♤ The last Israeli forces left Gaza after a 38-year occupation in September 2005.

♤ In June 2007, Islamist movement Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip after ferocious fighting with its rivals in the Fatah faction led by Abbas, who remains in power in the West Bank. Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist political organization and militant group that has waged war on Israel since the group's 1987 founding, most notably through suicide bombings and rocket attacks. It seeks to replace Israel with a Palestinian state. It also governs Gaza independently of the Palestinian Authority.

♤ In 2014, Israel launched a new operation against Gaza in an attempt to stop rocket fire and to destroy tunnels from the Palestinian territory.

♤ Hamas and Fatah sign a reconciliation accord in October 2017 aimed at ending a decade of discord.