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This is a list of notable engagements during the Israel–Hamas war, encompassing land, naval, and air engagements, covering events which took place or began during the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel on the 7 October, events and immediately afterwards, Israel's declaration of war on 8 October, the imposition of the 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, and active operations in the Gaza Strip.
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- Inconclusive or Disputed [a]
- Ongoing
- Hamas/Palestine victory
- Israel victory
- UK-US victory
Campaigns
- With minor involvement from others in Operation Prosperity Guardian.
Major battles
 | This table's factual accuracy is disputed. (April 2024) |
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Early in the morning of 7 October 2023, approximately 3000 militants,[32][33] from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, and DFLP,[34] breached the Gaza fence and attacked multiple locations in Southern Israel.[32][33] Following this the IDF blockaded, bombed, and then invaded the Gaza Strip.
| Attack | Location | Deaths | Hostages | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Civilian [a] | Military [b] | Start | End | |||
| 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel | Southern District (Israel) | total = 1,139 | total = | total = | total = 200+ Hostages | 2023-10-07 (Dawn) | |
| Battle of Sderot |  Sderot |
15[36] | |||||
| Re'im music festival massacre | Near Re'im |
364 [37][38] | 40 Hostages [39] | ||||
| Be'eri massacre | Be'eri |
117+ [40] | |||||
| Nahal Oz attack | Nahal Oz lookout base[41] |
15+[41] | none | 15+[41] | 7+ Hostages [41] | 2023-10-07 | |
| Kibbutz Nahal Oz |
80+ | 12+ | 46+ | 20+ missing[c] | |||
| Nahal Oz |
100+ | 12+ | 61+ soldiers | 7 to 30 Hostages | |||
| Kfar Aza massacre | Kfar Aza |
52+[42][43] | |||||
| Zikim attack | Zikim |
35+ [44] | 19 [45] | ||||
| Nir Oz massacre | Nir Oz |
27+[46] | 2023-10-07 09:45 [d] | ||||
| Netiv HaAsara massacre | Netiv HaAsara |
21+ [47][48] | |||||
| Alumim massacre | Alumim |
19+ [49][50] | |||||
| Kissufim massacre | Kissufim |
16+[51][52] | |||||
| Holit attack | Holit |
13+ [53] | |||||
| Ein HaShlosha attack | Ein HaShlosha |
5+[54] | |||||
| Nirim attack | Nirim |
5+[55][56] | |||||
| Nir Yitzhak attack | Nir Yitzhak |
5+[54] | |||||
Clickable map of some of the massacres on 7 October 2023
- Most of the civilian areas on the Israeli side of the Gaza border had lightly armed volunteer security teams.[35]
- Includes on duty police, military, and other professional armed security forces. Off duty IDF reservists were counted as civilians, so some available lists of names include more people with military ranks than the official number of military deaths.[citation needed]
- including the Bibas family
- Rockets were hard at 6:30am and the militants entered the Bibas home at 9:45am
| Name | Date | Location | Rescued | Deaths | Injuries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rescue of Ori Megidish | 30 October 2023 | Al-Shati refugee camp | 1 | Unknown | Unknown |
| Operation Golden Hand | 12 February 2024 | Rafah | 2 | 67–100+[57] | Unknown |
| 2024 Nuseirat rescue operation | 8 June 2024 | Nuseirat | 4 | 270+ | 698 |
On August 1 Gaza's media office released an updated statistic stating that Israeli forces had committed over 3,457 massacres since 7 October.[58]
| Event | Accused | Location | Deaths | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Civilian | Military [a] | Start | End | |||
| Attacks on journalists in Lebanon |  Israel Defense Forces, 188th Armored Brigade |
 South Lebanon |
4[59] | 4[59] | 0 | 2023-10-13 | present |
| Shadia Abu Ghazala School massacre[b][61][62][60] |  Israeli Ground Forces [c] |
 Shadia Abu Ghazala School in the Gaza Strip.[d] |
"dozens"[60] | "dozens" [e] | 0 | 2023-12-12 |
2023-12-13 |
| Flour massacre | Israel Defense Forces |
Nablusi junction, Gaza |
118+[63] | 118+[64] | 0 | 2024-02-29 | |
| Al-Maghazi playground massacre[65][66] | Israel Defense Forces |
Al Maghazi |
13 [citation needed] | 13 [citation needed] | 0 | 2024-04-15 | |
| Al-Awda School massacre | Israel Defense Forces |
Abasan al-Kabira, Khan Yunis Governorate |
31+ | 31+ | 0 | 2024-07-08 | |
- Includes on duty police, military, and other professional armed security forces. Off duty IDF reservists were counted as civilians, so some available lists of names include more people with military ranks than the official number of military deaths.[citation needed]
- Dozens of bodies discovered, including children, who had been shot at close range. Video and images obtained by Al Jazeera on 13 Dec 2023 showed bodies piled up inside the Shadia Abu Ghazala School in the al-Faluja area, west of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Witnesses said a number of people including women, children and babies were killed execution-style by Israeli forces while sheltering inside the school. The woman said there were newborn children among them. “The Israeli soldiers executed those innocent families at point blank,” she added. Reporter Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud is in southern Gaza in Rafah.[60]
- Displaced persons were sheltering at the school in the al-Faluja area, west of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.[60]
