List of military engagements during the Israel–Hamas war

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This is a list of notable engagements during the Israel–Hamas war, encompassing land, naval, and air engagements, covering events which took place or began during the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel on the 7 October, events and immediately afterwards, Israel's declaration of war on 8 October, the imposition of the 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, and active operations in the Gaza Strip.

Major engagements and key events

Campaigns

NameLocationStart date[a]End date[a]BelligerentsResult
2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel Southern District2023-10-072023-10-16[1]  Israel Palestinian Joint Operations Room:

 Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade

Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
Lebanon, Shebaa Farms, Golan Heights, and Northern District (Israel)
2023-10-08  IsraelOngoing
Israeli incursions in the West Bank West Bank2023-10-12[b]  Israel Settler militias

 PIJ

  • Local militas
Ongoing
Attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria  Iraq,  Syria,  Jordan2023-10-17  United StatesOngoing
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip Gaza Strip2023-10-27  IsraelOngoing
Red Sea crisisRed Sea, Indian Ocean2023-10-19  Israel, other vessels  HouthisOngoing
Operation Prosperity Guardian  Yemen, Red Sea2023-12-18 (announced)  HouthisOngoing

Major battles

CampaignEngagementLocationStart date[a]End date[a]BelligerentsResult
7 October attacksNahal Oz attack Nahal Oz2023-10-072023-10-07  Israel  HamasHamas victory[6][7][failed verification]
Battle of Re'im Re'im2023-10-072023-10-07[8]  Israel  HamasIsraeli victory[9][failed verification]
Battle of Sufa Sufa2023-10-072023-10-08  Israel

 Hamas

Israeli victory[10][failed verification]
Zikim attack Zikim2023-10-072023-10-16  Israel  HamasIsraeli victory[11][12]
Battle of Sderot Sderot2023-10-072023-10-08  Israel  HamasIsraeli victory[13][failed verification]
Invasion of the Gaza StripBattle of Beit Hanoun Beit Hanoun2023-10-282023-12-24  Israel

 Palestinian Islamic Jihad[14]

Palestinian victory[15][16]
Siege of Gaza City Gaza City2023-11-02Ongoing  Israel

 Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Ongoing
Al-Shifa Hospital siege2023-11-112023-11-24  Israel

 Palestinian Islamic Jihad[14]

Israeli withdrawal
Incursions into Beit Hanoun Beit Hanoun2024-03-17ongoing  Israel

 Palestinian Islamic Jihad[17]

Ongoing
Battle of Jabalia Jabalia2023-11-082023-05-31  Israel  HamasPalestinian Victory[18]
Battle of Shuja'iyya (2023) Shuja'iyya, Gaza city2023-12-082023-12-26

 Israel

 Hamas
 Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Palestinian victory[19][clarification needed]
Siege of Khan Yunis Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip2023-12-042024-04-07

 Israel

Israeli withdrawal from southern Gaza[21]
Siege of Al-Qarara Al-Qarara, southern Gaza Strip2023-12-062024-04-07  Israel  HamasPalestinian victory[22][23][24]
Battle of Hamad Hamad, southern Gaza Strip2024-03-042024-03-16  Israel  HamasIsraeli withdrawal
Shuja'iyya ambush Shuja'iyya, Gaza City2023-12-132023-12-13  Israel  HamasHamas victory[25]
Insurgency in the North Gaza Strip Gaza City, Jabalia, Beit Lahia2024-01-07[26][27]

 Israel

Ongoing
Rafah offensive Rafah, southern Gaza Strip2024-02-13[28]  Israel  HamasOngoing
Operation Prosperity GuardianAttacks on the MV Maersk HangzhouRed Sea2023-12-302023-12-30  United States  HouthisAttacks repelled
Ansar Allah support for Palestine2024 missile strikes in Yemen[b]  Yemen2024-01-12  United States
 United Kingdom
 HouthisOngoing

Hamas-led attack on Israel

Approximate situation on 7–8 October

Early in the morning of 7 October 2023, approximately 3000 militants,[29][30] from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, and DFLP,[31] breached the Gaza fence and attacked multiple locations in Southern Israel.[29][30] Following this the IDF blockaded, bombed, and then invaded the Gaza Strip.

