List of engagements during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
This is a list of notable engagements during the Israel–Hamas war, encompassing land, naval, and air engagements, covering events which took place or began during the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel on the 7 October, events and immediately afterwards, Israel's declaration of war on 8 October, the imposition of the 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, and active operations in the Gaza Strip.
Major engagements and key events
Campaigns
| Name | Location | Start date | End date | Belligerents | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel | Southern District | 2023-10-07 | 2023-10-16 | Israel | Palestinian Joint Operations Room: | — |
| Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) | Lebanon, Shebaa Farms, Golan Heights, and Northern District (Israel) |
2023-10-08 | Ongoing | Israel | Ongoing | |
| Israeli incursions in the West Bank | West Bank | 2023-10-12 | Ongoing | IsraelSettler militias | Ongoing | |
| Attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria | Iraq, Syria, Jordan | 2023-10-17 | Ongoing | USA | Ongoing | |
| 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip | Gaza Strip | 2023-10-27 | Ongoing | Israel | Ongoing | |
| Red Sea crisis | Red Sea, Indian Ocean | 2023-10-19 | Ongoing | Israel, other vessels | Houthis | Ongoing |
| Operation Prosperity Guardian | Yemen, Red Sea | 2023-12-18 (announced) | Ongoing | Houthis | Ongoing | |
- Year-Month-Day international format.
- escalated
- With minor involvement from others in Operation Prosperity Guardian.
Military engagements
- Year-Month-Day international format.
- Military strikes conducted by the US and UK against Yemeni Houthis
Raids into southern Israel from Gaza
Early in the morning of 7 October 2023, approximately 3000 militants, from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, and DFLP, breached the Gaza fence and attacked multiple locations in Southern Israel. Following this the IDF blockaded, bombed, and then invaded the Gaza Strip.
Locations of raids into Southern Israel from Gaza
| Attack | Location | Deaths | Hostages | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Civilian | Military | Start | End | |||
| 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel | Southern District (Israel) | total = 1,139 | total = | total = | total = 200+ Hostages | 2023-10-07 (Dawn) | |
| Battle of Sderot | Sderot | 15 | |||||
| Re'im music festival massacre | Near Re'im | 357+ | 40 Hostages | ||||
| Be'eri massacre | Be'eri | 117+ | |||||
| Nahal Oz attack | Nahal Oz lookout base | 15+ | none | 15+ | 7+ Hostages | 2023-10-07 | |
| Kibbutz Nahal Oz | 80+ | 12+ | 46+ | 20+ missing | |||
| Nahal Oz | 100+ | 12+ | 61+ soldiers | 7 to 30 Hostages | |||
| Kfar Aza massacre | Kfar Aza | 52+ | |||||
| Zikim Beach massacre | Zikim | 35+ | 19 | ||||
| Nir Oz massacre | Nir Oz | 27+ | 2023-10-07 09:45 | ||||
| Netiv HaAsara massacre | Netiv HaAsara | 21+ | |||||
| Alumim massacre | Alumim | 19+ | |||||
| Kissufim massacre | Kissufim | 16+ | |||||
| Holit massacre | Holit | 13+ | |||||
| Ein HaShlosha massacre | Ein HaShlosha | 5+ | |||||
| Nirim attack | Nirim | 5+ | |||||
| Nir Yitzhak massacre | Nir Yitzhak | 5+ | |||||
- Most of the civilian areas on the Israeli side of the Gaza border had lightly armed volunteer security teams.
- Includes on duty police, military, and other professional armed security forces. Off duty IDF reservists were counted as civilians, so some available lists of names include more people with military ranks than the official number of military deaths.
- including the Bibas family
- Rockets were hard at 6:30am and the militants entered the Bibas home at 9:45am [1]
Reported violence against unarmed people (from 9 October onwards)
| Event | Accused | Location | Deaths | Date | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Pop. | Total | Civilian | Military | Start | End | ||
| Attacks on journalists in Lebanon | Israel Defense Forces, 188th Armored Brigade | South Lebanon | 4 | 4 | none reported | 2023-10-13 | present | |
| Shadia Abu Ghazala School massacre | Israeli Ground Forces | Shadia Abu Ghazala School in the Gaza Strip. | unknown | "dozens" | "dozens" | none reported | 2023-12-12
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2023-12-13
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- Includes on duty police, military, and other professional armed security forces. Off duty IDF reservists were counted as civilians, so some available lists of names include more people with military ranks than the official number of military deaths.
- Dozens of bodies discovered, including children, who had been shot at close range. Video and images obtained by Al Jazeera on 13 Dec 2023 showed bodies piled up inside the Shadia Abu Ghazala School in the al-Faluja area, west of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Witnesses said a number of people including women, children and babies were killed execution-style by Israeli forces while sheltering inside the school. The woman said there were newborn children among them. “The Israeli soldiers executed those innocent families at point blank,” she added. Reporter Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud is in southern Gaza in Rafah.
