January • 1 January – •
Hamas fires a barrage of at least 27 rockets shortly after midnight at cities and towns in central and southern Israel. • The
Supreme Court of Israel strikes down the reasonableness limitation law, part of the government's contentious
judicial reform, for the first time in the country's history annulling one of the country's
quasi-constitutional Basic Laws in a controversial decision splitting the court 8-7. • 2 January – Israel conducts an airstrike in the
Dahieh neighborhood of
Beirut,
Lebanon, resulting in the assassination of
Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy chairman of the Hamas political bureau. • 3 January – The Supreme Court delays the implementation of an amendment to a
Basic Law that would protect the prime minister from being forced to recuse himself if ordered to do so by the attorney general or the Supreme Court, by postponing implementation until after the
next Knesset is elected, so that it does not apply retroactively to incumbent Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on
trial for several charges of corruption. • 7 January – An Arab Israeli man is killed and a woman is critically injured by a Palestinian gunman north of Jerusalem. • 8 January –
Wissam al-Tawil, the deputy commander of
Hezbollah's
Redwan Force, in
Majdel Selm, Lebanon is killed in a presumed Israeli airstrike. • 9 January – Hezbollah launches a drone attack on the
Northern Command headquarters in
Safed, marking its deepest incursion into Israeli territory since the outbreak of hostilities. In retaliation, Israel kills
Ali Hussein Barji, a senior Hezbollah commander responsible for dozens of explosive drone attacks on
northern Israel in recent months. • 11 January –
South Africa v. Israel (Genocide Convention): A two-day public hearing begins at the
Peace Palace in
The Hague regarding alleged
violations by Israel of its obligations under the
1948 Genocide Convention and
international law in relation to
Palestinians in the
Gaza Strip. • 14 January – • Approximately 120,000 people attend the start of a 24-hour rally in Tel Aviv's
Hostages Square to mark 100 days since the
hostages were kidnapped into Gaza during the
Hamas-led attack in
southern Israel on 7 October. • An Israeli woman and her son are killed by an
anti-tank guided missile which penetrated their home in
Yuval in the Galilee near the Israel-Lebanon border. • 15 January – A woman is killed and 17 are severely injured in a
stabbing and
vehicle ramming attack in Ra'anana by two Palestinian illegal workers from
Hebron. • 22 January – In the single deadliest incident for the
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) since the start of
Israel's ground offensive in Gaza, 21 soldiers are killed after coming under attack in the southern Gaza Strip, triggering a blast that collapsed two buildings with soldiers inside them. • 26 January – In the
case brought by South Africa, the
International Court of Justice issues a preliminary order calling on Israel to "take all measures within its power" to prevent genocide and prevent and punish incitement to genocide in Gaza and allow in more humanitarian aid, while taking more measures to protect Palestinians and to report back in one month, but is not required to end military operations. • 31 January –
Yuval Freilich wins the men's gold medal in
fencing in
Qatar, a country that does not have ties with Israel, while wearing a shirt with the words "
Am Yisrael Chai" (the people of Israel live) embossed in Hebrew on the Israeli flag.
February • 1 February –
U.S. President Joe Biden signs an
executive order imposing
sanctions on four
Israeli settlers in the
West Bank who are implicated in
acts of violence against Palestinians in the region. • 3 February –
Sharon Kantor wins the gold medal at the
iQFOiL World Championships in the Canary Islands, securing her spot on the
Israeli team to the 2024 Paris Olympics, while team-mate
Katy Spychakov wins the bronze medal. • 4 February – Most of Israel experiences 14 continuous days of rainfall for the first time in 30 years, raising the water level of the
Sea of Galilee by 26 centimeters (10.2 inches). • 6 February –
Argentinian President Javier Milei makes his first overseas state visit to Israel to express support for Israel in its
Gaza war and announces that he will move
Argentina’s embassy to Jerusalem. • 10 February – The IDF announces that it discovered a Hamas
data center under
UNRWA's
Gaza Strip headquarters. • 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. • 12 February –
Israeli special forces conduct a raid on a building in
Rafah in southern Gaza, rescuing two Israeli-Argentinians who were kidnapped from
Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on
7 October by Hamas. • 14 February – • The
Hostages and Missing Families Forum files a complaint of
war crimes against the leadership of Hamas at the
International Criminal Court. • A rocket attack from Lebanon kills one civilian and injures eight others in
Safed. Several rockets also hit the headquarters of the IDF's
Northern Command. • 16 February – •
Two people are killed and four others are injured in a
mass shooting at a bus station at Re'em Junction near
Kiryat Malachi. The perpetrator is killed by an off-duty IDF reservist. • 18 February – • The
Cabinet of Israel adopts a resolution opposing unilateral recognition of a
Palestinian state, following comments from
France and the
United Kingdom that they were considering such a move. •
Channel 12 reports that Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu will restrict
Palestinian citizens of Israel's access to the
al-Aqsa Mosque in
Jerusalem during the month of
Ramadan due to security concerns. • 19 February – Foreign Minister
Israel Katz says that
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is
persona non grata in Israel until he retracts his comments likening the war between Israel and Hamas to the
Holocaust. • 22 February – One Israeli is killed and 10 others severely injured in a shooting attack by three Palestinians on a Highway 1 checkpoint near
Ma'ale Adumim in the West Bank. • 23 February –
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken declares that
Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law, overturning
a policy instated under former U.S. President
Donald Trump. • 25 February – Two Hezbollah members are killed by an Israeli strike in
al-Qusayr,
Syria. • 26 February – The
Israeli Air Force announces the establishment of a new department focused on monitoring the
Iranian Armed Forces. • 27 February –
Municipal elections, originally scheduled for October 2023, take place amidst the ongoing
Gaza war.
March with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and the
Israeli war cabinet in Tel Aviv, 22 March 2024 • 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. • 21 March – The
Islamic Resistance in Iraq launches drone attacks on
Kiryat Shmona Airport and
Ben Gurion Airport. • 25 March – The UN Security Council passes resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, from which the US abstains. • 26 March – • Israeli airstrikes in Syria kills one
Quds Force officer and 15 other militants. • Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah targets near the towns of
Ras Baalbek and
Hermel in
Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon kills at least three Hezbollah members. • 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 March – An Israeli airstrike targeting
Aleppo International Airport kills 36
Syrian soldiers and six Hezbollah fighters. The incident marks the deadliest Israeli attack on Syria since 2021.
