In early May 2025, Israel’s government approved a plan to expand military operations in the Gaza Strip, potentially including taking control of the territory (Washington Post, Reuters). According to ACLED data, there were 2,289 incidents of political violence in Gaza from 1 January 2025 to 30 April 2025, encompassing battles; airstrikes; shellings and explosive attacks; violence targeting civilians; and property destruction (ACLED). 

• Navigate to ACLED's Gaza Monitor page
• In the upper left-hand corner of the map, select August 1, 2025, to August 31, 2025
• In the bottom right-hand corner, where it says "event totals", the question will resolve with the overall total shown there.
  

Issued on 08/22/25 11:06pm

ACLED's Gaza Conflict Monitor, the listed resolution source for this question, has recently been placed behind a paywall. We are actively working to secure access to the monitor to obtain precise resolution data for this question.

In the meantime, for forecasting purposes, we recommend looking at ACLED's publicly available Data Explorer (note that a free account is needed to access it). This draws from the same ACLED database, and you can filter the data to show political violence events in Palestine and use the "Past Week" or "Past Month" filters to track recent incident patterns. Data on the Gaza Strip specifically is located in a box on the right of the map titled "Highest frequency of events." This will give you a sense of the current trend and frequency of political violence incidents, though please note that these show rolling periods with some reporting lag.

Thank you for your patience as we work to ensure accurate resolution data.