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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 ...
*****Does not include indirect deaths (e.g. Palestinians who died due to denial of healthcare resulting from the war). [ 6 ] The total Israeli casualties were 13, including 3 non-combatants and 10 combatants (4 Israeli soldiers were killed in friendly fire incidents).
Human rights organizations and the United States Department of State estimated Palestinian casualties of the Gaza War (2008–2009) as "1,400 Palestinians killed, including more than 1,000 civilians", [1] though Israel disagreed.
In late Dec. 2008, Israel began a three-week military operation in Gaza, resulting in over 1,400 Palestinians being killed, according to the Institute of Middle East Understanding.
Casualties of the Gaza War may refer to: Casualties of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war; Casualties of the Gaza War (2008–2009) This page was last edited on 1 ...
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 Zeitoun Incident took place on 5 January 2009 during Operation Cast Lead, after members of the Samouni extended family [d] had been herded out of their homes and told to relocate to another building. In a dawn raid on the 4th, a raid into one Samouni house, using grenades and live fire, killed Ateya al-Samouni and severely wounded a four ...
The Health Ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza, which carefully tracked casualties over the first five weeks of war, gave its most recent death toll of 11,078 on Nov. 10.