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1929
August 23: Hebron Massacre: Arab rioters killed 67 Jews in Hebron. Many of the
dead were dismembered. Many incidents of rape were reported. Numerous homes were
burned. The remaining Jewish community of Hebron fled to Jerusalem.
1936
April 19: Arab rioters attacked Jaffa and killed 16 Jews.
1972
September 5: Munich massacre: Palestinian terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes
and one German policeman in a dormitory of the Munich Olympic Games.
1974
May 15: 22 children and several adults were killed (66 children were wounded) in
the Maalot Massacre, perpetrated by Palestinian terrorists of the Democratic
Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
1979
April 22: Four Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists
infiltrated Israel from Lebanon and killed Dani Haran, his two daughters, and
policeman Eliyahu Shahar.
1986
April 17: Nizar al-Hindawi fails in his attempt to smuggle a semtex bomb,
carried by his five month pregnant fiancee Ann-Marie Doreen Murphy, onto a
passenger airliner traveling from London to Tel Aviv.
1993
August 3: Yaron Chen, a Tsahal soldier, was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists while
hitch-hiking back home. His body was later found in the burnt truck.
November 7: Ephraim Ayoubi of Kfar Darom was shot to death by Hamas terrorists
near Hevron.
November 9: Salman Id al-Hawashla, 38, an Israeli Bedouin, was killed when his vehicle, marked by Israeli license plates, was rammed by a stolen truck driven by terrorists.
1994
April 9: A Hamas operative drives a car bomb into a bus in Afula. 8 people are killed. This was the first suicide bombing inside Israel.
July 23: Two Palestinian terrorists stabbed an American woman in the Old City of
Jerusalem.
July 26: A car bomb exploded at the Israel Embassy in London, wounding 14
people.
October 19: 22 people killed and more than 50 wounded when a Hamas suicide
bomber blew himself up Tel Aviv city bus.
November 11: 3 killed and 6 wounded when a suicide bomber from Islamic Jihad detonated near an IDF checkpoint at the Netzarim Junction.
1995
April 9: American citizen and student Alisa Flatow was killed in a terror attack
in southern Gush Katif near the community of Kfar Darom. Seven Israelis also
perished in the attack and over 30 others were injured. In a second attack
nearby, a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb in the midst of a convoy of cars,
injuring 12 people. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the
attacks.
April 13: A Hamas suicide bomber blew himself up at the Hadera Central Bus
Station, killing 5 and injuring 30.
July 25: A Hamas suicide bomber attacked a bus, murdering 6 and wounding 31.
August 21: Four Israelis and one American were killed and over 100 were wounded
when a suicide bomber blew himself up on a city bus in Jerusalem.
1996
March 4: A suicide bomber exploded outside the Dizengoff Center, a Tel Aviv shopping mall, murdering 20 and injuring 75 others, including United States citizens.
May 13: David Reuven Boim, 17, was shot to death at the entrance to Bet El in a
drive-by terror attack.
June 9: Yaron and Efrat Unger, aged 26 and 25, were murdered in a terrorist
drive-by shooting while driving near Beit Shemesh. Their 9-month-old baby son in
the back seat escaped injury.
1997
April 25: The bodies of two young women, killed by a Bedouin, were found in the Wadi Kelt nature reserve northeast of Jerusalem.
July 20: An Arab attacked two Israelis with an iron rod in Rishon L'Tzion. One
of the Israelis later died of his wounds.
July 22: An Israeli Arab tried to run down a group of tourists from England and
Canada in Jaffa and then attacked them with a knife. Eleven tourists were
wounded.
September 4: Three people were killed and 166 wounded when three suicide bombers
detonated at Jerusalem's Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall.
1999
August 3: Baruch Ben-Yaakov and Ephraim Rosenstein were wounded by terrorists near Hevron.
August 7: Edward Berdinchinsky was found burned to death in his car. Police
announced on February 29, 2000 that the attack was a terrorist incident and not
a criminal homicide.
August 10: Eitan Vaknin, of Dotan, was wounded in an ambush while driving home
and hospitalized in Afula. The terrorists escaped into the area controlled by
the Palestinian Authority.
August 15: A Hamas bomb attack in an office building in Netanya injured about
20.
August 29: Yehiel Pinpetter and Sharon Steinmetz were murdered in the Megiddo
Forest by an Arab.
September 5: One terrorist was the only person killed when his car bomb exploded prematurely in Haifa.
September 5: Two civilians were wounded when a car bomb exploded in Tiberias.
October 30: Five Israelis were wounded by terrorist gunfire directed at a bus
three kilometers from the Tarkumiya Checkpoint in the Hevron Hills area.
November 7: 30 Israelis (28 civilians and 2 soldiers) were wounded when three
bombs placed in garbage receptacles at the intersection of Herzl and Shar Haggai
Streets in Natanya.
April 19: Dov Driben, an American-Israeli farmer, 28, was murdered by Arab
terrorists near the Israeli town of Maon in the Hevron Hills.
May 6: Haim Kerman, a student at the Atert Cohanim Yeshiva, was stabbed to death
in Jerusalem's Old City.
August 5: Harel Bin-Nun, 18, and Shlomo Leibman, 24, were shot dead near Yitzhar
while driving along the community's fence.
August 20: Rabbi Shlomo Raanan was stabbed to death in a Hamas terrorist who
broke into his home. The terrorist escaped after detonating a fire bomb inside
the home.
August 27: Twelve people were wounded by a bomb detonated in front of the Tel
Aviv Great Synagogue.
September 24: One Israeli was wounded by bomb explosion at a public bus stop
near the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
September 30: During Yom Kippur, fourteen IDF soldiers and eleven Arabs were
wounded by two grenades thrown in Hebron.
October 13: An Israeli was kiled and another wounded in a terrorist attack while
the two were swimming in a spring near Moshav Ora.
October 19: 59 people are wounded when a Hamas terrorist hurled two grenades
into a crowd at the Central bus station before running from the scene.
