2014 Gaza War
War fought between the Israel Defense Forces and the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip during 2014 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2014 Gaza War was a war started by Israel on 8 July 2014 and it took place in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory controlled by Hamas since 2007.[note 3] After 3 Israeli teenagers were killed and kidnapped in the West Bank by members of Hamas, Israel sent its military to arrest 350 Hamas members in the West Bank.[23][24][25] Hamas then started firing Qassam rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip, which led to a seven week long battle between Palestinian militant groups and Israel. The war led to the death of 2000 people which were mostly Gazans.[26]
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Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Israel | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister) Moshe Ya'alon (Defense Minister) Benny Gantz (Chief of General Staff) Amir Eshel (Air Force Commander) Ram Rothberg (Naval Commander) Sami Turgeman (Southern Commander) Mickey Edelstein (Gaza Division) Yoram Cohen (Chief of Shin Bet) |
Khaled Mashal (Leader of Hamas) Ismail Haniyeh (Deputy Chief of Hamas) Mohammed Deif (Head of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades) Ramadan Shalah (Leader of Islamic Jihad) | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Israel Defense Forces Shin Bet |
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades Al-Quds Brigades | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
176,500 active personnel 565,000 reservists[9] (2012 figures, of which not all are directly involved) |
Al-Qassam Brigades: 20,000[10]–40,000[11] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
67 soldiers and 6 civilians (1 Thai) killed,[13][14][15] 469 soldiers and 87 civilians wounded[16][17] |
Gaza Health Ministry: 2,310 killed[18] (70% civilians[19]), 10,626 wounded[18] UN HRC: 2,251 killed[note 1][20] (65% civilians[20]) Israel MFA: 2,125 killed[note 2][21] (36% civilians, 44% combatants, 20% uncategorized males aged 16–50[21]) | ||||||
At least 23 Gazans executed by Hamas[22] |
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