- predominantly women and children[60]
- The victims were reportedly killed overnight starting on Tuesday 12 December 2023, but this could not be confirmed. It could have been some time earlier because the bodies were already decomposed when seen on 13 December 2023 the bodies were already decomposed.[62]
Long distance attacks
Disputed strikes
| Name | Date | Accused | Location | Deaths | Injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attacks on Palestinians evacuating Gaza City | 2023-10-13 | Israel  Hamas |
Gaza City | 70+ [71] | 200+ [71] |
| Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion | 2023-10-18 | Israel PIJ |
Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza | 100–300 (United States Director of National Intelligence)[72] [citation needed] |
314 (Gaza Health Ministry)[73] |
Israeli attacks
- On 12 October, a second airstrike on the Jabalia camp hit a residential building was hit, destroying several apartments, and killing people from two families.[80]
- Some were sheltering there after being displaced from Beit Hanoun.[81][82]
- There were 195 people were killed[84] according to The Gaza Ministry of Health (Gaza MOH), whose overall casualty counts show no sign of being inflated[85] or fabricated[86] and thus appear to be a reliable minimum death count. The Gaza Indonesian Hospital also reported that "hundreds" had been killed or injured.[87][88]
Notable targeted assassinations
| Target | Affiliation | Date | Location | Perpetrator | Deaths | Injuries | Notes and Other Notable Casualties |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbas Raad |  Hezbollah (Redwan Force) |
22 November 2023 | Beit Yahoun, Lebanon | Israel |
5[110] | 0 | Raad was the son of Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad.[110] |
| Razi Mousavi |  Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps |
25 December 2023 | Sayyidah Zaynab, Syria | Israel |
4[111] | Unknown | Iranian general serving in the IRGC's Quds Force. |
| Saleh al-Arouri | Hamas |
2 January 2024 | Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon | Israel |
7 | Unknown | Also killed Al Qassam commanders Sami Fendi[112] and Azzam Al-Aqra.[113] |
| Mushtaq Talib Al-Saeedi | Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba | 4 January 2024 | Baghdad, Iraq |  United States |
1+ | Unknown | Former senior commander of the 12th brigade of the Popular Mobilization Forces.[114] |
| Wissam al-Tawil[115] | Hezbollah (Redwan Force) |
8 January 2024 | Majdel Selm, Lebanon | Israel |
2 | Unknown | Senior commander of Hezbollah's Radwan Force. |
| Ali Hussein Barji | Hezbollah |
9 January 2024 | Khirbet Selm, Lebanon | Israel |
1 | 0 | Death denied by Hezbollah.[116] |
| Sadegh Omidzadeh | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps |
20 January 2024 | Mezzeh, Damascus, Syria | Israel |
10 | Unknown | Also killed four other Iranian officials, Ali Aghazadeh, Saeed Karimi, Hossein Mohammadi,[citation needed] and Mohammad Amin Samadi.[117] |
| Fadi Suleiman | Hezbollah |
21 January 2024 | Kafra, Lebanon | Israel |
3 | 6[118] | Target survived; other Hezbollah affiliates killed.[118] |
| Abu Baker al-Saadi | Kata'ib Hezbollah | 7 February 2024 | Baghdad, Iraq | United States |
3[119] | Unknown | Commanders of Kata'ib Hezbollah killed by a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad in response to the Tower 22 drone attack.[119] |
| Arkan Al-Alawi | |||||||
| Abbas al-Dabs | Hezbollah |
8 February 2024 | Nabatieh, Lebanon | Israel |
2 | 3[120] | Hezbollah operative that worked with IRGC.[121] |
| Basil Salah[122] | Hamas |
10 February 2024 | Jadra, Lebanon[122] | Israel |
3 | 5 | Target survived; civilians and other Hezbollah affiliates killed. |
| Hadi Ali Mustafa | Hamas |
13 March 2024 | Tyre, Lebanon | Israel |
2 | Unknown | Salah was a member of Hamas' construction bureau.[123] |
| Mohammad Reza Zahedi | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps |
1 April 2024 | Damascus, Syria | Israel |
6 | Unknown | Iranian senior military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. |
| Taleb Abdallah | Hezbollah |
12 June 2024 | Jwaya, Lebanon | Israel |
4[124] | 2[125] | Abdallah was the commander of the Nasr unit of Hezbollah. |
| Fuad Shukr | Hezbollah |
30 July 2024 | Haret Hreik, Beirut, Lebanon | Israel |
3 | 74 | Shukr was accused by Israel of being involved in the Majdal Shams attack. |
| Ismail Haniyeh | Hamas |
31 July 2024 | Tehran, Iran | Israel |
2 | Unknown | An alleged IDF airstrike killed Haniyeh and of his bodyguards.[126] |
| Ibrahim Aqil | Hezbollah (Redwan Force) |
20 September 2024 | Haret Hreik, Beirut, Lebanon | Israel |
55 | 68+ | Aqil was commander-in-chief of the Redwan Force, Hezbollah's special operations unit. |
| Hassan Nasrallah | Hezbollah |
27 September 2024 | Haret Hreik, Beirut, Lebanon | Israel |
33+ | 195+ | Nasrallah was the Secretary-General of Hezbollah since 1992. He was killed alongside Jihad Council member Ali Karaki and IRGC general Abbas Nilforoushan. |
| Hashem Safieddine | Hezbollah |
3 October 2024 | Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon | Israel |
Unknown | Unknown | Hashem Safieddine was expected to become Hassan Nasrallah's successor as Secretary-General of Hezbollah. The assassination has not been confirmed by Hezbollah |
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