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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 ...
When the Islamic party Hamas won the January 2006 Palestinian legislative election, gaining a majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council, [49] the conflict between Israel and Gaza intensified. Israel sealed its border with the Gaza Strip, largely preventing the free flow of people and many imports and exports.
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 ...
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 ...
Israel: Defeat. Palestinian uprising suppressed [3] Israeli disengagement from Gaza; 2006 Gaza–Israel conflict (2006) Fatah Hamas Israel: Defeat. 5-month lull in Hamas rocketfire [4] Battle of Gaza (2007) Fatah: Hamas: Hamas victory. Hamas takes over the Gaza Strip; Gaza War (2008–2009) Hamas Israel: Defeat. Rocket fire from Gaza reduced ...
Across Lebanon fear is gripping people who say they don’t want a repeat of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war or worse — a situation like Gaza where the death toll has surpassed 41,000.
Of the Palestinian deaths 5,360 were in Gaza, 1,007 in the West Bank, 37 in Israel. Most were civilians on both sides. [1] [2] The following lists the consecutive operations of the Gaza–Israel conflict: 2006: Operation Summer Rains; 2006: Gaza beach explosion (2006) 2006: 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict; 2006: 2006 shelling of Beit Hanoun