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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.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise raid into Israel over the weekend, killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands more that was likened to 9/11.
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 ...
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 ...
Some 15,000 Palestinians held a protest march in Gaza City, and militants vowed renewed attacks against Israel. [4] In Nablus , hundreds chanted anti-Abbas slogans during a protest. [ 14 ] Most business owners in the Gaza Strip began shutting down their stores in protest of the operation, thereby launching a spontaneous general strike.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Israeli army released drone footage showing armed men standing next to U.N. marked vehicles at a United Nations compound in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, and called on ...