May 2024 7 May The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 54 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing its count of the Palestinian death toll to 34,789. Israeli ground forces seized control of the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing, starting the Rafah offensive. Hamas announced the death of an Israeli captive from injuries they sustained from an Israeli air raid a month ago. Unspecified Palestinian militants detonated IEDs against IDF troops in Jalbun.
8 May The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 55 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing its count of the Palestinian death toll to 34,844. The US paused its weapons delivery to Israel to limit its operations in Rafah. Israeli forces clashed with the members of the Qalqilya Battalion in the West Bank.
9 May The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 60 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing its count of the Palestinian death toll to 34,904. Al Jazeera reported that an IAF strike hit a house in the al-Jnaina neighbourhood in Rafah, causing an unknown number of casualties. Syria claimed to have shot down Israeli missiles heading towards Damascus from the occupied Golan Heights. Israel announced that a soldier from the 869th Battalion was killed in Malkia by a Hezbollah mortar and missile attack. An Israeli police officer died of wounds he sustained during a raid in Deir al-Ghusun on 4 May. Four Hezbollah members were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a car in southern Lebanon. Al Jazeera reported that an IAF strike in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah, killed four people and injuring 16. Al Jazeera reported that Israeli forces shot a 15-year-old boy on the leg in Qalqilya. The Houthis claimed to have launched missiles at the Panamanian-Flagged MSC Diego and MSC Gina which they said were "affiliated with Israel". Al Jazeera reported that a seventh mass grave was uncovered near the Al-Shifa hospital. The Islamic resistance in Iraq claimed two drone attacks targeting Eilat and the Nevatim base in Beersheba, and a cruise missile attack targeting the oil port of Ashkelon.
10 May The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 39 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing its count of the Palestinian death toll to 34,943. Al Jazeera reported that an Israeli air strike hit a home in Abasan al-Kabira at the eastern outskirts of Khan Yunis, killing eight residents living there. Al Jazeera reported that at least three people were killed and five more injured after an IAF strike hit a house in the central part of Gaza City. 12 Israeli soldiers of the Gaza Division were stung by wasps in southern Gaza and evacuated to Israel for treatment. Four soldiers of the Nahal Brigade were killed in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza, bringing the IDF death toll in the Gaza strip to 271. Hamas fired two barrages with at least 14 rockets from Rafah to Beer Sheva, injuring one person. Later the IDF said it has located and struck the two Hamas launch posts in Rafah, from which the rockets were fired. 35 rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona
11 May The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 28 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing its count of the Palestinian death toll to 34,971. Hezbollah claimed to have hit Israeli "spy installations" at the Jal al-Alam site along the border. The IDF told residents of Jabalia and Beit Lahia to evacuate to western Gaza City, and issued new evacuation orders in Rafah. Hamas said that a British-Israeli hostage succumbed to wounds sustained from an Israeli airstrike. Israel announced that a soldier of the Nahal Brigade was killed in a gunfight with Hamas fighters in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza the day prior, bringing the IDF death toll in the Gaza Strip to 272.
12 May The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 63 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing its count of the Palestinian death toll to 35,034. Al Jazeera reported that Israeli forces started bombing in Jabalia, killing and injuring several Palestinians. Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man during a raid on the Balata Camp. An Israeli air strike on Deir al-Balah killed multiple people, including a paediatric surgeon and his son. Israeli settlers set a house on fire in the village of Duma, south of Nablus. Three people were injured after rocket attacks from Gaza hit Ashkelon. A spokesperson from the Palestinian Civil Defence said that all hospitals in northern Gaza are "out of service". An IDF Brigade General was injured while in combat in the Gaza Strip. The Wafa news agency claimed settlers protected by Israeli soldiers attacked the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, injuring some Palestinians. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that Israeli shelling in the central Gazan town of al-Zuwaida killed four children, including an infant. The Al-Qassam Brigades claimed multiple attacks on Israeli forces in eastern Jabalia, including an attack where they blew up a boobytrapped house Israeli soldiers inside, causing an unknown number of casualties.
13 May The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 57 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing its count of the Palestinian death toll to 35,091. An Indian UNDSS staff member was killed and another was wounded when an attack hit their vehicle near Rafah. Israeli activists attacked a Gaza aid convoy at the Tarqumiyah checkpoint, setting vehicles ablaze and throwing packages of food onto the road. The IDF announced that five soldiers were seriously injured in separate incidents throughout Gaza, including two from the elite Yahalom unit. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that over 1,000 Hamas members were being treated in Turkish hospitals. The Palestinian Authority reportedly rejected an Israeli offer to take control of the Rafah Border Crossing.
