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'''List of Israeli strikes and Palestinian casualties in Operation Protective Edge.'''
'''List of Israeli strikes and Palestinian casualties in Operation Protective Edge.'''


This is a list of individual [[IDF]]/[[IAF]] operations in [[Operation Protective Edge]], which began on July 8, 2014, naming the targets and casualties. The forces in the conflict consist of Gaza-based militants using mainly home-made missiles, mainly [[Qassam rocket]]s, most of which hit open fields,<ref name="Ma'an4" /> versus Israel's combined military forces, which are equipped with [[McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle|F-15 fighter jets]], [[AH-64 Apache]] helicopters, [[Delilah (missile)|Delilah missiles]] and [[IAI Heron-1|IAI Heron-1 drones]].<ref name="Weaver9" />The Israeli civilian population has, in addition, access to shelters, early-warning sirens and is defended by the [[Iron Dome]] missile detection defence system.<ref name="Jones" /> According to Owen Jones, remarking on the difference in armament capacities, media coverage fails to reflect the realities of military disparity in the conflict.<ref name="Jones" >Owen Jones,[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/09/israel-renewed-hamas-attack-bbc-balance-palestinian ''Israel under renewed Hamas attack', says the BBC. More balance is needed,' ][[The Guardian]] 9 July 2014.</ref>
This is a list of individual [[IDF]]/[[IAF]] operations in [[Operation Protective Edge]], which began on July 8, 2014, naming the targets and casualties. The forces in the conflict consist of Gaza-based militants using mainly home-made missiles, mainly [[Qassam rocket]]s, most of which hit open fields,<ref name="Ma'an4" /> versus Israel's combined military forces, which are equipped with [[McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle|F-15 fighter jets]], [[AH-64 Apache]] helicopters, [[Delilah (missile)|Delilah missiles]] and [[IAI Heron-1|IAI Heron-1 drones]].<ref name="Weaver9" />The Israeli civilian population has, in addition, access to shelters, early-warning sirens and is defended by the [[Iron Dome]] missile detection defence system.


=='''Day 1: Tuesday 8 July'''==
=='''Day 1: Tuesday 8 July'''==

Revision as of 19:37, 9 July 2014

List of Israeli strikes and Palestinian casualties in Operation Protective Edge.

This is a list of individual IDF/IAF operations in Operation Protective Edge, which began on July 8, 2014, naming the targets and casualties. The forces in the conflict consist of Gaza-based militants using mainly home-made missiles, mainly Qassam rockets, most of which hit open fields,[1] versus Israel's combined military forces, which are equipped with F-15 fighter jets, AH-64 Apache helicopters, Delilah missiles and IAI Heron-1 drones.[2]The Israeli civilian population has, in addition, access to shelters, early-warning sirens and is defended by the Iron Dome missile detection defence system.

Day 1: Tuesday 8 July

By day's end, Israeli airstrikes had hit 150 targets and killed 25 people[3][2]

  • In a strike on Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City one child, Ahmad Nael Mahdi (15) was killed, while two others, his friends, were wounded.[4][2]
  • In a strike at al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis, Suleiman Salman Abu al-Sawaween (30) was killed and another man critically injured.[4]
  • An airstrike targeted a tuk-tuk vehicle in the al-Shujaiyeh neighborhood in Gaza City, killing Ahmad Moussa Habib (48) and Ahmad Ahed Habib (19). [4]
  • An airstrike targeted a motorcycle near Abraj al-Sheikh Zayed in the northern Gaza Strip killing Fakhri Saleh Ajjouri.[4]
  • Missile strike on the al-Kaware family’s home in Khan Younis, while targeting activist Odeh Ahmad Mohammad Kaware, believed to be a member of Hamas,[5] killing 8 Palestinians, including six children, and seriously wounded 25. Accounts vary of the incident. The strike was preceded by a drone-fired warning flare, a 'Knock on the roof' procedure involving a small mortar shot at the target.[5] Relatives and neighbours gathered at the home to form a human shield, according to one source.[4] Five families evacuated after a warning missile was fired, but neighbours gathered on the roof the try and hinder the operation.[2] A third account said the neighbours gathered after an initial strike, to prevent a further one.[5]The six children are:-
Seraj Abed al-Aal (8) died of his injuries later.
Basem Salem Hussein Karawe (10)
Hussein Yousef Hussein Karawe (13)
Mohammad Ali Faraj Karawe (12)
Abdullah Hamed Karawe (6)
Kasem Jaber Adwan Karawe (12).[2]
  • An airtrike destroyed a house in central Gaza, and Rashad Yassin, from the al-Nuseirat refugee camp, later found dead under the rubble.[4]
  • A missile strike on the Rafah home of Hamas military commander Raed al-Atar failed to kill its target.[5]

Day 2: 9 July 2014. Wednesday

The death toll rose from 32 to 41 then 52,and casualties from an estimated 300 to 450.[6][7][8] 6 women and 9 children figured among the 22 dead.[6] The AIF struck some 160 targets overnight,[8] and totalled 430 strikes in two days, including 120 concealed rocket launchers, tunnels and 10 Hamas command and control centres.[1]

  • An airstrike hit a home in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip killing senior Islamic Jihad militant Hafiz Hamad and six members of his family
Hafiz Mohammed Hamad (30)
Ibrahim Mamedhmed (26)
Mahdi Mohammed Hamad (46)
Fawzia Khalil Hamad (62)
Mehdi Hamad (16)
Suha Hamad (25).[8]
  • An airstrike on Rafah's al-Shouka neighborhood killed Abdul-Hadi al-Sufi (24) and seriously wounded one other person.
  • At dawn a missile from an Israeli drone struck missile Rafiq al-Kafarne (30) while he was on a motorcycle at Beit Lahiya, and severely wounded another.[2]
  • Naifeh Farajallah (80) died under the rubble of her house in Mughraqa damaged by an air strike. [2]
  • Aminah Malak (27), her son Muhammad Malaka (I year, six months old), and Hatim Abu Salim were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City.[8]
  • Abdel Nasser Abu Kweik (60) and his son Khaled (31) were killed by an IAF missile in a field near Nusseirat refugee camp.[2]
  • An Israeli airstrike killed Muhammad Khalid al-Nimrah (22) in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City.[8]
  • A missile strike on a house in Beit Hanoun killed a woman Sahar Hamdan al-Masri (40) and her teenage son Ibrahim (14).[8]
  • An Israeli strike on the al-Maghazi refugee camp killed Sumud al-Nawasrah and her two boys, Muhammad Khalaf al-Nawasrah (4) and the other Nidal Khalaf al-Nawasrah, a toddler, when a missile hit their home. Two other children are missing, and are believed to be under the rubble.[9]
  • Amjad Hamdan (23) allegedly part of Islamic Jihad, was killed outside his home in Beit Hanoun by an airstrike.[9]
  • A second strike against the Hamad family in Beit Hanoun was made in the evening, killing Saleh Hamad (57) and Ibrahim Hamad (20).[6]
  • In an airstrike on Rafah Samia al-Arja (65) was killed. Eight other people were injured.

See also

References