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The [[Second Intifada]], also known as the ''al-Aqsa Intifada'' began in September 2000. Many [[Palestinians]] consider the Intifada to be a struggle of [[national liberation]] against Israeli occupation imposed on them following the [[Six-day war|1967 War]].
The [[Second Intifada]], also known as the ''al-Aqsa Intifada'' began in September 2000. Many [[Palestinians]] consider the Intifada to be a struggle of [[national liberation]] against Israeli occupation imposed on them following the [[Six-day war|1967 War]].


[[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] defense responses have ranged from carrying out mass protests and [[general strikes]], as in the [[First Intifada]], to mounting [[suicide bombing]] attacks and firing [[Qassam rocket]]s into east southern Israeli residential areas. Israeli tactics range from conducting mass arrests, house demolitions as punishment, cutting off electricity and water supply and locking up Palestinians in [[administrative detention]] through setting up checkpoints and building the [[Israeli Gaza Strip barrier]] and [[West Bank barrier]] to carrying out [[assassination]]s targeting militants and leaders of Palestinian organizations.
[[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] defense responses have ranged from carrying out mass protests and [[general strikes]], as in the [[First Intifada]], to mounting [[suicide bombing]] attacks and firing [[Qassam rocket]]s into east southern Israeli areas, targeting military officials. Israeli tactics range from conducting mass arrests, house demolitions as punishment, taking away homes and land to give to Israelis, cutting off electricity and water supply and locking up Palestinians in [[administrative detention]] through setting up checkpoints and building the [[Israeli Gaza Strip barrier]] and [[West Bank barrier]] to carrying out [[assassination]]s targeting militants and leaders of Palestinian organizations.


[[Image:AH-64Apache004.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Israeli Air Force]] (IAF) [[AH-64 Apache]] were used as platform for shooting [[missile]]s at Palestinian targets and employed at the [[killing]]s policy against both militants and political leaders.]]
[[Image:AH-64Apache004.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Israeli Air Force]] (IAF) [[AH-64 Apache]] were used as platform for shooting [[missile]]s at Palestinian
residential, schools, religions buildings and media targets and employed at the [[killing]]s policy against both militants and political leaders.]]


Since the [[Palestinian legislative election, 2006]], Israel has been negotiating with [[Mahmoud Abbas]] and the [[PLO]], but has been simultaneously targeting and bombing Hamas activists and militants and arresting Hamas's elected legislative counsel politicians. The majority of death tolls have been innocent Palestinian civilians.
Since the [[Palestinian legislative election, 2006]], Israel has been negotiating with [[Mahmoud Abbas]] and the [[PLO]], but has been simultaneously targeting and bombing Hamas activists and militants and arresting Hamas's elected legislative counsel politicians. The majority of death tolls have been innocent Palestinian civilians, including a great number of children.


The death toll, both military and civilian, over the entire period in question (2000–2007) is estimated to be over 4,300 Palestinians and over 1,000 Israelis. To date, 64 foreign citizens have also been killed.<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.btselem.org/English/Statistics/Casualties.asp B'Tselem - Statistics - Fatalities<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
The death toll, both military and civilian, over the entire period in question (2000–2007) is estimated to be over 4,300 Palestinians and over 1,000 Israelis. To date, 64 foreign citizens have also been killed.<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.btselem.org/English/Statistics/Casualties.asp B'Tselem - Statistics - Fatalities<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

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Gaza–Israel conflict
Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Map of Gaza and Israel
Date2006–present
Location
Gaza Strip and Southern Israel
Result

ongoing

  • Continuing clashes between IDF and Hamas, other Palestinian militant organizations
Belligerents
Israel Israel (IDF, ISA)

State of Palestine Gaza Strip

Commanders and leaders

Israel Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister
Israel Ehud Olmert
Prime Minister
Israel Ehud Barak
Minister of Defense

Israel Gabi Ashkenazi
Chief of General Staff

Khaled Mashal[2]
Ismail Haniyeh
Said Seyam (KIA)
Mohammed Deif
Abu Zakaria al-Jamal (KIA)
Ahmed Jabari (KIA)
Tawfik Jaber (KIA)[3]
Osama Mazini
Nizar Rayan (KIA)[3]

