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Events in the year 2024 in Palestine.

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Ongoing — Gaza war[1]

January

  • 1 January –
  • 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]

February

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]
  • 9 March – Canada and Sweden resume funding for UNRWA, which had been suspended following the UNRWA October 7 controversy.[25]
  • 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]
  • 31 March – The nineteenth government of Palestine is sworn in, with Mohammad Mustafa becoming Prime Minister.

April

  • 1 April – World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack: Seven volunteers from the World Central Kitchen, including six British, Polish, Australian and Palestinian nationals and a dual American-Canadian citizen, are killed in an Israeli airstrike south of Deir al-Balah.[30]
  • 7 April – Siege of Khan Yunis: Israeli forces withdraw from Khan Yunis.[31]
  • 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 –
  • 25 April – Israel intensifies airstrikes on Rafah.[41]

May

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]
  • 7 June –
  • 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]
  • 11 June – United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced more than $400 million in new humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza.[91]
  • 14 June –
    • 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]
    • The United States 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.[94]
  • 15 June – Eight Israeli soldiers are killed in Rafah after their Namer armoured personnel carrier is hit by a massive explosion.[95]
  • 17 June – Eight Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire while waiting for commercial trucks in Gaza.[96]
  • 21 June –
    • Armenia officially recognises the State of Palestine.[97]
    • 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]
  • 26 June – An Israeli airstrike on a home in Beit Lahia in North Gaza Governorate kills at least 15 Palestinians.[103]
  • 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

August

  • 1 August –
  • 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.[154]
  • 4 August – At least three people are killed and 18 others are wounded in Israeli bombings on al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah.[155]
  • 5 August – Israel returns 89 decomposed, unidentifiable Palestinian bodies to the Gaza Ministry of Health.[156]
  • 6 August –
  • 7 August –
    • The IDF confirms the death of Bilha Yinon, the last person missing in Israel following the October 7 attack by Hamas.[159]
    • Six Palestinians are killed in an Israeli raid on the Maghazi refugee camp and in Khan Yunis.[160]
  • 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.[161]
    • 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.[162]
  • 10 August – Al-Tabaeen school attack: Israeli rockets strike a school in Gaza City, killing over 100 Palestinians and injuring dozens.[163]
  • 12 August – August 2024 Khan Unis incursion: Ten Palestinians are killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential home in Khan Yunis.[164]
  • 13 August – 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.[165]
  • 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.[166]
  • 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.[167]
  • 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.[168]
  • 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.[169]
    • Fifteen people from the same family are killed during an airstrike against their home in Az-Zawayda.[170]
    • Two senior Hamas militants are killed in an Israeli airstrike in Jenin.[171]
  • 20 August –
    • The IDF recovers the bodies of six hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas.[172]
    • At least twelve Palestinians, including two children, are killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school used to shelter displaced people in Gaza City.[173]
  • 22 August –
    • Eleven Palestinians are killed and six others are injured in an Israeli strike on a residential building in Beit Lahia.[174]
    • 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.[175]
  • 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.[176]
  • 25 August – At least 71 people are killed and 112 others are injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip.[177]
  • 27 August –
  • 28 August –
  • 29 August –
  • 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.[188]
  • 31 August –

September

  • 1 September – Three Israeli police officers are killed during a shooting on a road in Tarqumiyah.[191]
  • 3 September –
  • 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.[194]
  • 6 September –
  • 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.[197]
  • 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.[198] 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.[199]
  • 11 September –
    • Five Palestinians are killed by an Israeli drone strike in Tubas.[200]
    • Six UNRWA staffers are killed in Israeli airstrikes on a school in central Gaza.[201]
    • An IAF UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Rafah during a mission to evacuate an injured combat engineer, killing two personnel on board.[202]
  • 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.[203]
  • 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.[204]
  • 17 September – A poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research finds that a majority of Gazan public opinion does not support Hamas's decision to launch October 7 attack on Israel for the first time during the conflict.[205]
  • 18 September – The United Nations General Assembly votes 124–14 with 43 abstentions to demand that Israel end its unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territories within the next 12 months.[206]
  • 19 September – Six Palestinians are killed and 18 others are injured in an IDF raid in Qabatiya in the West Bank.[207]
  • 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.[208]
  • 22 September –
  • 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.[211]

October

  • 1 October –
  • 2 October –
    • Israeli strikes kill 51 people in southern Gaza.[215]
    • The US imposes sanctions against the Israeli settler group Hilltop Youth and two other Israelis for attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank.[216]
    • 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.[217]
  • 3 October –
    • An Israeli airstrike kills Aziz Salha, known for his role in the 2000 Ramallah lynching, in central Gaza.[218]
    • 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.[219]
    • 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.[220]
    • The IAF launches an airstrike on Tulkarm, reportedly killing at least 16 people.[221]
  • 11 October – At least 20 Palestinians are killed and dozens of others are injured by Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp.[222]
  • 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.[223]
  • 16 October – Israeli forces kill Yahya Sinwar, chairman of the Hamas political bureau, during an encounter in Rafah.[224]
  • 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".[225][226]

November

  • 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.[227]
  • 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.[228]

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.[229]
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