By then, 2,251 Palestinians, of whom 1,462 were civilians, had died. The Israeli military claimed the target of the raid was a tunnel that they said Hamas was planning to use to capture Israeli soldiers positioned on the border fence 250m away. The Gaza conflict explained by an expert - and when it will end Explained Current hostilities in the Middle East were sparked by tensions old and new By Taz Ali Foreign news reporter May 20,. Jewish philanthropists actually bought the . According to witnesses and local media, Israeli drones launched at least 13 missiles strikes that had hit al-Maghazi refugee camp in the . Peace talks have been taking place on and off for more than 25 years, but so far have not solved the conflict. Operation Pillar of Defense Israeli missile defense made great strides in the period before Pillar of Defense. The cost of war in Gaza is devastating & is being paid by ordinary people. 2023 A&E Television Networks, LLC. Fighting immediately broke out in Gaza between Israel security forces and Hamas and lasted through the summer, ending in an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire in August 2014. The 25-mile-long Gaza Strip is Palestinian territory that borders Egypt and Israel.. Previously unseen injuries included severely damaged internal organs, severe internal burning and deep internal wounds often resulting in amputations or death. Pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian advocates demonstrating last week outside Downing Street in central London. [37], Israel implemented its Disengagement Plan in AugustSeptember 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. [164] In response, Israel launched air strikes in the Gaza strip on the same day. One IDF officer was killed and another was injured. 16 years since Israel vacated the coastal enclave, put the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, among others, under greater threat. [57] 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. At the end of this conflict, known as the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Egypt was given control of the Gaza Strip. [140][141][142][143][144][145][146][147][148] Iran, Egypt, Turkey, North Korea and several other Arab and Muslim countries condemned the Israeli operation. The death toll in. The militants first opened fire at civilian bus. "I can tell you one thing for certain - that if the status quo does not change favourably, there will be another round of this.". It is important that remember some painful lessons of history. [citation needed] Since the beginning of the Second Intifada, Gazans have not been permitted to enter Israel for work purposes. [51][52][53][54][55] As of 18 October 2006, Israel has discovered 20 tunnels used for illegal arms smuggling under the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt. But what is behind the attacks. Many homes in Gaza have been destroyed during the conflict This week's violence in Gaza and Israel is the worst since 2014. The root of the latest violence is an intense dispute over East Jerusalem, which is predominantly Palestinian. Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. 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. Egypt has been the interlocutor in concluding rounds of warfare between Israel and Hamas, including the last two big confrontations, in 2008 and 2014. In 2005, in a heart-wrenching, politically divisive move, the Israeli government decided to uproot any remnant of a Jewish presence in Gaza and withdrew to the pre-1967 lines, giving the Palestinian people in the region total independence. The land was inhabited by a Jewish minority and Arab majority. Israel is trying to uproot Palestinians from Jerusalem, expelling families, one home, one neighborhood at a time. On 31 July 2014 on the 23rd day of the 2014 IsraelGaza conflict, Ireland's Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan said he shared "the horror and revulsion of senators and very many of our citizens at the horrendous scenes we have witnessed since the start of the Israeli military operation." Israeli warplanes started bombarding Gaza City on May 10, compounding the civilian suffering in the coastal enclave. [122][123][124] An estimated 1,166-1,417 Palestinians and 13 Israelis died in the conflict. 6.7M views 1 year ago #DailyShow #Palestine #Israel Tensions between Israel and Palestine escalate, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries. In addition, Israel increased its troop presence near the GazaIsrael border. [117] Hamas intensified its rocket and mortar attacks against targets in Israel throughout the conflict, hitting previously untargeted cities such as Beersheba and Ashdod. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. We want to reach a separation between us and them. Israeli officials described it as a dispute over real estate. [180], According to NGOs and the UN, the recent wars and the blockade have led to worsening living conditions in Gaza, and it could become unlivable by 2020. The United States, Israels strongest ally in the United Nations and a veto-wielding permanent member of the council, had opposed even a statement condemning the violence, which many other U.N. members blame on Israel. 