Background: Chronology of Recent Events
July 12, 2006: Hezbollah militants kidnap two Israeli soldiers patrolling along the northern Israel border. Three soldiers are killed and five more die in subsequent confrontations inside Lebanon. In a failed attempt to prevent the transportation of the kidnapped soldiers, Israeli forces attack installations and Hezbollah positions.
Hezbollah demands the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners and one Lebanese prisoner.
Israel files a complaint, urging the UN to enforce council resolutions calling on the Lebanese government to disarm all militias within its borders and to extend its authority throughout its territory.
July 10: Mr. Meshaal says the captured Israeli soldier will not be freed without a prisoner swap, but pledges that his life will be protected.
Responding to international criticism, Mr. Olmert defends Israel’s offensive in Gaza, saying he has no set timetable for the operation.
Two Palestinians in south Gaza are killed by Israeli aircraft.
July 9: Since July 5, air strikes on Gaza raise the death toll to 41 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier. Defense Minister Amir Peretz acknowledges that “so far there has been no success” in the military operation.
Mr. Abbas sends two envoys to Hamas’s exiled political leader Khaled Meshaal and Syrian authorities to discuss the crisis.
July 8: Israeli forces advance toward Gaza City, killing four Palestinians. Other units pull back from northern Gaza to a security zone.
Palestinian premier Ismail Haniya calls for a mutual ceasefire.
July 7: In another air raid on northern Gaza, an armed Palestinian is killed. Another two are killed in the Beit Lahiya area.
Mr. Abbas says Israel is committing “new crimes against humanity.”
July 6: Israel enters deeper into the northern Gaza Strip, reoccupying areas evacuated 10 months ago; 22 Palestinian civilians and militants and one Israeli soldier are killed.
Two 16-year-old Palestinians are killed in an Israeli raid in the northern West Bank town of Jenin.
The UN Security Council debates a draft resolution demanding an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces and the release of detained Palestinian officials. The United States describes the resolution as “unbalanced.”
July 5: Israeli warplanes strike the interior ministry in Gaza City for the second time.
Israel’s security cabinet orders the military to intensify air raids against Hamas and “targeted killings” of militants.
July 4: A nighttime air raid kills a Hamas activist in northern Gaza while troops advance into the area in a “limited” operation.
For the first time, Hamas militants fire a rocket into Ashkelon, a southern Israeli coastal town. There are no casualties.
July 3: Groups holding the Israeli soldier issue a 24-hour deadline. Israel rejects the ultimatum.
Israeli troops and armored divisions enter the northern Gaza Strip after a series of air raids; one Palestinian militant is killed.
Israel raids charity associations linked to Hamas in the West Bank, seizing paperwork and equipment.
July 2: Mr. Haniya condemns Israel’s air raid on the Palestinian government’s Gaza office, urging the international community to take action against Israel.
Prime Minister Olmert warns that his forces will use all their power to free Shalit.
A spokesman for Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas says mediation efforts are nearing an impasse.
July 1: Israel rejects Palestinian demands to free 1,000 prisoners. The captured soldier is said to have been treated by a Palestinian doctor for three bullet wounds.
June 30: Targeting radical militants in Gaza City, an Israeli air strike sets the Interior Ministry ablaze. Three Palestinians are wounded.
Israel revokes the Jerusalem residency rights of a Hamas minister and three MPs.
Prime Minister Ismail Haniya vows that his Hamas-led government will not fall. Insisting that they are working to free the captured soldier, he accuses Israel of jeopardizing their efforts by attacking Gaza.
June 29: Israel detains dozens of Hamas officials, including a third of the Palestinian cabinet and several lawmakers.
The abducted settler is found shot dead in the West Bank.
As Israel suspends a ground offensive expected in northern Gaza, Egypt tries to mediate a solution, stating that Hamas agrees to secure the soldier’s release, but only under certain conditions.
June 28: Israeli troops enter the Gaza Strip to recover the captured soldier.
The Popular Resistance Committees threaten to kill the West Bank settler if the troops are not withdrawn. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel will use “extreme measures” to rescue the prisoner.
Though urging caution, the U.S. says that Israel has the right to defend itself.
Israeli aircraft fly over Syria, home to several exiled Hamas leaders.
June 27: Hamas signs an agreement aimed at ending internal conflict; it also implicitly recognizes Israel’s existence.
Palestinian activists abduct a second Israeli youth from a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
Israeli aircraft attack key points in the Gaza Strip, destroying bridges and knocking out the territory’s only power station, cutting off electricity to many of the 1.4 million residents.
June 26: Three militant Palestinian organizations—the Popular Resistance Committees, the Army of Islam and the armed wing of Hamas—claim to have captured a 19-year-old Israeli soldier, demanding that Israel free detained women and minors.
June 25: Palestinian militants attack an army post on the Israel-Gaza border, killing two soldiers and capturing a third. Israel starts to increase forces around Gaza.
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so who's wrong in the first place? and who's the one who started the shit?
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