The vast majority of Israeli airstrikes are aimed at the Gaza Strip, but smaller munitions, such as from drones and helicopters, are occasionally used in the West Bank region.
On 22 March 2004, Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the Palestinian group Hamas, was killed by an Israeli airstrike outside a mosque in Gaza City.[17][18]
On 15 May 2021, an Israeli airstrike targeted and destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of Al Jazeera, the Associated Press and other media outlets.[19][20]
On 1 April 2024, a strike by Israel's armed forces on a convoy of the humanitarian group World Central Kitchen, traveling from Deir al-Balah to Khan Younis, killed six aid workers and their Palestinian driver.[21]
^Sharp, Alexandra (10 October 2023). "Israel Pummels Gaza Despite Hamas Threats to Hostages". Foreign Policy. The Israel Defense Forces unleashed devastating airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, flattening entire neighborhoods, reducing streets and buildings to rubble, and flooding hospitals and morgues with the wounded and dead. Israeli strikes targeted apartment buildings, mosques, and markets...
^"UN rights chief: Israel's airstrikes on Gaza may constitute 'war crimes'". Times of Israel. 27 May 2021. "...airstrikes in such densely populated areas resulted in a high level of civilian fatalities and injuries, as well as the widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure," she said. "If found to be indiscriminate and disproportionate in their impact on civilians and civilian objects, such attacks may constitute war crimes."
^"Israel/OPT: unlawful Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have 'decimated' entire Palestinian families". www.amnesty.org.uk. Amnesty International. 20 October 2023. As Israeli forces intensify their cataclysmic assault on the occupied Gaza Strip, Amnesty International has documented unlawful Israeli attacks in Gaza - including indiscriminate ones - which caused mass civilian casualties and must be investigated as suspected war crimes.
^"Gaza: Israel's May Airstrikes on High-Rises". Human Rights Watch. 23 August 2021. The Israeli military's airstrikes that destroyed four high-rise buildings in Gaza City during the May 2021 fighting apparently violated the laws of war and may amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today.
^"Protection of the civilian population". Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977. International Committee of the Red Cross.
^"Gaza before and after: satellite images show destruction following Israeli airstrikes". The Guardian. Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas, which rules Gaza, in retaliation for the 7 October attacks in which they killed 1,400 people and took more than 200 people hostage. Since then, Israel has continuously struck Gaza from the air, imposed a siege and is preparing a ground invasion.