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. Large-scale conventional warfare beyond the peripheries of the Gaza Strip began when Palestinian militants abducted Corporal Gilad Shalit, and Israel responded by launching Operation "Summer Rains" on 28 June 2006. It's the most serious flare-up since an 11-day conflict in May 2021. The latest upsurge in violence has been triggered by tensions in Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, with clashes at a holy site sacred to both Jews and Muslims. [citation needed]. Since the 2006 Palestinian legislative election, 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. Jordan occupied land which became known as the West Bank, and Egypt occupied Gaza. In June 2007, internal fighting broke out between Hamas and Fatah and Hamas fully consolidated its power by staging an armed coup d'tat and taking control of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel,[25] Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, and the joint Egyptian-Israeli blockade of Gaza have exacerbated the conflict. The 2014 Gaza War saw a massive loss of life The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) conducted an operation to arrest Hamas leaders and the Palestinian group fired rockets into Israel. More than 2,100 Gazans were killed in the seven-week war that followed, according to the Gaza health ministry, along with 73 Israelis, and thousands of homes in Gaza were razed by Israeli forces. 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 IsraelGaza barrier had begun; it is actually a wire fence equipped with sensors. [139] 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. This week's violence in Gaza and Israel is the worst since 2014. [128][129] On 21 January, Israel completed its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. [95], When the six-month truce officially expired on 19 December, Hamas launched 50 to more than 70 rockets and mortars into Israel over the next three days, though no Israelis were injured. [155] The war came to an end after 50 days of conflict when a ceasefire was agreed upon on 26 August 2014. The Gaza Strip is a territory in the Middle East. As part of its 2005 disengagement plan, Israel retained exclusive control over Gaza's airspace and territorial waters, 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. It followed days of tensions after Israel arrested a senior PIJ member in the occupied West Bank. Mr. Biden pressed Mr. Netanyahu on what his goal was, and what would allow him to say he had achieved it so that a shorter war was possible. In another war in 1967, Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, as well as most of the Syrian Golan Heights, Gaza and the Egyptian Sinai peninsula. Here is what drove the conflict, and the arc it took. Attacked locations include Beersheva, Tel Aviv, Ashdod, Ofakim, Gaza, the rest of the Gaza Strip, the Shaar Hanegev, and Eshkol Regional Council. A growing chorus of international parties had called on Israel, Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza to lay down their weapons. The Irish government, he said, condemned "both the unacceptably high civilian casualty rate resulting from disproportionate military action on Israel's part as well as the firing of rockets by Hamas and other militants into Israel. The images of the tense call-and-response barrages have been among the most widely shared online, even as the toll wrought by the violence becomes clear only in the light of the next days dawn. [58], In July 2006, first reports emerged about mystery injuries after Israeli attacks. The 2006 FrancoItalianSpanish Middle East Peace Plan was proposed after Israel invaded the Gaza Strip in Operation "Autumn Clouds" by Spanish Premier Jos Luis Rodrguez Zapatero during talks with French president Jacques Chirac. While Israeli officials claimed a success rate of up to 90 percent during that conflict, outside experts were skeptical. Some people were also hurt or killed in a burst of unrest in mixed-population cities in Israel, including in Lod, where two people died. The Israel-Palestinian conflict explained The city's sanctity for Christians, Jews and Muslims is not just a religious matter. Israeli leaders agreed to to halt hostilities under intense diplomatic pressure and with increasing casualties on both sides. [149][150][151], In 2014, fighting intensified between Israel and Hamas, leading to another full-scale Gaza War, this one far deadlier than the previous in 20082009. An Islamist political group called Hamas won elections and took control of Gaza in 2006. It is located on the Mediterranean Sea between Israel and Egypt. "[177] On 5 August 2014 a member of the British cabinet resigned over the UK government's approach to the 2014 conflict. Some 300 Palestinians had been targeted by the IDF in the Gaza Strip since the kidnapping of Corporal Gilad Shalit. https://www.nytimes.com/article/israel-gaza-what-we-know.html. The strike is part of an . Because Hamas exercises power inside Gaza, it is responsible for stopping unlawful attacks even when carried out by other groups.[48]. [61][62] Israeli Defense Forces launched an investigation into the Beit Hanoun November 2006 incident (and later apologized for the incident), and the then Israeli President Ehud Olmert offered humanitarian assistance to those affected.