- Witnesses said a number of people including women, children and babies were killed execution-style by Israeli forces while sheltering inside the school.
- Displaced persons were sheltering at the school in the al-Faluja area, west of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
- predominantly women and children
- The victims were reportedly killed overnight starting on Tuesday 12 December 2023, but this could not be confirmed. It could have been some time earlier because the bodies were already decomposed when seen on 13 December 2023 the bodies were already decomposed.
Airstrikes and rocket attacks
Long distance attacks against Israel
| Name | Date | Attacker | Weapons | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocket barrage into Israel | 7 October 2023 | Hamas |
Rockets and drones | Numerous civilian and military locations in Israel, mostly near the Gaza strip. |
| Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel in 2023 | 8 October 2023 – Ongoing | Hamas PIJ PFLP DFLP |
Rockets | Israel |
| Projectile attacks from Lebanon on Israel and the Golan Heights | 8 October 2023 – Ongoing | Hezbollah Hamas PIJ PFLP |
"projectiles" | Israel and the Golan Heights |
| Houthi missile and drone attacks on Israel | 19 October 2023 – Ongoing | Houthi movement | Long-range missile | Eilat, Israel |
| Taba and Nuweiba drone attacks | 27 October 2023 | Houthi movement | Drones | Possibly Israel, hit Taba and Nuweiba, Egypt |
| 2024 Erbil attack | 15 January 2024 | Iran | Long-range missiles | Erbil, Iraq |
- There are also reports of attacks from much smaller groups such as the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement.
- Iran claimed that it was targeting a regional Mossad headquarters. Iraq denies that such a headquarters exists.
Disputed strikes
| Name | Date | Accused | Location | Deaths | Injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attacks on Palestinians evacuating Gaza City | 2023-10-13 | Israel Hamas |
Gaza City | 70+ | 200+ |
| Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion | 2023-10-18 | Israel PIJ |
Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza | 100–300 (United States Director of National Intelligence) |
314 (Gaza Health Ministry) |
Israeli airstrikes
- On 12 October, a second airstrike on the Jabalia camp hit a residential building was hit, destroying several apartments, and killing people from two families.
- Some were sheltering there after being displaced from Beit Hanoun.
- There were 195 people were killed according to The Gaza Ministry of Health (Gaza MOH), whose overall casualty counts show no sign of being inflated or fabricated and thus appear to be a reliable minimum death count. The Gaza Indonesian Hospital also reported that "hundreds" had been killed or injured.
- The Gaza Ministry of Health reported 777+ wounded. Gaza Indonesian Hospital reported that "hundreds" had been killed or injured.
Notable targeted assassinations
| Target | Affiliation | Date | Location | Perpetrator | Deaths | Injuries | Notes and Other Notable Casualties |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbas Raad | Redwan Force | 22 November, 2023 | Beit Yahoun, Lebanon | Israel | 5 | 0 | Raad was the son of Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad. |
| Razi Mousavi | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps | 25 December, 2023 | Sayyidah Zaynab, Syria | Israel | 4 | Unknown | Iranian general serving in the IRGC's Quds Force. |
| Saleh al-Arouri | Hamas | 2 January 2024 | Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon | Israel | 7 | Unknown | Also killed Al Qassam comanders Sami Fendi and Azzam Al-Aqra |
| Mushtaq Talib Al-Saeedi | Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba | 4 January 2024 | Baghdad, Iraq | United States | 1+ | Unknown | Former senior commander of the 12th brigade of the Popular Mobilization Forces. |
| Wissam al-Tawil | Redwan Force | 8 January 2024 | Majdel Selm, Lebanon | Israel | 2 | Unknown | Senior commander of Hezbollah's Radwan Force |
| Ali Hussein Barji | Hezbollah | 9 January 2024 | Khirbet Selm, Lebanon | Israel | 1 | 0 | Death denied by Hezbollah |
| Sadegh Omidzadeh | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps | 20 January 2024 | Mezzeh, Damascus, Syria | Israel | 10 | Unknown | Also killed four other Iranian officials, Ali Aghazadeh, Saeed Karimi, Hossein Mohammadi, and Mohammad Amin Samadi |
| Fadi Suleiman | Hezbollah | 21 January 2024 | Kafra, Lebanon | Israel | 3 | 6 | Target survived; other Hezbollah affiliates killed. |
See also
- Outline of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
- Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2023
- Casualties of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
- List of wars involving Israel
- List of massacres in Israel
- 2023 attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria
- Israeli war crimes
- Palestinian political violence
- Moshe Dayan's eulogy for Ro'i Rothberg