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Hamas
Hamas (حماس Ḥamās, an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamat al-Islāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement") is a Palestinian Islamic socio-political organization which includes a paramilitary force, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Since June 2007, after winning a large...
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Battle of Gaza
The Battle of Gaza (Arabic: معركة غزّة) was a military conflict between Hamas and Fatah that took place between June 7 and June 15, 2007 in the Gaza Strip. It resulted in Hamas remaining in control of the Gaza Strip after forcing out Fatah. The...
Al-Aqsa Intifada
The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada (Arabic: انتفاضة الأقصى, Intifāḍat El Aqṣa; Hebrew: אינתיפאדת אל-אקצה, Intifādat El-Aqtzah) was the second Palestinian uprising, a period of intensified Palestinian-Israeli violence, which...
Battle of Jenin
The Battle of Jenin (April 3–April 11, 2002) took place in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) entered the camp, and other areas under the administration of the Palestinian Authority, during the Second Intifada, as...
Operation Defensive Shield
Operation Defensive Shield (Hebrew: מבצע חומת מגן, Mivtza Homat Magen, lit. "Operation Defensive Wall") was a large-scale military operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002, during the course of the Second Intifada. It was the...
Operation Rainbow
Operation Rainbow (In Hebrew, Mivtza Keshet Be-Anan, מבצע קשת בענן) is a controversial military operation which began on May 18, 2004 and ended on May 23, 2004 in Rafah (רפיח), the Gaza Strip. Israel's aim was to clear terrorist infrastructure, to...
Operation Days of Penitence
Operation Days of Penitence (In Hebrew, מבצע ימי תשובה) was the name used by Israel to describe an Israel Defense Forces operation in the northern Gaza Strip, conducted between September 30, 2004 and October 16, 2004. The operation, focused on the...
2006 Israel–Gaza conflict
The 2006 Israel–Gaza conflict refers to the series of battles between Palestinian militants and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Large-scale conventional warfare beyond the peripheries of the Gaza Strip began when Israel launched Operation Summer...
Operation Autumn Clouds
Operation Autumn Clouds (Hebrew: מבצע ענני סתיו, Mivtza Ananei Stav) is an Israeli military operation that began on 1 November 2006 when the Israeli Defense Forces entered the Gaza Strip triggering sporadic fighting near Beit Hanoun. The operation...
Fatah–Hamas conflict
The Fatah–Hamas conflict (Arabic: النزاع بين فتح و حماس Al-Nizāʿ bain Fataḥ wa Ḥamās), also referred to as the Palestinian Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية الفلسطينية Al-Ḥarb al-ʾAhliyyah al-Filisṭīnīyah), and the Conflict of Brothers (Arabic: صراع...
Violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2007
Timeline of the violence between Israelis and Palestinians in 2007. It includes would-be attacks that were foiled and thwarted by Israeli security forces.
The shaky six-month cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians collapsed when the military...
2004 Israel–Gaza conflict
The 2004 Israel–Gaza conflict refers to the series of battles between Palestinian militants and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). IDF carried out airstrikes and land incursions after several qassam rocket attacks on Israel (Sderot and the Negev). The...
2007–2008 Israel–Gaza conflict
The 2007–2008 Israel–Gaza conflict refers to a series of battles between Palestinian militants and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that began in mid-May 2007 when Israel responded to militant provocation with airstrikes. Palestinians fired more than...
War on Terrorism
The War on Terrorism or War on Terror is the common term for what the George W. Bush administration perceived or presented as the military, political, legal and ideological conflict against Islamic terrorism, Islamic militants and the regimes and...
Operation Hot Winter
Operation Hot Winter, also called Operation Warm Winter (Hebrew: מבצע חורף חם, Mivtza Horef Ham) was an Israel Defense Forces military campaign in the Gaza Strip, launched on February 29, 2008 in response to Qassam rockets fired from the Strip by...
Battle of Nablus
The Battle of Nablus was fought from April 5 to April 8, 2002 in the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Palestinian forces, as part of Operation Defensive Shield in the Second Intifada. It...
Gaza War
The Gaza War—known as Operation Cast Lead (Hebrew: מבצע עופרת יצוקה Mivtza Oferet Yetzuka) by the Israel Defence Forces and the Gaza massacre (Arabic: مجزرة غزة) in the Arab world, was a three-week military conflict between Israel and Hamas that...
2009 Hamas reprisal attacks
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...
2009 Gaza clashes
The 2009 Gaza clashes is a battle involving Hamas police with the radical Islamic group Jund Ansar Allah. The fighting erupted on August 14, when Hamas forces surrounded a mosque in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on the Egypt border where about 100...
