Gaza Conflict
After weeks of rising tension following the killing of three Israeli teenagers, Israel launched a major offensive against Hamas in Gaza. Hamas had fired rockets into Israel on 7 July, after a series of Israeli air strikes in which several Hamas members had been killed. On 8 July, Israel launched Operation Protective Edge, aimed at stopping the rocket attacks, and destroying Hamas capabilities, particularly the smuggling tunnels built between Gaza and Egypt. The offensive lasted seven weeks, during this period, more than 2,100 people were killed in Gaza, of whom, according to the UN, 69 percent were civilians.
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Palestinians mourn the death of Nigim family. They were killed in a morning airstrike in Jabalia’s refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Monday August 4.
Israel and Hamas went back and forth over proposals for a new cease-fire. Israel sought to bolster its claim that Israeli forces were not responsible for the deaths of 16 Palestinians reportedly killed in an attack on a United Nations’s school. According to Israeli resources, an errant mortar round fired by Israeli troops had exploded in the school’s courtyard of which they claimed to have been empty at the time of the explosion.
