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Israeli Air Force. The bombing of the Gaza Strip is an ongoing aerial bombardment campaign on the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Air Force during the Israel–Hamas war. During the bombing, Israeli airstrikes damaged or destroyed Palestinian refugee camps, schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, and other civilian infrastructure.
t. e. The restrictions on movement and goods in Gaza imposed by Israel date to the early 1990s. [ 1] After Hamas took over in 2007, Israel significantly intensified existing movement restrictions and imposed a complete blockade on the movement of goods and people in and out of the Gaza Strip. [ 2] Egypt began its blockade of Gaza in 2007 ...
The Gaza–Israel barrier (sometimes called the Iron Wall [1] [2] [3]) is a border barrier located on the Israeli side of the Gaza–Israel border. [4] Before the 2023-24 Israel-Hamas war, the Erez Crossing, in the north of the Gaza Strip, used to be the only crossing point for people and goods coming from Israel into the Gaza Strip, with a second crossing point, the Kerem Shalom border ...
In 2015, there were 23 Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, according to the IDF. [128] On 23 April, Israel's 67th independence day, a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel. [129] The rocket hit an open field in the Sha'ar HaNegev region near Sderot, [130] causing no injuries or damage.
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 ...
Environmental impact of the Israel–Hamas war. There has been extensive environmental damage caused by the ongoing Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip (itself a part of the Israel–Hamas war ), [1] including the destruction of agricultural land, displacement of people, bombing of Gaza, the Israeli blockade, and the Gaza Strip famine.
The siege of Gaza City began on 2 November 2023, when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) surrounded Gaza City, amid the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, which was a counterattack to the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel. [ 21] Gaza City is the most populated city in the Gaza Strip and the battle started on 30 October 2023, when Israel and Hamas ...
Effect of the Israel–Hamas war on children in the Gaza Strip. Wounded child at Al-Shifa Hospital. As a result of the Israel–Hamas war, children have been disproportionately impacted in the Gaza Strip, where 40% of the population is 14 or under. [ 1] In November 2023, UNICEF reported that more than 700,000 children in Gaza were displaced. [ 2]