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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.
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.
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]
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.
including 19 members of Fatah [4][better source needed] The 2009 Hamas political violence took place in the Gaza Strip during and after the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict. A series of violent acts, ranging from physical assaults, torture, and executions of Palestinians suspected of collaboration with the Israel Defense Forces, as well as ...
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). [6]
An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas -led Palestinian militant groups [x] 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. [128]