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A temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas -led Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip took effect from 24 November 2023 to 30 November 2023, during the Israel–Hamas war. The initial agreement, mediated by Qatar, stipulated a four-day break in fighting during which 50 Israeli hostages held in Gaza and 150 Palestinian prisoners in ...
On 7 October 2023, Hamas and several other Palestinian nationalist militant groups launched coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into the Gaza Envelope of southern Israel, the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The attack coincided with the Jewish religious holiday Simchat Torah.
At 6:30 a.m. IST, air raid sirens were activated in southern and central Israel in response to Hamas missiles. [1] Concurrently, Muhammad Deif, the leader of the Hamas' military wing, announced in a ten-minute recorded message published online the start of "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood", and that "the enemy will understand that the time of their rampaging without accountability has ended", [2 ...
The Iranian-backed group Hamas, long designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and Israel, launched an unprecedented attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The massacre of some 1,200 people ...
2015. In 2015, there were 23 Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, according to the IDF. [128] On 23 April, Israel's 67th independence day, a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel. [129] The rocket hit an open field in the Sha'ar HaNegev region near Sderot, [130] causing no injuries or damage.
Israeli and Palestinian deaths preceding the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, of which most were civilians [107] [171]. The 1948 Palestine war saw the establishment of Israel over most of what had been Mandatory Palestine, with the exception of two separated territories that became known as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which were held by Jordan and Egypt respectively.
A four-day ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has begun at the scheduled time of 7am, to be followed by the release of 13 women and children under a Qatar-brokered truce.. The first of at ...
Hamas forces north of Gaza City conducted hit-and-run attacks on Israeli forces as part of a possible screening operation for a main defensive effort in central Gaza city. [47] Hamas and PIJ fighters near al-Sulatain and al-Taom streets fired anti-tank rockets and mortars at Israeli forces in at least eight hit-and-run attacks. [55]