[63]. Finally, on 17 January 2008, Israel sealed the border completely following a rise in rocket attacks. Here is how conflict over ownership of the region has played out over the last 70 years. Despite numerous peace efforts, the territory has been characterized by instability and warfare and continues to remain a volatile region. After World War II and the Holocaust in which six million Jewish people. What this conflict lacks is a politician on either side (or both) who can see that violence serves only to perpetuate more violence. Attempting to curb Qassam rocket attacks fired at Southern Israel by Palestinian militants from the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli strategists and representatives described the campaigns aim to be the destruction of as much of Hamass infrastructure as possible, including the groups network of rocket factories and underground tunnels a subterranean transit system that the Israel military refers to as the metro.. The Israeli army killed 112 Palestinians, and Palestinian militants killed three Israelis. The territory is 25 miles (40 kilometers) long and 4-5 miles (6-8 kilometers) wide. Israel responded by bombing. Source: Lists of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, Military operations of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, 2006 FrancoItalianSpanish Middle East Peace Plan, Learn how and when to remove this template message, fragile six-month truce between Hamas and Israel, 2011 southern Israel cross-border attacks, 2014 Israeli shelling of UNRWA Gaza shelters, weekly protests at the GazaIsrael border, List of modern conflicts in the Middle East, "Shin Bet Uncovers West Bank Hamas Cell That Planned Attacks in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem", "Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations review", "U.S. Israel largely provides and controls Gaza's water supply, electricity and communications infrastructure. The view is from Ashkelon, in southern Israel. Israeli warplanes bombarded Gaza City on Monday morning as Hamas continues lobbing rockets on southern cities in Israel. It is separated by Israel from Jerusalem, which holds deep religious and cultural significance for both Arabs and Jews, with both Israel and Palestinians claiming Jerusalem as a capital city. The area has been a source of conflict for many years. In May 2018, tensions erupted when the U.S. Embassy relocated to Jerusalem. On the Israeli side, one of the children killed was a 5-year-old Israeli boy who died after a rocket fired from Gaza made a direct hit on the building next door to his aunts apartment, where he was visiting with his mother and older sister. 2006-present (Gaza-Israel conflict) - The conflict over the Gaza Strip - a strip of land between southern Israel and Egypt - has been ongoing for the last 15 years. The Israeli military announced that it had targeted Palestinian militant group's training sites after 10 or more rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip; according to the military, four were intercepted, three fell in open areas, and several inside Gaza. In a third attack, an anti-tank missile hit a private vehicle, killing four civilians. What Drove the Israel-Gaza Conflict? 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. Palestinians running during clashes with Israeli police at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque on May 10th, in Jerusalems Old City. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a war and dispute that is still going on between the State of Israel and the Palestinians (some of which are represented by the . 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." Neither they nor their descendants have been allowed by Israel to return to their homes - Israel says this would overwhelm the country and threaten its existence as a Jewish state. The fate of Jerusalem and its holy sites is one of the most explosive issues in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In short, the situation isn't going to be sorted out any time soon. But the battle between Hamas militants and the Israeli military has spurred a devastating humanitarian crisis. The Iron Dome missile defense system became operational in 2011 and got its biggest first test over eight days in November 2014, when Gaza militants fired some 1,500 rockets aimed at Israel. Date: Mid-20th century - present Main phase: 1964-1993: . Since Israel controls the Gaza coastline, experts believe many of these weapons are smuggled into the region or provided by anti-Israeli allies in other countries, such as Iran. The BBC's Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, said the violence in May 2021 was the fourth big war between Hamas and Israel since 2008. With this incursion into Gaza territory and its non-compliance with the easing of the embargo, Israel had failed to comply with two aspects of the June 2008 ceasefire. Accepting a truce offered Israel an opportunity to thwart the threat of tunnels being used to attack or kidnap its citizens, without risking more of the civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip that were turning world opinion against it. For Jews it was their ancestral home, but Palestinian Arabs also claimed the land and opposed the move. Since the conflict erupted last week, Hamas has launched more than 3,000 rockets toward Israeli cities and towns. This has been the worst conflict between Israeli settlers and Palestinian militants, since the end of an 11-day fight in 2021. In 1948, unable to solve the problem, British rulers left and Jewish leaders declared the creation of the state of Israel. More than 2.50 lakh Palestinians were displaced. 2012: Israeli forces kill Ahmed Jabari, a Hamas military chief, in a missile strike. In September 2007, citing an intensification of Qassam rocket attacks, Israel declared Gaza "hostile territory." 