April • 1 April – • The Islamic Resistance in Iraq launches three drones at
Eilat, damaging a building, but not causing injuries. •
An Israeli airstrike targeting the Iranian embassy in Damascus kills eight members of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including brigadier general
Mohammad Reza Zahedi. • The
Israeli government says that it will ban
Al Jazeera from broadcasting in its territory. • 7 April –
Siege of Khan Yunis: Israel withdraws all
ground forces from the southern Gaza Strip, including
Khan Yunis, leaving just one IDF brigade, the
933rd Nahal Brigade, remaining in the enclave. • 8 April – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders an invasion of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip with a date "being set" for the ground offensive. • 10 April – An Israeli airstrike kills three sons of Hamas Chairman
Ismail Haniyeh. • 11 April – U.S. President
Joe Biden announces that Iran is threatening to launch a significant attack against Israel and promises U.S. support to Israel. • 12 April – • Israel prepares for a direct attack from Iran on southern or northern Israel as soon as the next 24 to 48 hours. A person briefed by the Iranian leadership says that while plans to attack are being discussed, no final decision has been made. • The United States restricts travel for
its embassy personnel in Israel amid fears of an attack by Iran. • The
British government advises against all travel to Israel and
Palestinian territories due to the imminent threat of an Iranian attack. • Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets into
northern Israel. The militant group says that the missile barrage targeted IDF
artillery positions. No casualties are reported. • 13 April – • The
U.S. Navy deploys units to
Middle East positions to protect Israel against incoming missiles. •
Australian airline
Qantas pauses its
non-stop Perth-
London route due to expected Iranian attack against Israel. •
Iranian seizure of the MSC Aries: Iran seizes the
MSC Aries, a
Portuguese-registered,
Madeira-flagged container ship owned by
Zodiac Maritime of Israeli
Eyal Ofer. •
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. • Iran and other militant groups
launch Operation True Promise, unleashing between 400 and 500 drones and cruise missiles at Israel from
Iraq,
Syria,
southern Lebanon, and
Yemen, in response to the attack on its consulate in Damascus. • 16 April – •
Two Palestinians killed in a breakout of Israeli settler attacks in
Aqraba in revenge for the murder of Benjamin Achimeir amid escalating
ethnoreligious violence in the West Bank. • The IDF conducts an airstrike and assassinates Ismail Yusuf Baz, the commander of Hezbollah's coastal sector in Lebanon. • 19 April – • Missiles believed to be fired by the IDF allegedly hit sites near the Iranian city of
Isfahan, sites in Iraq and radar sites in Syria. • The
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of
Australia tells its citizens to leave Israel, citing a high threat of military reprisals and terrorist attacks. • 22 April – • The head of the
Military Intelligence Directorate,
Aharon Haliva, resigns for failing to prevent the
Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. • Israeli troops and tanks re-enter Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip after abruptly withdrawing from the city earlier in the monthmonth. • 23 April – An
Israeli airstrike kills two people and injures six others in
Hanine. • 24 April – U.S. President Joe Biden signs a 1$ billion military aid package supporting Israel and
Ukraine. • 26 April – • An 18-year-old Israeli woman is injured after being stabbed by Palestinian of
Lod in
Ramla near Tel Aviv who was then fatally shot by a passerby. • Thirty U.S. and Israeli rabbis and peace activists were arrested near the
Gaza border protesting to bring awareness to starvation in Gaza. • 30 April – An
Israeli police officer is injured in a stabbing by a
Turkish national in the
Old City of Jerusalem. The assailant is fatally shot by other responding officers at the scene.
May • 1 May – Following American pressure, Israel reopens the
Erez Crossing and allows aid trucks into the northern part of the Gaza Strip. • 2 May – • Turkey suspends all trade with Israel in response to their conduct in the war in Gaza, after previously suspending exports in a limited category of goods in April. • Several people are injured in alleged Israeli airstrikes on Damascus, the first since the
attack on the Iranian consulate in April. • 5 May – • Ten Israeli civilians are injured after Hamas launches a rocket barrage at the
Kerem Shalom border crossing. •
Al Jazeera goes off the air in Israel after the government announces a decision to shut the broadcaster’s operations following a long-running feud with the network. • Israeli air raids in
Meiss Ej Jabal, Lebanon, cause "massive destruction" according to a Lebanese state-run agency, killing four civilians and injuring three others. In response, Hezbollah fires dozens of
Katyusha and
Falaq rockets towards
Kiryat Shmona. • Hamas announces the end of ceasefire talks in
Cairo,
Egypt, while Israel vows to continue its military operations. • 6 May – • Israel tells Gazans to evacuate part of Rafah ahead of a planned
ground offensive. • Hamas states that it has accepted the ceasefire proposal from
Qatar and
Egypt; Israel, however, rejects the proposal, saying it is "unacceptable". • 7 May – • Israeli forces enter Rafah in a "limited" operation, taking control of the
Rafah Border Crossing on the
Egypt–Gaza border. • At least 27 people are killed by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah. • Israel reopens the
Kerem Shalom border crossing, allowing humanitarian aid into
Gaza. However, no aid has entered according to the
UN. • 9 May – • US President Joe Biden vows to withhold weapons from Israel if they launch a major invasion of Rafah. • Israeli tanks and warplanes strike eastern Rafah, killing more than 65 civilians and causing 80,000 people to flee. • 13 May – • The IDF advances into northern and southern Gaza. • A staff member of the
United Nations Department of Safety and Security is killed and another is injured in
Rafah. • Hamas says it has "lost contact" with the militants holding four Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, including
Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin. • 15 May – Five Israeli soldiers are killed in a
friendly fire incident in
Jabalia after IDF tanks open fire on their position. • 16 May – Palestinian fighters, including Hamas and
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, claim dozens of attacks on Israeli troops in and around the
Jabalia refugee camp. • 17 May – • Humanitarian aid deliveries begin arriving at the U.S.-built
Gaza floating pier. • The IDF recovers from Rafah the bodies of three people killed in the
Re'im music festival massacre last October, including
Shani Louk. • Hamas announces that an Israeli strike killed Sharhabil Sayed, a Hamas commander in Lebanon. • Israel announces that an airstrike kills Islaam Hamaisa, a commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's
Jenin Brigades. • 18 May – • The Israeli army recovers the body of
Ron Binyamin, who was killed and brought to Gaza by Palestinian militants in
October. •
Benny Gantz threatens to withdraw
his party from the unity coalition if
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't submit a post-war plan for Gaza by 8 June. • 20 May – The
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan requests a warrant for Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israeli Defence Minister
Yoav Gallant, Hamas chief
Yahya Sinwar,
Mohammed Deif, and
Ismail Haniyeh for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. • 21 May – • The IDF launches a raid on
Jenin, with sources claiming seven Palestinians were killed. • The
Israeli Ministry of Communications seizes broadcasting equipment from the
Associated Press and halt their
live feed of Gaza, accusing them of breaking the new media law by supplying images to Al Jazeera. • 23 May – At least 60 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks in Rafah,
Deir al-Balah, and
Gaza City. • 24 May – • The IDF recovers the bodies of three captives who were killed and taken to Gaza by Palestinian militants in the 7 October attacks. • The
International Court of Justice orders Israel to halt the
military offensive in Rafah. • 26 May – • The Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas fire rockets towards
Tel Aviv area in central
Israel for the first time in four months. • Four
U.S. Army vessels wash up on Israeli beaches, two of them in the Gaza Strip. • 27 May – One
Egyptian guard is killed in a shootout at the Rafah Border Crossing. • 28 May – • Israeli tanks reach central Rafah for the first time with heavy clashes being reported. • At least 21 people are killed and 64 others are injured in an Israeli attack on a tent camp in
al-Mawasi,
Rafah Governorate. • The U.S. removes the
Gaza floating pier from the Gaza Strip for repair after its flotilla was damaged in bad weather. •
South Africa's genocide case against Israel:
Mexico announces it will intervene in the genocide case on the side of
South Africa. • 30 May – The IDF lifts a ban on the sale of food to the Gaza Strip from Israel and the
occupied West Bank. • 31 May – • A medic is killed and another injured during an Israeli airstrike against an ambulance in
Naqoura, Lebanon. • France bans
Israeli defense firms from exhibiting at
Eurosatory.
