The IDF is fighting the war in Gaza. The IDF Chief of Staff is Rav aluf Benny Gantz. He answers to Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel.
It began on 8 July 2014. Currently (as of 5 August 2014), there is a ceasefire, but it is questionable whether it will hold.
December 27, 2008.
On the contrary, Israelis are seeking peace.
If you literally want to say "the Gazan War" or "the War on Gaza" it would be translated as (الحرب ضد غزة ) Al-Harb Did Ghaza. However, most Arabs call the War, "the Massacre of Gaza" which is translated as (مجزرة غزة‎) Majzarat Ghaza.
Most likely it is so that you will have an appreciation for the difficulties and sadness that plague the Middle East.
Six Day War of 1967.
The Arabs and the Israelis.
No. Religion is a very small part of the war and is often used (incorrectly) to label Israelis and Arabs since most Israelis are Jewish and most Arabs are Muslim. However, there are many Muslim Israelis and Christian Arabs and Christian Israelis. For a discussion of the other numerous causes of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, see the Related Question.
Yes, the Israelis effectively gained the entire allotment of land that was given to the Palestinians by the United Nations in 1947.
They have been to war on a few different occasions, but, nothing else really.
There is a question of whether or not Israelis actually won the Yom Kippur War. Those that say that it did, show that Egypt lost the Yom Kippur War because they failed to secure their primary objective, the Sinai Peninsula, which remained in Israeli hands after hostilities had ceased. Egyptians counter that Israelis suffered defeats early in the war when they were caught off-guard. Also, in the early armistice negotiations, Israelis had to make the first moves of withdrawal from African Egyptian territory. There is no question that the Israelis won the Arab-Israeli War on the Syrian front, halting within 40 kilometers (25 miles) of the Syrian capital, Damascus. You can read more about the Israeli-Egyptian controversy at the Related Question below.
The Israelis took the Sinai Peninsula in the Arab-Israeli War of 1956, returned it to Egypt in 1957 and retook the Sinai Peninsula in the Arab-Israeli War of 1967 and returned it between 1980-1982.