14 May The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 82 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing its count of the Palestinian death toll to 35,173. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that those killed include 14,000 militants and probably almost 16,000 civilians. Israeli strikes in central Gaza killed 40 people. The IDF said that it targeted a Hamas command room in a UNRWA school in one of those strikes and it killed 15 militants. Heavy clashes between Israeli forces and Hamas were reported in Gaza City, Jabalia, and Nuseirat, while fighting continued in and around Rafah, with Israeli ground forces advancing into the Brazil and Jneina neighborhoods. The IDF issued an evacuation notice in the al-Atatra and Salatin areas of Jabalia after it said it expanded operations in the city. Hamas claimed a missile attack on an Israeli troop carrier in the al-Salam neighborhood of eastern Rafah, allegedly killing and wounding its crew members. They also claimed to have blown up an IDF bulldozer in eastern Rafah. Hezbollah claimed to have downed an Israeli spy balloon over the Israeli Kibbutz of Adamit near the border with Lebanon and fired rockets at the balloon's launch base and "management crew". Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa complex and raised the Israeli flag. A soldier of the 7th Armoured Brigade was killed in Rafah, bringing the IDF death toll in the Gaza Strip to 273.
15 May The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 60 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing its count of the Palestinian death toll to 35,233. Al Jazeera reported that an Israeli air strike hit the home of the Brash family in the Bureij refugee camp, killing five people. Al Jazeera reported that a 20-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli forces in Al-Bireh, West Bank. Al Jazeera reported that an Israeli forces shelling hit an UNRWA clinic in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza city, killing at least 10 displaced Palestinians. Al Jazeera reported that Israeli forces hit a group of people in al-Jalaa Street and al-Oyoun Street in central Gaza city with a drone strike, at least three people were killed and more were injured. Al Jazeera reported that Israeli forces shots killed a Palestinian nurse at the Jabalia refugee camp. An Israeli military contractor, who was working for the Israeli Ministry of Defense died of wounds sustained in a Palestinian mortar attack in the southern Gaza Strip two day prior. The IDF said it began operations against militants in the center of Jabalia and had engaged in intense battles over the past day, killing "a large number" of militants. Hamas claimed responsibility for anti-tank missile attacks against Israeli soldiers in the camp, killing a dozen in its Block 4 area, but the IDF did not report casualties. The UN estimated that around 600,000 people fled Rafah since Israel began its offensive in the city, including 150,000 in the past 48 hours. Two people, including Hezbollah commander Hussein Makki, were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Tyre, southern Lebanon. Five soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade were killed in an alleged friendly fire incident after an Israeli tank mistook them for Palestinian fighters in Jabalia, bringing the IDF death toll to 278. Israeli forces attacked an internet access point in Gaza City, killing at least four people and critically injured more. Israeli settlers attacked commercial trucks and beat their Palestinian drivers thinking that they were humanitarian aid trucks near the illegal settlement of Giv'at Asaf. Hezbollah claimed to have launched a successful drone attack west of Tiberias.
16 May The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 39 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing its count of the Palestinian death toll to 35,272. Israeli forces shot a Palestinian man dead in Salah al-Din Street in East Jerusalem after allegedly attempting to stab Israeli soldiers. The US completed construction for the Gaza floating pier and said that humanitarian aid would soon arrive to it. A soldier of the Bislamach Brigade was killed by a "munitions accident" on the border between Israel and Gaza, bringing the IDF death toll to 279. Canada imposed sanctions on four Israeli individuals accused of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces strike hit a family home in Khan Yunis, killing at least five people. An Israeli airstrike in the al-Faluja area of Jabalia killed four people including a pregnant woman.
17 May The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 31 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing its count of the Palestinian death toll to 35,303. An Israeli aircraft bombed the al-Jaouni School housing displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing four people. Three Israeli soldiers were injured by Israeli extremists who had set a truck on fire and injured its driver near the illegal settlement of Kokhav HaShahar, east of Ramallah. Israeli forces stormed the town of Anabta, shooting a 16-year-old in the thigh, in Qalqilya a man was shot while riding his bicycle as Israeli forces stormed the city, a man was also shot near the Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah. Israeli forces shot and killed one Palestinian and injured another during a raid on the town of Bal'a, near Tulkarm. Three people, including a Hezbollah fighter and two Syrians, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the villages of Najjariyeh and Addousiyeh in southern Lebanon. A soldier of the Paratroopers Brigade was killed in clashes in Gaza's Jabalia neighbourhood amid a new Israeli offensive into the area, bringing the IDF death toll in the Gaza strip to 280. The IDF recovered the bodies of three hostages killed on 7 October, including Shani Louk, from a tunnel in Gaza.