June • 5 June – Hezbollah strikes an
Iron Dome battery in
Ramot Naftali. • 6 June – •
South Africa's genocide case against Israel:
Spain applies to join South Africa's case at the
International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide. • Three Palestinians are killed and several others are injured during an IDF raid on Jenin. • 7 June – •
UN advisors announce the intention of the organization to add Israel, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to
their list of countries and armed groups that harm children in their upcoming "Children and Armed Conflict" report. •
USAID reinstalls a temporary aid pier while the
Gaza floating pier is being fixed due to weather damage. •
Benny Gantz schedules an 8 June announcement for his
National Unity Party to leave
the current coalition government run by
Benjamin Netanyahu due to the latter failing to draw a post-war plan with the
war cabinet. • 8 June –
2024 Nuseirat rescue operation: Four hostages kidnapped by Hamas and held in the
Nuseirat refugee camp, including
Noa Argamani, are rescued in an Israeli special operation. • 9 June – • Benny Gantz resigns from the war cabinet, citing Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to achieve a "true victory" in Gaza. • Two people are killed in IDF airstrikes near
Aitaroun, Lebanon according to the
National News Agency. • 12 June – Israel kills three Hezbollah fighters and Taleb Abdullah, a senior commander, in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah retaliates by launching over 250 rockets towards northern Israel, the most it had deployed in the war. • 14 June – • The
U.N. pauses humanitarian aid deliveries at the U.S.-constructed Gaza floating pier pending investigations on if it was involved in the Israeli
raid on the
Nuseirat refugee camp and on its security for humanitarian workers. • The
U.S. military announces 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. • The
U.S. State Department officially adds the Israeli group
Tsav 9 to its list of
sanctioned entities for impeding the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. • 15 June – Eight Israeli soldiers are
killed in an ambush in Tal al-Sultan, Rafah. • 17 June – • Prime minister Netanyahu announces the dissolution of the war cabinet following the earlier resignation of Benny Gantz. • Eight Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire while waiting for commercial trucks in Gaza. • Hezbollah commander Muhammad Ahmed Ayoub is allegedly killed in an Israeli airstrike in
Selaa, Lebanon, with further strikes occurring against Hezbollah targets across southern Lebanon. • 19 June – • Three Hezbollah militants are killed in an Israeli strike in
Tyre, Lebanon. • Two Hezbollah rockets damages several Israeli military vehicles in northern Israel. • 20 June – The
Israel Antiquities Authority announces the discovery of a 3,300-year-old ship and its cargo, one of the oldest known examples of a ship sailing far from land. The ship was discovered last year by a company drilling for
natural gas off the coast of
Northern Israel. • 21 June – Israel and
Ukraine mutually impose travel restrictions to each others' citizens, preventing reciprocal visa-free travel without an authorization permit. • 23 June – • The
Houthis claim to have carried out a joint military operation with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq to target four vessels in the
Port of Haifa. • More than 150,000 Israelis rally and march in
Tel Aviv to protest against Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government, calling for
new elections, the return of hostages, and a ceasefire. • 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. • Prime Minister Netanyahu rejects the U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal for the war in Gaza, instead committing to continuing the war and "the goal of eliminating Hamas." • 25 June – • Israeli forces bomb Gaza, with one strike killing 10 relatives of Hamas political chief
Ismail Haniyeh. • The
Supreme Court of Israel rules that the IDF and the government of Israel are legally bound to enforce
Haredi conscription on
yeshiva students. • 26 June – An Israeli airstrike on a home in
Beit Lahia in
North Gaza allegedly kills at least 15 Palestinians. • 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. • Thousands of
Haredi Jewish men clash with
Israel Police during protests in
Jerusalem against the 25 June Supreme Court ruling ordering the
Haredi conscription of
yeshiva students.
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. • 2 July – • An IDF airstrike kills at least nine people in Khan Yunis, hours after Israel ordered a mass evacuation. • A dozen resigned
U.S. federal government officials release a joint statement denouncing the
Biden administration for its "undeniable complicity" in
war crimes against Palestinian civilians by violating
U.S. laws to continue sending Israel weapons. • 3 July – • Two people are injured in a stabbing at a shopping centre in
Karmiel. An Arab-Israeli is shot dead by security forces after being identified as the assailant. • 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. • An Israeli strike kills Mohammed Nasser, a top commander in
Hezbollah. He is considered to be one of the highest-ranking figures from the group to die during the conflict. In retaliation, Hezbollah launches a barrage of at least 100
Katyusha rockets towards
northern Israel, targeting IDF positions. • 4 July – • Israel approves the construction of 5,295
Israeli settler homes in dozens of settlements in the West Bank. •
Hezbollah launches at least 200 rockets and several
drones at ten IDF sites and threatens to expand its targeting range, in retaliation for the killing of Mohammed Nasser, a top Hezbollah commander. • 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. • 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. • 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. • Protesters march in
Tel Aviv to call for a ceasefire, the return of all hostages, and for Netanyahu to step down. • 9 July – •
July 9, 2024 Gaza attacks: At least 50 Palestinians are killed and dozens more are injured in Israeli attacks on
Tel al-Hawa,
Sabra, and
Shuja'iyya, Gaza City. •
Al-Awda school attack: At least 29 Palestinians are killed in an Israeli attack targeting the entrance of a
UNRWA-ran school sheltering displaced Palestinians, becoming Israel's fourth attack on Gaza schools in the past four days. •
United Nations human rights experts accuse Israel of carrying out a "targeted starvation campaign" that resulted in child
malnutrition and
death in Gaza. • Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets at the
Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing two Israelis. • 11 July – The
Biden administration resumes shipments of
500-pound bombs to Israel following a suspension in May 2024. • 13 July – The IDF
targets Hamas'
Al-Qassam Brigades leader
Mohammed Deif and another Hamas militant leader, Rafa’a Salameh, in a strike on a building between
al-Mawasi and Khan Yunis in southern Gaza;
Deif's death is unconfirmed while Hamas claims that over 90 people are killed in the strike. • 15 July – An Israeli airstrike on
Bint Jbeil, Lebanon kills three civilians and injures three others. The IDF says that its fighter jets struck a Hezbollah weapons storage facility in the area. • 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,
