An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place chiefly in the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023. Clashes have also occurred in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and with Hezbollah along the Israel–Lebanon–Golan Heights border. The fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008, it is part of the broader Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War 50 years earlier.
Satellite view of widespread fires in Israeli areas surrounding the Gaza Strip on 7 October 2023
Destruction of a residential building in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike
Remains of the Sderot police station, following recapture by IDF
The Israeli General Staff confers during a meeting on 8 October 2023
Hamas, an acronym of its official name, Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist political and military movement governing the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.
The aftermath of the 1994 Dizengoff Street bus bombing in Tel Aviv
Yagur Junction bombing was a suicide attack on the Egged 960 bus in 2002. Hamas was responsible for about 40% of the 135 suicide attacks during the Second Intifada.
Ismail Haniyeh became the prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority in 2006
Hamas rally in Bethlehem