Mahmoud al-Zahar
Casualties and losses
39 killed[4] Unconfirmed

The Gaza–Israel conflict is an ongoing dispute within the frame of the long-term Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the territory of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian self defense to Israeli military occupation in Gaza was escalated in the Gaza territory. The conflict in its current form is ongoing since the split of the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas Government in Gaza in 2006 and the consequent ousting of Fatah. The conflict is also due to the occupation by Israel and its inhumane violence toward Palestinians. The Palestinians are feeling hopeless and despaired living with extremely high unemployment rates, high death tolls, poverty, house demolitions as punishment and no freedom of travel due to Israel's prohibitions.

Under its disengagement plan, Israel retained exclusive control over Gaza's airspace, continued to patrol and monitor the external land perimeter of the Gaza Strip, with the exception of its southernmost border (where Egypt retained control of the border and border crossings were supervised by European monitors), and continued to monitor and blockade Gaza's coastline. Israel largely provides for and controls Gaza's water supply, electricity and communications infrastructure.[5][6] According to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, Israel remains an occupying entity under international law.[7] The United Nations has stated that under resolutions of both the General Assembly and the Security Council it regards Gaza to be part of the "Occupied Palestinian Territories".[8]

Background

Israeli Gaza Strip barrier

Main article: Israeli Gaza Strip barrier

The Gaza Strip has been separated from Israel by the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier since 1996, which has made travel for Palestinians a difficult task. Since the beginning of the Second Intifada, Gazans are no longer permitted to enter Israel for work purposes. Special permits to enter Israel for medical purposes have also been greatly reduced. [citation needed]

Daniel Schueftan, in his 1999 book, Disengagement: Israel and the Palestinian Entity[9][10] ("The Need for Separation: Israel and the Palestinian Authority") reviews new and existing arguments underlying different separation stances, in order to make the case for separation from the Palestinians, beginning with those in the West Bank and Gaza. Schueftan favors the "hard separation" stances of politicians like Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Baron".[10]

Yitzhak Rabin was the first to propose the creation of a physical barrier between the Israeli and Palestinian populations in 1992, and by 1994, construction on the first barrier - the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier - had begun. Following an attack on Bet Lid, near the city of Netanya, Rabin specified the objectives behind the undertaking, stating that,

"This path must lead to a separation, though not according to the borders prior to 1967. We want to reach a separation between us and them. We do not want a majority of the Jewish residents of the state of Israel, 98% of whom live within the borders of sovereign Israel, including a united Jerusalem, to be subject to terrorism."[11]

Second Intifada

Main article: Second Intifada

The Second Intifada, also known as the al-Aqsa Intifada began in September 2000. Many Palestinians consider the Intifada to be a struggle of national liberation against Israeli occupation imposed on them following the 1967 War.

Palestinian defense responses have ranged from carrying out mass protests and general strikes, as in the First Intifada, to mounting suicide bombing attacks and firing Qassam rockets into east southern Israeli areas, targeting military officials. Israeli tactics range from conducting mass arrests, house demolitions as punishment, taking away homes and land to give to Israelis, cutting off electricity and water supply and locking up Palestinians in administrative detention through setting up checkpoints and building the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier and West Bank barrier to carrying out assassinations targeting militants and leaders of Palestinian organizations.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) AH-64 Apache were used as platform for shooting missiles at Palestinian residential, schools, religions buildings and media targets and employed at the killings policy against both militants and political leaders.

Since the Palestinian legislative election, 2006, Israel has been negotiating with Mahmoud Abbas and the PLO, but has been simultaneously targeting and bombing Hamas activists and militants and arresting Hamas's elected legislative counsel politicians. The majority of death tolls have been innocent Palestinian civilians, including a great number of children.

The death toll, both military and civilian, over the entire period in question (2000–2007) is estimated to be over 4,300 Palestinians and over 1,000 Israelis. To date, 64 foreign citizens have also been killed.[12]

2004 operations

Main articles: Operation Rainbow (2004) and Operation Days of Penitence (2004)

The 2004 Israel-Gaza conflict refers to the series of battles between Palestinian militants and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Several Qassam rocket attacks on Israel (Sderot and the Negev) led the IDF to retaliate with airstrikes and land incursions. The fighting included two IDF operations, Operation Rainbow and Operation Days of Penitence.