Rafah. • 16 July – • At least 57 Palestinians are killed by Israeli bombardments in
Rafah,
Khan Yunis, and parts of
Gaza City. • An investigation by the
Associated Press and Israeli
investigative organization Shomrim finds that the United States and Israel allowed
tax-deductible donations totaling over
US$200,000 to multiple
Israeli far-right extremist groups involved in blocking and disrupting
humanitarian aid delivery to the Gaza Strip. • 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". • 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. • 19 July – • At least one person is killed and ten others are wounded when a
kamikaze drone strikes central
Tel Aviv, near the
United States embassy. The
Houthis claim responsibility. • The
International Court of Justice rules that Israel's land annexation and
settlement construction in
East Jerusalem and the
West Bank is unlawful, and demands an end to these practices "as soon as possible". The Court also rules that Israel's occupation in the West Bank
amounts to apartheid. • 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. • Israeli airstrikes hit oil refineries and power stations in the Yemeni port of
Hodeidah, killing and wounding several people. • 21 July – • The Houthis target Eilat with multiple ballistic missiles, in response to the previous day's airstrikes. • Israel begins issuing call-up notices for
Haredi conscription amid mass protests in
Jerusalem. • 22 July – • Israel orders mandatory evacuations across the Gaza Strip, including sections of the heavily populated
Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone. • At least 70 Palestinians are killed and more than 200 others are injured by Israeli tank shelling and
airstrikes in
Khan Younis Governorate in the Gaza Strip. • The Knesset votes in favor of classifying
UNRWA as a
terrorist organization, allowing the motion to undergo supplementary deliberation regarding Israel severing relations with the agency. • 24 July – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a
joint session of the
United States Congress amid
protests over Israel's conduct of the war in Gaza. • 25 July – United States President
Joe Biden and Vice President
Kamala Harris hold separate meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the
White House regarding the Israel–Hamas war and plans following its conclusion. • 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. • The
United Kingdom drops its challenge to the
International Criminal Court's issuance of arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister
Yoav Gallant. • 27 July – •
Majdal Shams attack: • Twelve people, including several children, are killed in rocket strikes on the
Druze village of
Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied
Golan Heights. Israel claims that Hezbollah is responsible for the attack, but Hezbollah denies any involvement. • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows that Hezbollah will "pay a heavy price" which "it has not paid so far" in response to the attack. • More than fifty people, including fifteen children, are killed in Israeli attacks on a school sheltering
displaced people in
Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip. • 29 July –
Far-right Israeli protestors, including several members of the
Knesset, storm the
Sde Teiman detention camp after the IDF detained nine
reservists on suspicion of abusing a
Palestinian detainee. • 30 July – • An Israeli civilian is killed in the
HaGoshrim kibbutz by a rocket fired from Lebanon. •
2024 Haret Hreik airstrike: Israel launches a missile attack on southern
Beirut, Lebanon, killing the Senior
Hezbollah commander
Fuad Shukr, an Iranian advisor and five civilians and injuring 80 others. • 31 July –
Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh:
Hamas political leader
Ismail Haniyeh is assassinated in a
missile strike in
Tehran,
Iran, after attending the inauguration ceremony of the
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian. Israel admits responsibility for the killing on 23 December.
August • 1 August – • Israel claims to have verified that it assassinated Hamas military commander
Mohammed Deif in the
13 July 2024 al-Mawasi attack. • 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. • 2 August – US President
Joe Biden deploys multiple
U.S. military warships, troops, and other military assets to the
Middle East to support Israel against potential attacks from
Iran and its proxies. • 3 August – At least 15 people are killed in an Israeli attack on a school sheltering
displaced people in the
Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City. • 4 August –
Two people are killed and two others are injured in a knife attack in a
Egged parking lot and a grove park at
Dan Shomron Street of the
Holon suburb of Tel Aviv, by illegal migrant Palestinian Ammar Razek Kamel Odeh, 35, of
Salfit,
West Bank who is then killed by a police officer at a gas station on
Moshe Dayan Street. • 5 August – • Israel returns 89
decomposed, unidentifiable Palestinian bodies to the
Gaza Ministry of Health. • Ahead of expected retaliation against Israel for the
assassination of Ismail Haniyeh,
Iran issues a
NOTAM, advising aircraft to change their routes over the country due to potential dangers en route. • 6 August –
Haredi Israelis storm the IDF base in
Tel HaShomer in protest of
Haredi conscription. • 7 August – • The IDF confirms the death of Bilha Yinon, the last person missing in Israel following the 7 October attack by Hamas. • Six Palestinians are killed in an Israeli raid on the
Maghazi refugee camp and in
Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. • 8 August – • One Lebanese civilian and a Hezbollah militant are killed and three Lebanese civilians are injured in Israeli strikes in
southern Lebanon. • Hezbollah fires 25 rockets at the Israeli-occupied
Golan Heights and fifteen rockets at
Shlomi and
Kabri in
Upper Galilee. All rockets are intercepted by the
Iron Dome. • 9 August – • 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. • The United States finances Israel with $3.5 billion to spend on U.S. weapons and military equipment. •
Samer al-Hajj, a Hamas security official for the
Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, is assassinated by an Israeli drone strike in
Sidon, Lebanon. • 10 August – Israeli rockets strike a school in Gaza City, killing over 100 Palestinians and injuring dozens. • 12 August – • US Secretary of Defense
Lloyd Austin orders the
USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group and the
USS Georgia, a nuclear
cruise-missile submarine, to the
Middle East to defend Israel from possible retaliation from Iran and to strengthen U.S. military posture in the region. • Hezbollah fires 30
Katyusha rockets targeting the
IDF 146th Division headquarters in
Ga'aton and an IDF surveillance station in
Metula. An
Iron Dome interceptor missile destroys an
Avdon residence. • 13 August – • The IAF launches airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in
Kfar Kila,
Marwahin,
Meiss Ej Jabal and
Aita al-Shaab in
southern Lebanon. • The US government approves $20 billion in weapon sales to Israel, including fifty
F-15 fighter jets and advanced upgrade kits for Israel's existing F-15 jets. • Crowds led by far-right Israeli security minister
Itamar Ben-Gvir storm the
Al-Aqsa Mosque and several villages in the
West Bank on
Tisha B'av.
