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Flag of the Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades.svg  Popular Resistance Committees

Contents

Palestinian Civil Police Force
Commanders and leaders
Flag of Israel.svg Benjamin Netanyahu
Units involved

Flag of the Israel Defense Forces.svg  Israel Defense Forces

Flag of Palestine.svg Palestinian Joint Operations Room

Casualties and losses
Flag of the Israel Defense Forces.svg 148+ killed [7] [8] Flag of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.svg 2+ killed [9]
~10,000 civilians crushed under rubble (per the Palestinian Civil Defence) [10]
At least 27 dead from famine [11] [12] [13] [14]

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. [15] 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. [16] 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. [17] [18]

Siege

November 2023

2 November

On 2 November, Israeli troops encircled Gaza city as the Palestinian death toll rose above 9,000. Israeli troops have met fierce resistance upon advancing towards the gates of Gaza city. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters left their tunnels to fire at incoming Israeli tanks, before heading back into their large underground network. The Israeli military reported to have lost the commander of its 53rd battalion in the battle, Lieutenant-Colonel Salman Habaka, who was believed to be the most senior Israeli officer killed since Israeli ground operations in the Gaza strip began on 27 October. [19]

Israel acknowledged that Hamas was "well-prepared" for the battle, claiming that there were "minefields and booby traps" that hindered access to the city. A resident of Gaza City reported that Israel shelled the city throughout the whole night but still could not advance through city limits. [19] The Israel Defense Forces published the names of five soldiers who were killed during combat on 2 November, raising the total number of Israeli soldiers killed since the invasion of the Gaza Strip to 24. [20]

An Israeli airstrike destroyed a residential building in Bureij refugee camp south of Gaza city, killing at least 15 and burying dozens more under rubble. The airstrike took place in the southern zone of the Gaza Strip, which Israel had ordered residents of northern Gaza to evacuate to on 13 October. On the same day, Israeli airstrikes bombed an area of apartment towers in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, just 100 meters away from Al-Quds Hospital, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. [21]

3 November

On 3 November, an Israeli drone missile targeted a medical convoy of ambulances that were carrying 15–20 critically wounded patients near the front gate of Al-Shifa Hospital, who were leaving to the Rafah Border Crossing with Egypt to seek treatment abroad. [18] On the same day, an Israeli airstrike bombed Osama bin Zaid school in northern Gaza, which was run by the UNRWA, killing over 20 people. The UNRWA said that at least 1,000 people took refuge in the school since the start of the war. [22] [23] [24] Israel claimed to have lost 18 soldiers and killed dozens of militants on 3 November. [25]

4 November

On 4 November, Israeli forces bombed the UN-run al-Fakhoora school in Jabalia refugee camp, which had been sheltering displaced people, killing at least 15 people and wounding 54, mostly women and children. Israel had also targeted solar panels and generators, including solar panels on top of hospitals. These were the only source of electricity in Gaza since Israel imposed a total blockade on the Gaza Strip on 9 October. The Israeli army had bombed the Ali bin Abi Talib and Al-Istijabah mosques in al-Sabra neighborhood. [26] Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades said that their fighters have killed 5 more Israeli soldiers in a building northwest of Gaza City, after attacking the force with machine guns and bombs. [27] Al-Qassam Brigades have stated that they are fighting on multiple fronts, including northwest of Gaza City, south of Gaza City, in Beit Hanoun and northeastern Gaza Strip. Hamas fighters have destroyed 24 Israeli military vehicles, including a tank, an armoured personnel carrier, and a bulldozer with anti-armour weapons, notably 105mm Al-Yassin rocket-propelled grenades in the past two days. [27]

5 November

On 5 November, the Israel Defense Forces bombed al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least 30 to 51 people, mostly women and children. [28] The Israeli bombing destroyed the Sam'an family's home in the refugee camp and caused severe damage to neighboring homes and infrastructure. [29]

