The Gaza Strip was captured again, together with Sinai, in the Six-Day War, and was under full Israeli military administration until the establishment of the Palestinian Authority. After the Six-Day War, Israel acted in a policy of non-intervention and left its military forces outside the Gaza Strip, partly due to its occupation of the Hatasha war.
The strengthening of the Palestinian terrorist organizations in the refugee camps and the intensification of acts of terror in the Gaza Strip in the early 1970s, culminating in the murder of the Arroyo children in January 1971, led to a large-scale military operation in which Israel entered large numbers of forces into the Gaza Strip, Thousands of homes and relocation of residents to alternative housing.