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Israeli and Palestinian deaths preceding the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, of which most were civilians. [1] [2]In 1967, following the Six-Day War fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan), Israel occupied the Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip which had formerly been occupied by Egypt. [3]
The conflict followed an Israeli raid in Gaza that violated a truce, causing an escalation of attacks between both sides that led Hamas and Palestinian groups to fire rockets into Israel.
In the years that followed, Hamas and Israel fought several major conflicts - including those in 2008-09, 2012 and 2014. The last major conflict between the two sides was in May 2021, which ended ...
The first day of the war was the deadliest for Israel, and it is the deadliest war for Palestinians in the history of the conflict, [64] sparking an ongoing Middle Eastern crisis. On 7 October 2023, Hamas-led militant groups launched a surprise attack on Israel , killing 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals, including 815 civilians, and taking ...
The Iranian-backed group Hamas, long designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and Israel, launched an unprecedented attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
The region today: Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition.
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 ...
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.