2025 Gaza City offensive

When

20 Aug 2025

Kind

Siege

Also recorded as

Genocide

Coordinates

31.51° N, 34.46° E

Description

IDF military operation against the Palestinian people in order to break their resistance and ethnically cleanse the city

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Israeli military operation during the Gaza war

On 20 August 2025, during the Gaza war, Israel announced it had formally begun the "first stages" of a military offensive aiming to seize control of Gaza City from Hamas, referred to in plans as Operation Gideon's Chariots II or Operation Gideon's Chariots B. These early stages were superseded by an expanded main offensive that began on 15 September.

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