Timeline of the Israel–Hamas war (7 May 2024 – present)
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May 2024
7 May
- The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 54 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 34,789.[1]
- Israeli ground forces seized control of the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing, starting the Rafah offensive.[2]
- Hamas announced the death of an Israeli captive from injuries they sustained from an Israeli air raid a month ago.[3]
- The Bahamas officially recognized the State of Palestine.[4]
- Unspecified Palestinian fighters detonated IEDs that were targeting IDF troops in Jalbun.[5]
8 May
- The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 55 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 34,844.[6]
- Israel rejected a ceasefire deal with Hamas and stated that it would continue its offensive in Rafah.[7]
- The US paused its weapons delivery to Israel to limit its operations in Rafah.[8]
- One person was killed and many were injured by Israeli shelling in Khuza'a, east of Khan Yunis.[9]
- Israeli forces bombed an apartment complex in Zeitoun, east of Gaza City, killing seven people.[10]
9 May
- The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 60 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 34,904.[11]
- The IAF targeted a house in the al-Jnaina neighbourhood in Rafah, causing an unknown number of casualties.[12]
- Syria claimed to have shot down Israeli missiles heading towards Damascus from the occupied Golan Heights.[13]
- Israel announced that a soldier from the 869th Battalion was killed in Malkia by a Hezbollah mortar and missile attack.[14]
- An Israeli police officer died of wounds he sustained during a raid in Deir al-Ghusun on 4 May.[15]
- Four Hezbollah members were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a car in southern Lebanon.[16]
- The IAF bombed the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah, killing four people and injuring 16.[17]
- Israeli forces shot a 15-year-old boy on the leg in Qalqilya.[18]
- The Houthis claimed to have launched missiles at the Panamanian-Flagged MSC Diego and MSC Gina which they said were "affiliated with Israel".[19]
- A seventh mass grave was uncovered near the Al-Shifa hospital.[20]
- The Islamic resistance in Iraq claimed two drone attacks targeting Eilat and the Nevatim base in Beersheba, and a cruise missile attack targeting the oil port of Ashkelon.[21]
10 May
- The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 39 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 34,943.[22]
- The headquarters of UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem was set on fire by Jewish extremists.[23]
- An Israeli air strike hit a home in Abasan al-Kabira at the eastern outskirts of Khan Yunis, killing eight residents living there.[24]
- At least three people were killed and five more injured after the IAF bombed a house in the central part of Gaza City.[25]
- 12 Israeli soldiers of the Gaza Division were stung by wasps in southern Gaza and evacuated to Israel for treatment.[26]
- Four Israeli soldiers of the Nahal Brigade were killed in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza, bringing the IDF death toll in the Gaza strip to 271.[27]
- Hamas fired two rocket barrages from Rafah to Beer Sheva, injuring one person.[28]
11 May
- The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 28 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 34,971.[29]
- Hezbollah claimed to have hit Israeli "spy installations" at the Jal al-Alam site along the border.[30]
- The IDF told residents of Jabalia and Beit Lahia to evacuate to western Gaza City, and issued new evacuation orders in Rafah.[31]
- Hamas said that a British-Israeli hostage succumbed to wounds sustained from an Israeli airstrike.[32]
- Israel announced that a soldier of the Nahal Brigade was killed in a gunfight with Hamas fighters in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza the day prior, bringing the IDF death toll in the Gaza Strip to 272.[33]
12 May
- The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 63 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 35,034.[34]
- Israeli forces started bombing Jabalia, killing and injuring several Palestinians.[35]
- Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man during a raid on the Balata Camp.[36]
- An Israeli air strike on Deir al-Balah killed multiple people, including a paediatric surgeon and his son.[37]
- Illegal Israeli settlers set a house on fire in the village of Duma, south of Nablus.[38]
- Three people were injured after a rocket attacks from Gaza hit Ashkelon.[39]
- A spokesperson from Gaza Civil Defence said that all hospitals in northern Gaza were "out of service".[40]
- An IDF Brigade General was injured while in combat in the Gaza Strip.[41]
- Al Jazeera reported that the Wafa news agency claimed illegal settlers protected by Israeli troops attacked the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, injuring some Palestinians.[42]
- The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that Israeli shelling in al-Zuwaida killed four children, including an infant.[43]
- The Al-Qassam Brigades claimed multiple attacks on Israeli forces in eastern Jabalia, including an attack where they blew up a boobytrapped house with Israeli soldiers inside, causing an unknown amount of casualties.[44]
13 May
- The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 57 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 35,091.[45]
- An Indian UNDSS staff member was killed and another was wounded in an attack on their vehicle near Rafah.[46][47]
- Israeli activists attacked a Gaza aid convoy at the Tarqumiyah checkpoint, setting vehicles ablaze and throwing packages of food onto the road.[48][49]
- The IDF announced that five soldiers were seriously injured in separate incidents throughout Gaza, including two from the elite Yahalom unit.[50]
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that over 1,000 Hamas members were being treated in Turkish hospitals.[51]
- The Palestinian Authority reportedly rejected an Israeli offer to take control of the Rafah Border Crossing.[52]
14 May
- The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 82 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 35,173.[53]
- Israeli airstrikes on a building and a UNRWA school in Nuseirat killed 40 people.[54] The IDF said that the strike on the UNRWA school targeted a Hamas command room based in the building and killed 15 militants.[55]
- Heavy clashes between Israeli forces and Hamas were reported in Gaza City, Jabalia, and Nuseirat, while fighting continued in and around Rafah, with Israeli ground forces advancing into the Brazil and Jneina neighborhoods.[56][57]
