The IDF withdraws seven brigades, consisting of thousands of soldiers, from the Gaza Strip and says the war will enter a "different mode of operations".[3]
23 January – Twenty-one Israeli soldiers are killed in an explosion and subsequent building collapse in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, making it the deadliest day for the IDF since the ground invasion began.[4]
24 January – A building complex sheltering tens of thousands of displaced people in Khan Yunis catches fire after being hit by Israel, causing mass casualties. At least 214 people are killed in the city during the past 24 hours by Israeli airstrikes.[5]
3 February – The Gaza Health Ministry reports that 127 Palestinians (including at least 92 people in Rafah) were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 27,365.
9 February – Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders the IDF to plan evacuations of Rafah.[7]
10 February – The IDF claims to have discovered a Hamas data center under UNRWA's Gaza Strip headquarters.[8]
11 February – Hamas announces the death of two Israeli hostages and says that eight others have been seriously injured by Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in the past 96 hours.[9]
12 February:
At least 67 people are killed during overnight Israeli airstrikes in Rafah.[10]
Israeli special forces conduct a raid on a building in Rafah, rescuing two Israeli-Argentinian hostages.[11]
Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident: At least 112 people receiving humanitarian aid are killed and 760 others are wounded in Gaza City after the IDF fires on civilians receiving humanitarian aid. Israeli officials claim most of the deaths were from a stampede.[21]
Two Israelis are shot and killed in an attack at a gas station near Eli, West Bank.[22]
March
7 March – U.S. president Joe Biden announces the construction of a temporary pier on the coast of the Gaza Strip to facilitate large-scale delivery of humanitarian aid.[23]
8 March – Five people are killed when an aid package airdropped from a C-17 aircraft into the Gaza Strip fails to deploy its parachute and subsequently crushes them.[24]
18 March – Dozens of people, including at least 20 "terrorists" and a senior Hamas leader, are killed after an attack on the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.[26]
19 March – Israel announces the death of senior Hamas military leader Marwan Issa, following an airstrike on a tunnel complex the previous week, making him the highest ranking Hamas official killed in the war yet.[27]
25 March – UN security council passes resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, as US abstains.[28]
28 March – The International Court of Justice, in a unanimous decision, orders Israel to allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip unimpeded, warning that famine is already occurring.[29]
8 April – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered an invasion of Rafah with a date "being set" for the ground offensive.[32]
10 April – An Israeli airstrike kills three sons of Hamas Chairman Ismail Haniyeh.[33]
14 April – Killing of Benjamin Achimeir: The body of Israeli teenager Benjamin Achimeir is found in the West Bank a day after he went missing, sparking clashes between settlers and Palestinians.[34]
16 April – A mob of Israeli settlers in Aqraba kill two Palestinians in revenge for the murder of Israeli teenager Benjamin Achimeir amid escalating ethnoreligious violence in the West Bank.[35]
20 April – Fourteen Palestinians are killed in an Israeli raid in the West Bank.[36]
21 April – 22 people are killed, including 18 children, in overnight Israeli strikes in Rafah, according to local health officials.[37]
22 April – Israeli troops and tanks re-enter Khan Yunis after abruptly withdrawing from the city earlier in the month.[38]
23 April –
A mass grave containing over 300 bodies is found at a hospital in Khan Yunis.[39]
At least 27 people are killed by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah.[49]
8 May –
Israeli troops reach the outskirts of Rafah with Hamas saying that heavy fighting is underway. The IDF says it has "uncovered terrorist infrastructure", and killed a number of Hamas militants as it advances.[50]
Israel reopens the Kerem Shalom border crossing, allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza. However, no aid has entered according to the UN.[51]
9 May –
Israeli tanks and warplanes strike eastern Rafah, killing more than 65 civilians and causing 80,000 people to flee.[52]
10 May – Palestine 194: The United Nations General Assembly votes 143–9 with 25 abstentions to approve a resolution granting Palestine new rights and requests, and to reconsider its request to become a UN member. The US, Argentina, the Czech Republic and Hungary, along with four Pacific nations, align with Israel in voting against the resolution.[54]
12 May – Antony Blinken warns Israel lacks a credible plan to protect Rafah civilians.[55]
13 May –
The IDF advances into northern and southern Gaza.[56]
14 May – Israeli tanks enter residential areas of Rafah as they attempt to capture the city. Hamas' armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades says that it destroyed an Israeli troop carrier with a Al-Yassin 105anti-tank missile, killing several troops and injuring several others, while the IDF claims to have "eliminated" several militants in the city.[59]
15 May – Five Israeli soldiers are killed in a friendly fire incident in Jabalia after IDF tanks open fire on their position.[60]
16 May – Palestinian fighters, including Hamas and PIJ, claim dozens of attacks on Israeli troops in and around the Jabalia refugee camp.[61]