November 6: Two terrorists died in suicide bombing attack in Mahane Yehuda
marketplace in Jerusalem. There were no other casualties.
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February 2000
February 9: Dov and Gabriella Weiss of Givat Ze'ev, a suburb of Jerusalem, were
found bludgeoned to death in their home. Police confirmed that the attack was
terrorist in nature.
February 27: Gadi Rejwan was shot to death by one of the Arab workers in his
factory located in the Atarot Industrial Park in Jerusalem.
April 2000
April 27: Efrat Lesser, a 17-year-old female resident of Elon Moreh was shot by
terrorists and suffered a head wound.
May 2000
May 7: Yaakov Manzor, aged 9, and his brother Yitzhak, aged 17, were stabbed
repeatedly in the chest and abdomen in Jerusalem.
May 21: Shalev Shabbat, aged 2, was critically burned and the child's mother
Segal Egozi, injured in a firebomb attack in Jericho.
May 30: A roadside bomb exploded at Netzarim Junction in Gaza while a convoy of
cars passed.
June 2000
June 20: A roadside bomb was detonated as a vehicles passed on the
Netzarim/Karnei Road in the Gaza Strip. One person was wounded.
July 2000
July 23: Arabs attacked and stabbed a Jerusalem municipality inspector near the
Damascus Gate.
August
September 2000
September 27: Terrorists attack a group of vehicles traveling to Netzarim with
two roadside bombs and automatic gunfire. David Biri, age 19, is wounded.
September 28: David Biri dies of wounds suffered in a Palestinian terrorist
attack the previous day.
September 29: Border policeman Chief Inspector Yossi Tabaji, 27, of Ramle,
killed and a second Israeli border policeman wounded by a Palestinian Authority
policeman on a joint patrol near Kalkiliya District Coordinating Office.
October 2000
October 2: Vitslav Zasslevsky, 24, of Ashdod, was shot to death by terrorists.
October 6: Rabbi Hillel Lieberman, 37, was shot to death by terrorists while
traveling to Joseph's Tomb, a site the Palestinian Authority undertook to
protect and provide Israelis access to under the Oslo Accords.
October 8: an Israeli was found dead in Nablus.
October 12: two Israeli reserve soldiers were lynched by Palestinian mob after
erroneously entering Ramallah.
October 19: Rabbi Binyamin Herling was murdered by terrorist gunfire on Mount
Eval in Samaria.
October 28: Mark Gavrilov, 25, of Bnei Ayish, was shot and killed and placed
inside a car which was set ablaze inside the Palestinian Authority-controlled
area of the Ramallah district.
October 30: One security guard died and a second was wounded at an office of the
national insurance carrier, Bituah Leumi, by point blank range gunfire.
October 30: Amos Mahlouf, 30, of Jerusalem was found between Gilo and nearby
Palestinian Authority-controlled Bet Jala with hands and legs tied having died
from multiple stab wounds.
November 2000
November 2: two Israeli civilians were killed in a car bombing in Jerusalem.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
November 8: Noa Dahan, 25, was killed and Oz Parishta, 17, wounded, in a
terrorist shooting attack near Rehiah.
November 8: an Israeli was killed while driving to her job in Gaza.
November 13: two civilians died in shooting incidents in the West Bank and Gaza.
November 20: two adults were killed while escorting a schoolbus in Gaza. 5
children and 4 adults were injured.
November 21: an Israeli youth was killed by a sniper in Gaza.
November 22: two Israeli women killed and 60 civilians were wounded in a car
bomb attack in Hadera.
November 24: an army-employed civilian was killed in the West Bank.
December 2000
December 8: An Israeli teacher travelling in a van, and the van's driver, were
killed in a drive-by attack in the West Bank.
December 21: an Israeli civilian was ambushed and killed near Jerusalem.
December 28: a border police officer killed while dismantling a road-side bomb,
by another explosive device, in the Gaza strip. Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility.
December 31: Binyamin Zeev Kahane (the son of Meir Kahane) and his wife, Talia,
were killed in an ambush by Palestinian snipers. 5 of their children driving
with them were injured.
2001
January 2001
January 14: a settler was murdered.
January 17: a 16 year old Israeli youth was seduced by a Palestinian woman and
murdered by her accomplices.
January 23: Mordehai Dayan, 27, & Etgar Zeitouny, 34, both of Tel Aviv, were
abducted from a restaurant where they had been peacefully eating and shot to
death in Tul Karem.
January 25: an Israeli was killed in a shooting attack in Atarot (a suburb of
Jerusalem).
January 29: an Israeli was killed in a drive-by shooting north of Jerusalem.
February 2001
February 1: two Israelis—Dr. Shmuel Gillis, 42, from Karmei Tzur, and another
individual—were murdered in different places in the West Bank while driving in
their cars. Dr. Gillis left behind a wife and five children.
February 11: an Israeli, Tzahi Sasson, 35, of Kibbutz Rosh Tzurim, was shot dead
while driving between his home and Jerusalem. He left behind a wife and three
children.
February 26: the body of an Israeli was found; autopsy and investigation
indicated that he was probably killed by Palestinian terrorists.
March 2001
March 1: an Israeli was murdered in a suicide bombing in a taxi.
March 4: 3 elderly Israelis were murdered in a suicide bombing in downtown
Netanya. Hamas claimed responsibility.
March 19: an Israeli was murdered in a gunfire attack while driving.
March 26: Shalhevet Pas, a 10-months-old girl, was shot dead by a Palestinian
sniper while being held in her mother's arms. Her father, Yitzhak, 25, was also
injured by the gunfire in Hebron.
March 28: two Israelis were murdered in a suicide bombing. Hamas claimed
responsibility.
April 2001
April 1: An Israeli woman was stabbed to death on a Haifa street.
April 21: the mutilated body of an Israeli was found near Ramallah; terrorists
were suspected of responsibility.
