Disengagement and the Gaza Wars

TIMELINE 17A

Disengagement and the Gaza Wars

2005 to 2014

Israel leaves Gaza, Hamas takes it over and three wars follow. Lebanon flares in 2006, and Gilad Shalit comes home after five years.

TURNING POINTS

2005 Aug 15 to Sep 12 Disengagement from Gaza. Israel removes all its soldiers and communities from the Strip.

2006 Jul 12 to Aug 14 The Second Lebanon War. It follows a cross-border Hezbollah attack and ends with a UN ceasefire.

2007 Jun 14 Hamas takes control of Gaza. Hamas drives out the Palestinian Authority after winning elections in January 2006.

2008 Dec 27 to 2009 Jan 18 Operation Cast Lead. A three-week war in Gaza follows years of rocket fire on southern Israel.

2011 Jul 14 The social justice protests. Hundreds of thousands march over housing and the cost of living.

2011 Oct 18 Gilad Shalit comes home. Hamas frees the soldier after five years in captivity in exchange for 1,027 prisoners.

2014 Jul 8 to Aug 26 Operation Protective Edge. A 50-day war with Hamas follows rocket fire and the murder of three Israeli teenagers.

ALSO IN THIS PERIOD

2005 Feb 8 Summit: Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas meet at Sharm el-Sheikh.

2005 Robert Aumann wins the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on game theory.

2006 Jan Hamas wins the Palestinian legislative elections.

2006 Mar 28 Election: Kadima wins 29 seats.

2006 Apr 14 Ehud Olmert becomes prime minister after Kadima wins on March 28.

2007 Nov 27 Summit: the Annapolis Conference relaunches talks.

2008 Waltz with Bashir wins the Golden Globe for best foreign film.

2008 Nov 26 Gunmen attack the Chabad House in Mumbai.

2009 Feb 10 Election: Kadima 28 seats, Likud 27.

2009 Mar 31 Benjamin Netanyahu returns as prime minister.

2009 Ada Yonath wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

2010 May 31 Israeli commandos board the Gaza flotilla and nine die.

2010 Sep 2 Summit: direct talks reopen in Washington.

2010 Dec 2 The Carmel forest fire kills 44.

2011 Mar 11 Terrorists murder five members of the Fogel family in Itamar.

2011 Apr 7 Iron Dome intercepts its first rocket from Gaza.

2011 Dan Shechtman wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals.

2011 Aug 18 Attacks near Eilat kill eight Israelis.

2012 Mar 19 A gunman kills four at a Jewish school in Toulouse.

2012 Jul 18 A bomb in Burgas, Bulgaria, kills five Israeli tourists.

2012 Nov 14 to 21 Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza.

2012 Nov 29 The UN General Assembly upgrades the Palestinian delegation.

2013 Jan 22 Election: Likud Beiteinu wins 31 seats.

2013 Mar 20 President Obama visits Israel.

2013 The singer Arik Einstein dies and crowds gather in Tel Aviv to mourn him.

2013 Jul 29 Summit: direct talks resume in Washington.

2014 Apr 29 The United States-led peace talks end.

2014 May 24 A gunman kills four at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.

2014 Jun 12 Three Israeli teenagers are kidnapped and murdered.

2014 Nov 18 Two attackers kill five at a synagogue in Har Nof.