Benny Gantz threatens to withdraw his party from the unity coalition if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to submit a post-war plan for Gaza by June 8.[67]
Austria unfreezes €3.4 million ($3.7 million) in funds to the UNRWA.[68]
The IDF launches a raid on Jenin, with sources claiming seven Palestinians were killed.[70]
UNRWA suspends food distribution in Rafah due to insecurity and a lack of supplies.[71]
22 May – The governments of Norway, Ireland, and Spain announce they will recognise the State of Palestine as a sovereign state starting 28 May, calling for a two-state solution. In response, Israel recalls its ambassadors to these countries.[72]
25 May – Italy restores €35 million (US$38 million) of funding for UNRWA several months after it suspended the aid due to allegations linking UN staff to the October 7 attacks.[76]
30 May – The IDF lifts a ban on the sale of food to the Gaza Strip from Israel and the West Bank.[85]
June
6 June –
At least 40 Palestinians, including fourteen children, are killed and more than 70 injured after an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations school in that was sheltering refugees in the Nuseirat refugee camp.[86]
Three Palestinians are killed and several others are injured during an IDF raid on Jenin.[87]
The United States reinstalls a temporary aid pier while the Gaza floating pier is being fixed due to weather damage.[89]
8 June – Nuseirat operation: Four hostages kidnapped by Hamas and held in the Nuseirat refugee camp, including Noa Argamani, are rescued in an Israeli special operation.[90]
The UN pauses humanitarian aid delivery at the US military-constructed Gaza floating pier pending investigations on whether it was involved in the Israeli raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp and on its security for humanitarian workers.[92]
The United States military plans to temporarily dismantle the Gaza floating pier and move it to Israel following predictions of rough seas, halting its humanitarian aid shipments for the 3rd time in one month.[93]
Gaza health officials claim that Israeli strikes on refugee tent camps near Rafah kill at least 25, which is denied by an IDF spokesperson.[98]
22 June – At least 42 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza.[99]
23 June – Eight Palestinians are killed in IDF airstrikes that hit a UNRWA-run vocational college in Gaza City that was being used to distribute aid.[100]
24 June – Eleven Palestinians, including the director of Gaza's Ambulance and Emergency Department, are killed in Israeli airstrikes on the al-Shati refugee camp, Bani Suhaila, and Gaza City.[101]
25 June – Israeli forces bomb Gaza where one strike kills 10 family members of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh.[102]
28 June – The U.S. military dismantles the Gaza floating pier for the third time due to bad weather.[104]
30 June – At least six Palestinians are killed in Rafah, as Israeli tanks re-enter Shuja'iyya and parts of northern Gaza, displacing more than 60,000 people.[105]
July
1 July – The IDF orders a mass evacuation of Palestinians from the entire eastern half of Khan Yunis and surrounding areas in anticipation of a new ground assault on the city.[106]
2 July –
An IDF airstrike kills at least nine people in Khan Yunis, hours after Israel ordered a mass evacuation.[107]
3 July – The Israeli government approves the seizure of 12.7 square kilometers (4.9 square miles) of Palestinian land in the Jordan Valley, representing the largest land grab in the West Bank in more than three decades.[109]
4 July – Israel approves the construction of 5,295 Israeli settler homes in dozens of settlements in the West Bank.[110]
5 July – At least seven Palestinians are killed during an IDF raid in Jenin that targeted a building that several militants had barricaded themselves in.[111]
6 July – At least 16 Palestinians are killed by an Israeli strike on a school housing Palestinians displaced from ongoing military operations in the Nuseirat refugee camp.[112]
7 July – Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 27 Palestinians. In Gaza City, four are killed in a strike on a UNRWA school sheltering displaced people and six others are killed in a strike on a house. Two people are killed in the Sabra neighbourhood, with six others in a strike on a residential building in Az-Zawayda.[113]
8 July – A study by The Lancet estimates that the death toll from the conflict is at least 186,000 Palestinians, around 8% of Gaza's pre-war population.[114]
Al-Awda School massacre: At least 29 Palestinians are killed in an Israeli attack targeting the entrance of a UNRWA-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians, becoming Israel's fourth attack on Gaza schools in the past four days.[116]
UN human rights experts accuse Israel of carrying out a "targeted starvation campaign" that resulted in child malnutrition and death in Gaza.[117]
U.S. military officials announce that the Gaza floating pier will be permanently removed after being reinstalled for a few more days.[118]
10 July – The IDF orders a complete evacuation of all Palestinians from Gaza City to travel south in advance of a new offensive on Hamas targets.[119]
12 July – Gaza City rescue crews discover at least 60 Palestinian bodies in the Tel al-Hawa and Sabra districts following a week of attacks on Gaza City by Israeli forces.[121]
At least 17 Palestinians are killed and 80 others are injured in overnight Israeli strikes on a UN-run school used to shelter displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp.[124]
Palestinians in several cities in the occupied West Bank enact a general strike in protest against the 13 July Israeli strike on al-Mawasi.[125]
