2024 in the State of Palestine

Events in 2024 in the Palestinian territories.

Events
Ongoing — Israel–Hamas war


 * 1 January –
 * At least 20 rockets are fired by Hamas at Jerusalem and southern Israel.
 * The IDF withdraws seven brigades, consisting of thousands of soldiers, from the Gaza Strip and says the war will enter a "different mode of operations".


 * 23 January – Twenty-one Israeli soldiers are killed in an explosion and subsequent building collapse in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, making it the deadliest day for the Israel Defense Forces since the ground invasion began.
 * 24 January – A building complex sheltering tens of thousands of displaced people in Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip, has caught fire after being hit by Israel, causing mass casualties. Also, at least 214 people were killed in the city during the past 24 hours by Israeli airstrikes.


 * 1 February – U.S. President Joe Biden signs an executive order imposing sanctions on four Israeli settlers in the West Bank who are implicated in acts of violence against Palestinians in the region.


 * 3 February – The Gaza Health Ministry reported that 127 Palestinians (including at least 92 people in Rafah) were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 27,365.
 * 9 February – Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders the Israel Defense Forces to plan evacuations of the city of Rafah.
 * 10 February – The IDF claims to have discovered a Hamas data center under UNRWA's Gaza Strip headquarters.
 * 11 February – Hamas announces the death of two Israeli hostages and says that eight others have been seriously injured by Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in the past 96 hours.
 * 12 February:
 * At least 67 people are killed during overnight Israeli airstrikes in the Palestinian city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
 * Israeli special forces conduct a raid on a building in Rafah, rescuing two Israeli-Argentinian Hostage.
 * Dutch court orders halt to export of F-35 jet parts to Israel within 7 days over serious violations of international humanitarian law.
 * 14 February – The Hostages and Missing Families Forum files a complaint of war crimes against the leadership of Hamas at the International Criminal Court.
 * 18 February – Channel 12 reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will restrict Palestinian citizens of Israel's access to the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during the month of Ramadan due to security concerns.
 * 22 February –
 * One Israeli is killed and 10 others severely injured in a shooting attack by three Palestinians near Ma'aleh Adumim in the West Bank.
 * Forty people are killed and 100 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes against residential buildings in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
 * 23 February – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken declares that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law, overturning a policy instated under former U.S. President Donald Trump.
 * 25 February – Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell: A United States Air Force active-duty member is in critical condition after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., in solidarity with Palestinians and expressing his outrage over the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip.
 * 26 February:
 * Aaron Bushnell, a United States Air Force active-duty member who set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy yesterday in Washington, D.C., in solidarity with Palestinians, has died at hospital due to his wounds.
 * 2024 Palestinian government collapse: The entire Palestinian government, including Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, resign from office, amid popular opposition and pressure from the United States during the Israel–Hamas war.
 * 29 February:
 * Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident: At least 112 people receiving humanitarian aid are killed and 760 others are wounded in Gaza City after Israeli forces fire on civilians receiving humanitarian aid. Israeli officials claim most of the deaths were from a stampede.
 * Two Israelis are shot and killed in an attack at a gas station near Eli, West Bank.
 * 7 March – U.S. president Joe Biden announces the construction of a temporary pier on the coast of the Gaza Strip to facilitate large-scale delivery of humanitarian aid.