Israel Police officers reportedly offer protection to Israeli settlers, while the United States and the
United Nations denounce the raids. • 15 August – Hezbollah launches four rockets at IDF targets in
Shamir and
Malkia in
Upper Galilee which are intercepted by the
Iron Dome, causing a fire in Shamir and
Ruwaysat al-Alam of Kfarchouba in
southern Lebanon. • 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 United States president
Joe Biden stated that he was "optimistic" about US-mediated negotiation progress in
Qatar. • Ten
Syrian workers are killed during an airstrike by Israel against a factory in
Nabatieh, Lebanon. • Hezbollah reportedly strikes the
Ayelet HaShahar kibbutz in
Upper Galilee, wounding two Israeli soldiers in retaliation. • Two senior Hamas militants are killed in an Israeli airstrike in
Jenin. • 18 August – An attacker is killed while one person is injured in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv claimed by Hamas. • 19 August – • Several Israeli civilians are injured in
Ya'ara in Hezbollah rocket launches and drone strikes in
Western Galilee that were intercepted by Israeli
Iron Dome. Hezbollah claims that it attacked and repelled Israeli soldiers attempting to infiltrate
southern Lebanon through the Hadab Aita forest and had inflicted casualties. • Israeli airstrikes strike Hezbollah infrastructure in
Aita al-Shaab,
Beit Lif and Hula. • The
Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes on the Hezbollah stronghold of
Baalbek in the
Beqaa Valley. • Four people are killed and two others are injured by Israeli strikes in
Daraya,
Mount Lebanon Governorate, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. In response, Hezbollah launches drone strikes on IDF positions in the Israeli-occupied
Golan Heights. • 22 August – • Eleven Palestinians are killed and six others are injured in an Israeli strike on a residential building in
Beit Lahia. • An Israeli drone strike kills three Palestinians in
Tulkarm in the West Bank, during a raid where IDF soldiers set fire to civilian homes and used bulldozers to destroy residential areas. • The IDF launches airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in
Chihine and related infrastructure in southern Lebanon. • Hezbollah shells and launches
Katyusha rockets on IDF outposts in
Ramot Naftali,
Biranit,
Zaura,
Kiryat Shmona,
Jal al-Allam,
Malikiya,
al-Marj,
Matla and
Ghajar in the
Golan Heights. • 23 August – • Hezbollah launches rocket strikes on IDF targets in
Mount Meron and
al-Malikiyah that were intercepted by the
Iron Dome and caused
wildfires. • 24 August – Hamas refuses any
ceasefire conditions that allow Israel to hold onto the
Rafah Crossing and the
Philadelphi Corridor, and accuses the United States of spreading false optimism to support
Democratic nominee Kamala Harris's
presidential campaign instead of implementing constructive diplomatic measures. • 25 August – • The IDF says that it has launched
preemptive strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon ahead of an expected major missile and
drone attack on Israel. • Defence Minister
Yoav Gallant declares an "emergency situation" in Israel for the next 48 hours due to the "special situation in the home front. • At least 71 people are killed and 112 others are injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. • 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. • Five Palestinians are killed in an Israeli airstrike on the
Nur Shams refugee camp in the
West Bank. Separately, a Palestinian man is killed and six other people are injured in an attack by
Israeli settlers in Wadi Rahal village. • Four civilians are injured in IDF airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in
Bint Cabal,
Chihine,
Hair,
Khiam,
Meiss el-Jabal,
Majadel and
Odaisseh. • 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. • The
United States Department of State imposes sanctions on
Israeli settler group
Hashomer Yosh and a civilian security coordinator for the
Yitzhar settlement for
settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. • 29 August – •
Mohammed "Abu Shujaa" Jaber, the leader of the
Tulkarm Brigade, is killed during an Israeli attack against the
Nur Shams refugee camp in
Tulkarm. Four other militants are also killed. • The number of
Palestinians killed since the beginning of the operation on 28 August increases to 18, while dozens are wounded and at least 20 more arrested. • The IDF carries out an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza that kills five workers. • Israel and Hamas agree to three separate three-day
humanitarian pauses to allow the
World Health Organization to vaccinate more than 600,000 children against
polio in the Gaza Strip. • 30 August – Three Palestinian fighters, including
Jenin Brigades leader Wissam Hazem, are killed in a drone strike inside the
Jenin refugee camp. Separately, an Israeli soldier is killed and others injured in an
IED attack in the camp. • 31 August – • Israeli strikes kill at least 48 people in the Gaza Strip. • The IDF recovers the bodies of six hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the
7 October attack on Israel, including Israeli-American citizen
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, from an underground tunnel near
Rafah.
September • 1 September – •
2024 Tarqumiyah shooting: Three Israeli police officers are killed during a shooting on a road in
Tarqumiyah in the West Bank. •
September 2024 Israel hostage deal protests: Hundreds of thousands of Israelis, including approximately 300,000 in
Tel Aviv, protest in cities across the country following the recovery of the bodies of six hostages from Gaza, with the
Histadrut calling for a
general strike on 2 September and for Prime Minister Netanyahu to resign after failing to negotiate a
ceasefire. At least 29 people are arrested on accusations of
vandalism,
disorderly conduct, and attacking police officers. • 2 September – The general strike called by the Histadrut commences, but is ordered stopped by the
Labor Courts of Israel following an intervention from finance minister
Bezalel Smotrich. • 4 September – A civilian is killed and seven others are injured in Israeli airstrikes and shelling in southern Lebanon. • 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. • 6 September – • Turkish-American activist
Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi is shot dead by Israeli soldiers during an anti-Israeli settlement protest in the West Bank. • The IAF launches airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in
Blida,
Aita al-Shaab,
al-Matmura and
Yarin and uses
white phosphorus artillery rounds on
Tell en-Nhas and
al-Hamams that causes wildfires in southern Lebanon. In response, Hezbollah launches missiles on
Metula,
Manara and IDF Zabadin barracks in
Ruwaysat al-Qarn of the
Shebaa Farms in northern Israel. • At least 27 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes in cities across the Gaza Strip, including in the
Nuseirat refugee camp. • 8 September – • IDF claims Hezbollah militants are killed in airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in
Aitaroun,
Maroun al-Ras and
Yaroun in southern Lebanon. • Hezbollah launches
Katyusha rockets on
Kiryat Shmona and
Shamir in northern Israel. • Israel launches several
airstrikes in central Syria, including the
Tartus and
Hama governorates. • 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. • 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. 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 7 October attack, according to the IDF. • 11 September – • Five Palestinians are killed by an Israeli drone strike in
Tubas, West Bank. • Six
UNRWA staffers are killed in Israeli airstrikes on a school in central Gaza. • An IAF
UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Rafah during a mission to evacuate an injured
combat engineer, killing two personnel on board. • 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. • The
U.S. State Department approves $165 million in weapons sales to Israel to fund
tank transporters along with spare parts, tool kits, and technical and logistics support. The parts are expected to be delivered in 2027. • 15 September – The Houthis in Yemen fire a
