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The
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, also known as
Operation Protective Edge and 2014
Gaza massacre, was a military operation launched by
Israel on 8 July 2014 in the Hamas-ruled
Gaza Strip.
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, release
Palestinian prisoners and overcome its political isolation, after, it is claimed, Israel was the first, on 13 June, to break the ceasefire agreement with Hamas that had been in place since
November 2012.
The operation officially began the following day, and on 17 July, the operation was expanded to an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza with the stated aim of destroying Gaza's tunnel system; Israeli ground forces withdrew on 5 August. On 26 August, an open-ended ceasefire was announced. By that date, the IDF reported that Hamas,
Islamic Jihad and other militant groups had fired 4,564 rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israel, with over 735 intercepted in flight and shot down by
Iron Dome. Most Gazan mortar and rocket fire hit open land, more than 280 fell on areas in Gaza, and 224 struck residential areas. Militant rocketry also killed 13 Gazan civilians, 11 of them children.The IDF attacked 5,263 targets in Gaza; at least 34 known tunnels were destroyed and two-thirds of Hamas's 10,000-rocket arsenal was used up or destroyed.
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- published: 12 Apr 2015
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