2007–2008 Israel-Gaza conflict

Gaza–Israel conflict
Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the spillover of the Sinai insurgency
Maps of Israel and Gaza
Date June 2006 – ongoing Location Gaza Strip Southern Israel and parts of Egypt Status General cease-fire: General ceasefire between Israel and Hamas (from 2014) Sporadic rocket-fire and clashes between the IDF and other Palestinian militant organizations
Belligerents
Israel IDF Shin Bet Mossad Supported by:  United States  Egypt (since 2014)	Gaza Strip Hamas PIJ PRC DFLP PFLP al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades Al-Sabireen Supported by:  Iran  Qatar  Sudan  Turkey	Salafi jihadists Army of Islam Jaljalat Ansar Bait al-Maqdis (Until November 2014) Al-Qaeda Tawhid al-Jihad Jund Ansar Allah Abdullah Azzam Brigades Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade Wilayat Sayna Mujahideen Shura Council
Commanders and leaders
Ehud Olmertb (2006-2009) Ehud Barakc (2006-2013) Gabi Ashkenazid (2006-2011) Benny Gantz (2006-2015) Benjamin Netanyahua (2009-present)	Khaled Mashal Ismail Haniyeh Said Seyam (KIA) Mohammed Deif Abu Z. al-Jamal (KIA) Ahmed Jabari (KIA) Tawfik Jaber (KIA) Osama Mazini Nizar Rayan (KIA) Mahmoud al-Zahar Ramadan Shalah Abd Al Aziz Awda Ayman al-Fayed (KIA) Ayman al-Shashniya Zuhir al-Qaisi (KIA) Imad Hammad (KIA)	Abdallah al-Ashqar Mumtaz Dughmush Mohammad Namnam (KIA) Islam Yassif (KIA) Hisham Al-Saedni (KIA) Ashraf al-Sabah (KIA) Abdel Latif Moussa (KIA) Mahmoud Taleb (POW) Abu Ayna Al-Ansari Yunis Hunnar (KIA) Yussef al-Hatar (KIA)
Casualties and losses
~100 killed	~5,000 killed(including Executions by Hamas) ~15,000 wounded
aPrime Minister since April 2009. b Prime Minister 2006–2009. cDefense Minister. dChief of the General Staff.

General cease-fire:

 Israel

Supported by:

 Gaza Strip

Supported by:

Salafi jihadists

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

The Gaza–Israel conflict is a part of the wider Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Palestinian militant actions escalated in the Gaza Strip following the overwhelming election to government of the Islamist political party Hamas in 2005 and 2006. The conflict escalated with the split of the Palestinian Authority 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. Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel and the joint Egyptian-Israeli blockade of Gaza have exacerbated the conflict. The international community considers indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian structures that do not discriminate between civilians and military targets .

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