15 July –
At least 12 Palestinians are killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City and Deir al-Balah.[126]
Several Palestinian factions, including Fatah and Hamas, schedule reconciliatory meetings in China in an attempt to end their ongoing political disputes.[127]
16 July –
At least 57 Palestinians are killed by Israeli bombardment in Rafah, Khan Yunis, and parts of Gaza City.[128]
17 July – At least 42 Palestinians are killed and more than 70 others are injured in Israeli strikes on a United Nations-run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp and on a designated "safe zone" in al-Mawasi.[130]
18 July –
The Knesset votes 68-9 in favor of a resolution describing a Palestinian state as "an existential danger to the State of Israel".[131]
Both the Gaza Health Ministry and the Israeli Health Ministry report traces of type 2 polio in Gaza's sewage system, caused by "severe overcrowding" and Israel's blockade of hygiene products from entering the enclave.[132]
At least five Palestinians are killed and fifteen others are injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps in the Gaza Strip.[133]
The UN reports that "anarchy" and societal breakdown is expanding across the Gaza Strip due to IDF destabilization, citing an increase in looting and extrajudicial killings of police and humanitarian workers.[137]
20 July – At least 37 Palestinians are killed and 54 are injured in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, with the confirmed death toll surpassing 38,900 people.[138]
22 July –
Israel orders mandatory evacuations across the Gaza Strip, including sections of the heavily populated Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone.[139]
At least 70 Palestinians are killed and more than 200 others are injured by Israeli tank shelling and airstrikes in Khan Yunis Governorate.[140]
The Israeli parliament votes in favor of classifying UNRWA as a terrorist organization, allowing the motion to undergo supplementary deliberation regarding Israel severing relations with the agency.[141]
23 July – 2024 Beijing Declaration: Various factions in the Palestinian government, including rivals Fatah and Hamas, sign a declaration in Beijing, China, to end their divisions and form a unity government.[142]
26 July:
A Palestinian governmental body announces that senior Hamas leader Mustafa Muhammad Abu Ara has died in Israeli prison after being arrested in October 2023.[143]
27 July – More than fifty people, including fifteen children, are killed in Israeli attacks on a school used to shelter displaced people in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip.[146]
Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Refee are killed during an Israeli airstrike during a coverage near Ismail Haniyeh's home in the Gaza Strip.[150]
At least fifteen Palestinians are killed and 29 others are injured in an Israeli strike on a school in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City.[152]
3 August – At least fifteen people are killed in an Israeli attack on a school sheltering displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City.[153]
Israeli troops launch a new assault on Khan Yunis, with airstrikes killing at least 21 Palestinians and Israeli troops initiating ground operations in the city for the third time since the war's beginning.[160]
14 August – Top Hamas official Osama Hamdan states that the organization is "losing faith" in the United States' role as mediator in Israel–Hamas ceasefire proposals due to the U.S. not applying pressure on Israel to act in good faith, and threatens to withdraw from future U.S.-mediated negotiations.[165]
15 August – The Gaza Health Ministry reports that over 40,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been killed due to the ongoing Israeli invasion and blockade. The ministry reported that 16,456 fatalities were children, and that 10,000 people not included in the total were still missing.[166]
16 August – The first confirmed case of polio in the Gaza Strip since 1999 is discovered in a 10-month-old child in Deir al-Balah.[167]
17 August –
Israeli officials state that they are attempting to "lower expectations" of a ceasefire deal due to significant gaps between Israel and Hamas demands, after US president Joe Biden stated that he was "optimistic" about US-mediated negotiation progress in Qatar.[168]
Fifteen people from the same family are killed during an airstrike against their home in Az-Zawayda.[169]
Two senior Hamas militants are killed in an Israeli airstrike in Jenin.[170]
20 August –
The IDF recovers the bodies of six hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas.[171]
At least twelve Palestinians, including two children, are killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school used to shelter displaced people in Gaza City.[172]
22 August –
Eleven Palestinians are killed and six others are injured in an Israeli strike on a residential building in Beit Lahia.[173]
An Israeli drone strike kills three Palestinians in Tulkarm, during a raid where IDF soldiers set fire to civilian homes and used bulldozers to destroy residential areas.[174]
25 August – At least 71 people are killed and 112 others are injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip.[176]
27 August –
The IDF says commandos have rescued from an underground tunnel in Gaza Qaid Farhan Al-Qadi, a Negev Bedouin hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas during the 7 October attack on Israel.[177]
Five Palestinians are killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Nur Shamsrefugee camp in the West Bank. Separately, a Palestinian man is killed and six other people are injured in an attack by Israeli settlers in the Wadi Rahal village.[179]
