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As fighting has resumed across Gaza and Israel, CNN is continuing to visualize the war through maps, charts and more. A seven-day pause in fighting allowed for the release of civilian hostages ...
The Gaza–Israel conflict is a localized part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict beginning in 1948, when about 200,000 of the more than 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes settled in the Gaza Strip as refugees. [3] Since then, Israel has been involved in about 15 [4] wars involving organizations in the Gaza Strip.
The Israel–Hamas war, also known as the Gaza War, is an ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups. [ad] 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. [146]
Israel strikes 1500 sites in Gaza, [172] including rocket launchpads, weapon depots, government facilities and apartment blocks. [173] Gaza officials said 133 Palestinians had been killed in the conflict of whom 79 were militants, 53 civilians and 1 was a policeman [174] and estimated that 840 Palestinians were wounded. Hamas fired over 1,456 ...
The conflict followed an Israeli raid in Gaza that violated a truce, causing an escalation of attacks between both sides that led Hamas and Palestinian groups to fire rockets into Israel.
In Gaza, a densely populated strip where Hamas is headquartered, Israeli strikes have been targeting old Gaza City, Khan Younis, and Rafah, killing hundreds and injuring thousands.
2024 Gaza Strip polio outbreak; Effect of the Israel–Hamas war on children in the Gaza Strip. Children in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; Gaza humanitarian crisis (2023–present) Timeline of the Gaza Strip healthcare collapse; 2023 Gaza Strip preterm births; Gaza Strip famine; Israeli public diplomacy in the Israel–Hamas war
The Palestinian Gaza Strip has been a frontline of conflict with Israel for decades and cut off from much of the outside world for 16 years. Here's a primer on the coastal enclave's recent history ...