IDF released footage of fighting near the Hamad Hospital (Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Hospital for Rehabilitation and Prosthetics), including Hamas fighters firing from the hospital and using tunnels near the hospital building. [30] Daniel Hagari, the head of the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, said in a statement that Israel had fully surrounded Gaza City; "Israeli media" indicated that the IDF was going to enter the city itself in two days. Communication outages were also reported in Gaza due to the fighting. [31]

7 November

On 7 November, Israel claimed to have reached the "heart of Gaza City," however there is no evidence or indication on the ground that Israeli forces pushed further into the city. Hamas announced that its fighters were inflicting heavy losses and damage on advancing Israeli forces. [32] Benjamin Netanyahu suggested a plan for Israel to be responsible for Gaza's overall security for an "indefinite period" after the war, [33] although this was opposed by the United States. US President Joe Biden argued that "a reoccupation by Israeli forces of Gaza is not the right thing to do." [34] [35]

8 November

On 8 November, 50,000 Gazans fled south via the evacuation window according to the Israeli government, amid fighting between Hamas and Israeli forces in Gaza City. Some compared the mass movements to the Nakba of 1948. [36] Daniel Hagari claimed that the IDF were destroying underground tunnels of Hamas and seizing weapons, including more than 700 RPGs. [37] It is unclear whether Israeli troops were fighting inside the city. [38] An Israeli airstrike on a house near a hospital in Jabalia refugee camp killed at least 19 people. [39] As a result of the Israeli total blockade of Gaza, Al-Quds Hospital ran out of fuel and was forced to shut down most operations, while also suffering daily Israeli bombardments around the medical complex since 5 November. The hospital turned off its main generator and resorted to operating a smaller generator to provide essential services to its 500 patients and 14,000 internally displaced people sheltering there. [40]

9 November

On 9 November, Israel launched a "series of violent raids" in northern Gaza, creating a "fire belt" in the eastern side of northern Gaza, according to the Palestinian Interior Ministry. Israeli jets bombed several homes in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, killing at least 7 Palestinians. An Israeli airstrike bombed Al-Buraq School in Lababidi Street in the Al-Nasr neighbourhood, north of Gaza City, which was being used by the UNRWA as a shelter. At least 50 people were killed in the attack, with multiple injuries reported. [41] The Israeli military claimed to have killed 50 Hamas fighters in Gaza City in the last few days. Hamas said that an Israeli soldier held captive in Gaza was killed and another was injured in an Israeli air raid on central Gaza. [42]

10 November

On 10 November, at least 50 people were killed after Israeli missiles and artillery attacked a school in Gaza sheltering internally displaced people. Israeli tanks surrounded several hospitals in Gaza according to health officials, while al-Shifa hospital came under attack five times in the past 24 hours. By 10 November, over 50% of housing units across Gaza were destroyed by relentless Israeli bombardment. [43] [44]

Siege of the Al-Shifa Hospital (11–15 November)

Starting on 11 November, Israel Defense Forces began a siege of the Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza, based on intelligence that Hamas' command center is under the hospital. [45] [46] The Israeli army directly attacked the hospital, where thousands of wounded and displaced people are trapped amid heavy bombardment. [47] [48] [49] The situation at al-Shifa Hospital is part of a serious healthcare crisis in Gaza. The hospital is rapidly running out of electricity, food and medical supplies. The last generator ran out of fuel, killing three premature babies and four other patients. [50] Another 36 children are at risk of death. [51] On 15 November, the IDF raided the hospital. [52]

18 November

On 18 November, Israeli airstrikes over 80 civilians in Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza. [53]

21 November

On 21 November, the IDF moved its frontline to encircle Jabalia refugee camp where they were fighting Palestinian militants. [54] [55]

24 November

On November 24, the Israeli army withdrew from Al-Shifa hospital. [56] [57] According to Middle East Eye, Israel failed to produce much evidence that Hamas was using the hospital as a "command and control centre" despite controlling the hospital for over a week. [58]

