Israel and Hamas.
Hamas was founded in 1987 at the beginning of the first Palestinian protestation against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
In August 2005, Israeli forces withdrew from the Gaza Strip and left it to the Palestinian Authority.
In 2006, Hamas won the majority in the Palestinian legislative elections. Israel and the United States cut off aid to the Palestinians because Hamas refused to recognize Israel.
In 2008, Israel launched a military attack on Gaza that lasted 22 days. 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed before a truce was agreed upon.
In March 2018, Palestinians protested on the Gaza Strip border with Israel and Israeli forces opened fire on them. More than 170 Palestinians were killed in the months-long protests that also led to clashes between Hamas and Israeli forces.
In May 2021, after months of tension, Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters near Al-Aqsa Mosque over a lawsuit in which eight Palestinian families face eviction from their homes in East Jerusalem in favor of Jewish settlers. Hundreds of Palestinians were also injured in clashes with Israeli security forces in the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex over the course of two days.
Israel bombed Gaza, and the death toll increased as the bombing continued, with the collapse of a 13-story building due to an Israeli air strike. Palestinian militants fired rockets deep into Israel. As the Israeli air strikes continued, Palestinian militants fired missiles at Israel. Violence broke out in mixed areas inhabited by Jews and Arabs in Israel.
Israel used warplanes, tanks and artillery to strike a network of Palestinian activists' tunnels in Gaza followed by the firing of more Palestinian rockets.
An Israeli air strike destroyed a 12-storey tower that housed the offices of international media organizations and Palestinian militants responded with a barrage of rockets on Tel Aviv.
An Israeli air strike in Gaza destroyed several homes and killed 42 people, including ten children. Rockets continued to be fired at an Israeli town.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that about 450 buildings in the Gaza Strip, including six hospitals and nine primary health care centres, have been destroyed or severely damaged since the start of the conflict, which has also displaced more than 52,000 Palestinians.
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