Gone quiet · last update Aug 11, 2022 / Gaza Strip
The August 2022 fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad in Gaza
Overview · reviewed October 24, 2026
Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group fought for three days in August 2022. Israeli strikes killed two of the group's senior commanders in Gaza, and the fighting ended with a ceasefire on the night of August 7.[1][2][3]
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Coverage over time
Share of tracked outlets · monthly average of weekly shares (UTC)
8%0%
Aug 2022202420252026this month
LeftCenterRight
Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. Over more than two years each bar is a month: the average of that month's weekly shares, so the shape stays readable. The weekly table below keeps every week. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 6 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.
Weekly counts, outlets and reports (2 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)
Left
Center
Right
Of tracked
Share
Receipts
Aug 8, 2022
11
16
4
31 of 194
16%
Aug 1, 2022
18
23
11
52 of 201
26%
Latest coverage
The newest reporting in this story's record.
Aug 10, 2022 · first reported · Headline from WFMZ Allentown
Israel launched a wave of airstrikes on Gaza on August 5, killing a senior militant among others. It said it was targeting Islamic Jihad over an imminent threat after the arrest of a senior member of the group.[1] Two days later, it said it had killed a second senior commander in a crowded refugee camp,[2] as militants fired rockets that reached deep into Israel and the death toll in Gaza rose.[4]
Israel said a ceasefire would take effect at 11:30 p.m. local time on August 7, after a similar announcement from Islamic Jihad.[3] By August 11, the Palestinian death toll had risen to 48, after an 11-year-old girl and a man died of their wounds.[5]The May 2023 fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad is covered in a separate arc.