December 2023

13 December

Nine IDF soldiers of the Golani Brigade including Lt. Col. Tomer Greenberg was killed in an ambush while trying to help a group of IDF soldiers that were caught in an ambush resulting in one of the largest losses for the IDF during the invasion. [59] [60]

18 December

IDF announced that Golani Brigade's 13th Battalion and 188th Armored Brigade captured the Palestine Square in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood releasing footage of IDF demolishing the Hamas war monument that celebrated the ambush of an Israeli APC during the 2014 Battle of Shuja'iyya [61] The Shujaiya Battalion of Hamas was also under heavy pressure due Israel destroying its command centers and infrastructure but Shujaiya remained an established stronghold of Hamas with heavy fighting. [62]

19 December

The IDF reported the destruction of the three Hamas battalions operating in Jabalia and that Palestinian militant deaths in Jabalia had reached 1000 although a few militia fighters were still fighting in the Jabalia area. Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) estimated that Hamas's North Gaza Brigade had been significantly degraded. [63]

Palestinian militias continued to attack Israeli advances east of Jabalia city with al Qassem Brigades claiming two attacks on Israeli forces using thermobaric rockets and rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) in Tal al Zaatar refugee camp, north of Jabalia together with mortar attacks by al Quds Brigades. The al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and al Nasser Salah al Din Brigades also claimed to have attacked Israeli forces. Palestinian militants used the relative safety of the Central Governorate to attack Israeli forces in and around the Gaza City. [63]

20 December

CTP-ISW assessed that the al-Qassem Brigades’ Sabra-Tal al-Islam (Tel al-Hawa) Battalion is degraded but is still combat effective. Al Qassem Brigades continued attacks against advancing Israeli forces as well as resisting Israeli clearing operations behind Israeli frontline. Reported Hamas attacks included an ambush of eight-vehicle Israeli convoy in Sabra and Tal al Hawa and detonating anti-personnel IEDs in Zaytun neighborhood, southern Gaza City. [64]

21 December

IDF reported operations operation in the Bakshi neighborhood, south of Gaza City against the Nuseirat Battalion from the Hamas Central Gaza Strip Brigade. Israel began began expanding the offensive towards Central Gaza which had been used by Hamas and allies to carry out attacks against IDF forces in the Gaza City. [4]

The IDF announced the "operational control" of Shuja'iyya and the destruction of the Hamas Shuja'iyya Battalion with IDF claiming that the Battalion has not carried out attacks in the past week. However Palestinian militias other than Hamas continued to battle Israeli forces around Shujaiya and surrounding neighborhoods with The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and Al-Quds Brigades reporting continued fighting with IDF. [4]

22 December

Continued fighting reported in Rimal neighborhood as the IDF located and destroyed a vast underground complex used by Hamas leadership. Palestinian forces south of Gaza City continued attempts to repel the Israeli advances into the central Gaza Strip from South of Gaza City and fighting continued in Juhor ad Dik where rocket launchers targeting Israel were captured by the IDF. [65]

The IDF reported that Israeli forces are clearing Jabalia building by building which are used by Palestinian fighters to hide and fire at Israeli forces with small arms. The al Quds Brigades and the al-Qassam Brigades claimed a combined ambush on Israeli forces inside a house east of Jabalia while Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades fired RPGs at IDF forces advancing in the Sheikh Radwan Neighborhood which is believed by the ISW to retain significant Palestinian militia defensive capabilities. The Radwan Battalion wa assessed to be combat effective despite being under intense IDF pressure. [65]

The 13th Battalion of the Golani Brigade was rotated out of the Gaza Strip for a 48-hour resting period after 21 days of intense combat in Shujaiya during which the unit reported the successful clearing of Shujaiya while suffering 44 deaths since October 7. Palestinian militias and Iranian media claimed this as an Israeli defeat. [65]

23 December

Palestinian forces continued attacks in Jabalia and Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City using anti-personnel munitions, RPGs, and thermobaric rockets. Sheikh Radwan neighborhood remains one of the remaining areas in Gaza City where Palestinian militias continue to claim nearly daily attacks on Israeli forces. Israeli special operations forces located a Hamas headquarters south of Gaza City consisting of a multi-level tunnel network connected with water and electrical infrastructure that allowed Hamas fighters to move between different sectors of the city. [66]