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. Israel and the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights. The ceasefire was mediated by Egypt - which has acted as an intermediary between Israel and Gaza in the past. Egypt controlled Gaza until the Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel seized the strip, along with several other important areas of land. [101], On 4 November 2008 Israel broke the ceasefire with an attack on Gaza. Israel and Palestine have been in conflict since 1948. Israel is killing Palestinians in Gaza, one family at a time. The 1993 and 1995 Oslo Peace Accords between Palestinian and Israeli leaders negotiated for Israels withdrawal from Gaza and other key areas, which happened in 2005 under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Palestinians in Gaza dont have an official army, but they do possess thousands of guns, rockets and other weapons. The war between Israel and Palestine has been going on for years, with the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip reaching 53 years. A fragile cease-fire went into effect between Hamas and Israel early Friday in Israel, bringing to end, for now, 11 days of intense fighting. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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. The gap in the balance of power is one of the widest in the region. Tensions escalated, adding to the growing list of violent confrontations that have taken place on the Gaza Strip. The deadly escalation of violence across Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, in which at least 40 people have been killed and hundreds injured, has demonstrated how the core fault-lines of the. Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank say they are suffering because of Israeli actions and restrictions. GAZA has been a site of fierce clashes and bloody battles between protesters and Israeli troops for decades. The 25-mile-long Gaza Strip is Palestinian territory that borders Egypt and Israel. [131] This war is considered to be the largest, devastating and deadliest military operation in Gaza since the Six-day war in 1967. Seven people have died in Israel, which has . Among the deaths were eight children killed in a single airstrike at a refugee camp. Many Palestinians consider the Intifada to be a struggle of national liberation against Israeli occupation imposed on them following the 1967 War, whereas many Israelis consider it to be a terrorist campaign. We do not want 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. Israel withdrew its last forces from Gaza on Tuesday, as a 72-hour ceasefire between the country and Palestinian militants went into effect. Hamas, with help from allies outside Gaza including Iran, according to Israeli and Hamas officials has parlayed that arsenal into an increasingly lethal threat. To date, 64 foreign citizens have also been killed (54 by Palestinians, and 10 by Israeli security forces). [159][160], On 3 May, two Israeli soldiers were injured by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad sniper from in the Gaza Strip during the weekly protests at the GazaIsrael border. Such arrests have been strongly condemned by international organizations and politicians. In his public comments, President Biden refused to join the growing calls from world leaders and many of his fellow Democrats for a cease-fire, or express anything short of support for Israels right to defend itself. Most of those deaths have been Palestinians in the territory of Gaza. Following the internecine fighting that occurred between 7 and 15 June 2007, also known as the Battle of Gaza 2007 in which 118 Palestinians were killed and over 550 were wounded,[42] the entire Gaza Strip came under full control of a Hamas government. Tensions between the two peoples grew when the international community gave Britain the task of establishing a "national home" in Palestine for Jewish people. Israel has suffered casualties and the psychological terror of incoming rockets, but the system is clearly winnowing out much of the daily rocket fire. It came after weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tension in East. From March 30, 2018 to May 15, 2018, Palestinians in Gaza took part in a planned protest called the Great March of Return, coinciding with the relocation of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. A ceasefire's been agreed between Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas. Kids Encyclopedia Facts. France had led efforts to call for a cease-fire at the United Nations Security Council. Here is the arc of the conflict. Most Palestinian refugees and their descendants live in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as in neighbouring Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Israel is. Two other soldiers were wounded during the fighting which broke out east of the town of Khan Younis. Hamas answers with rocket attacks from Gaza. This 140-square-mile stretch of land located along the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Israel, has endured decades of protest, military operations and violence. eight children killed in a single airstrike, made a direct hit on the building next door, the eviction of several Palestinian families from East Jerusalem, Israeli military acknowledged that those efforts, battle between Hamas militants and the Israeli militar. Israel still occupies the West Bank, and although it pulled out of Gaza the UN still regards that piece of land as occupied territory. Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages on Gaza, an impoverished and densely packed area of two million people, killed at least 230 people, including 65 children, and wounded 1,620 as of. [83] Palestinians fired 150 rockets at Israel which killed three Israelis. 