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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The authors: Goldstone, Jilani, and Chinkin. The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, also known as the Goldstone Report, was a United Nations fact-finding mission established in April 2009 pursuant to Resolution A/HRC/RES/S-9/1 of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC ...
The Gaza War, also known as the First Gaza War, [29] [30] [31] Operation Cast Lead (Hebrew: מִבְצָע עוֹפֶרֶת יְצוּקָה), [32] or the Gaza Massacre (Arabic: مجزرة غزة), [33] [34] [35] and referred to as the Battle of al-Furqan (معركة الفرقان) by Hamas, [36] [37] was a three-week armed conflict between ...
The IDF said civilian buildings in the Gaza Strip were destroyed during Operation Cast Lead due to "substantial operational needs" citing examples of buildings being booby-trapped, located over tunnels, or used by combatants to fire from. [14]
In 2008, the Israeli Defense Forces launched "Operation Cast Lead." In late Dec. 2008, Israel began a three-week military operation in Gaza, resulting in over 1,400 Palestinians being killed, ...
The Goldstone Report wrote that the Mission was not in a position to state with certainty that DIME munitions were used by the Israeli armed forces, though it received reports from Palestinian and foreign doctors who had operated in Gaza during the military operations of a high percentage of patients with injuries compatible with their impact ...
During the first major Israel-Hamas war in 2008 to 2009, known as Operation Cast Lead, Hamas said that fewer than 50 of the 1,400 dead in Gaza had been combatants.
The book then gives individual attention to Israel's military operations in Gaza since 2008, most notably Operation Cast Lead of 2008–2009, Operation Pillar of Defense of 2012 and Operation Protective Edge of 2014. The Goldstone Report is also discussed in
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Mass civilian casualties of Israeli bombing, shelling and rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip have occurred in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, in which Israeli bombing attacks on the Gaza Strip cause numerous civilian fatalities. [a] The reason for such operations is purportedly to carry out ...