26 December

The IDF claimed to have cleared two schools and seized IEDs in UNRWA bags. Palestinian militias continued to resist Israeli forces in Daraj wal Tuffah with the al Qassem Brigades and al Quds Brigades using combined sniper and RPG fire against dismounted IDF infantry. [67]

The IDF's 36th Division which fought in Gaza City's neighborhoods of Zeitoun, Shuja'iyya, Rimal and Al-Shati refugee camp moved out of the city and advanced towards Central Gaza against Hama's Bureij Battalion. [68]

January 2024

7 January

The IDF Nahal Brigade Combat Team under the 162nd Division discovered a large weapons factory during raids in Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods together with Israeli special operations forces (SOF). A tunnel shaft discovered by the IDF led to a 100-meter-long tunnel containing a weapons production site where components of precision weapons were found, with images shared by the IDF of the site showing a rocket engine and a warhead designed for a Hamas cruise missile indicating Iranian involvement. [69]

10 January

Hamas denied it has lost command-and-control network in the Gaza Strip and published videos of al Qassem Brigades operations in Northern Gaza including Sheikh Radwan but the videos were dated to late December 2023. Institute for the Study of War (ISW) claimed that Hamas command and control network has been dismantled but Hamas forces are in Gaza City are not yet defeated specially in the southern Gaza City where the Zaytoun Battalion have access to a rear safe haven in the Central Governorate. The ISW speculated that remaining Hamas forces in northern Gaza Strip are shifting their strategy to fix Israeli forces in the area to prevent the IDF forces from moving southwards. [70]

12 January

As the IDF discovered a PIJ underground tunnel network in Shujaiya neighborhood which the IDF had not previously noticed despite being one kilometer from the border with Israel. The IDF described the remaining Hamas fighters having gone into a "guerilla mode" after the deaths of most Hamas battalion commanders and disrupt IDF attempts to dismantle the remaining Hamas military infrastructure. [71]

16 January

According to the Institute for the Study of War Palestinian militias are likely infiltrating areas which were previously cleared by the IDF. There is a similar but more limited renewal of Palestinian activity in other locations that Israeli forces previously conducted clearing operations around the northern Gaza Strip as well. According to Israel Hamas is trying to restore its control over northern Gaza Strip by rehabilitating local police. As a result Israeli forces have "repositioned" themselves in Gaza City after they had withdrawn earlier. [72]

17 January

As Israeli forces repositioned themselves throughout the North Gaza axis, Al-Qassam brigades claimed to have ambushed a group of soldiers in a Namer APC and killed several. The paramilitary group on later uploaded a video on their military broadcast of the attack, showing the Namer getting ambushed in a dual attack, first by a Shawadh IED detonation and secondly by an additional Yasin-105 rocket fired by a Qassam Brigade militants, killing 10 soldiers whose dog tags were shown at the end of the video. [73]

18 January

By 18 January, the IDF stated that Hamas had begun to rebuild its armies in the occupied parts of Northern Gaza. The IDF had previously stated these armies were stripped of military capabilities but by 18 January the fighting strength of many battalions had been significantly restored. [74]

February 2024

10 February

The IDF announced a division sized clearing operation to deal with Hamas infiltrations into Northern Gaza claiming 120 Palestinian militant deaths and the discovery of an alleged Hamas "data center" underneath the headquarters of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in addition to weapons inside the headquarters. [75] The tunnel displayed to journalists began at a UNRWA school and went under the UNRWA HQ with the IDF claiming the tunnel received power from the UNRWA building. UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini denied that the UNRWA was aware of the tunnel stating that it lacked the expertise and capability to inspect underneath the premises. [76]

29 February

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Reported military situation in Gaza in March

More than 100 Palestinians were killed and 750 were wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City. [77]

