Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The 2014 Gaza War, also known as Operation Protective Edge (Hebrew: מִבְצָע צוּק אֵיתָן, romanized: Miv'tza Tzuk Eitan, lit. ' Operation Strong Cliff ' [note 3] [26] [27] [28]), and Battle of the Withered Grain (Arabic: معركة العصف المأكول, romanized: Maʿrakat al-ʿAṣf al-Maʾkūl [29] [30]), was a military operation launched by Israel on 8 July 2014 in the ...
By day's end Israel had struck 220 targets in Gaza and 24 people had died. 157 Gazan rockets were fired at Israel, with no casualties. [23] A lull as Israel mulled the pros and cons of an invasion [1] was broken when Mohammed Shaaban (24), senior commander of Hamas's military wing, was killed with two companions, Amjad Shabaan (30) and Khader al-Bashliqi (45), [24] when his car was struck by ...
The following is a timeline of the 2014 Gaza War. Over 2014, Palestinians suffered the highest number of civilian casualties since the Six-Day War in 1967, according to a United Nations report, given the July–August conflict, and rising tolls in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. A spike in Israeli casualties also occurred. 2,256 Palestinians and 85 Israelis died, while 17,125 Palestinians ...
The majority of casualties occurred during the Gaza War, but 58 Palestinians were killed and 6,028 injured in the West Bank, the highest figure since 2007. Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians, mostly settlers, and security forces resulted in 12 fatalities, compared to 4 the previous year.
In what it called Operation Protective Edge launched on 8 July 2014, Israel announced it would strike houses of senior Palestinian activists in Gaza and residences which were deemed operative centres. To avoid casualties, it stated a roof knocking procedure and telephone warnings would be given in advance to alert civilians inside to evacuate ...
Some records of Palestinian casualties are under dispute. ... 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict: Israel Defense Forces. Hamas. 693 1617 2310 unknown 2021 Israel–Palestine ...
[179] There were 3 more civilian casualties during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. [180] Most of those killed were civilians, including children. [ 28 ] The first casualties from the rocket fire were a 4-year-old boy and his grandfather, who were killed in June 2004. [ 181 ]
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]