Operation Rainbow was a military operation from 18 May 2004 to 23 May 2004 in Rafah to clear terrorist infrastructure, find smuggling tunnels connecting the Gaza Strip to Egypt, and kill militants after the deaths of 13 Israeli soldiers in guerrilla attacks. Israel said the operation was also aimed at preventing a shipment of Strela-2 (SA-7 Grail) anti-aircraft missiles, AT-3 Sagger anti-tank guided missiles, and other long-range rockets which are stored on the Egyptian side of the border from being smuggled through tunnels into the Gaza Strip. [13]

Operation Days of Penitence an IDF operation in the northern Gaza Strip, conducted between 30 September 2004 and 15 October 2004 focused on Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia and Jabalia refugee camp, which were used as launching sites of Qassam rockets on Sderot and Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, and in response to the death of two children in Sderot. The operation resulted in the deaths of between 104 and 133 Palestinians, and 5 people on the Israeli side.

Israel's Unilateral Disengagement

Israel implemented its Disengagement Plan in August–September 2005, withdrawing its civilian and military presence from the Gaza Strip, and retaining control over the Gaza airspace, maritime access and borders even with Egypt according to the 2005 agreement with Palestinian authority. While Qassam rockets were fired regularly even prior to the Israeli disengagement, the frequency of Qassam attacks increased after the Disengagement from Gaza. Since there are no Israeli targets inside the Gaza Strip, Palestinian militants have targeted military bases and civilian towns located on the borders or outside of the Gaza Strip.[14]

The Qassam rocket attacks by Hamas against Israel started in the year 2000 in response to the Israeli occupation in Gaza and West bank and have continued since then. Thirteen Israelis have been killed and hundreds injured as a result of Qassam rocket fire at Israeli targets. Additionally, Qassam rocket attacks have resulted in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in both children and adults, with 33% of children living in Sderot suffering from PTSD.[15][16]

The Palestinian death toll since 2000 reached over 4600 people, more than 1000 have been killed and about 5000 injured in the 2008-2009 Israeli offensive against Gaza alone. This offensive started in Saturday 2008-12-27 with massive air strikes on all Palestinian government buildings. [17]

Ascendancy of Hamas

Main article: Fatah-Hamas conflict

When the Islamic party Hamas won the January 2006 Palestinian legislative election, gaining a majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council,[18] the conflict between Israel and Gaza intensified. Israel sealed its border with the Gaza Strip, largely preventing free flow of people and many imports and exports. Palestinians have been shooting Qassam rockets at Israeli settlements located near the Gaza borders, and have staged cross-border raids aimed at killing or capturing Israeli soldiers. In one such raid, on 25 June 2006, Palestinians captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, leading to massive retaliation by the Israeli army which included air strikes against Hamas targets.

In June 2007, internal fighting broke out between Hamas and Fatah and Hamas fully consolidated its power by staging an armed coup d'état and taking control of the Gaza Strip. Following the internecine fighting that occurred between 7 June and 15 June 2007, also known as the Battle of Gaza 2007 in which 118 Palestinians were killed and over 550 were wounded,[19] the entire Gaza Strip came under full control of a Hamas government.

As a response to the Hamas takeover, Israel sharply restricted the flow of people and goods into and out of Gaza. About 70% of Gaza's workforce has become unemployed or without pay, and about 80% of its residents live in poverty.[20]

At the same time, Palestinian armed groups in Gaza continued firing rockets into Israel, killing several Israeli civilians, including children, and wounding many others. According to Human Rights Watch, these deliberate attacks against civilians violate international humanitarian law. Because Hamas exercises power inside Gaza, it is responsible for stopping unlawful attacks even when carried out by other groups.[21]

History

Main article: Timeline of the Israel–Gaza conflict

2006 events

Main articles: 2006 Hamas cross-border raid, Operation Summer Rains, and Operation Autumn Clouds (2006)

Large-scale conventional warfare beyond the peripheries of the Gaza Strip began when Israel launched "Operation Summer Rains" in the Gaza Strip that began on 28 June 2006, in response to the Palestinian militants abduction of Corporal Gilad Shalit. It became the first major mobilization into the Gaza Strip since Israel's unilateral disengagement plan was implemented between August and September 2005.