April 22: An Israeli-American doctor was killed and 60 others were wounded by a
suicide bomber in Kfar Saba. Hamas claimed responsibility.
April 22: 3 people were injured when a bomb exploded at Check Post Junction in
Haifa.
April 23: In Or Yehuda, a car bomb wounded eight Israelis who were transported
to the Sheba Medical Center.
April 27: Two persons were injured and hospitalized after being injured by a
bomb detonated at the gate of Moshav Netzer-Hazani in southern Gaza.
April 27: Simcha Ron was murdered by terrorists affiliated with the Omar
el-Muktar organization at Kfar Ba'aneh where his body was found the following
morning.
April 28: an off-duty Israeli soldier was killed and 4 women were injured in a
drive-by shooting in the Galilee.
April 28: An Israeli woman was stabbed to death in Karmiel, Galilee.
April 28: Netzer Hazani was bombarded by mortar fire from the Gaza Strip; five
were wounded and transported to hospital.
April 28: A Romanian guest worker was stabbed to death in a taxi near Shoresh
while riding from the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station to Jerusalem.
April 29: A suicide bomber detonated his car bomb alongside a school bus near
Shavei Shomron. There were no injuries to the children on the school bus due to
its armor plating.
April 30: A 30-year-old female resident of the Shomron community of Ganim was
stabbed in her home community by an Arab and hospitalized.
April 30: A terrorist placed a bomb under the car of a couple in Rafiach Yam.
The bomb detonated prematurely, wounding the car owner and his wife. The
terrorist died from his bomb.
May 2001
May 1: a Israeli was killed by gunfire while driving.
May 6: five persons were injured from a bomb explosion at a bus stop in Petah
Tikvah.
May 8: Aryeh Arnaldo Agronyoni, 44, was shot and stabbed to death by terrorists
during the night as he stood guard at Givat HaGidonim near Itamar.
May 9: two 14-year Israelis boys were stoned to death.
May 10: two Romanian workmen were killed and a third injured in a roadside bomb
attack in Gaza near the Sufa Checkpoint.
May 13: An Israeli motorist was shot near Maale Ephraim in the Shomron.
May 13: A Israeli from the Shomron community of Maale Levonah was shot on the
road between Sinjel and Maale Levonah.
May 15: An Israeli young woman was killed by gunfire while driving.
May 18: 5 Israelis were killed and over 100 were wounded in a suicide bombing in
Netanya. Hamas claimed responsibility. An Israeli soldier off-duty was killed by
gunfire while driving.
May 23: Asher Iluz, 33, from Modi'in, was shot while driving. He died of his
wounds several hours later. A second victim was wounded by gunfire.
May 23: An 86-year-old Israeli was shot in the chest in Jerusalem. The gunfire
came from Palestinian Authority-controlled Beit Jala.
May 25: The burnt body of an Israeli was found near Tulkarem.
May 25: Fourteen were wounded when a suicide car bomb was detonated in Hadera
adjacent to the central bus station.
May 27: 36 Israelis were injured by a car bomb containing mortar rockets, nails,
and bullets in downtown Jerusalem.
May 27: A car bomb exploded shortly after midnight in the parking lot of the
Russian Compound in downtown Jerusalem.
May 28: Two persons were wounded in shooting attack near the community of
Migdalim.
May 29: Israeli Gilad Zar, 41, was killed by gunfire while driving between
Yitzhar and Kedumim. Fatah claimed responsibility.
May 29: Arab terrorists fired at the funeral procession of Gilad Zar.
May 29: Sara Blaustein, 53, and Esther Elvan, 20, both from Efrat, were murdered
by terrorist gunfire while driving toward Jerusalem. Three others in the vehicle
were wounded.
May 29: Two Israelis were wounded by a suicide bomber in the Gaza Strip.
May 30: Six people were wounded when a car bomb exploded in the city of Netanya.
May 31: Tzvika Shalef, aged 63, of Mevo Dotan, was shot and killed in a drive-by
terrorist attack.
June 2001
June 1: 21 Israeli young people were murdered by a Hamas suicide bombing near a
disco club near the Tel-Aviv Dolphinarium.
June 5: 5½ -month-old Haim Yehuda Shoham was mortally wounded in a
stone-throwing attack not far from his home in Shilo. He died of his wounds six
days later in Hadassah Hospital.
June 12: Gur Pzipokatsatakis, 35, of Wadi Kelt, a monk of the Greek Orthodox
community, was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in a drive-by shooting on the
Maaleh Adumim road. Marwan Barghouti was sentenced to life imprisionment for his
role in this murder.
June 13: A 41-year-old Petah Tikvah resident working on the Trans-Israel Highway
was hit by gunfire originating in Palestinian Authority-controlled Tul Karem. He
was transported to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba.
June 13: A 21-year-old female was shot twice at the entrance to Ofrah.
June 14: Three persons were wounded by terrorist gunfire when an Israeli vehicle
was attacked near N'vei Tzuf on the Abud Bypass Road.
June 18: Doron Zisserman, 38, from Einav, a father of 4, was murdered by a Fatah
terrorist.
June 18: Danny Yehuda, 35, from Homesh, was murdered by a Fatah terrorist;
16-year-old Alex Briskin was wounded.
June 18: An Israeli was wounded in a terrorist shooting attack near Ateret.
June 20: Ilya Krivitz, 62, of Homesh, was killed in a shooting attack near his
home.
June 25: Two people were wounded by Arab gunfire against a public bus traveling
from Jerusalem to Gush Etzion.
June 28: Katrina Weintraub, 27, of Ganim, was murdered in a shooting attack in
the Shomron.
July 2001
July 2: Rabbi Aaron Ovidyan, 41, the father of four, was shot and murdered by Arab terrorists near Baka el-Sharqiya.
July 2: Yair Har Sinai, 51, of Sussia, was shot to death in a terror attack near
his home town.
July 2: Avi Romano, of Har Bracha, was shot and wounded in a shooting attack on
a public road.
