# Israel and Hamas fight a Gaza war while Abbas’s unity cabinet is in office

Date: 2014

## The fact

On 8 July 2014 Israel launched Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in Gaza, with [Netanyahu](/people/benjamin-netanyahu) as prime minister. The Fact, already stored from the [Abbas](/people/mahmoud-abbas) catalog, is reused: the completed 2014 war.

## Context

A unity Palestinian cabinet sat in Ramallah. Rockets and tunnels sat on the Hamas side. Neighbouring 2023 is a different war. He did not drop every munition.

7 October 2023 is a different war. Iron Dome 2011 is a neighbouring defensive system.

The Prime Minister of Israel chairs the cabinet, is the political principal of the IDF, and can table Knesset bills. He does not write a Hamas military order, an ICC judgment, a US presidential proclamation, or a UN Security Council resolution.

## Evidence and sources

Prime Minister's Office of Israel carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [humanitarian access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) and displacement: a completed 2014 Gaza war is a dated civilian-harm instrument on an earlier term.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 8 July 2014 start of Protective Edge with Netanyahu as prime minister, independently reported.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The IDF fought. Hamas fired rockets. Abbas’s unity cabinet did not command Gaza’s interior.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Israel and Hamas fight a Gaza war while Abbas’s unity cabinet is in office, not a later speech about Israel and Hamas fight a Gaza war while Abbas’s unity cabinet is in office.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Israel and Hamas fight a Gaza war while Abbas’s unity cabinet is in office on 2014-07-08 is not a licence to treat every later Prime Minister's Office of Israel communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Israel and Hamas fight a Gaza war while Abbas’s unity cabinet is in office into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He was prime minister. The IDF fought. Hamas fired rockets. Abbas’s unity cabinet did not command Gaza’s interior. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Benjamin Netanyahu: https://factrail.ai/people/benjamin-netanyahu

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access
- Forced-Displacement Scale: https://factrail.ai/drivers/forced-displacement-scale

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-gaza-idUSKBN0FD0Q220140708
- https://www.gov.il/en

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ps-gaza-war-2014