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The photograph shown with this event: Beit Hanoun in ruins, August 2014.
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Event · Land & rights7 July – 26 August 2014
The 2014 war on Gaza
الحرب على غزة 2014
Date qualified7 July – 26 August 2014
Gaza Strip
Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip from 7 July to 26 August 2014. A UN commission of inquiry reported 2,251 Palestinians killed, 1,462 of them civilians, among them 551 children, and six civilians and 67 soldiers killed in Israel.
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The operation
The UN independent commission of inquiry describes the Israeli operation “Protective Edge” as running from 7 July to 26 August 2014, in three phases: airstrikes from 7 July, a ground operation from 17 July, and from 5 August alternating ceasefires and continued airstrikes.
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- Report of the independent commission of inquiry established pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution S-21/1 (A/HRC/29/52) ↗
United Nations · paragraph: 19
Editorial paraphrase · enOperation “Protective Edge” ran from 7 July to 26 August 2014: airstrikes from 7 July, ground operations from 17 July, alternating ceasefires from 5 August.
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The toll, as the commission reported it
The commission reported 2,251 Palestinians killed, 1,462 of them civilians, including 299 women and 551 children, and 11,231 injured. In Israel, six civilians and 67 soldiers were killed and up to 1,600 people injured.
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- Report of the independent commission of inquiry established pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution S-21/1 (A/HRC/29/52) ↗
United Nations · paragraph: 20
Editorial paraphrase · en2,251 Palestinians killed, including 1,462 civilians, of whom 299 women and 551 children; 11,231 injured; six civilians and 67 soldiers killed in Israel, up to 1,600 injured.
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The inquiry
The Human Rights Council established the commission by resolution S-21/1 of 23 July 2014, to investigate all violations of international humanitarian and human rights law in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly in Gaza, in the context of the military operations conducted since 13 June 2014.
Link to this chapterChapter evidence
- Report of the independent commission of inquiry established pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution S-21/1 (A/HRC/29/52) ↗
United Nations · paragraph: 1
Editorial paraphrase · enResolution S-21/1 of 23 July 2014 mandated the inquiry into violations in the context of the military operations since 13 June 2014.
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Report of the independent commission of inquiry established pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution S-21/1 (A/HRC/29/52)
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Dates & remembrance
7 July – 26 August 2014 · duration
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