May

10 May

At least three people were killed and five more injured after the IAF bombed a house in the central part of Gaza City. [78]

14 May

Israel resumed attacks in Gaza city. Heavy clashes between Israeli forces and Hamas were reported in Gaza City, Jabalia, and Nuseirat, while fighting continued in and around Rafah, with Israeli ground forces advancing into the Brazil and Jneina neighborhoods. [79] [80]

15 May

Israeli forces targeted a group of people in al-Jalaa Street and al-Oyoun Street in the center of Gaza city with a drone strike, at least three people were killed and more were injured. [81] and an internet access point in Gaza City, killing at least four people and critically injured more. [82]

17 May

An Israeli aircraft bombed the al-Jaouni School housing displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing four people. [83]

18 May

At least eight people, including women and children, were killed and 10 were wounded after Israeli shelling targeted a group of Palestinians filling water containers in the al-Faluja area of Gaza City. [84] and two people were killed by an Israeli attack near Nuseirat camp, and two others were killed in an attack in Wadi Gaza. [85]

19 May

Six people were killed by Israeli bombing of a house in the Daraj neighbourhood, while three people were killed by Israeli bombing of a school in the same neighborhood. [86]

21 May

The Qassam Brigades claimed to have killed an unknown number of Israeli soldiers in the Tel al-Zaatar neighbourhood in northern Gaza City. [87]

22 May

An Israeli soldier of the Battalion 222 was injured in Northern Gaza. [88] Israeli forces attacked the Zawaida neighborhood in central Gaza, killing at least 10 people, including women and children. [89] [90] An Israeli attack hit a house belonging to the Abu Zaida family in the Bir an-Naaja area in northern Gaza, killing at least six people. [91]

23 May

Israeli airstrikes reportedly killed ten people in Gaza City. [92]

24 May

The IAF attacked a house in the al-Fakhoura neighbourhood near the Jabalia refugee camp, killing at least five people. Another house was struck in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, north of Gaza City, killing two people. [93] At least 10 people were killed in the Shabiyah area of Gaza City after Israeli forces targeted an apartment complex. [94]

26 May

An Israeli reservist in Gaza called for a mutiny against the Israeli government but was dismissed by the IDF and later interrogated by Israel Police. [95]

27 May

The IAF bombed a house belonging to the bombed the home of the al-Batran family in the Zarqa area, north of Gaza City, killing five people including a pregnant mother and her child. [96]

June 2024–present

15 June

At least 28 Palestinians were killed after the IAF attacked three houses in Gaza City. [97]

22 September

Israeli media reported that Netanyahu considers ordering siege tactics against north Gaza. [98]

Effects

With Gaza City isolated from the rest of the strip, the city was struck with a severe famine. This was deepened by the Israeli bombardment, which caused the deterioration of basic infrastructure and services. [99] Airstrikes have destroyed food infrastructure, such as bakeries and flour mills, and there is a widespread scarcity of essential supplies due to the long-lasting blockade on Gaza. [a] This has caused starvation for more than half a million Gazans and is part of a broader humanitarian crisis, and in the north of the strip a third of children under two years old are suffering from acute malnutrition. [101]

In February, owing to the dwindling food supplies, Palestinian ranchers resorted to slaughtering horses in order to feed locals. [102]

Casualties

The Palestinian Civil Defence has restricted access to North Gaza, cut off from the rest of the strip by the Netzarim Corridor and is unable to conduct large scale body retrieval operations.[ citation needed ] They estimate that 10,000 civilians lie under the rubble.[ citation needed ]

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Notes

  1. ↑ The Israeli NGO Btselem has stated the famine is a direct outcome of Israeli policy: "This reality is not a byproduct of war, but a direct result of Israel's declared policy. Residents now depend entirely on food supplies from outside Gaza, as they can no longer produce almost any food themselves. Most cultivated fields have been destroyed, and accessing open areas during the war is dangerous in any case. Bakeries, factories and food warehouses have been bombed or shut down due to lack of basic supplies, fuel and electricity." [100]

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