2012 Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip
In November 2012, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Pillar of Defense (, "ʿAmúd ʿAnán", literally: "Pillar of Cloud") which was an eight-day campaign in the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip, which began on 14 November 2012 with the killing of Ahmed Jabari, chief of the Gaza military wing of Hamas by an Israeli airstrike.