July 2: A car bomb exploded Yahud. Several minutes later, a second bomb exploded
in the same city. Six persons were treated for injuries resulting from the
attacks.
July 4: Eliyahyu Ne'eman, aged 36, father of three, of Petach Tikvah, was
murdered in a shooting attack near Baka el-Garbiya.
July 8: Avital Lehman, 18, from Eli, was shot by Arab terrorists in her shoulder
and back while on southbound intercity bus #178 bus.
July 12: Yechezkel Mualem, 49, of Kiryat Arba, was murdered at Lapid Junction,
the eastern entrance to Kiryat Arba. Shmuel Ben-Basset was wounded in the
attack.
July 12: Erez Shmuelian, 25, his wife, and their infant daughter were shot near
the entrance to the community of Har Bracha.
July 12: David Cohen, 31, a resident of Betar Illit, was shot and critically
wounded.
July 13: An Israeli was shot and killed.
July 16: Two persons were murdered and ten injured when suicide bomber blew
himself up outside the Binyamina train station.
July 19: About 30, mostly civilians, were injured in a suicide bombing in a
civilian train station. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
July 24: Uri (Yuri) Gushtzin, 18 years old, of Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood of
Jerusalem, was shot and stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists in
Palestinian Authority-controlled Ramallah.
July 25: Two Israelis were wounded by terrorist gunfire near Morag.
July 26: An Israeli youth was murdered while driving with his father near
Jerusalem.
July 26: A bus driver was wounded in a bomb attack near Einav.
July 29: An Israeli was wounded when a bomb exploded in an underground parking
lot in Jerusalem.
July 31: Haim Ezer, 18 years old, was stabbed in Petach Tikvah by three
residents of the Israeli Arab community of Kfar Kassam.
July 31: Five Israelis were wounded when Arabs fired on two vehicles in the
Kiryat Sefer area.
August 2001
August 5: Techiya Bloomberg, 5 months pregnant with the her sixth child, was
murdered by Palestinian terrorist gunfire. Her husband Shimon and daughter
Tzipi, 14, were both seriously wounded, sustaining permanent disabilities.
Another child and a hitch-hiker were wounded.
August 5: A terrorist using a M-16 fired at people in front of the Defense
Ministry in Tel Aviv. More than eight people were wounded.
August 6: Yitzhak Snir, 51, was shot in the back 5 times and killed in Amman,
Jordan. He was a partner in a Jordanian-Israeli firm.
August 7: An Israeli Arab from Taibeh was killed in Arab terrorist shooting
attack near Kalkilya.
August 7: Zohar Shurgi, 40, of Moshav Yafit was killed in a shooting attack.
August 9: 15 people (including an American tourist, a Brazilian tourist, and 7
children aged 16 years old and younger) were killed and 130 were injured in the
Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility.
August 9:Aliza Malka, 17, was killed and four others were wounded in a terrorist
shooting attack near Kibbutz Meirav in the Gilboa region.
August 12: 21 people were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside
the Wall Street Cafe in Kiryat Motzkin. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
August 15:Yitzhak Nedam was wounded by Arab gunfire near Maale Adumim.
August 17: an Israeli was wounded by terrorist gunfire while driving in the
Hevron Hills.
August 18: Andrew Raibi, 20, and Ruth Shapira, 6, were wounded by terrorist
gunfire while riding on a number 45 bus at Pisgat Ze'ev/Hizme Junction in
northern Jerusalem.
August 20: Hader el Hatib, an Israeli Arab aged 26, was killed in a terrorist
shooting attack.
August 22: Two people were wounded when terrorists fired at a garbage truck.
August 23: Tzviel Yehuda Meshulam, age 11, and his brother Matanel, age 21, were
shot by Arab terrorists.
August 25: Yaniv and Sharon Ben-Shalom were killed by Arab terrorists; their two
children (aged 8 and 18 months) and Doron Saviri, a relative, were wounded.
Saviri died of his wounds the following day.
August 26: an Israeli was invited to an Arab village and then killed.
August 27: Rabbi Meir Lizenberg, father of five children, was shot and killed in
a roadside ambush between Elon Moreh and Itamar in Samaria.
August 27: Uri Mizrahi, 58 years of age, of Gilo, a suburb of Jerusalem, was
wounded by terrorist gunfire originating in Beit Jala.
August 27: Ben Dansker, 50, of Efrat, was wounded in terrorist shooting attack
near Beit Shemesh.
August 27: A motorist was wounded in a shooting attack near Kedar.
August 28: Haim Meidar of Hashmonaim was shot by terrorists.
August 29: Oleg Sodnikov, 35, of Ashdod, was shot to death by terrorists.
August 30: Amos Tajuri, 60, of Modi'in, was murdered, shot point-blank in the
back of the head, at a restaurant in Arab Na'alin near Kiryat Sefer
September 2001
September 1: Uri Hadari was wounded by gunfire at Rantis Junction.
September 2: An Israeli was wounded by gunfire while traveling in a vehicle
between Nataf and Abu Gosh.
September 3: Ron Schechner was shot twice in the chest, by Arab terrorists while
traveling near Ziff Junction.
September 4: border policeman Natan Sandaka, 21, and twenty others are wounded
when a suicide bomber detonated on HaNeve'im Street in Jerusalem about 200
meters from Bikur Holim Hospital.
September 6: Lt. Erez Merhavi, 21, of Moshav Tarum, was killed and Lt. Limor
Vishnia, 21, of Kibbutz Ein HaNatziv was wounded, in a drive-by terrorist
shooting attack on the road between Kibbutz Bahan and Erez, near Baka el-Garbiya
while off-duty driving to a wedding. Fatah and the Tanzim claimed
responsibility.
September 7: Raanan Harel was wounded by terrorist gunfire at Givon HaHadasha.
September 9: Yaakov Hatzav, 42, and Sima Franco, 24, were killed and three other
teachers in the same vehicle were wounded while traveling on Route 90, the
Jordan Valley Road.
