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In the 1967 war, Israel occupied Gaza Strip, along with Sinai, Golan Heights and the West Bank. During the war, and shortly after, between 40,000 and 45,000 civilians fled or were expelled from the Gaza Strip. [20] Many Palestinian civilians were killed as they fled. On 11 June, a grenade killed 8 Gaza civilians and a shooting killed another 10 ...
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine. [25] [26] [27] Key aspects of the conflict include the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the status of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements, borders, security, water rights, [28] the permit regime, Palestinian ...
An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups [ad] has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. It is the fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008, and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. [146]
While the world is focused on the war in Gaza, tensions have risen in the occupied West Bank, where 55 Palestinians were killed over the past week in clashes with Israeli troops, arrest raids and ...
The al-Aqsa Martyrs' brigades claimed attacks into Israeli territory from the West Bank for the first time since the start of the war, while Palestinian militia fighters from Gaza conducted five indirect attacks on Israel. [46] A civil defence team in Gaza was hit by an Israeli air strike en route to rescue civilians, injuring some of its workers.
Since OCHA started recording casualties in 2005, the 507 Palestinians killed in the West Bank in 2023 is the highest number of Palestinians killed as is the 36 Israelis killed in the West Bank and Israel in 2023 in attacks by Palestinians from the West Bank. [20] The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 162 Palestinians had been killed ...
The Palestinian health ministry said 620 Palestinians had been killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since the start of the war in Gaza. The figure included 145 minors and women, the ministry ...
The IDF declared a "state of readiness for war", [111] adding that reservists were to be deployed not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank and along the borders with Lebanon and Syria. [403] Residents in areas near Gaza were asked to stay inside, while civilians in southern and central Israel were "required to stay next to shelters". [ 112 ]