As part of the operation Military_operation , in the following 11 days Israel arrested Arrest around 350 Palestinians , including nearly all of Hamas ' West Bank leaders .

Sheera Frenkel had reported Reporting similar views from Israel and Palestinian sources some ten days earlier .

On 5 August , Israel said Communication that it had arrested Arrest Hussam Qawasmeh , a cousin of Marwan Qawasmeh , on 11 July , who is suspected Suspicion of having organized Arranging the killing Killing of the three teenagers .

On 26 June , the Israel Security Agency released Releasing the identities of two Hamas suspects in the kidnapping Kidnapping .

According to Amos Harel and Chaim Levinson , the kidnappers planned to wait a few days , then contact senior Hamas operatives in the Hebron area , to manage Control the hostage and negotiate a prisoner swap with Israel .

On 23 September 2014 , after Israel killed Killing the two suspects , Marwan Qawasmeh and Amar Abu-Isa ( aka Amer Abu Aysha ) in a shootout , IDF Chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz announced that Operation Brother 's Keeper `` has come to an end Process_end . ''

This was the first major ground operation Military_operation in the Gaza Strip since Israel 's unilateral disengagement plan was implemented Action between August and September 2005 .

Israel 's stated goals in Operation `` Summer Rains '' were to suppress Control the firing of Qassam rockets from Gaza into the western Negev , and to secure the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit , who had been captured Conquering by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on June 25 .

According to statistics published Publishing by the Israeli government , 757 missiles from Gaza hit Attack Israel between the withdrawal and the end of June 2006 .

At the start of the incursion , Israel said Statement the operation could end Process_end if Shalit was released but noted Know that it had exhausted Expend_resource all the diplomatic means towards this end that it considered tenable .

Egypt acted as a mediator over the issue of the officer 's release , and on August 15 a senior Hamas official said Statement it would not release Releasing Shalit except in exchange for the release of thousands of Palestinian detainees by Israel .

When `` Autumn Clouds '' ended Process_end on November 26 with an Israeli withdrawal Escaping and ceasefire Process_end between Hamas and Israel , no deal for the release of Shalit had been reached Arriving .

According to the IDF , though the PRC denies this , Al-Qaisi had overseen the 2011 southern Israel cross-border attacks Attack , which killed Killing eight Israelis including six civilians .

Palestinian militant groups retaliated Revenge by launching rocket attacks Attack on Israel , with over 300 Grad missiles , Qassam rockets and mortar shells launched , of which 177 hit Israeli territory striking Attack the major urban centers of Ashdod , Ashkelon and Beersheba , as well as smaller communities .

Twenty-three Israelis were injured Bodily_harm , all of them civilians , and schools throughout southern Israel were kept closed for most of the week to protect Defending students from rocket fire .

Israel 's Iron Dome missile defense Defending system intercepted Preventing_or_letting many of the Palestinian-launched projectiles aimed Aiming at large cities , shooting down Use_firearm 56 rockets in 71 attempts .

The United States , France , and an official from the United Nations condemned Judgment_communication the Palestinian attacks Attack , and the US stressed Statement that Israel has the right to defend Defending itself .

The Organization of the Islamic Conference , the Arab League , Syria , Egypt and Iran condemned Judgment_communication Israel 's responsive Response air strikes Attack on militants .

On March 13 , Egypt brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant groups .

The Iran–Israel proxy conflict , or Iran–Israel proxy war and Iran–Israel Cold War , is the ongoing proxy war between Iran and Israel .

The conflict is bound in the political struggle of Iranian leadership against Israel and its declared Expressing_publicly aim to dissolve the Jewish state , with the counter aim Aiming of Israel to prevent Preventing_or_letting nuclear weapons being acquired Getting by the Iranian government and downgrading Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale its allies and proxies such as the Lebanese Hezbollah party .

The conflict is bound in the political struggle of Iranian leadership against Israel and its declared Expressing_publicly aim to dissolve the Jewish state , with the counter aim Aiming of Israel to prevent Preventing_or_letting nuclear weapons being acquired Getting by the Iranian government and downgrading Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale its allies and proxies such as the Lebanese Hezbollah party .

The conflict gradually emerged Coming_to_be from the declared Expressing_publicly hostility of post-revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iran towards Israel since 1979 , into covert Iranian support Supporting of Hezbollah during the South Lebanon conflict ( 1985–2000 ) and essentially developed Coming_to_be into a proxy regional conflict from 2005 .

Israel suspects Tehran is pursuing Aiming the goal of forming Coming_to_be a continuous land transport Sending route from Iran via Iraq and Syria to Lebanon , and if Tehran succeeds `` it would be a strategic game-changer . ''

According to Mossad chief Yossi Cohen , `` As long as the current regime exists , with the nuclear agreement or without it , Iran will continue to serve Assistance as the main threat to Israel 's security '' .