September 9: Morel (Moshe) Derfler, 45, Yigal Goldstein, 44, and Daniel Yifrach,
19, were killed and 85 people wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at
the Nahariya train station.
September 9: A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb at Beit Lid Junction. 20
persons were wounded.
September 11: An Israeli border police serviceman was killed in an attack on a
border police base.
September 12: An Israeli woman was killed while driving.
September 15: Meir Weishaus, 23, was murdered and a second person wounded in
drive-by terrorist shooting attack in Jerusalem.
September 19: Two people in the community of Oranit were wounded when a bomb was
detonated near their vehicle.
September 20: Sarit Amrani, 26, was murdered and her husband Shai, 32, was
wounded in a terrorist shooting attack at Tekoa Junction. Their three children
who were in the vehicle at the time of the attack escaped physical injury. Fatah
claimed responsibility.
September 26: Tzvia Pinhas, 62, of Moshav Maor, was murdered by an Islamic Jihad
terrorist.
September 28: an Israeli woman was killed in a shooting attack in Jordan Valley.
October 2001
October 2: Off-duty IDF Private Liron Harpaz, 18, along with her friend Assaf
Yitzhaki, 20, from Lod are killed and 13 people wounded by three terrorists who
infiltrated the community of Alei Sinai. The terrorists were killed.
October 3: Pinhas Cohen, 26 and his wife Mali, 24, were wounded terrorist
gunfire in while traveling in Jerusalem between the neighborhoods of Ramat
Shlomo and French Hill.
October 3: Two persons were wounded by gunfire at the Ma’arat HaMachpela (Cave
of the Patriarchs) in Hebron while attending a religious ceremony.
October 4: 3 people were killed and 14 wounded when a terrorist opened fire in
the central bus station in Afula. Fatah claimed responsibility.
October 5: an Israeli settler was killed in a machine gun ambush.
October 7: an Israeli farmer was killed in a suicide bombing north of Jordan
Valley.
October 17: Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi is assassinated by the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
October 18: Lior Kaufman, 30, of Ramat HaSharon, was killed and two others
wounded by terrorist gunfire near Mitzpei Yericho in the Judean desert.
October 18: An Israeli was wounded while traveling between Azzoun and Karnei
Shomron.
October 22: Four people were wounded HaRechev Street in the Talpiot neighborhood
of Jerusalem by a terrorist. The terrorist was killed by IDF Sgt. Ramin
Rosenblatt.
October 24: A 23 year old guard at a telephone company office in Jerusalem was
wounded by in a stabbing attack perpetrated by an Arab woman.
October 28: 4 women were killed and about 50 people wounded by a terrorist
shooting attack on HaNasi Weizman Street in Hadera. [12]
October 28: IDF Staff-Sargent Yaniv Levy, 22, from Zichron Yaakov, was killed in
terrorist shooting attack at Metzer Junction.
November 2001
November 4: Two Israeli teenagers were killed and 45 were injured when a
Palestinian terrorist opened fire in Jerusalem.
November 6: An Israeli is killed by three Hamas terrorists on the Gilad Road.
The terrorists were killed by the IDF.
November 9: Hadas Abutbul, 39, a mother of four children, resident of Mevo
Dotan, was shot to death by terrorists near Yabed Junction.
November 11: An Israeli man, the security coordinator of a Sharon-plain
community, was killed.
November 14: Two workers were injured when a bomb exploded on Dahoun St. in the
Kiryat Yovel neighborhood of Jerusalem.
November 27: Two Israeli young women were killed and 50 people were injured in
an attack on the central bus station in Afula. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad
claimed joint responsibility. An Israeli settler was killed in a grenade attack
in Gaza. Hamas claimed responsibility.
November 29: 3 people were killed and 9 wounded in a suicide bombing of a bus
near Hedera. Both Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility.
December 2001
December 1: 11 young people were killed by a suicide bombing in an entertainment
area in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility.
December 2: 15 were killed and more than 40 wounded in a suicide bus bombing in
Haifa. Hamas claimed responsibility.
December 12: a bus full of civilians was attacked by gunfire and grenades near the settlement Emmanuel. 10 were killed and over 30 were wounded. Both Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility.
2002
January 2002
January 15: An Israeli woman was shot dead in Jerusalem; a man (a United States
citizen living in Israel) kidnapped into Nablus and shot dead there.
January 16: An Arab resident of East Jerusalem was killed while driving in a car
with Israeli license plates near Jenin.
January 17: Six men and women were killed at a Bat-Mitzvah ceremony in Hadera by
a Fatah gunman.
January 22: Two women were killed by a Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades gunman in
Jerusalem
January 25: 20 people were injured in a suicide bombing in the Old Bus Station
of Tel Aviv.
January 27: An elderly Israeli was killed and 172 were wounded by a Fatah
suicide bombing in Jerusalem. The attack marked the first time a female suicide
bomber was used.
February 2002
February 6: An Israeli woman and her 11 year-old daughter were killed in a gun
attack in the Israeli village of Hamra. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed
responsibility.
February 8: An Israeli woman was stabbed to death by several Palestinian young
men while walking in a park in Jerusalem.
February 9: 78-year-old Atla Lipovsky, of Maale Ephraim, was murdered in a
terrorist shooting attack near Marda, in the northern West Bank. One of her sons
was wounded in the attack.
February 16: Two young girls, Nechemia Amar, 15, and Keren Shatzki, 15, were
killed in a suicide bombing at a pizzeria in the northern West Bank. A third
girl, Rachel Tayler, 16, wounded in the attack, died several days later. The
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility.
February 18: An Israeli Arab policeman was killed by a suicide bomber. Fatah
claimed responsibility. A settler woman was killed in a combined shooting and
bombing in Gaza, for which Fatah (Al-Aqsa) claimed responsibility.
February 18: A terrorist opened fire and threw bombs at a convoy near Kissufim,
killing 3 and wounding 3. The attacker detonated a bomb and killed himself when
IDF troops arrived on the scene.
