Israel's longest and bloodiest war since the War of Independence in 1948. More than 33,000 people have been killed and almost 76,000 others injured in the Gaza Strip.
The area on the Mediterranean, which is about the same size as Munich, is largely in ruins. According to the UN, more than 1.7 million of the 2.2 million inhabitants of the coastal strip have since become internally displaced persons. The war caused damage amounting to tens of billions of dollars.