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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.
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 ...
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]
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.
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, Israel began the bombing of Gaza Strip; on 13 October, Israel began ground operations in Gaza, and on 27 October, a full-scale invasion was launched. Israel's campaign, called Operation Swords of ...
Three Israeli hostages, whose bodies were found last year in underground tunnels in Gaza, were most likely killed in a military airstrike aimed at a Hamas commander, an investigation into their ...
Al-Fakhura school attack, 6 January 2009. Al-Fakhura school attack, was an incident in which it was initially reported that Israeli forces had shelled a UNRWA school on January 6, 2009, and killed upwards of 30 people. [4] At the time, the incident drew widespread condemnation from around the world.
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 ...