February 22: Valery Ahmir, 59, of Beit Shemesh, was killed by terrorists in a
drive-by shooting on the Atarot-Givat Ze'ev road north of Jerusalem, on his way
home from his workplace.
February 25: Two Israelis were killed in a shooting attack between Tekoa and
Nokdim, south of Bethlehem. One of the victims' pregnant daughter was injured.
An Israeli policewoman was killed when a terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in
the Neve Ya'akov residential neighborhood in northern Jerusalem.
February 27: An Israeli was shot and killed by one of his Palestinian employees
in a factory in the Atarot industrial area, north of Jerusalem.
March 2002
March 2: The bullet-ridden body of a Jerusalem police detective was discovered
next to his trail motorcycle, near the Mar Saba Monastery in the Judean Desert.
11 people were killed in a suicide bombing near a yeshiva in the Haredi Beit
Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem.
March 3: Ten Israelis, soldiers and civilians , were killed by a Palestinian
sniper in an IDF road block near Ofra, in Samaria (northern West Bank).
March 5: Three people were killed in Tel Aviv when a Palestinian terrorist
opened fire on two adjacent restaurants. An Israeli woman was killed in shooting
attack on the Bethlehem bypass "tunnel" road, south of Jerusalem, on her way to
work. Her husband was injured. An 85-year-old Israeli was killed when a suicide
bomber exploded in an Egged No. 823 bus as it entered the Afula central bus
station.
March 7: Five Israeli teenagers were killed and 23 were injured when a
Palestinian gunman penetrated the pre-military training academy in the Gush
Katif settlement of Atzmona. Hamas terrorists entered the southern Gush Katif
community, opening fire and throwing hand grenades at the school and nearby
houses.
March 9: A 9-month-old baby and a man were killed when two Palestinians opened
fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya,
close to the city's boardwalk and hotels. 11 people were killed and 54 others
were wounded when a suicide bomber exploded in the crowded Cafe Moment in the
center of Jerusalem.
March 12: One Israeli was killed and another wounded in a shooting attack at the
Kiryat Sefer checkpoint, east of Modi'in. Six people (three men and three women,
including a teenager) were killed when two terrorists opened fire from an ambush
on Israeli vehicles traveling between Shlomi and Kibbutz Metzuba near the
northern border with Lebanon.
March 17: An 18-year-old girl was killed and 16 people were injured when a
terrorist opened fire on passersby in the center of Kfar Sava.
March 20: Seven Israelis were killed in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus No.
823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth, near Afula.
March 21: Three people were killed and 86 injured when a suicide bomber
detonated a bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd
of shoppers on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem.
March 24: A 23-year-old Israeli woman was killed in a shooting attack northwest
of Ramallah, while traveling to work in a reinforced Egged bus. A 24-year-old
Israeli man was killed in a terrorist shooting south of Hebron, as he was
returning home from shopping for Passover in Jerusalem.
March 26 Temporary International Presence in Hebron observers Major Cengiz
Soytunc of Turkey and Catherine Berruex, of Switzerland, were shot dead by
terrorist gunfire west of the Halhoul Bridge. The attacker was a Palestinian
Authority policeman in uniform.
March 27: The Passover Massacre: 30 Israelis were killed and over 140 wounded
when a suicide bomber exploded in the crowded dining room of the Park Hotel in
Netanya.
March 28: Four family members were killed in Elon Moreh, when a Palestinian
terrorist infiltrated the hilltop community near Nablus, burst into their home,
and shot them.
March 29: Two elderly men were stabbed to death while on their way to the
synagogue for morning prayers, when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the
Neztarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.
March 30: Two people killed when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the
Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. Some 30 people were injured in a suicide
bombing in a cafe in southern Tel-Aviv. One of the victims, a 36-year-old woman,
died of her wounds five days later.
March 31: 15 people killed in a suicide bombing in Haifa, in the Matza
restaurant massacre.
April 2002
April 1: A 19-year-old police volunteer was killed in Jerusalem when a
Palestinian suicide bomber driving toward the city center blew himself up after
being stopped at a roadblock. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
April 10: Eight people were killed and 22 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged
bus #960, en route from Haifa to Jerusalem, which exploded near Kibbutz Yagur,
east of Haifa.
April 12: Seven people were killed by a woman suicide bomber who detonated a
powerful charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road next to the entrance to Jerusalem's
Mahane Yehuda open-air market. Another 104 people were injured in the blast,
among them nine Arabs. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
April 27: Four people, including a 5-year-old girl, were killed when terrorists
dressed in IDF uniforms and combat gear cut through the settlement's defensive
perimeter fence and entered Adora, west of Hebron. The terrorists entered
several homes, firing on people in their bedrooms.
May 2002
May 7: 15 people were killed and 55 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a
powerful charge in a game club on the 3rd floor of a building in Rishon LeZion,
causing part of the building to collapse. Hamas claimed responsibility for the
attack.
May 8: A suicide bomber exploded prematurely at Megiddo Junction in the I'ron
Valley. The terrorist was the only casualty.
May 12: Nissan Dolinger, 43, of Pe'at Sadeh, was shot and killed by an Arab
laborer Nissan employed in the Rafiah Yam hothouses.
May 19: Three Israelis were killed and more than 55 wounded when a suicide
bomber blew himself up in a crowded section of Netanya's open-air market.
May 21: An Israeli was injured when a bomb exploded on Kehilat Katzuvitch Street
in northern Tel Aviv.
May 22: Two people (one of them a teenager) were killed in a suicide bombing in
the heart of Rishon LeZion.
May 24: Two people were wounded by the premature detonation of a car bomb when
an security guard fired at a car heading towards crowded a Tel Aviv club.
May 27: A woman and her infant granddaughter, aged 14 months, of Petah Tikva
were killed and 53 others were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself
near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall.
May 28: Two Israelis were killed when shots were fired at the car in which they
was traveling south on the Ramallah bypass road.