The Gaza beach blast was an event on 9 June 2006 in which eight Palestinians were killed — including nearly the entire family of seven-year-old Huda Ghaliya — and at least thirty others were injured in an explosion on a beach near the municipality of Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip.[22] The incident received considerable attention from news media worldwide, with blame for the explosion hotly disputed in the following weeks.

Israel maintains that it mobilized thousands of troops in order to suppress Qassam rocket fire against its civilian population and to secure the release of Gilad Shalit. It is estimated that between 7,000 and 9,000 Israeli artillery shells were fired into Gaza between September 2005 and June 2006, killing 80 Palestinians in 6 months.[23][verification needed] On the Palestinian side, over 1,300 Qassam rockets have been fired into Israel from September 2000 to 21 December 2006.[citation needed] Israeli forces also continued to search for underground tunnels, used by militants to smuggle weapons, as well as monitor operations at checkpoints (with some assistance from the European Union at Rafah) for security reasons, specifically possible weapons transfers and uninhibited return of exiled extremist leaders and terrorists.[24][25][26][27][28] As of 18 October 2006, Israel has discovered 20 tunnels used for illegal arms smuggling under the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt.[29]


Israel had said it would withdraw from the Strip and end the operation as soon as Shalit was released.[30] The Palestinians had said that they were willing to return Shalit in exchange for the release of some of the Palestinians held in Israeli jails. The Palestinians and others have also said the assault was aimed at toppling the democratically elected Hamas-led government and at destabilizing the Palestinian National Authority, citing the targeting of civilian infrastructure such as a power station and the captures of government and parliament members. Some 300 Palestinians had been targeted by the IDF in the Gaza Strip since the kidnapping of Corporal Gilad Shalit.[31]

Operation Autumn Clouds was lounched on 1 November 2006. The Beit Hanoun November 2006 incident occurred on 8 November 2006 when Israel Defense Forces shells missed their target and hit a row of houses in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun,[32] killing 19 Palestinians and wounding more than 40.[33][34] It occurred the day after the Israeli withdrawal following Operation Autumn Clouds, a week-long operation by the Israeli military in the northern Gaza Strip aimed at curbing Qassam rocket attacks fired by Palestinian militants from the town.[35]

The 2006 Franco–Italian–Spanish Middle East Peace Plan was proposed after Israel invaded the Gaza Strip in Operation Autumn Clouds by Spanish Premier José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero during talks with French president Jacques Chirac. Italy's prime minister Romano Prodi gave his full support to the plan.

On 26 November, a ceasefire was signed by Palestinian organisations and Israel, and Israel withdrew its troops while the Palestinian Authority forces deployed to stop Qassam rocket launchings. Following the truce over 60 Qassam rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel, and 1 Palestinian (armed with guns and grenades) was killed by the IDF. On 19 December, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad began taking open responsibility for the Qassam rocket firing, because they said Israel killed two of their members in Jenin.[36][37][38]

2007–2008 Escalation

Main articles: Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2007, Breach of the Gaza-Egypt border (2008), and Operation Hot Winter

A series of battles between Palestinian militants in the Hamas Governed Gaza and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that began in mid-May 2007. Palestinians fired more than 220 Qassam rocket attacks on Israel (Sderot and the western Negev) in more than a week. The Israeli Air Force fired missiles and bombs into Gaza. The fighting came amid serious Palestinian factional violence and reports of growing level of humanitarian crisis in the region.[39] Hamas said they will continue to retaliate against Israeli strikes.