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. The Israeli Air Force sent jets to strike multiple targets in the Gaza Strip, including the office of senior Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh, and Hamas' military intelligence headquarters in Gaza City. Schueftan favors the "hard separation" stances of politicians like Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak.[34]. In response, the Israeli Air Force struck numerous targets within the Gaza Strip. Palestinian residents of Gaza Strip woke up on Thursday to mark Eid al-Fitr - one of the holiest occasions in the Islamic calendar - amid relentless aerial bombardment by Israel . Hamas, too, faced pressure to accept the truce, not only from international negotiators but from many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who were suffering under continuous Israeli bombardment and grappling with the devastation and destruction around them. As the worst violence in years rages, each night the sky is lit up by rockets fired from Gaza, and by the guided projectiles of Israels Iron Dome defense system shooting up to counter them. [97][bettersourceneeded] The increase in supplies of food, water, medicine and fuel did improve, but the increase was only to an average of about 20 percent of normal levels,[98] compared to the Hamas compliance in reducing rocket fire by 98%. As Palestinians and Israelis hunkered down for the second week of an intense conflict, a series of deadly flash points have galvanized both sides in a region where the human cost of war is all. 1973: Arab nations formed a coalition to attack Israel. [56], Israel had said it would withdraw from the Strip and end the operation as soon as Shalit was released. The fighting came amid serious Palestinian factional violence and reports of growing level of humanitarian crisis in the region. The current Gaza conflict is the most damaging in more than a decade, as infrastructure and civilians are pounded by shelling. [130] 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. In May 2021, violence between Israelis and Palestinians escalated, following clashes and demonstrations in Jerusalem. 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.[64][65][66]. The massive wall across the length of Israel's border did stop . The Gaza Strip is controlled by the terrorist group Hamas, with which Israel has fought multiple wars. Twelve people were also killed in Israel. Yehoshua died of wounds when his car was pelted with rocks during riots. Bodies arrived severely fragmented, melted and disfigured. [86] 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. [47] According to Human Rights Watch, the Palestinian deliberate attacks against civilians violate international humanitarian law. 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. Egypt has urged a brokered end to the fighting between Israel and militants in Gaza, and France has called for a UN security council resolution on the . Between the 1920s and 1940s, the number of Jews arriving there grew, with many fleeing from persecution in Europe and seeking a homeland after the Holocaust of World War Two. Targets included an armaments production facility, a tunnel for smuggling weaponry and a Hamas military post. The current Israel-Gaza conflict Since Friday, fighters from Israel and Gaza have been exchanging gunfire across the border. During the U.S. Presidential campaigns of 2016, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders criticized Israel for its treatment of Gaza, and in particular criticized Netanyahu for "overreacting" and causing unnecessary civilian deaths. Nearly 2,000 people have lost their lives in a month of fighting, a majority of them civilians. Violence between Jews and Arabs, and against British rule, also grew. Thousands of Palestinian refugees settled in the Gaza Strip. Abdallah al-Ashqar Mumtaz Dughmush Mohammad Namnam Islam Yassif Hisham Al-Saedni Ashraf al-Sabah Abdel Latif Moussa Mahmoud Taleb(POW), The GazaIsrael conflict is a part of the localized IsraeliPalestinian conflict, but is also a scene of power struggle between regional powers including Egypt, Iran and Turkey together with Qatar, supporting different sides of the conflict in light of the regional standoff between Iran and Saudi Arabia[21] on one hand and between Qatar and Saudi Arabia on the other, as well as crisis in Egyptian-Turkish relations. [82] The IDF's offensive in Gaza has killed more than 100 Palestinians in less than a week. (Credit: Hugo H. Mendelsohn/AFP/Getty Images). The conflict has fueled a humanitarian catastrophe that touches nearly every civilian living in Gaza. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Many Palestinians objected and a war followed. An Israeli air strike killed Ahmed Jabari, chief of the Hamas military wing in Gaza. They struck 35 "terror. [22], The conflict originated with the election of the Islamist political party Hamas in 2005[23] and 2006[24] in the Gaza Strip and escalated with the split of the Palestinian Authority Palestinian government into the Fatah government in the West Bank and the Hamas government in Gaza and the following violent ousting of Fatah after Fatah lost the election to Hamas. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a battle that is still going on between the State of Israel and the Palestinians. During the second week of March 2012, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) initiated Operation "Returning Echo". 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