 * 8 March – Five people are killed when an aid package airdropped from a C-17 aircraft into the Gaza Strip fails to deploy its parachute and subsequently crushes them.
 * 9 March – Canada and Sweden resume funding for UNRWA, which had been suspended following the UNRWA October 7 controversy.
 * 18 March – Dozens of people, including at least 20 “terrorists” and a senior Hamas leader, are killed after an attack on the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
 * 19 March – Israel announces the death of senior Hamas military leader Marwan Issa, following an airstrike on a tunnel complex the previous week, making him the highest ranking Hamas official killed in the war yet.
 * 25 March – UN security council passes resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, as US abstains.
 * 28 March – The International Court of Justice, in a unanimous decision, orders Israel to allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip unimpeded, warning that famine is already occurring.
 * 1 April – World Central Kitchen drone strikes: Seven volunteers from the World Central Kitchen, including six British, Polish, Australian and Palestinian nationals and a dual American-Canadian citizen, are killed in an Israeli airstrike south of Deir el-Balah.
 * 7 April – Siege of Khan Yunis: Israeli forces withdraw from Khan Yunis.
 * 8 April – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered an invasion of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip with a date "being set" for the ground offensive.
 * 10 April – An Israeli airstrike kills three sons of Hamas Chairman Ismail Haniyeh.
 * 14 April – Killing of Benjamin Achimeir: The body of Israeli teenager Benjamin Achimeir is found in the West Bank a day after he went missing, sparking clashes between settlers and Palestinians.
 * 16 April – A mob of Israeli settlers in Aqraba kill two Palestinians in revenge for the murder of Israeli teenager Benjamin Achimeir amid escalating ethnoreligious violence in the West Bank.
 * 20 April – Fourteen Palestinians are killed in an Israeli raid in the West Bank.
 * 21 April – 22 people are killed, including 18 children, in overnight Israeli strikes in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, according to local health officials.
 * 22 April – Israeli troops and tanks re-enter Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip after abruptly withdrawing from the city earlier this month.
 * 23 April –
 * A mass grave containing over 300 bodies is found at a hisoital in Khan Yunis.
 * Jamaica becomes the 140th UN member state to recognize the State of Palestine.
 * 25 April – Israel intensifies strikes on Rafah.
 * 1 May – Following American pressure, Israel reopens the Erez Crossing and allows aid trucks into the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
 * 2 May – A Palestinian National Security Forces patrol kills a Palestinian Islamic Jihad gunman in Tulkarm in the West Bank.
 * 5 May –
 * Ten Israeli civilians are injured after Hamas launches a rocket barrage at the Kerem Shalom border crossing.
 * Hamas announces the end of ceasefire talks held in Cairo, Egypt, while Israel vows to continue its military operations.
 * 6 May –
 * Israel tells Gazans to evacuate part of Rafah ahead of a planned ground offensive.
 * Hamas states that it has accepted the ceasefire proposal from Qatar and Egypt; Israel, however, rejects the proposal, saying it is "unacceptable".
 * 7 May –
 * Israeli forces enter Rafah in a "limited" operation, taking control of the Rafah Border Crossing on the Egypt–Gaza border.
 * At least 27 people are killed by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah.
 * 8 May –
 * Israeli troops reach the outskirts of Rafah with Hamas saying that heavy fighting is underway. The Israeli military says it has "uncovered terrorist infrastructure", and killed a number of Hamas militants as it advances.
 * Israel reopens the Kerem Shalom border crossing, allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza. However, no aid has entered according to the UN.
 * 9 May –
 * Israeli tanks and warplanes strike eastern Rafah, killing more than 65 civilians and causing 80,000 people to flee.
 * A US-flagged ship carrying aid to the United States-built floating pier in Gaza sets sail from Cyprus.
 * 10 May – Palestine 194: The United Nations General Assembly voted 143–9 with 25 abstentions to approve a resolution granting Palestine new rights and requests, and to reconsider its request to become a UN member. The US, Argentina, the Czech Republic and Hungary, along with four Pacific nations, align with Israel in voting against the resolution.


