Anzac Memorial (Israel)

The Be'eri Forest (Hebrew: יער בארי) of area about 11,000 dunams is located in the western Negev, within the Eshkol Regional Council area. It was planted by the pioneers of the kibbutz Be'eri.The forest has a diverse array of tree types, encompassing conifers, fruit-bearing trees, and deciduous broad-leaved trees. During winter and spring time it is covered with clusters of anemones, orchids, tulips, asphodels and many other flowers. On May 2, 2018, the forest was severely damaged by a forest fire that was ignited by an incendiary kite sent by Hamas from Gaza.

Juhor ad-Dik (Arabic: جحر الديك, lit. 'burrow of the cock') is a Palestinian farming village in the Gaza Governorate, south of Gaza City, in the central Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a population of 4,586 inhabitants in 2017.

The Be'eri Badlands (Hebrew: בתרונות בארי, romanized: Bitronot Be'eri) Nature Reserve (also the Crater Reserve (Hebrew: שמורת המכתש, Makhtesh Reserve)) is located in the Western Negev area, northwest of kibbutz Be'eri within the Be'eri Forest. The badlands area lies in the upper basin of the Sahaf Stream (Nahal Sahaf) and occupies the area of 6,700 dunams. It is a valley of crater-like landform (makhtesh) with sidewalls of height rising 10-15m, eroded in the loess soil by rainwater and tributaries of the Sahaf Stream. The reserve contains natural flora and fauna, which disappeared from the surrounding plains due to agriculture. There are 175 plant species in the reserve. In April-May 2018 a considerable area of the reserve was burned due to Palestinian airborne arson attacks. The arson attacks were repeated in May 2021.

The Karni Crossing (Arabic: معبر كارني or معبر المنطار, Hebrew: מעבר קרני) was a cargo terminal on the Israel-Gaza Strip barrier located in the north-eastern end of the Gaza Strip that existed between 1994 and 2011 and used for the export and import of goods from/to the Gaza Strip. This was done as a 'back-to-back' transfer, meaning that Palestinian products meant for export were removed from a Palestinian truck and placed in an Israeli truck, and vice versa for incoming goods. The Karni Crossing was also used by the residents of Netzarim since the Karni road was the only route to that isolated Israeli settlement on which Jewish travel was allowed after the 1994 implementation of the Oslo Accords. The crossing has been affected by the Israeli Blockade of the Gaza Strip. At the end of March 2011 Israel permanently closed the Karni Crossing. Ten years later, in 2022, the last remaining structures of the crossing were demolished by the Israeli military.According to the management, the crossing was named after Joseph Karni, an Israeli who had set up a modern packing warehouse in the Gaza Strip near the present-day cargo terminal shortly after Israel captured the strip in 1967. The Palestinians called it Al-Montar, after the nearby Ali Montar hill.

The Karni border crossing attack was a suicide bombing on January 13, 2005, at the pedestrian/cargo terminal Karni Crossing located on the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier. Six Israeli civilians were killed in the attack and five Israelis were injured in the attack. Hamas, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Resistance Committees claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

The Gaza Zoo (Arabic: حديقة حيوان غزة) was a leisure complex, series of public gardens, children's amusement park and zoo in Gaza Strip, Palestine created by the government of Gaza in the spring of 2010 on government property that was formerly a garbage dump. It closed in 2016. During the ongoing Gaza war, over 90% of animals in the zoo have died. There also is or was a small private zoo, known as Marah Land Zoo located off Salahadin Street (also spelt "Salah Al Deen") in the Gaza City district of Zeitoun. The zoo's animals, like the local people, have suffered as a result of the difficulties in Gaza and the zoo has featured often in reports by the international media. The zoo was badly damaged during the 2008-2009 Gaza War. The zoo's stock, in addition to the two lions has included several eagles, some doves, some foxes, Egyptian mongoose, some cats, dogs, ponies, wolves, geese, tortoises, lizards, cattle, pigs, zebras, boars, goats, ducks, red-eared sliders, turtles, deer, monkeys, chickens, pheasants, peacocks and a camel.

In March 2024, during the Israel–Hamas war, civilians seeking humanitarian aid were attacked at the Kuwait Roundabout near Gaza City. According to the Gaza’s health ministry, 20 Gazans were killed and 155 were wounded. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) responded to the accusations saying they did not open in fire at the convoy, claiming that armed militants fired against the Gazan civilians while waiting for the aid convoy to arrive.