Israel and Syria have observed Perception_active a truce since Israel reaffirmed Statement its control over most of the Golan Heights in the 1973 Yom Kippur War , but the Syrian Civil War , which began Process_start in 2011 , has led to Causation several incidents of fire exchange Exchange across the once-peaceful borders .

Israel and Syria have observed Perception_active a truce since Israel reaffirmed Statement its control over most of the Golan Heights in the 1973 Yom Kippur War , but the Syrian Civil War , which began Process_start in 2011 , has led to Causation several incidents of fire exchange Exchange across the once-peaceful borders .

Some experts say Statement that while the encroaching militant forces on Israel 's border will heighten security measures , the advancements are not likely to create Creating significant changes to Israel 's policy disengagement in the Syria crisis .

Some experts say Statement that while the encroaching militant forces on Israel 's border will heighten security measures , the advancements are not likely to create Creating significant changes to Israel 's policy disengagement in the Syria crisis .

In a number of incidents over the course of the Syrian Civil War , Israel has clashed Hostile_encounter with Hezbollah and Iranian forces in the region .

On several occasions , Israel was suspected Suspicion of perpetrating or supporting attacks on Hezbollah and Iranian targets within Syrian territories or Lebanon .

Israel systematically refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to comment on alleged targeting Aiming of Hezbollah and Ba'athist Syrian targets in Syrian territory .

After the incident , the State of Israel has stated Statement it was targeting Aiming weapons shipments headed toward anti-Israeli forces , specifically Hezbollah , located in Lebanon .

Israel denied Syria 's claim Statement that one jet fighter was shot down Use_firearm and another damaged Damaging .

Israel has not reported Reporting any pilots or aircraft missing in Syria , or anywhere else in the Middle East following the incident .

In Iran 's foreign policy Israel is conceptualized as an illegitimate Zionist regime that threatens vulnerable people and Islamic religion itself .

Iran , in contact Connect with the U.S. over the fight Hostile_encounter against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has said Telling that Israel would be at risk if the U.S. and its coalition sought to topple Assad .

Dubai 's police chief said Statement that he was `` 99 % certain '' that the assassination Killing was the work Action of Israel 's Mossad .

On 1 March 2010 , he stated Statement that he was `` sure '' that `` all '' of the suspects Committing_crime are hiding Hiding_objects in Israel .

The Hamas leadership also holds Defending Israel responsible , and has vowed Commitment revenge .

Hamas , which is itself on the U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations , European Union lists of terrorist Terrorism organizations , and also considered a terrorist Terrorism organization Being_in_operation by the governments of Israel , and Japan , as is its military arm by the United Kingdom and Australia , requested Request that Israel be added Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by the EU to its list because of suspicions that Israel was involved Cause_to_be_included in the assassination Killing .

Hamas , which is itself on the U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations , European Union lists of terrorist Terrorism organizations , and also considered a terrorist Terrorism organization Being_in_operation by the governments of Israel , and Japan , as is its military arm by the United Kingdom and Australia , requested Request that Israel be added Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by the EU to its list because of suspicions that Israel was involved Cause_to_be_included in the assassination Killing .

Hamas , which is itself on the U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations , European Union lists of terrorist Terrorism organizations , and also considered a terrorist Terrorism organization Being_in_operation by the governments of Israel , and Japan , as is its military arm by the United Kingdom and Australia , requested Request that Israel be added Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by the EU to its list because of suspicions that Israel was involved Cause_to_be_included in the assassination Killing .

In March 2010 , the British foreign secretary , David Miliband , expelled Removing an Israeli diplomat after the UK 's Serious Organised Crime Agency discovered Know that Israel had forged Causation copies of British passports .

On 24 May , the Australian government expelled Removing an Israeli diplomat after concluding that there was `` no doubt Israel was behind the forgery of four Australian passports '' related to the assassination Killing .

Israel has refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to comment on the accusations that its security forces Causation were behind the assassination Killing .

On 30 September 2010 , Dubai 's police chief Dahi Khalfan said Statement he received Receiving death Death threats from Israel 's spy agency Mossad linked Connect to his role in uncovering Reveal_secret details of the assassination Killing of al-Mabhouh , but whether such calls existed Presence remains unconfirmed Check .

The August 2012 Sinai attack Attack occurred Presence on 5 August 2012 , when armed men ambushed Attack an Egyptian military base in the Sinai Peninsula , killing Killing 16 soldiers and stealing Theft two armored cars , which they used Using to infiltrate Self_motion into Israel .

The attackers broke through the Kerem Shalom border crossing to Israel , where one of the vehicles exploded Destroying .

The perpetrator was living illegally in Israel at the time of the attack Attack .