- The IDF issued an evacuation notice in the al-Atatra and Salatin areas of Jabalia after it said it expanded operations in the city.[58]
- Hamas claimed a missile attack on an Israeli troop carrier in the al-Salam neighborhood of eastern Rafah, allegedly killing and wounding its crew members.[57] They also claimed to have blown up an IDF bulldozer east of Rafah.[59]
- Hezbollah claimed to have downed an Israeli spy balloon over the Israeli settlement of Adamit near the border with Lebanon and fired rockets at the balloon’s launch base and "management crew".[60]
- Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Asqa compound, raising the Israeli flag.[61]
- An Israeli soldier of the 7th Armoured Brigade was killed in Rafah, bringing the IDF death toll in the Gaza Strip to 273.[62]
15 May
- An Israeli air strike hit the home of the Brash family in the Bureij refugee camp, killing five people.[63]
- The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 60 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 35,233.[64]
- A 20 year-old Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli forces in Al-Bireh, West Bank.[65]
- An IDF shelling targeted an UNRWA clinic in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza city, killing at least 10 displaced Palestinians.[66]
- Israeli forces targeted a group of people in al-Jalaa Street and al-Oyoun Street in the center of Gaza city with a drone strike, at least three people were killed and more were injured.[67]
- Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian nurse at the Jabalia refugee camp.[68]
- An Israeli military contractor, who was working for the Israeli Ministry of Defense died of wounds sustained in a Palestinian mortar attack in the southern Gaza Strip two day prior.[69]
- The IDF said it began operations against militants in the center of Jabalia and had engaged in intense battles over the past day, killing "a large number" of militants. Hamas claimed responsibility for anti-tank missile attacks against Israeli soldiers in the camp, killing a dozen in its Block 4 area, but the IDF did not report casualties.[70]
- The UN estimated that around 600,000 people fled Rafah since Israel began its offensive in the city, including 150,000 in the past 48 hours.[71]
- Two people, including Hezbollah commander Hussein Makki, were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Tyre, southern Lebanon.[72]
- Five Israeli soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade were killed in an alleged friendly fire incident after an Israeli tank mistook them for Palestinian fighters in Jabalia, bringing the IDF death toll to 278.[73]
- Israeli forces attacked an internet access point in Gaza City, killing at least four people and critically injured more.[74]
- Israeli settlers attacked commercial trucks with Palestinian drivers thinking that they were humanitarian aid trucks near the illegal settlement of Giv'at Asaf, The drivers were beaten.[75]
- Hezbollah claimed to have launched a successful drone attack west of Tiberias.[76]
16 May
- The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 39 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 35,272.[77]
- Israeli forces shot a Palestinian man dead in Salah al-Din Street in East Jerusalem after allegedly attempting to stab Israeli soldiers.[78]
- The US completed construction for the Gaza floating pier and said that humanitarian aid would soon arrive to it.[79]
- An Israeli soldier of the Bislamach Brigade was killed by a "munitions accident" on the border between Israel and Gaza, bringing the IDF death toll to 279.[80]
- Canada imposed sanctions on four Israeli individuals accused of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.[81]
- Israeli forces shelled a family home in Khan Yunis, killing at least five people.[82]
- An Israeli airstrike on the al-Faluja area of Jabalia killed four people including a pregnant woman.[83]
17 May
- The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 31 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 35,303.[84]
- An Israeli aircraft bombed the al-Jaouni School housing displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing four people.[85]
- Three Israeli soldiers were injured by Israeli extremists who had set a truck on fire and injured its driver near the illegal settlement of Kokhav HaShahar, east of Ramallah.[86]
- Israeli forces stormed the town of Anabta, shooting a 16-year-old in the thigh, in Qalqilya a man was shot while riding his bicycle as Israeli forces stormed the city, a man was also shot near the Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah.[87]
- Israeli forces shot and killed one Palestinian and injured another during a raid on the town of Bal'a, near Tulkarem.[88]
- Three people, inlcuding a Hezbollah fighter and two Syrians, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the villages of Najjariyeh and Addousiyeh in southern Lebanon.[89]
- An Israeli soldier of the Paratroopers Brigade was killed in violent clashes in Gaza's Jabalia neighbourhood amid a new Israeli offensive into the area, bringing the IDF death toll in the Gaza strip to 280.[90]
- The IDF recovered the bodies of three hostages killed on 7 October, including Shani Louk, from a tunnel in Gaza.[91][92]
- Hamas official Sharhabil al-Sayed, who was in charge of the group’s operations in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his car in Majdal Anjar, Lebanon.[93]
- Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) senior leader Islam Khamayseh was killed and several other members of the organization were wounded in an Israeli air raid in Jenin.[94]
18 May
- The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 83 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 35,386.[95]
- Israeli forces bombed a residential block across from the Kamal Adwan Hospital, killing at least 22 people and injuring more than 30.[96]
- Four people were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Khuzaʽa, Khan Yunis[97] while one person was killed by Israeli shelling at a house in Abasan al-Kabira, east of the city.[98]
- At least eight people, including women and children, were killed and 10 were wounded after Israeli shelling targeted a group of Palestinians filling water containers in the al-Faluja area of Gaza City.[99]
- Two people were killed by an Israeli attack near Nuseirat camp, and two others were killed in an attack in Wadi Gaza.[100]
- An Israeli drone attack in western Rafah hit a car trying to leave the city, killing one person.[101] Two people were killed in central Rafah after Israeli forces bombed a home.[102]
- A Panama-flagged crude oil tanker was hit by a missile in the Red Sea, no group claimed responsibly.[103]
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