AttackLocationDeathsHostagesDate
TotalCivilian [a]Military [b]StartEnd
2023 Hamas-led attack on IsraelSouthern District (Israel)total = 1,139total =total =total = 200+ Hostages2023-10-07 (Dawn)
Battle of Sderot Sderot15[33]
Re'im music festival massacre Near Re'im364 [34][35]40 Hostages [36]
Be'eri massacre Be'eri117+ [37]
Nahal Oz attack Nahal Oz lookout base[38]15+[38]none15+[38]7+ Hostages [38]2023-10-07
Kibbutz Nahal Oz80+12+46+20+ missing[c]
Nahal Oz100+12+61+ soldiers7 to 30 Hostages
Kfar Aza massacre Kfar Aza52+[39][40]
Zikim attack Zikim35+ [41]19 [42]
Nir Oz massacre Nir Oz27+[43]2023-10-07 09:45 [d]
Netiv HaAsara massacre Netiv HaAsara21+ [44][45]
Alumim massacre Alumim19+ [46][47]
Kissufim massacre Kissufim16+[48][49]
Holit attack Holit13+ [50]
Ein HaShlosha attack Ein HaShlosha5+[51]
Nirim attack Nirim5+[52][53]
Nir Yitzhak attack Nir Yitzhak5+[51]
Clickable map of some of the massacres on 7 October 2023

Reported violence against unarmed people (from 9 October onwards)

Reported violence against unarmed people (from 9 October onwards)
EventAccusedLocationDeathsDate
TotalCivilianMilitary [a]StartEnd
Attacks on journalists in Lebanon  Israel Defense Forces, 188th Armored Brigade South Lebanon4[54]4[54]none reported2023-10-13present
Shadia Abu Ghazala School massacre[b][56][57][55]  Israeli Ground Forces [c] Shadia Abu Ghazala School in the Gaza Strip.[d]"dozens"[55]"dozens" [e]none reported2023-12-12

[57][f]

2023-12-13

[55]

Flour massacre  Israel Defense Forces Nablusi junction, Gaza118+[58]760[59]none reported2024-02-29
Al-Maghazi playground massacre[60][61]  Israel Defense Forces Al Maghazi13 [citation needed]13 [citation needed]none2024-04-15

Attacks

Long distance attacks against Israel

NameDateAttackerWeaponsTarget
Rocket barrage into Israel7 October 2023  Hamas
[citation needed]
Rockets and dronesNumerous civilian and military locations in Israel, mostly near the Gaza strip.
Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel in 2023-20248 October 2023 – Ongoing  Hamas

 PIJ
 PFLP
 DFLP
[a]

RocketsIsrael
Projectile attacks from Lebanon on Israel and the Golan Heights8 October 2023 – Ongoing  Hezbollah
 Hamas

 PIJ
 PFLP

"projectiles"Israel and the Golan Heights
Houthi missile and drone attacks on Israel[63]19 October 2023 – Ongoing  Houthi movementMedium-range missile and dronesEilat, Israel
Iraqi missile and drone attacks on Israel[64]2 November 2023 – OngoingIslamic Resistance in IraqShort-range missile and dronesIsrael and the Golan Heights
Taba and Nuweiba drone attacks27 October 2023  Houthi movementDronesPossibly Israel, hit Taba and Nuweiba, Egypt
2024 Iranian missile strikes in Iraq and Syria[b]15 January 2024  IranShort-range missiles Erbil, Iraq
2024 Iranian strikes in Israel13–14 April 2024  IranMedium-range missiles Israel

Disputed strikes

NameDateAccusedLocationDeathsInjured
Attacks on Palestinians evacuating Gaza City2023-10-13  Israel
 Hamas
Gaza City70+ [66]200+ [66]
Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion2023-10-18  Israel

 PIJ

Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza100–300 (United States Director of National Intelligence)[67]
[citation needed]
314 (Gaza Health Ministry)[68]