ballistic missile into an open area in central Israel. • 17–18 September –
At least 42 people are killed and more than 3,500 others are injured in explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies across Lebanon mostly targeting Hezbollah and affiliated individuals. Israel is accused of orchestrating the attacks. which is denied by Israeli officials. • 19 September – Two Israeli soldiers are killed and eight others are injured in Hezbollah
drone and anti-tank missile attacks on the
Israel–Lebanon border. • 20 September –
Assassination of Ibrahim Aqil: The IAF launches airstrikes on
Dahieh, Beirut targeting Hezbollah’s operations commanders
Ibrahim Aqil and
Ahmed Wehbe. At least 45 people are killed, while more than 68 others are injured. • 21 September – At least 22 people are killed and 30 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on a school in the
Zeitoun area of Gaza City. • 22 September – • Hezbollah launches a barrage of rockets at an IDF base in
Haifa, in retaliation for the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil. An Israeli civilian is slightly injured by an
Iron Dome interception. • At least seven people are killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Kafr Qasim school on the
Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. • Israeli forces raid and order the closure of the offices of
Al Jazeera Arabic in
Ramallah in the West Bank. • 23 September – • The IAF launches
Operation Northern Arrows, conducting over 1,300 airstrikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, killing at least 558 people, including 50 children, and wounding over 1,835 others. • The IDF advises Lebanese civilians in southern Lebanon to evacuate north. • 24 September – • The Israeli government declares a nationwide state of emergency amid its conflict with Lebanon. • The IDF announces that they killed Ibrahim Qubaisi, Hezbollah's missile and rocket force commander, in an airstrike in
Beirut. • 25 September – • Hezbollah launches a
ballistic missile targeting the
Mossad headquarters in
Tel Aviv, which is
intercepted, while Israel conducts a further 260
airstrikes across Lebanon. • The United States, the
European Union, and several other countries call for an immediate 21-day
ceasefire along the
Blue Line on the Israel–Lebanon border. • 26 September – • Two people are killed and 15 injured during an
airstrike in
Beirut. 115 airstrikes across the rest of Lebanon kills at least 60, and injures 81. • Israel rejects proposals from the United States, Australia, and the European Union to initiate a temporary 21-day
ceasefire with Hezbollah. • The United States grants Israel a US$8.7 billion
military aid package. Secretary of Defense
Lloyd Austin states that the US will not change its commitment to giving military aid to Israel regardless of a reporter's question regarding U.S. "red lines". • 27 September – • At least fifteen airstrikes are carried out against
Beirut, in what is described as the worst attack in the city so far. Israel claims they have
targeted Hezbollah's central headquarters. Four buildings are destroyed. Hezbollah Secretary-General
Hassan Nasrallah is also killed in the attacks, along with
Abbas Nilforoushan, an Iranian
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deputy commander. • Israel launches an airstrike against a
Syrian Army post near
Kfeir Yabous,
Syria, killing five soldiers and wounding one. • 28 September – • The IDF begins a blockade of
Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport in order to prevent the shipment of Iranian weapons to Lebanon. The blockade will not affect the operation of civilian flights at the airport. • The
Houthis launch a
ballistic missile from Yemen towards
Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, prompting
air raid sirens in
Tel Aviv and most of
Central Israel. • 29 September – • Israel carries out
airstrikes on Houthi targets in
Ras Isa and
Hodeidah in Yemen. •
New Hope leader
Gideon Sa'ar joins the Netanyahu cabinet as a minister without portfolio. • 30 September – • Three militants of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are killed during an Israeli airstrike in Kola District,
Beirut. Separately,
Hamas's commander in Lebanon,
Fatah Sharif, is killed alongside his family in
Sidon. • Israel tells the
United States it will launch an imminent ground invasion of
Southern Lebanon. The
military operation will focus on clearing out Hezbollah infrastructure near Israeli border communities, according to officials. • A
Lebanese Army soldier is killed in an Israeli
drone strike in
Wazzani.
October • 1 October – •
Israeli forces launches full-scale ground operations in southern Lebanon against
Hezbollah for the first time since
the 2006 war. • Israel launches an
airstrike in the
Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in
Sidon targeting Munir al-Maqdah, an official with the
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Lebanon. • An explosion is reported in
Tel Aviv, while a drone is intercepted over the
Mediterranean Sea. • Iran launches
Operation True Promise 2, a series of missile attacks against Israel. •
Palestinian gunmen open fire on
a light rail train station in
Jaffa, killing seven people. The two suspects are killed, while Hamas' military wing, the
Al-Qassam Brigades claims responsibility. • 2 October – • Foreign Minister
Israel Katz declares United Nations Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres persona non grata in Israel for not condemning the
October 2024 Iranian strikes against Israel in a statement on the Middle East conflict. • Israeli strikes kill 51 people in southern Gaza, • Hezbollah kills two Israeli soldiers and wounds 18 others who conducted an incursion into Lebanon. • The US imposes sanctions against the Israeli settler group Hilltop Youth and two other Israelis for attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. • 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. • 3 October – • An Israeli airstrike kills Abdul Aziz Saleha, known for his role in the
2000 Ramallah lynching, in central Gaza. • Israel launches an airstrike against an Islamic Health Authoriy's office in Beirut, Lebanon, killing nine medics. • Two Lebanese army soldiers are killed in separate Israeli strikes on south Lebanon. • 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. • Hossein Ali Hazimeh, head of Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters, is killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. • A
Yazidi woman is freed from Gaza in an operation involving U.S. and Israeli forces, 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. • The
Lebanese Armed Forces open fire on Israeli troops near
Bint Jbeil for the first time since the invasion began. • The IAF launches an airstrike on
Tulkarm in the
West Bank, reportedly killing at least 16 people. • Senior Hezbollah official
Hashem Safieddine, who is expected to succeed Hassan Nasrallah as the group's secretary-general following his assassination, is killed by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, later confirmed by Hezbollah on 23 October. • 4 October – • Hamas' armed wing, the
Al-Qassam Brigades confirms the death of commander Zahi Yaser Oufi in an Israeli strike in
Tulkarm in the
West Bank. • Two rockets launched from Gaza at Israeli communities of
Kissufim and
Ein Hashlosha. • 5 October – Hamas says that an Israeli strike killed Saeed Atallah, a leader in the
Al-Qassam Brigades, along with three family members in a Palestinian
refugee camp in
Tripoli, Lebanon. • 6 October – A knife-wielding gunman kills a border police officer and injures ten people at a
McDonald's at the central bus station of
Beersheba before being killed by a responding medic. • 7 October • Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis fire rockets across Israel on the anniversary of the
7 October attacks. •
The National Memorial Ceremony of October 7 Families • 9 October – • Two civilians are killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on
Kiryat Shmona. •
One person is killed and five others are injured in a mass stabbing in
Hadera. • 11 October – A building in
