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As Israel gears up a ground offensive into Gaza, here’s what you need to know about the 140 square-mile enclave – one of the most densely-populated territories on Earth.
Hamas is a Palestinian armed group and political movement in the Gaza Strip. On 7 October 2023 it attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages.
Since that time, violence has returned, with Israel declaring war on Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006 and launching repeated assaults on Hamas in Gaza, including Operation Cast Lead (2008), Operation ...
An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups [v] was fought in the Gaza Strip and Israel between 7 October 2023 and 19 January 2025. It was 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. [97]
List of Gaza–Israel military conflicts Number [a] Conflict Period Arabs killed Israelis killed Infrastructure damaged or destroyed Population displaced Other impact 1 1948 Palestine war and 1948 Arab–Israeli War [7] 1948–1949: 200,000 Arabs fled or were expelled by Israel into Gaza: Creation of Gaza Strip as an entity 2 Palestinian ...
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine. [25] [26] [27] Key aspects of the conflict include the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the status of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements, borders, security, water rights, [28] the permit regime, Palestinian ...
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 ...
The two-state solution is supported by many countries, and the Palestinian Authority. [1] Israel currently does not support the idea, though it has in the past. [2] The first proposal for separate Jewish and Arab states in the territory was made by the British Peel Commission report in 1937. [3]