Israeli attacks

NameDateLocationDeathsInjuries
Jabalia camp market airstrike9 October 2023Jabalia Camp203+ [69]147[70]
Al-Shati refugee camp airstrike9 October 2023Al-Shati refugee camp15+ [71][72]?
Hajji Tower airstrike10 October 2023Hajji Tower in Gaza Strip3+ [73][74]?
Jabalia refugee camp airstrike[a]12 October 2023Jabalia refugee camp residential buildings [b]45+ [78]
UNRWA school airstrike17 October 2023UNRWA school in the Maghazi refugee camp6[citation needed]?
Church of Saint Porphyrius airstrike19 October 2023Church of Saint Porphyrius18[citation needed]?
31 October Jabalia attack31 October 2023Jabalia refugee camp195+ [c]777+ [d]
Engineer's Building airstrike31 October 2023Nuseirat106+[85]12+
Al-Shifa ambulance airstrike3 November 2023Al-Shifa Hospital15 [citation needed]60 [citation needed]
Osama bin Zaid school airstrike3 November 2023Osama bin Zaid school20[86]?
Al-Fakhoora school airstrike4 November 2023Jabalia Camp15[citation needed]70 [citation needed]
Al-Maghazi camp airstrike4 November 2023Maghazi (camp)40+[citation needed]?
Al-Buraq school airstrike9 November 2023Al-Buraq school50+[citation needed]?
Sabra mosque airstrike15 November 2023Sabra mosque50+ [citation needed]?
Al-Falah School airstrike17 NovemberAl-Falah School20+[citation needed]100 [citation needed]
Abu Hussein School airstrike23 NovemberAbu Hussein School27+[citation needed]?
Ma'an school airstrike5 December 2023Ma'an school25+[citation needed]?
Haifa School airstrike15 December 2023Haifa School20+[citation needed]?
Shuja'iyya friendly fire incident15 December 2023Shuja'iyya3[87]?
12 February 2024 Rafah strikes12 February 2024All across Rafah100+[88]?
World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack1 April 2024Deir al-Balah7[89]?
Tel al-Sultan massacre26 May 2024Tel al-Sultan camp, Rafah45–50200+
Al-Mawasi refugee camp attack28 May 2024Al-Mawasi, Rafah21[90]64[90]
Al-Sardi school attack6 June 2024Al-Sardi school, Nuseirat refugee camp33[91]70+[92]
Nuseirat refugee camp massacre8 June 2024Nuseirat refugee camp276[93]698[94]

Notable targeted assassinations

TargetAffiliationDateLocationPerpetratorDeathsInjuriesNotes and Other Notable Casualties
Abbas Raad Redwan Force22 November 2023Beit Yahoun, Lebanon Israel5[95]0Raad was the son of Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad.[95]
Razi Mousavi Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps25 December 2023Sayyidah Zaynab, Syria Israel4[96]UnknownIranian general serving in the IRGC's Quds Force.
Saleh al-Arouri  Hamas2 January 2024Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon Israel7UnknownAlso killed Al Qassam commanders Sami Fendi[97] and Azzam Al-Aqra[98]
Mushtaq Talib Al-SaeediHarakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba4 January 2024Baghdad, Iraq United States1+UnknownFormer senior commander of the 12th brigade of the Popular Mobilization Forces.[99]
Wissam al-Tawil[100] Redwan Force8 January 2024Majdel Selm, Lebanon Israel2UnknownSenior commander of Hezbollah's Radwan Force
Ali Hussein Barji Hezbollah9 January 2024Khirbet Selm, Lebanon Israel10Death denied by Hezbollah[101]
Sadegh Omidzadeh Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps20 January 2024Mezzeh, Damascus, Syria Israel10UnknownAlso killed four other Iranian officials, Ali Aghazadeh, Saeed Karimi, Hossein Mohammadi,[102] and Mohammad Amin Samadi[103]
Fadi Suleiman Hezbollah21 January 2024Kafra, Lebanon Israel36[104]Target survived; other Hezbollah affiliates killed.[104]
Abu Baker al-SaadiKata'ib Hezbollah7 February 2024Baghdad, Iraq United States3[105]UnknownCommanders of Kata'ib Hezbollah killed by a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad in response to the Tower 22 drone attack.[105]
Arkan Al-Alawi
Abbas al-Dabs Hezbollah8 February 2024Nabatieh, Lebanon Israel23[106]Hezbollah operative that worked with IRGC.[107]
Basil Salah[108]  Hamas10 February 2024Jadra, Lebanon[108] Israel35Target survived; civilians and other Hezbollah affiliates killed.
Hadi Ali Mustafa  Hamas13 March 2024Tyre, Lebanon Israel2UnknownSalah was a member of Hamas' construction bureau.[109]
Mohammad Reza Zahedi Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps1 April, 2024Damascus, Syria Israel6UnknownIranian senior military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Taleb Abdallah Hezbollah12 June, 2024Jwaya, Lebanon Israel4[110]2[111]Abdallah was the commander of the Nasr unit of Hezbollah.

Hostage rescue operations

NameDateLocationRescuedDeathsInjuries
Rescue of Ori Megidish30 October 2023Al-Shati refugee camp1UnknownUnknown
Operation Golden Hand12 February 2024Rafah267–100+[112]Unknown
2024 Nuseirat rescue operation8 June 2024Nuseirat4270+698

See also

References

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