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Casualties of the Gaza War (2008–2009) Gaza War fatalities estimates made by human rights NGOs and by the involved combatants: * B'Tselem was unable to classify 32 deaths, including four children, as combatant or non-combatant. [1] ** The IDF regards Gazan police as part of the Hamas armed forces. [6] *** The figure refers to police officers ...
Gaza War (2008–2009) Humanitarian crisis and deterioration of infrastructure and basic services in Gaza. [8] Temporary reduction in the number of rockets being fired from the Gaza Strip. Over 50,800 Gaza residents displaced. [27] * 255 (PCHR) [22] or 265 (B'Tselem) [21] police officers were killed.
Of the Palestinian deaths 5,360 were in Gaza, 1,007 in the West Bank, 37 in Israel. Most were civilians on both sides. [1] [2] The Gaza–Israel conflict is a localized part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict beginning in 1948, when 200,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes, settling in the Gaza Strip as refugees. [3]
On May 8, the UN officially revised previous numbers regarding the breakdown of casualties following more formal investigations, the total number killed remaining the same. Only considering identifiable casualties, the proportion of children killed in Gaza was reported as 31.6% or 7797 identified children casualties out of 24 686 identified bodies.
Vittorio Arrigoni (Italian pronunciation: [vitˈtɔːrjo arriˈɡoːni]; 4 February 1975 – 15 April 2011) was an Italian journalist and activist. [1] [2] He worked with the Palestinian-led International Solidarity Movement (ISM), through which he arrived in the Gaza Strip in 2008.
The 2009 Ibrahim al-Maqadma Mosque strike or massacre of Ibrahim al-Maqadma Mosque [1] [2] [5] occurred on January 3, 2009, as part of the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza War when the Israeli Air Forces launched a missile and hit the Martyr Ibrahim al-Maqadma Mosque in Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip during the evening prayers (Maghrib prayer).
February 6. Four tunnels and a weapons storage facility in the southern Gaza Strip were bombed, with no casualties. February 9, 2009. Early on Monday, the Israel Air Force hit two Hamas positions in Gaza in response to rocket attacks on Israel launched by militants in the coastal strip on the preceding day, the army said. [ 3] February 11, 2009.
There are multiple humanitarian, medical, economic, and industrial effects of the 2008–2009 Gaza War which started with the Israeli air strikes on 27 December 2008 and ended on 18 January with a cease-fire implemented unilaterally by Israel, and later the same day by Hamas and other Palestinian factions. The cease-fire followed twenty-two ...