In September 2007, citing an intensification of Qassam rocket attacks, Israel declared Gaza "hostile territory." The declaration allowed Israel to prevent the transfer of electricity, fuel, and other supplies into Gaza. The stated purpose of this blockade was to pressure Hamas into ending the rocket attacks and to deprive them of the supplies necessary for the continuation of rocket attacks.[40][41][42][43] Israel's decision to cut fuel supplies to Gaza were widely condemned as "collective punishment." [44][45][46]

Israel has also arrested Hamas officials in the West Bank, including two cabinet members. Such arrests have been strongly condemned by international organizations and politicians.[47][48][49][50]

By January 2008, the economic effects of Israel's blockade on Gaza reached a critical threshold, according to a United Nations study. Finally, on 17 January 2008, Israel sealed the border completely following a rise in rocket attacks. The breach of the Gaza-Egypt border began on 23 January 2008, after gunmen in the Gaza Strip set off an explosion near the Rafah Border Crossing, destroying part of the former Israeli Gaza Strip barrier. The United Nations estimates that as many as half the 1.5 million population of the Gaza Strip crossed the border into Egypt seeking food and supplies. [citation needed]

Conflict continued on 27 February 2008, as Palestinian militants fired more than 40 Qassam rockets into southern Israel and the Israeli army fired three missiles at the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza destroying the building.[51] On 28 February 2008 Israeli aircraft bombed a police station near the Gaza City home of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, killing several children.[52] The Israeli military says its air and ground operations against militants firing rockets from northern Gaza have hit at least 23 armed Palestinians, while Palestinian sources have reported higher death tolls and say many civilians have also been killed.[53]

Israel began its air and ground operations on 29 February.[54] The IDF's offensive in Gaza has killed more than 100 Palestinians in less than a week.[55] Palestinians fired 150 rockets at Israel which killed three Israelis.[54] The United States called for an end to clashes between Israel and the Palestinians.[56] The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has accused Israel of "international terrorism", saying its assault on Gaza constitutes "more than a holocaust."[57] On 3 March Abbas suspended all contact with Israel over its assault on Gaza as the Israeli government sent warplanes to hit more targets early on Monday and vowed to continue its offensive.[58] The European Union condemned what it called "disproportionate use of force" by the Israeli military in Gaza after 54 Palestinians were killed in the highest casualty toll for a single day since fighting erupted in 2000.[59] United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also issued a condemnation of what he termed Israel's "excessive and disproportionate" response, and called on Israel "to cease such attacks", while denouncing the ongoing rocket attacks on Sderot and Ashkelon.[60] In the Muslim world, demonstrators took to the streets to protest the IDF attacks. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Muslims to rise up and their leaders to hit Israel "in the face with their nations' anger." In Lebanon, hundreds of Hezbollah supporters gathered at the Fatima Gate at the border between Lebanon and Israel, shouting "Death to Israel" and waving Lebanese and Palestinian flags. In Egypt, thousands of students held protests at universities across the country calling on Arab leaders to stop Israeli aggression and support the Palestinians. Some protesters burned Israeli and American flags.[56] About 10,000 protesters, mainly from Jordan's mainstream Muslim Brotherhood and smaller opposition groups, took to the streets in one of the country's most vocal and largest anti-Israeli demonstrations in recent years. Saudi Arabia meanwhile compared the IDF offensive to "Nazi war crimes" and called on the international community to stop what it called the "mass killings" of Palestinians. Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the IDF attacks can have "no humanitarian justification" and added that Israel was rejecting a "diplomatic solution" to the dispute.[56] Most Israeli tanks and troops pulled out of northern Gaza 3 March 2008, and an Israel Defense Forces spokesman confirmed that the Israeli military was ending offensive operations there after five days.[61]

On 29 February 2008, the Israeli military launced Operation Hot Winter, also called "Operation Warm Winter", in response to Qassam rockets fired from the Strip by Hamas. The Israeli army killed 112 Palestinians, and Palestinian militants killed three Israelis. More than 150 Palestinians and seven Israelis have been injured.[62]

There was widespread international alarm at the scale of the operation, with the US state department encouraging Israel to exercise caution to avoid the loss of innocent life, and the European Union and the United Nations criticising Israel's "disproportionate use of force". The European Union also demanded an immediate end to Palestinian militant rocket attacks on Israel and urged Israel to halt activities that endanger civilians, saying they were "in violation of international law." [63]