Herzliya is hit by a drone attack from Lebanon, causing power outages in the area. • 13 October – Four soldiers are killed and 61 others are injured in a
Hezbollah drone strike on Binyamina. • 17 October – Israeli forces
kill Yahya Sinwar, chairman of the Hamas political bureau, during an encounter in Rafah. • 18 October – The IDF kills two assailants south of the
Dead Sea who entered the country from Jordan in an
encounter that leaves two Israeli soldiers injured. The
Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan claims responsibility for the incursion. • 19 October – • A
drone attack is made on the residence of Benjamin Netanyahu in
Caesarea. No casualties are reported, while Hezbollah claims responsibility for the attack. • Israeli
airstrikes kill at least 50 people in
Beit Lahia in the
northern Gaza Strip with
at least 33 people, including 21 women, killed at the
Jabalia refugee camp which the
U.N. strongly condemns. • 20 October – • Colonel
Ehsan Daxa, the commander of the IDF's
401st Armored Brigade, is killed by an
IED attack in
Jabalia in northern Gaza, becoming the most senior officer to have been killed in the fighting in Gaza. •
U.S. Defense Department officials announce an investigation into the leaking of two confidential
U.S. intelligence documents to a pro-Iranian
Telegram channel showing U.S. assessments of and intelligence given for
Israel's detailed military preparations for
retaliatory attacks against
Iran. • Three Lebanese soldiers are killed in an Israeli strike on their truck after being mistakenly identified as Hezbollah militants, prompting an apology from the IDF. • 21 October – • Israeli airstrikes kill thirteen people and injure 57 more near
Rafik Hariri University Hospital in
Beirut. • Israel launches airstrikes across
Southern Lebanon, including in Beirut and the
Beqaa Valley, targeting alleged Hezbollah financial institutions. • 22 October – • At least fifteen people killed in an Israeli drone strike on
Beit Lahia,
Northern Gaza. • The
FBI announces an investigation into the leaking of classified
U.S. intelligence documents regarding military plans for Israeli retaliation against
Iran. • 23 October – Israeli airstrikes across Gaza kill 42 people. • 24 October – • Five Israeli soldiers are killed and seven others are injured in clashes with Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. • An Israeli airstrike on a school kills at least 17 Palestinians, including children in
Nuseirat refugee camp. • 25 October – •
Israeli forces storm Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia, Gaza. • Israeli airstrikes across Gaza kill 72 people with at least 38 killed in Khan Younis. • Two
Al Mayadeen and
Al-Manar cameramen and a technician are killed in an Israeli airstrike at a guest house in
Hasbaya,
Lebanon with several more injured. • 26 October – Israel launches
Operation Days of Repentance (also known as
"Days of Atonement" against
Iran, with multiple airstrikes against
Tehran,
Karaj and
Imam Khomeini International Airport in response to
recent ballistic missile attacks launched by Iran. Four Iranian soldiers are killed. • 27 October – •
One person is killed and at least 40 others are injured, ten of the critically in a truck-ramming at a bus stop near Glilot military base and
Mossad headquarters in the Tel Aviv neighbourhood of
Ramat HaSharon, the suspect is shot dead. • Four IDF soldiers, including a military rabbi, are killed and five personnel are injured in fighting in southern Lebanon. • 22 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes in Beit Lahia. • Egyptian President
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi proposes a temporary two-day
ceasefire in
Gaza to
exchange four Israeli hostages for several
Palestinian prisoners. • 28 October – • The
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". • Seven people are killed in
IDF raids and airstrikes on
Tyre, Lebanon. •
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 60 people and injure 58 others in the
Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. • 29 October – • At least 93 people are killed and 40 others are reported missing in
Israeli airstrikes on a residential building in Beit Lahia. • The
World Food Programme warns of intensifying
famine conditions in northern Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli
aid blockades. • Sixteen people are killed in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon, including ten in
Sarafand. • 30 October – • Nineteen people are killed in
Israeli airstrikes on two villages in
Baalbek,
Lebanon. • Mustafa Ahmad Shahadi, deputy head of the
Radwan Force, is killed in an Israeli airstrike in Nabatieh, Lebanon. • 31 October – • A Hezbollah missile barrage kills at least seven people and critically wounds one other near
Metula,
Haifa and
Kiryat Ata in
northern Israel with the victims entailing four foreign agricultural workers and two
Israeli Arabs. • At least six medics are killed and four others are wounded in
Israeli attacks on areas in
Duris and around
Baalbek,
Lebanon.
November , 5 November 2025 • 1 November – The
United Nations declares the situation in northern Gaza as "apocalyptic", with the entire Palestinian population at "imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence" due to
Israeli bombardments and
aid blockage. • 2 November – Six people are injured, including two children, in an Israeli strike on a polio vaccination centre in
northern Gaza as the
World Health Organization vaccination campaign resumes with its second phase. • 3 November – • More than 50 children are killed in Israeli airstrikes in
Jabalia in northern Gaza in the past two days. • At least 31 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, primarily in northern Gaza, according to Palestinian medics. • 18 people are killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes on over two dozen settlements in the Beqaa Valley. • Three people are killed and nine others are injured in Israeli airstrikes in
Sidon, Lebanon. • 4 November – • At least twelve Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the
Gaza Strip, including seven at the
Kamal Adwan Hospital in
Beit Lahia. • Police arrest a top aide to Prime Minister Netanyahu after opponents accuse the aide of leaking allegedly false classified intelligence to prevent a potential Gaza
ceasefire and hostage deal. • At least three people are killed in an Israeli attack on residential buildings in
Ghazieh and Sidon. • 5 November – • At least 29 Palestinians are killed in Israeli airstrikes on several refugee camps across the Gaza Strip. • Thirty people are killed after an Israeli airstrike against a residential building in
Barja, Lebanon. •
Yoav Gallant is dismissed as defense minister by Prime Minister Netanyahu and is replaced by foreign minister
Israel Katz, who is in turn replaced by
Gideon Saar. The decision leads to widespread
protests. • 6 November – • Israeli airstrikes in the Beqaa Valley kill 55 people and injure 59 others. •
Hezbollah fires rockets at
Tel Aviv, Israel, with a rocket striking
Ben Gurion Airport. • 7 November – • At least twelve Palestinians are killed and several others are injured in Israeli airstrikes on a school used to shelter displaced people in the
Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. • The
Israeli Ministry of Defence announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire 25
F-15EX fighter jets from
Boeing as part of a $5.2 billion aid package from the
U.S. government. At least four jets will be delivered annually beginning in 2031. • Hezbollah launches drones at the IDF base in
Kfar Bilu and the
Haifa naval base. No casualties are reported. • The
Knesset passes a law allowing for the deportation of relatives of Palestinians and Arab-Israelis who engage in attacks deemed as terrorism. • 8 November –
Pro-Palestinian locals attack supporters of Israeli football team
Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. after
a match with
AFC Ajax in
Amsterdam,
Netherlands, following instances of
anti-Palestinian and
anti-Arab chants and vandalism by Maccabi
ultras. At least 30 people are injured, with five hospitalized, and 62 people are arrested. Dutch authorities condemn the attacks as antisemitic with the
