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The attacks began early on 7 October with a barrage of at least 4,300 rockets launched into Israel [31] [32] [33] and vehicle-transported and powered paraglider incursions into Israel. [34] [35] Hamas fighters breached the Gaza–Israel barrier, attacking military bases and massacring civilians in 21 communities, including Be'eri, Kfar Aza, Nir ...
The Israel–Hamas war, also known as the Gaza War, is an ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups. [ ad ] 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. [ 138 ]
On 7 October 2023, Hamas launched an incursion into Israel starting with a rocket barrage of over 5,000 missiles against Israeli targets, [143] [144] [145] one of the fascets of the attacks that initiated the 2023 Israel–Palestine war.
The Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip is a major part of the Israel–Hamas war.Starting on 7 October 2023, immediately after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, it began bombing the Gaza Strip; on 13 October, Israel began ground operations in Gaza, and on 27 October, a full-scale invasion was launched.
During the Israel–Hamas war, Israeli forces have carried out multiple ground incursions, occasionally accompanied by airstrikes, into several Palestinian cities and refugee camps in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including Jenin and Tulkarm. [52] The Israeli incursions have led to clashes with Palestinian militants.
Israel first announced a total blockade of all relief into the Strip, but eventually allowed limited aid in. [123] By January 2024, agencies like the United Nations criticized Israel for not allowing sufficient aid, [124] and as a result, creating a famine affecting nearly 500,000 Palestinians. [125]
The 2008 Israel–Hamas ceasefire was an Egyptian-brokered six-month Tahdia (an Arabic term for a lull) "for the Gaza area", which went into effect between Hamas and Israel on 19 June 2008. [100] Hamas' obligation was to stop the rocket attacks on Israel.
Israel launched an airstrike at the Osama bin Zaid school which killed 20 people. [30] Israel deported thousands of Gazan temporary workers back to the Gaza Strip, with an unknown number remaining in detention. [31] [32] [33] Al-Quds and Indonesia Hospital were both hit by airstrikes. [34]