 * 12 May – Antony Blinken warns Israel lacks a credible plan to protect Rafah civilians.
 * 13 May –
 * The Israeli military advances into northern and southern Gaza.
 * A staff member of the United Nations Department of Safety and Security is killed and another is injured in Rafah.
 * Hamas says it has "lost contact" with the militants holding four Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
 * 14 May – Israeli tanks enter residential areas of Rafah as they attempt to capture the city. Hamas' armed wing al-Qassam Brigades says that it destroyed an Israeli troop carrier with a Al-Yassin 105 anti-tank missile, killing several troops and injuring several others, while the Israel Defense Forces claim to have "eliminated" several terrorists in the city.
 * 15 May – Five Israeli soldiers are killed in a friendly fire incident in Jabalia after IDF tanks open fire on their position.
 * 16 May – Palestinian fighters, including Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, claim dozens of attacks on Israeli troops in and around the Jabalia refugee camp.
 * 17 May –
 * Humanitarian aid deliveries begin arriving at the U.S.-built Gaza floating pier.
 * The Israeli army recovers from Rafah the bodies of three people killed in the Re'im music festival massacre last October, including Shani Louk.
 * Hamas announces that an Israeli strike killed Sharhabil Sayed, a Hamas commander in Lebanon.
 * Israel announces that an Air Force strike killed Islaam Hamaisa, a commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Jenin Brigade.
 * 18 May –
 * The Israeli army recovers the body of Ron Binyamin, who was killed and brought to Gaza by Palestinian militants in October.
 * Benny Gantz threatens to withdraw his party from the unity coalition if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't submit a post-war plan for Gaza by June 8.
 * Austria unfreezes €3.4 million ($3.7 million) in funds to the UNRWA.
 * 20 May – The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan has requested a warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Al-Masri, and Ismail Haniyeh for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
 * 21 May –
 * The Israeli army launches a raid on the city of Jenin, with sources claiming seven Palestinians were killed.
 * The UNRWA suspends food distribution in Rafah due to insecurity and a lack of supplies.
 * 22 May – The governments of Norway, Ireland, and Spain announce they will recognise the State of Palestine as a sovereign state starting 28 May, calling for a two-state solution. In response, Israel recalls its ambassadors to these countries.
 * 23 May – At least 60 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks in Rafah, Deir al-Balah, and Gaza City.
 * 24 May –
 * Israeli army recovers the bodies of three captives who were killed and taken to Gaza by Palestinian militants in the 7 October attacks.
 * The International Court of Justice orders Israel to halt the military offensive in Rafah.
 * 25 May – Italy restores €35 million (US$38 million) of funding for UNRWA several months after it suspended the aid due to allegations linking UN staff to the October 7 attacks.
 * 26 May –
 * The Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas fire rockets towards Tel Aviv area in central Israel for the first time in four months.
 * Four U.S. Army vessels wash up on Israeli beaches, two of them in the Gaza Strip.
 * 28 May –
 * The governments of Norway, Ireland, and Spain officially recognise the State of Palestine, after declaring their intention to do so on May 22. The Palestinian flag was raised outside of Leinster House, the seat of Ireland's parliament.
 * Denmark parliament rejects proposal to recognise Palestinian state.
 * Israeli tanks reach central Rafah for the first time with heavy clashes being reported.
 * At least 21 people are killed and 64 others are injured in a Israeli attack on a tent camp in al-Mawasi, Rafah Governorate.
 * The U.S. removes the Gaza floating pier from the Gaza Strip for repair after its flotilla was damaged in bad weather.
 * South Africa's genocide case against Israel: Mexico announces it will intervene in the genocide case on the side of South Africa.
 * 30 May – The Israeli military lifts a ban on the sale of food to the Gaza Strip from Israel and occupied West Bank.
 * 6 June –
 * Nuseirat refugee camp attack: At least 40 Palestinians, including fourteen children, are killed and more than 70 injured after an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations school that was sheltering refugees in central Gaza.
 * Three Palestinians are killed and several others are injured during an Israel Defense Forces raid on Jenin, West Bank.
 * 7 June –
 * United Nations advisors announce the intention of the organization to add Israel, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to their list of countries and armed groups that harm children in their upcoming "Children and Armed Conflict" report.
