The Gaza militant group launched its biggest sustained assault in years, prompting Israel's military to call up reservists and order retaliatory strikes.
Israel and Hamas have been embroiled in a decades-long conflict in the Gaza Strip, which has been the epicenter of repeated battles since the Jewish nation was established in 1948. Egypt held control of the narrow strip along the Mediterranean Sea until 1967 when Israel seized it during the Six Day War.
Thousands of Israeli settlers lived in the Gaza Strip until 2005, when Israel withdrew its soldiers and civilians and ceded control to the fragile Palestinian Authority. Hamas militants toppled the Palestinian Authority two years later and have retained control of the enclave ever since.
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