government of Amsterdam subsequently banning
protests and demonstrations in the city for three days. • 9 November – • At least one Palestinian man is killed and two others are injured in a raid by Israeli forces in
Aqqaba in the
West Bank. • At least 40 people, including several children, are killed in Israeli airstrikes on several cities in Lebanon. • 10 November – • At least 40 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, including at least 24 in the Jabalia refugee camp. The IDF claims they killed a top
Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander in the strikes. • An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City kills Wael al-Khour, a minister in the Hamas-run government, along with his wife and their three children. •
Qatar withdraws from ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel as mediator due to "a refusal to negotiate a deal in good faith" from both sides. • An Israeli airstrike in the village of Aalmat, Lebanon, kills at least 23 people, including seven children, and injures six others. • 11 November – • At least 30 people are killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip, including at least 20 in the Nuseirat refugee camp. • At least 44 people are killed and 88 more injured during Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon. • 12 November – • At least 40 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, including ten in a
double tap strike on a designated
humanitarian zone in the
Al-Mawasi refugee camp in
Rafah Governorate. • At least 14 people are killed and at least 15 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in
Ain Yaaqoub, northern Lebanon. • Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces that Turkey has suspended all diplomatic relations with and will not develop any further relations with
Israel. However, the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv will continue to operate. Israel's
foreign ministry denies any change in its diplomatic relationship with Turkey. • 14 November – • Fifteen rescue workers are killed during an Israeli airstrike on the
Lebanese Civil Defense's headquarters in
Baalbek. • Sixteen people are killed and 15 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes against residential buildings in
Damascus,
Syria. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad announces that a number of its militants are among the fatalities. • 17 November – •
Pope Francis calls for the global community to investigate whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. • At least 72 people are killed, a third of whom are children, in an Israeli strike against a residential building in Beit Lahia. • An Israeli airstrike on the
Lebanese Ba'ath Party headquarters in Ras el-Nabaa, Beirut, kills seven people, including Hezbollah spokesman Mohammed Afif. Sixteen others are wounded. Three people are also killed and 29 more injured in another airstrike in
Mar Elias. • 18 November – • Hezbollah launches more than 100 missiles at Israel, mainly targeting Tel Aviv, killing one person and injuring dozens of others. • Five people are killed and 24 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on
Zuqaq al-Blat, Beirut. • Hezbollah and Lebanon both agree to an American proposal for a ceasefire. • 19 November – Three
Lebanese soldiers are killed and 17 other people are injured in an Israeli airstrike in
Sarafand. • 20 November – • The
United States vetoes a
United Nations Security Council proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, citing the proposal's not linking the ceasefire to the return of
hostages taken during the conflict. • The
United States Senate rejects three resolutions by senator
Bernie Sanders that would block the sale of weapons to Israel in its war in Gaza. • Thirty-six people are killed and more than 50 others are injured in Israeli
airstrikes in
Palmyra,
Syria. • 21 November – • The
International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Hamas military commander
Mohammed Deif for war crimes committed during the
Gaza war. • 22 November – • An Israeli airstrike targeting the Dar El Amal Hospital in
Duris in the Bekaa Valley, kills the hospital director and six other
health workers. • At least five medics are killed when Israeli airstrikes hit a multistorey building in
Chyah, Beirut. • Two people are killed and three others are injured in an Israeli drone strike on
Tyre, Lebanon. The victims are Palestinian refugee] from the nearby
Rashidieh refugee camp. • Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon kill 18 people, including four children, in
Shmustar,
Roumieh, and
Bodai. • Israeli artillery targets a Lebanese Army base in
Tyre District, killing one soldier and injuring 18 others. • Hezbollah launches over 300 missiles at Israel, targeting the
Ashdod Naval Base for the first time and injuring eleven people. • At least six people are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, one in the Nuseirat refugee camp, two in the Maghazi refugee camp, and three in Rafah. The IDF issues a new evacuation order in
Shuja'iyya, Gaza City. • Missing Israeli-Moldovan rabbi
Zvi Kogan is found murdered in the
United Arab Emirates, with three Uzbek nationals later arrested for the murder. • An unidentified gunman injures three
police officers near the Israeli embassy in
Amman,
Jordan, before being shot dead. • 25 November – Foreign ministers of the
G7 nations hold a meeting in
Fiuggi and
Anagni,
Italy, to discuss ceasefire efforts between Israel and Lebanon as well as the
International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Mohammed Deif. • 26 November – • The
Security Cabinet of Israel agrees to a 60-day ceasefire in Lebanon. • For the first time since the start of the conflict, the IDF issues evacuation orders for central
Beirut, warning residents of four neighbourhoods to leave as soon as possible. Airstrikes are later carried out by the IAF across several areas of Beirut, hitting at least 20 locations and resulting in several casualties. • 27 November – •
A ceasefire agreement comes into effect between Israel and Hezbollah, under which both of its forces would withdraw from southern Lebanon south of the
Litani River in exchange for the Lebanese army being deployed in the area. • Seventeen people, including one journalist, are killed in Israeli strikes on the Kamal Adwan Hospital and the Nuseirat refugee camp. • The
Biden administration provisionally approves a $680 million military arms package to Israel, including hundreds of
small diameter bombs and thousands of
JDAMs. • 28 November –
Israel and
Hezbollah accuse each other of violating ceasefire terms that came into action the prior day, following an Israeli airstrike on a Hezbollah
missile storage facility and the IDF opening fire on suspected combatants moving into southern Lebanon. • 29 November – A gunman injures eight people on a bus near the Israeli settlement of
Ariel in the West Bank. The attack is claimed by al-Qassam Brigades. • 30 November – Two people are killed and six more injured in three Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon, despite the mutually agreed ceasefire.
December • 8 December – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders the IDF to seize control over the
buffer zone separating it and Syrian forces in the
Golan Heights that had been in place since 1974 following the collapse of the regime of President
Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. • 9 December – The IDF destroys multiple vessels of the
Syrian Navy following attacks on the ports of
Al-Bayda and
Latakia. • 12 December – Paraguay moves its embassy in Israel to
Jerusalem for the second time since relocating it to
Tel Aviv in 2018. • 15 December – Israel announces that it will close its embassy in
Ireland due to what it describes as "the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government".
An Taoiseach Simon Harris calls the decision "deeply regrettable", while the
Tánaiste Micheál Martin says that there are no plans to close the Irish embassy in Israel. • 21 December – A rocket fired from Yemen hits
Tel Aviv, injuring 16 people. ==Holidays==