 * The United States reinstalls a temporary aid pier while the Gaza floating pier is being fixed due to weather damage.
 * 8 June – Nuseirat operation: Four hostages kidnapped by Hamas and held in the Nuseirat refugee camp, including Noa Argamani, are rescued in an Israeli special operation.
 * 11 June – United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced more than $400 million in new humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza.
 * 14 June –
 * The United Nations pauses humanitarian aid delivery at the US military-constructed Gaza floating pier pending investigations on if it was involved in the Israeli raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp and on its security for humanitarian workers.
 * The United States military plans to temporarily dismantle the Gaza floating pier and move it to Israel following predictions of rough seas, halting its humanitarian aid shipments for the 3rd time in one month.
 * The United States State Department officially adds the Israeli group Tsav 9 to its list of sanctioned entities for impeding the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
 * 15 June – Eight Israeli soldiers are killed in Rafah after their Namer armoured personnel carrier was hit by a massive explosion.
 * 17 June – Eight Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire while waiting for commercial trucks in Gaza.
 * 21 June –
 * Armenia officially recognises the State of Palestine.
 * Gaza health officials claim that Israeli strikes on refugee tent camps near Rafah kill at least 25, which is denied by an IDF spokesperson.
 * 22 June – At least 42 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza.
 * 23 June – Eight Palestinians are killed in IDF airstrikes that hit a UNRWA-run vocational college in Gaza City that was being used to distribute aid.
 * 24 June – Eleven Palestinians, including the director of Gaza's Ambulance and Emergency Department, are killed in Israeli airstrikes on the al-Shati refugee camp, Bani Suhaila, and Gaza City.
 * 25 June – Israeli forces bomb Gaza where one strike killed 10 family members of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh.
 * 26 June – An Israeli airstrike on a home in Beit Lahiya in North Gaza kills at least 15 Palestinians.
 * 28 June – The U.S. military dismantles the Gaza floating pier for the third time due to bad weather.
 * 30 June – At least six Palestinians are killed in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli tanks re-enter Shuja'iyya and parts of northern Gaza, displacing more than 60,000 people.
 * 1 July – The Israel Defense Forces order a mass evacuation of Palestinians from the entire eastern half of Khan Yunis and surrounding areas in anticipation of a new ground assault on the city.
 * 2 July –
 * An Israel Defense Forces airstrike kills at least nine people in Khan Younis, hours after Israel ordered a mass evacuation.
 * A dozen resigned United States government officials release a joint statement denouncing U.S. President Joe Biden's administration for its "undeniable complicity" in war crimes against Palestinian civilians by violating U.S. laws to continue sending Israel weapons.
 * 3 July – The Israeli government approves the seizure of 12.7 square kilometers (4.9 square miles) of Palestinian land in the Jordan Valley, representing the largest land grab in the West Bank in more than three decades.
 * 4 July – Israel approves the construction of 5,295 Israeli settler homes in dozens of settlements in the West Bank.
 * 5 July – At least seven Palestinians are killed during an Israeli military raid in Jenin in the West Bank that targeted a building that several militants had barricaded themselves in.
 * 6 July – At least 16 Palestinians are killed by an Israeli strike on a school housing Palestinians displaced from ongoing military operations in the al-Nuseirat refugee camp.
 * 7 July – Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 27 Palestinians. In Gaza City, four are killed in a strike on a UNRWA school sheltering displaced people and six others are killed in a strike on a house. Two people are killed in the Sabra neighbourhood, with six others in a strike on a residential building in Az-Zawayda.
 * 8 July – A study by The Lancet estimates that the death toll from the conflict is at least 186,000 Palestinians, around 8% of Gaza's pre-war population.
 * 9 July –
 * July 9, 2024 Gaza attacks: At least 50 Palestinians are killed and dozens more are injured in Israeli attacks on Tel al-Hawa, Sabra, and Shuja'iyya, Gaza City.
 * Al-Awda School massacre: At least 29 Palestinians are killed in an Israeli attack targeting the entrance of a UNRWA-ran school sheltering displaced Palestinians, becoming Israel's fourth attack on Gaza schools in the past four days.
 * United Nations human rights experts accuse Israel of carrying out a "targeted starvation campaign" that resulted in child malnutrition and death in Gaza.
