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The 2006 Gaza–Israel conflict, known in Israel as Operation Summer Rains (Hebrew: מבצע גשמי קיץ, romanized: Mivtza Gishmey Kayitz), was a series of battles between Palestinian militants and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during summer 2006, prompted by the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit by Palestinian militants on 25 June 2006.
Gilad Shalit on Hamas poster, Nablus 7 May 2007. The 2006 Gaza cross-border raid, known by Palestinian militants as Operation Dispersive Illusion (Arabic: عملية الوهم المتبدد, romanized: ʿAmaliyyat al-Wahm Al-mutabadid) was an armed incursion carried out by seven or eight [3] Gazan Palestinian militants on 25 June 2006 who attacked Israel Defense Forces (IDF) positions near ...
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.
13 October: Israel tells over 1m people to evacuate Gaza City. After Israel’s war cabinet ordered a complete siege of Gaza in the wake of the Hamas attack and launched air stikes on nothern Gaza ...
During this conflict, Israel seized the Gaza Strip and maintained control for nearly 40 years until 2005. But in 2006, Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections and gained further control of ...
Full coverage: Israel-Hamas conflict. Dozens of people in Israel have been killed, according to a spokesperson for the country's emergency services, and nearly 200 people were killed in Gaza after ...
June 28: Israel starts a military operation in the Gaza strip, deploying a large number of tanks, APCs and troops in order to rescue the soldier captured in the attack three days before that. June 29: Israeli troops detain one third of the Palestinian government and altogether 64 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, who are Hamas ...
Israel-Gaza conflict as seen in photos. Dylan Stableford. October 9, 2023 at 2:38 PM. ... Hamas launched the attack from Gaza, which it has governed since 2006.