Operation Autumn Clouds

Operation "Autumn Clouds"
Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Date 31 October – 8 November 2006 Location Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip Result Tactical Israeli victory Israeli forces withdraw from the Gaza Strip
Belligerents
Israel IDF ISF	Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades Hamas  PRC  Army of Islam
Commanders and leaders
D. Halutz, Chief of Staff Y. Galant, ISC	K. Mashal, Hamas leader M. Deif, Hamas military leader
Casualties and losses
1 killed 3 civilians wounded	82 Palestinians killed, at least halve of whom civilians More than 260 wounded

Tactical Israeli victory

 Israel

Fatah

Operation "Autumn Clouds" (Hebrew: מבצע ענני סתיו‎‎ Mivtza Ananei Stav) is an Israeli military operation that began on 1 November 2006, following numerous rocket and mortar attacks on southern Israel, when the Israeli Defense Forces entered the Gaza Strip triggering sporadic fighting near Beit Hanoun. The operation is the largest military endeavor undertaken by the Israeli military since Operation "Summer Rains" in the summer of 2006. The operation was launched to stop Palestinian rocket attacks into Israel.

Palestinian government officials said on 7 November that IDF troops were beginning to withdraw, thus ending the operation. Fifty-three Palestinians, including 16 civilians, and an IDF soldier, were killed since 31 October.

On 1 November 2006, in the largest military operation by Israel since Operation "Summer Rains", six Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed and 35 people were wounded during a raid on Beit Hanoun by the Israeli military. The raid involved three air strikes, sixty tanks backed by helicopter gunships. The AFP news agency reported that three houses were razed by Israeli bulldozers and a dozen homes were hit by tank shells. The raid was the beginning of Operation "Autumn Clouds" by the Israeli military. Both the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, have described the raid as a .

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