 * U.S. military officials announce that the Gaza floating pier will be permanently removed after being reinstalled for a few more days.
 * 10 July – The Israel Defense Forces orders a complete evacuation of all Palestinians from Gaza City to travel south in advance of a new offensive on Hamas targets.
 * 11 July – The United States Department of State and Department of the Treasury announce sanctions against three violent Israeli settlers who blocked humanitarian aid to Gaza and four illegal Israeli settlement outposts, and also blacklists the far-right Jewish supremacist organization Lehava.
 * 12 July – Gaza City rescue crews discover at least 60 Palestinian bodies in the Tel Al-Hawa and Sabra districts following a week of attacks on Gaza City by Israeli forces.
 * 13 July –
 * Alleged assassination of Muhammad Deif: At least 90 Palestinians are killed and 300 injured in a strike on the al-Mawasi humanitarian zone, in what the IDF states was a targeted strike against Al-Qassam Brigades leader Mohammed Deif.
 * July 2024 al-Shati refugee camp attack: At least twenty people are killed by Israeli military shelling on a prayer hall in the al-Shati refugee camp during Zuhr prayer.
 * 14 July –
 * At least 17 Palestinians are killed and 80 others are injured in overnight Israeli strikes on a UN-run school used to shelter displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza City.
 * Palestinians in several cities in the occupied West Bank enact a general strike in protest against a recent Israeli strike on Gaza that killed 90 people and injured 300 more.
 * 15 July –
 * At least 12 Palestinians are killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City and Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip.
 * Several Palestinian factions, including Fatah and Hamas, schedule reconciliatory meetings in China in an attempt to end their ongoing political disputes.
 * 16 July –
 * At least 57 Palestinians are killed by Israeli bombardments in Rafah, Khan Younis, and parts of Gaza City.
 * An investigation by the Associated Press and Israeli investigative organization Shomrim finds that the United States and Israel allowed tax-deductible donations totaling over US$200,000 to multiple Israeli far-right extremist groups involved in blocking and disrupting humanitarian aid delivery to the Gaza Strip.
 * 17 July – At least 42 Palestinians are killed and more than 70 others are injured in Israeli strikes on a United Nations-run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp and on a designated "safe zone" in al-Mawasi, Rafah.
 * 18 July –
 * The Knesset votes 68-9 in favor of a resolution describing a Palestinian state as "an existential danger to the State of Israel".
 * Both the Gaza Health Ministry and the Israeli Health Ministry report traces of type 2 polio in Gaza's sewage system, caused by "severe overcrowding" and Israel's blockade of hygiene products from entering the enclave.
 * At least five Palestinians are killed and fifteen others are injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Nuseirat and al-Bureij refugee camps in the Gaza Strip.
 * 19 July –
 * The International Court of Justice rules that Israel's land annexation and settlement construction in East Jerusalem and the West Bank is unlawful, and demands an end to these practices "as soon as possible". The Court also rules that Israel's occupation in the West Bank amounts to apartheid.
 * The United Kingdom announces the resumption of funding to the United Nations UNRWA agency.
 * The European Commission announces loans and grants totalling €400 million (US$435.5 million) to the Palestinian Authority to prevent the government's financial collapse.
 * The United Nations reports that "anarchy" and societal breakdown is expanding across the Gaza Strip due to Israeli military destabilization, citing an increase in looting and extrajudicial killings of police and humanitarian workers.
 * 20 July – At least 37 Palestinians are killed and 54 are injured in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, with the confirmed death toll surpassing 38,900 people.

Deaths

 * January 2: Saleh al-Arouri, 57, militant, commander of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (since 1993)
 * January 29: Hind Rajab, 6, child
 * February 25: Fathi Ghaben, 77, painter
 * March 11: Mohammed Barakat, 39, footballer (national team)
 * March 17: Marwan Issa, 58, militant, co-leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
 * April 7: Walid Daqqa, 62, novelist and activist
 * April 19: Mohammed Jaber, 24–25, militant, leader of the Tulkarm Brigade
 * May 7: Walid Daqqa, 62, novelist and activist
 * May 13: Talal Abu Zarifa, communist militant and politician (Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine)
 * June 11: Majed Abu Maraheel, 61, Olympic long-distance runner (1996)
 * July 7: Ihab al-Ghussein, 45, politician (Hamas) and spokesman of the Interior Ministry