May 28: Three yeshiva high school students were killed and several others
wounded in Itamar when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the community and
opened fire on the teenagers.
June 2002
June 5: 17 people were killed when a car packed with a large quantity of
explosives struck Egged bus No. 830 traveling from Tel-Aviv to Tiberias at the
Megiddo junction near Afula. The car exploded near the gasoline tank of the bus,
causing it to burst into flames. Most of the casualties were soldiers who were
on their way to their bases. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the
attack.
June 6: An 18-year-old Israeli student died of gunshot wounds to the chest
sustained in a shooting attack near Ofra, north of Ramallah, when Palestinian
terrorists opened fire from an ambush.
June 8: Three Israelis, including a pregnant woman, were shot dead when
terrorists infiltrated the community of Carmei Tzur south of Bethlehem.
June 11: Hadar Hirschkovitz, a 15 year old girl, was killed and eleven other
Israelis wounded when a Palestinian female suicide bomber set off a relatively
small pipe bomb at a shwarma restaurant in Herzliya.
June 11: D'vir Musai, an eighth grader, and two other children were wounded when
terrorists detonated a bomb against an Israeli schoolbus.
June 18: 19 people were killed and 74 wounded in a suicide bombing at the Patt
junction in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem.
The terrorist boarded the bus at the stop in Beit Safafa, an Arab neighborhood
opposite Gilo, and almost immediately detonated the large bomb which he carried
in a bag stuffed with ball bearings. The blast destroyed the front half of the
bus, packed with people on their way to work and schoolchildren.
June 19: Seven people, including a 5 year old girl and her grandmother, were
killed and 20 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus
stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem.
Hamas claimed responsibility.
June 19: Avraham Eliyahu Nechmad, 17, from Rishon L'Tzion, died as a result of
wounds suffered in the suicide bombing of 2 March 2002, becoming the 12th victim.
June 20: Five people, including a mother and three of her sons of the Shabo
family, were murdered and four others wounded when a terrorist entered the
community of Itamar and opened fire.
July 2002
July 4: A terrorist gunman opened fire at the El Al desk in the Los Angeles
Airport murdering 46-year-old Yaakov Aminov of Los Angeles and a El Al clerk, in
her 20s. A number of people were wounded.
July 16: Nine people (two men, six women, and an infant child) were killed and
over 20 wounded in a Palestinian terrorist attack on Dan bus no. 189 traveling
from Bnei Brak to Emmanuel in Samaria. Two 20 kg bombs were set off about 200
meters from the town's entrance, damaging the bus's front tires and forcing it
off the road. The explosion damaged the bus doors, trapping the passengers
inside. The terrorists then started to shoot at the bus, firing through the
unprotected roof and throwing grenades through the narrow upper windows, which
are not armored.
July 17: Five people were murdered and about 40 injured in a double suicide
bombing on Neve Sha'anan Street near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv.
July 21: Palestinian terrorists detonated a bomb near Yavne against a train
traveling Binyamina to Ashdod. The conductor was wounded.
July 25: Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, 43, was murdered and another civilian wounded
in a terrorist shooting attack near the West Bank community of Alei Zahav, west
of Ariel.
July 26: Yosef Dickstein, his wife Chana, and their 9 year old son Shuvel Zion
were murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack. Two of their other children
were wounded in the same attack.
July 30: Two brothers were shot and killed when their truck came under fire in
the West Bank village of Jama'in, near Ariel, apparently while selling diesel
oil to a cement factory in the village.
July 31: Nine people (including four Americans) were killed and 86 were wounded
when a bomb exploded in the Frank Sinatra cafeteria on the Hebrew University Mt.
Scopus campus in Jerusalem.
August 2002
August 1: Shani Ladani, 27 years old, was tied up and shot in the head at
point-blank range by Arabs, west of Tulkarem, near the Green Line.
August 4: Nine people were killed in the suicide bombing of Egged bus No. 361
traveling from Haifa to Safed at the Meron junction in northern Israel. The
blast blew off the roof of the bus, which then burst into flames, killing or
wounding nearly everyone inside.
August 4: A 34-year-old Israeli and a 52-year-old Palestinian were killed and 14
others were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a pistol near
the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City.
August 5: Avi (29) and Avital (27) Volansky were killed when terrorists opened
fire on their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus road near Luban
el-Sharqiya. Two of their children were wounded in the attack.
August 7: An Israeli was stabbed at the Cave of Eliyahu in Haifa.
August 7: A gasoline tanker truck containing 15,000 liters of fuel exploded in
Rishon L'Tzion due to a terrorist bomb. Only the driver was wounded.
August 10: A 30 year old woman was killed and her husband seriously wounded when
a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated Moshav Mechora in the Jordan Valley and
opened fire outside their home.
August 10: The eighth victim of the 31 July bombing attack at Hebrew University
died of injuries suffered in that attack.
September 2002
September 18: The charred body of a 67-year-old Israeli construction contractor
was found near el-Azzariya, a Palestinian village near Ma'ale Adummim, east of
Jerusalem. He was the victim of a terrorist killing.
September 18: Yosef Ajmi, 36 years old, was killed when terrorists opened fire
on his car near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank.
September 18: An Israeli policeman was killed and three people were wounded in a
suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Umm al Fahm junction.
September 19: Five people were killed and 69 wounded when a suicide bomber
terrorist detonated a bomb in Dan bus No. 4 on Allenby Street, opposite the
Great Synagogue in Tel-Aviv. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
September 20: Yoni Jesner of wounds suffered in a suicide bombing attack the
previous day.
September 23: Shlomo Yitzhak Shapira, 48 years old, resident of Jerusalem, was
killed and three of his sons wounded, in a shooting attack near the Cave of the
Patriarchs in Hebron during the Sukkot festival.
September 26: Five persons were wounded in a terrorist shooting attack at K'vasim
Junction in the Hevron Hills. All the victims, four adults and an infant were
residents of nearby Beit Haggai.
