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Hamas
wins by landslide the majority of seats after the Palestinian
legislative election, 2006. Israel, the United States, European
Union, and several European and Western countries cut off their aid
to the Palestinians; as they view the Islamist political party as
the one who rejects Israel's right to exist.
09.06.2006 - The killing of 7 family members on Gaza beach
Following the Gaza beach blast, in which seven members of one
family and one other Palestinian were killed on a Gaza beach, the
armed wing of Hamas calls off its 16- month-old truce.
25.06.2006 - 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict
After
crossing the border from the Gaza Strip into Israel, Palestinian
militants attack an Israeli army post. The militants kidnapped Gilad
Shalit, killed two IDF soldiers and wounded four others. Israel
launches Operation Summer Rains.
Israel mobilized thousands of troops in order to suppress Qassam
rocket fire and to secure the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit. It
is estimated that between 7,000 and 9,000 heavy Israeli artillery
shells have been fired into Gaza since September 2005, killing 80
Palestinians in 6 months. The Palestinians say the assault is aimed
at toppling the democratically elected Hamas-led government and at
destabilizing the Palestinian National Authority, citing the
targeting of civilian infrastructure such as a power station and the
captures of government and parliament members.
12.07.2006 - Lebanon war 2006
Being
vigilant of attacking Lebanese forces for their alleged cooperation
with Palestinians, and also in order to compensate the 1982 defeat,
Israel attacked Lebanon on the pretext of freeing the two kidnapped
Israeli soldiers.
Israel mostly attacked the civilians. According to various media,
between 1,000 and 1,200 people were reported dead. Additionally,
there have been between 480 and 1100 people wounded, and over
1,000,000 have been temporarily made refugees, with an unknown
number of missing civilians in the south. Finally the Israeli forces
leaved the area with their news of disgrace being spread all over
the world.
The second Lebanon War of summer 2006 threw a dark shadow over the
government of Ehud Olmert and his party, Kadima.
01.11.2006 - 09.11.2006 Beit Hanoun Massacre
01.11.2006 the town of Beit Hanoun has been under the very tight
control of a large force of tanks and troops who have ordered the
tens of thousands of local people to stay off the streets for all
but very brief periods. The Israelis destroyed Beit Hanoun, they
destroyed the infrastructure, cut the water pipes and the telephone
lines. Hundreds of men have been rounded up and questioned, and some
have been taken away to Israel. The entire town of Beit Hanoun
remains under Israeli control and troops have ordered residents to
stay indoors.
03.11.2006 two women have been killed as Israeli troops opened fire
on a crowd of women gathered to help besieged gunmen flee a mosque
in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. In the dramatic mosque rescue,
Hamas radio issued an appeal to local women when a tense stand-off
developed between Israeli forces surrounding the Mosque and up to 15
militants who had taken refuge inside. The Israeli occupation forces
were firing heavily at women with their machine guns. The women
entered the mosque and indeed we got all the resistance men out.
07.11.2006 Israel's army says it has pulled out of the town of Beit
Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, after a six-day operation
targeting rocket-firing militants. Witnesses confirmed Israeli
troops had left. The army says it has taken up positions in
surrounding areas. Some 60 Palestinians, majority of civilians, were
killed.
08.11.2006 At least 18 Palestinians have been killed and 40 wounded
by Israeli tank fire in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun.
Palestinian officials said a barrage of tank shells hit civilian
homes, and women and children were among the dead. Palestinian
hospital officials said 13 of the dead belonged to the same family,
and two of them were women and six were children. TV footage from
Beit Hanoun showed the victims being taken to hospital in their
sleeping clothes, some with terrible injuries. Sources counted about
eight impacts. They confirmed that the shells appear to have landed
roughly in a straight line, starting in the fields at the end of the
street and hitting houses on either side of it.
09.11.2006 Tens of thousands of Gazans were set to march at mass
funerals for 18 people killed by Israeli shelling, an event
Palestinians said would be marked in history as a "Black Day" of
massacre.
11.11.2006 The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council
resolution condemning an Israeli attack in Gaza that killed 18
Palestinian civilians and urging a quick withdrawal of Israeli
forces from the area.
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