Six month ceasefire

Main article: 2008 Israel-Hamas ceasefire

Gaza War

Main article: Gaza War

The Gaza War[64] started when Israel launched a military campaign in the Gaza Strip on 27 December 2008, codenamed Operation Cast Lead (Template:Lang-he),[65] with the stated aim of stopping Hamas rocket attacks on southern Israel and arms smuggling into Gaza.[66][67] The conflict has also been called the Gaza massacre in the Arab world (Template:Lang-ar).[68] A fragile six-month truce between Hamas and Israel expired on 19 December 2008.[69] The Israeli operation began with an intense bombardment of the Gaza Strip,[70] targeting Hamas bases, police training camps,[71] police headquarters and offices.[72][73] Civilian infrastructure, including mosques, houses, medical facilities and schools, were also attacked, as Israel stated that many of them were used by combatants, and as storage spaces for weapons and rockets.[74] Hamas intensified its rocket and mortar attacks against targets in Israel throughout the conflict, hitting previously untargeted cities such as Beersheba and Ashdod.[75][76] On 3 January 2009, the Israeli ground invasion began.[77][78] Human rights groups and aid organisations have accused Hamas and Israel of war crimes.[79][80][81] An estimated 1,166-1,417 Palestinians and 13 Israelis died in the conflict.[82][83][84] The conflict came to an end on 18 January after first Israel and then Hamas announced unilateral ceasefires.[85][86] On 21 January, Israel completed its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.[87] On 2 March, it was reported that international donors had pledged $4.5 billion in aid for the Palestinians, mainly for rebuilding Gaza after Israel's offensive.[88]

2010 Events

Further information: 2010 Palestinian militancy campaign and March 2010 Israel-Gaza clashes

On 2 January 2010, Israeli Air Force carried out strikes against tunnels Gaza–Israel border in southern Gaza. Two tunnels were blown up and rendered useless after the attacks and two Palestinian militants were injured. The attacks were called on after rocket and mortar fire from Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. It escalated the current political violence in the enclave, along the border. The militants had previously launched attacks into Israel, and it appeared the early warning system for such attacks, installed after the Gaza War, did not go off.[89] Many[by whom?] say the 'lull' in violence after the December 2008 – January 2009 war was 'broken'.

On 26 March 2010, two Israeli soldiers and two Hamas militiants were killed during clashes on the Gaza Strip's southern border. Two other soldiers were wounded during the fighting which broke out east of the town of Khan Younis. They are the first Israeli soldiers to have been killed in hostile fire in or around Gaza since Israel's major offensive there in January 2009, according to the BBC.[90]

2011 cross-border attack

Main article: 2011 southern Israel cross-border attacks

On August 18, 2011, a series of cross-border attacks was carried out in southern Israel near the Egyptian border, by a squad of militants [91]The militants first opened fire at civilian bus.[92][93]Several minutes later, a bomb was detonated next to an Israeli army patrol along Israel's border with Egypt. In a third attack, an anti-tank missile hit a private vehicle, killing four civilians.[94]

2012 Events

Main articles: March 2012 Gaza-Israel clashes and Operation Pillar of Defense

On 9-14 March 2010, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) initiated operation 'Operation Returning Echo'. It was the worst outbreak of violence covered by the media in the region since the 2008–2009 Operation Cast Lead(Gaza War).

The ongoing Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel grew intense late in October 2012, and so Israel's government decided to resort to a forceful military response. Southern Israel, including Beersheva, were targeted. As is typical of Israeli attacks on the Palestinians, at least one military leader was killed; in this case, that leader was Ahmed Jabari. Numerous civilians were also killed as a result of Israeli attacks. Most of the fighting was by bombs, aerial attacks, artillery, and rockets; the rockets being primarily used by the Palestinians and air strikes primarily by the Israelis. Attacked locations include Beersheva, Tel Aviv, Ashdod, Ofakim, Gaza, the rest of the Gaza Strip, the Shaar Hanegev, and Eshkol Regional Council. Some Western countries made comments in favor of the Israelis, and numerous Arabic, European, and Western countries commented in favor of the Palestinians.

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Israeli President Shimon Peres speak about the Israeli-Gaza conflict 2009 at Davos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_CjAZuqIAk

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