2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
| Operation Protective Edge 2014 | |||||||
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| Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict | |||||||
  (left) A home in Gaza bombed by Israel (right) Iron Dome missile defense system in operation |
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Israel
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Gazan militant groups Armament support: Iran
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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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 PIJ |
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| Units involved | |||||||
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Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades Al-Quds Brigades |
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| Strength | |||||||
| 176,500 active personnel 565,000 reservists(2012 figures, of which not all are directly involved) |
Al-Qassam Brigades: 20,000–40,000 |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 67 soldiers and 6 civilians (1 Thai) killed, 469 soldiers and 87 civilians wounded |
GHM: 2,310 killed, 10,626 wounded UN HRC: 2,251 killed Israel MFA: 2,125 killed |
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| At least 23 Gazans executed by Hamas | |||||||
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a 70% civilians |
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Victory claimed by both sides
Gazan militant groups
Al-Qassam Brigades: 20,000–40,000
a 70% civilians
b 65% civilians
The 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict also known as Operation Protective Edge (Hebrew: מִבְצָע צוּק אֵיתָן, Miv'tza Tzuk Eitan, lit. "Operation Strong Cliff") and sometimes referred to as the 2014 Gaza war, was a military operation launched by Israel on 8 July 2014 in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers by Hamas members, the IDF conducted Operation Brother's Keeper to arrest militant leaders, Hamas fired rockets into Israel and a seven-week conflict broke out. The Israeli strikes, the Palestinian rocket attacks and the ground fighting resulted in the death of thousands of people, the vast majority of them Gazans.
The stated aim of the Israeli operation was to stop rocket fire from Gaza into Israel, which increased after an Israeli crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank was launched following the 12 June kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers by two Hamas members. Conversely, Hamas's goal was to bring international pressure to bear to lift Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, end Israel's offensive, obtain a third party to monitor and guarantee compliance with a ceasefire, release Palestinian prisoners and overcome its political isolation. Some claim Israel was the first, on 13 June, to break the ceasefire agreement with Hamas that had been in place since November 2012. However, Israel argues its air raids on Gaza are responses to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.
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