Gaza war

The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian militant group Hamas led a surprise attack on Israel, in which 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed and 251 were taken hostage. Since the start of the Israeli offensive that followed, over 72,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed. Several studies in The Lancet indicate this figure is likely a significant undercount. A wide consensus of scholarship has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The Israeli government and its supporters, including the United States, reject that conclusion.

The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, deliberate starvation, infliction of serious bodily and mental harm, and prevention of births. Other acts include blockading, destroying civilian infrastructure, destroying healthcare facilities, killing healthcare workers and aid-seekers, causing mass forced displacement, committing sexual violence, and destroying educational, religious, and cultural sites. The genocide has been recognised by a United Nations special committee and commission of inquiry, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, multiple human rights groups, state governments, numerous genocide studies and international law scholars, and other experts.

The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups in 2023, during the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. The attacks, which began the ongoing Gaza war, were the first large-scale invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In response, Israel launched a large-scale military operation in Gaza.

The Board of Peace (BoP), or the Peace Board, is an international organization with the stated purpose of promoting peacekeeping around the world. Established by President Donald Trump and led by the government of the United States, the board is named in United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 as a body tasked with overseeing the processes of the Gaza peace plan. The Board of Peace was proposed in September 2025 and formally established on the side-lines of the 56th World Economic Forum in January 2026.

ongoing case at the International Court of Justice

hostages taken into Gaza

ongoing man-made famine in the Gaza Strip

2023 key battle in the Gaza War

Alliance of Palestinian armed factions in Gaza

violations of the laws of war during the Gaza war since 2023

series of Israeli military engagements in the occupied West Bank

involvement of the Benjamin Netanyahu advisors with the Qatar government

crimes against international military law which Israel has been accused of

7-day truce in the Gaza war

monuments destroyed or damaged in Gaza

armed proxy conflict in Western Asia since 2013

state of human rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

military occupation of the Gaza strip by Israel

human rights compliance and violations in Israel

experience of Israeli and Palestinian women

overview of Israel's role of supporting Hamas

Alleged Israeli war crimes and human rights violations involving damage to cemeteries and abuse of corpses (necroviolence)

non-lethal bomb used to seal tunnels

false information spread during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas

usage of civilians and civilian infrastructure for military purposes

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