The Netzarim Corridor is a zone of occupation that Israel has set up in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The corridor splits the strip into a northern zone and a southern zone. According to the Institute for the Study of War, in July 2024 Israel increased the width of the corridor from 2 km to 4 km. The corridor is named for the site of the former Israeli settlement that it includes. Israel invaded the Gaza strip on 27 October 2023 as a response to the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel three weeks prior. By 31 October 2023, IDF troops were confirmed to have entered the area of the former Netzarim settlement. By 6 November, the IDF "had cut an informal, winding track" across the Gaza Strip which reached to the coast. On 24 November, it was reported that the IDF would "continue administrative and logistical movements on the Netzarim axis and coastal road in the northern Gaza Strip". Satellite imagery from March 6, 2024 showed that a 4-mile (6.5 km) long partially paved road, numbered Route 749, had been constructed within the corridor. The road reaches from the Gaza-Israel border to the Mediterranean Sea. Approximately 1.2 miles (2 km) of the road consists of pavement that existed prior to the Israel–Hamas war, with Israel clearing a path through the entire width of the strip. The IDF also repaired portions that were destroyed by armored vehicles and reinforced it with multiple lanes for various types of military vehicles. Satellite imagery from May 24, 2024 showed new pavement had been laid over gravel roads since May 18, 2024 up to the intersection with the Salah al-Din Road. The IDF considers this corridor to be essential for carrying out raids in northern and central Gaza, as well as securely channeling aid into the region. On August 17, 2024, two Israeli soldiers of the Jerusalem Brigade's 8119th Battalion were killed by a Hamas ambush consisting of a roadside bomb and militants firing on the convoy.

The Netzarim Junction is a road intersection in the central part of the Gaza Strip. It is formed by the intersection of Route 749 (running east-west, built by the IDF) within the Netzarim Corridor with Salah al-Din Road (running north-south, and one of the Gaza Strip's two main such roads). It was named after the former Israeli settlement of Netzarim. On November 12, 1994, the Netzarim Junction bicycle bombing occurred. This killed three soldiers, six Israeli servicemen, and six Palestinians. In response, the Palestinian police cracked down and arrested over 100 Islamic militants. On September 30, 2000, the killing of Muhammad al-Durrah occurred at the junction. However, Richard Landes, writing for Tablet, suggests that the incident was staged. In August 2024, amidst the ongoing Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israel proposed adding an inspection mechanism to the junction, which the United States rejected. The junction, as well as all of Salah al-Din Road, was closed by Israeli tanks in March 2025.

Be'eri (Hebrew: בְּאֵרִי) is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located in the north-western Negev desert near the eastern border with the Gaza Strip, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In 2021 it had a population of 1,047.During a massacre in Be'eri during the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, 100 people were killed.

On 7 October 2023, in the opening attacks of the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, Hamas militants carried out a massacre at Be'eri, an Israeli kibbutz near the Gaza Strip. Around 70 Hamas militants had attacked the kibbutz and at least 130 people were killed in the attack, including women (such as peace activist Vivian Silver), children, toddlers, and one infant, claiming the lives of 10% of the farming community's residents. Dozens of homes were also burned down. This incident occurred concurrently with a series of other massacres and military engagements in multiple neighbouring Israeli communities, including Netiv haAsara, Kfar Aza, and the Rei'm music festival massacre. Several newspapers described the massacre as an act of terrorism. A few early claims regarding the attack were later found to be false.Hostages were taken, leading to a stand-off with the Israel Defense Forces. Relatives of some of those killed have demanded a probe into potential deaths of some of these hostages from friendly fire, including one incident in which an Israeli tank fired at a house full of hostages.

On 30 September 2000, the second day of the Second Intifada, 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah (Arabic: محمد الدرة, romanized: Muḥammad ad-Durra) was killed in the Gaza Strip during widespread protests and riots across the Palestinian territories against Israeli military occupation. Jamal al-Durrah and his son Muhammad were filmed by Talal Abu Rahma, a Palestinian television cameraman freelancing for France 2, as they were caught in crossfire between the Israeli military and Palestinian security forces. Footage shows them crouching behind a concrete cylinder, the boy crying and the father waving, then a burst of gunfire and dust. Muhammad is shown slumping as he is mortally wounded by gunfire, dying soon after.Fifty-nine seconds of the footage were broadcast on television in France with a voiceover from Charles Enderlin, the station's bureau chief in Israel. Based on information from the cameraman, Enderlin told viewers that the al-Durrahs had been the target of fire from the Israeli positions and that the boy had died. After an emotional public funeral, Muhammad was hailed throughout the Muslim world as a martyr.The Israel Defense Forces accepted responsibility for the shooting at first, claiming that Palestinians used children as human shields but later retracted the admission of responsibility. Critics of Enderlin's filmed report have since questioned the accuracy of France 2's footage. French journalists who saw the raw footage said that France 2 had cut a final few seconds in which Muhammad appeared to lift his hand from his face; they acknowledged that Muhammad had died, but said the footage alone did not show it. France 2's news editor said in 2005 that no one could be sure who fired the shots. Philippe Karsenty, a French media commentator, went further, alleging that the scene had been staged by France 2; France 2 successfully sued him for libel in 2006, with Karsenty ordered to pay symbolic damages of €1, while in 2013 Karsenty was convicted for defamation for the allegation and fined €7,000 by a Paris court. In May of that year, an Israeli government investigation suggested that the France 2 report "was so deeply flawed that it was possible that the boy had been neither shot nor killed during the incident." Jamal al-Durrah and Charles Enderlin rejected its conclusion and called for an independent international investigation.The footage of the father and son acquired what one writer called the power of a battle flag. Postage stamps in the Middle East carried the images. Abu Rahma's coverage of the al-Durrah shooting brought him several journalism awards, including the Rory Peck Award in 2001.