28 August –
The IDF launches a major military operation in the West Bank, mainly in Jenin and Tulkarm, with at least nine Palestinians killed and several others injured. The Al-Israa Specialised Hospital and the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital are surrounded, and ambulances are blocked from entering.[180]
The number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the operation on 27 August increases to 18, while dozens are wounded and at least 20 more arrested.[184]
The IDF carries out an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza that kills five workers.[185]
30 August – Three Palestinian fighters, including Jenin Brigades leader Wissam Hazem, are killed in a drone strike inside a refugee camp in Jenin. Separately, an Israeli soldier is killed and others injured during a bomb explosion in the city.[187]
31 August –
Israeli strikes kill at least 48 people in the Gaza Strip.[188]
1 September – Three Israeli police officers are killed during a shooting on a road in Tarqumiyah.[190]
3 September –
The World Health Organization announces that its poliovaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip has "surpassed the target" of 156,500 projected vaccinations within two days.[191]
5 September – Six people are killed and another is wounded during an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle in Tubas. Separately, a teenager is shot dead in the city by Israeli soldiers.[193]
6 September –
Turkish-American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi is shot dead by Israeli soldiers during an anti-Israeli settlement protest in Beita, Nablus.[194]
At least 27 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes in cities across the Gaza Strip, including in the Nuseirat refugee camp.[195]
9 September – At least eight people are killed and dozens are wounded in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip, bringing the confirmed Palestinian death toll to over 41,000.[196]
10 September –
At least 40 people are killed and over 60 are injured during an Israeli airstrike in Al-Mawasi, according to Hamas. Twenty tents for displaced people are hit during the attack.[197] The IDF claims that it struck senior Hamas commanders who were operating in a command center embedded inside a designated humanitarian area. They are later named as Samer Abu Daqqa, the head of Hamas’s aerial forces; Osama Tabash, the head of surveillance and targets in Hamas’s intelligence division; and Ayman Mabhouh, another senior Hamas officer. All three were directly involved in the October 7 attack, according to the IDF.[198]
11 September –
Five Palestinians are killed by an Israeli drone strike in Tubas.[199]
Six UNRWA staffers are killed in Israeli airstrikes on a school in central Gaza.[200]
An IAF UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Rafah during a mission to evacuate an injured combat engineer, killing two personnel on board.[201]
12 September – The death toll from Israel's military operation in the West Bank increases to 50, with three people killed after a drone strike in Tulkarm.[202]
16 September – At least 16 Palestinians are killed and at least thirteen others are wounded in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, including several houses in Gaza City and the Nuseirat refugee camp.[203]
27 September – Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip shoot and kill an aid worker from a United States-based charity, firing on her car in what government officials say was a case of mistaken identity.[210]
Israeli strikes kill 51 people in southern Gaza.[214]
The US imposes sanctions against the Israeli settler group Hilltop Youth and two other Israelis for attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank.[215]
Israel introduces new customs regulations and restrictions on humanitarian aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip, significantly impeding food and essential supply delivery via the Jordan route.[216]
3 October –
An Israeli airstrike kills Aziz Salha, known for his role in the 2000 Ramallah lynching, in central Gaza.[217]
The IDF announces that it killed Rawhi Mushtaha, the head of the Hamas government in Gaza, along with Sameh al-Siraj and Sami Oudeh, who were responsible for security in Hamas in an airstrike in July.[218]
A Yazidi woman is freed from Gaza in an operation involving the United States and Israel, the woman was kidnapped from her home in Iraq aged 11 and sold and trafficked to Gaza. Her captor was recently killed presumably from an Israeli airstrike allowing her to escape and seek repatriation.[219]
The IAF launches an airstrike on Tulkarm, reportedly killing at least 16 people.[220]
11 October – At least 20 Palestinians are killed and dozens of others are injured by Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp.[221]
13 October – An Israeli attack on a school used to shelter displaced Palestinians kills at least 22 people, including fifteen children, in the Nuseirat refugee camp.[222]
16 October – Israeli forces killYahya Sinwar, chairman of the Hamas political bureau, during an encounter in Rafah.[223]
28 October – The Israeli Knesset passes legislation designating the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) as a "terrorist organization", which will take effect "within 90 days".[224][225]
29 November – Eight people are injured in a gun attack on a bus near the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank that is claimed by the al-Qassam Brigades.[227]
December
14 December – Deiab al-Jaro, the mayor of Deir al-Balah, is killed along with nine others in an Israeli airstrike on his office.[228]