October 2002
October 3: An Israeli Arab was wounded terrorist gunfire between Tul Karem and
Jenin while working on the road from Baka el-Sharqiya to Hermesh.
October 8: A 51 year-old Israeli was critically wounded in an ambush shooting
south of Hebron. He died of his wounds the following day. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack.
October 10: A 71 year-old woman was killed and about 30 people were wounded when
a suicide bomber blew himself up while trying to board Dan bus No. 87 across
from Bar-Ilan University on the Geha highway (Route 4) in central Israel.
October 15: Seven people are wounded when an intercity bus traveling from Beit
Shean to Afula was targeted by terrorist gunfire.
October 21: 14 persons were killed and 65 wounded when an intracity bus
traveling from Kiryat Shmona to Tel Aviv was blown up in a suicide bombing by a
terrorist member of Islamic Jihad driving an explosives-laden jeep near the
Alonit Junction.
October 27: Three were killed and 21 wounded in a suicide bombing at the Eshel
HaShomron gas station at the entrance to Ariel in Samaria.
October 29: A woman and two 14-year-old girls were killed and one person was
wounded by a terrorist who infiltrated the community of Hermesh, north of
Tulkarm, in Samaria.
November 2002
November 4: Two persons were killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated at a Kfar Sava shopping mall.
November 6: Two Israeli farmers were shot to death and one wounded by a
Palestinian terrorist posing as a worker near Pe'at Sadeh in the southern Gaza
Strip.
November 10: Five people, including a mother and her 4- and 5-year-old children,
were shot and killed by a Fatah terrorist who infiltrated Kibbutz Metzer,
located east of Hadera near the Green Line. The terrorist shot the mother and
children as they hugged one another. [12]
November 15: terrorists open fire with automatic weapons and
hand grenades at Jewish worshippers walking homr from prayers at the Cave of the Patriarchs. 12
people are killed and twenty wounded. Among the dead are nine military personnel.
November 21: 11 people were killed and about 50 wounded in a suicide bombing on
a No. 20 Egged bus in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem. Most of the
victims were high-school students on their way to school.
November 28: Kenyan hotel bombing: Three Israelis, including two brothers, and
10 Kenyans killed when a car bomb exploded in the lobby of the Israeli-owned
beachfront Paradise Hotel, frequented almost exclusively by Israeli tourists
near Mombasa in Kenya. 21 Israelis and 60 Kenyans were wounded in the attack.
Six Israelis were killed when two terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at
the Likud polling station in Beit She'an, where party members were casting their
votes in the Likud primary.
December 2002
December 20: Rabbi Yitzhak Arama, aged 40, of Netzer-Hazani, was shot and killed
on the Kissufim corridor road (in the Gaza Strip) while driving with his wife
and six children to attend a pre-wedding Sabbath celebration in Afula.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
December 27: Four yeshiva students were killed in Otniel while working in the
yeshiva kitchen, serving the Shabbat meal to some 100 students in the adjacent
dining room. Two terrorists infiltrated the settlement, entered the yeshiva
building through the kitchen service door, and shot dead the four unarmed
students.
2003
January 2003
January 15: An Israeli woman was shot dead in Jerusalem; a man (a United States
citizen living in Israel) kidnapped into Nablus and shot dead there.
January 16: An Arab resident of East Jerusalem was killed while driving in a car
with Israeli license plates near Jenin.
January 17: Six men and women were killed at a Bat-Mitzvah ceremony in Hadera by
a Fatah gunman.
January 22: Two women were killed by a Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades gunman in
Jerusalem
January 25: 20 people were injured in a suicide bombing in the Old Bus Station
of Tel Aviv.
January 27: An elderly Israeli was killed and 172 were wounded by a Fatah
suicide bombing in Jerusalem. The attack marked the first time a female suicide
bomber was used.
February 2003
February 6: An Israeli woman and her 11 year-old daughter were killed in a gun attack in the Israeli village of Hamra. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility.
February 8: An Israeli woman was stabbed to death by several Palestinian young
men while walking in a park in Jerusalem.
February 9: 78-year-old Atla Lipovsky, of Maale Ephraim, was murdered in a
terrorist shooting attack near Marda, in the northern West Bank. One of her sons
was wounded in the attack.
February 16: Two young girls, Nechemia Amar, 15, and Keren Shatzki, 15, were
killed in a suicide bombing at a pizzeria in the northern West Bank. A third
girl, Rachel Tayler, 16, wounded in the attack, died several days later. The
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility.
February 18: An Israeli Arab policeman was killed by a suicide bomber. Fatah
claimed responsibility. A settler woman was killed in a combined shooting and
bombing in Gaza, for which Fatah (Al-Aqsa) claimed responsibility.
February 18: A terrorist opened fire and threw bombs at a convoy near Kissufim,
killing 3 and wounding 3. The attacker detonated a bomb and killed himself when
IDF troops arrived on the scene.
February 22: Valery Ahmir, 59, of Beit Shemesh, was killed by terrorists in a
drive-by shooting on the Atarot-Givat Ze'ev road north of Jerusalem, on his way
home from his workplace.
February 25: Two Israelis were killed in a shooting attack between Tekoa and
Nokdim, south of Bethlehem. One of the victims' pregnant daughter was injured.
An Israeli policewoman was killed when a terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in
the Neve Ya'akov residential neighborhood in northern Jerusalem.
February 27: An Israeli was shot and killed by one of his Palestinian employees
in a factory in the Atarot industrial area, north of Jerusalem.
March 2003
March 2: The bullet-ridden body of a Jerusalem police detective was discovered
next to his trail motorcycle, near the Mar Saba Monastery in the Judean Desert.
11 people were killed in a suicide bombing near a yeshiva in the Haredi Beit
Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem.
March 3: Ten Israelis, soldiers and civilians , were killed by a Palestinian
sniper in an IDF road block near Ofra, in Samaria (northern West Bank).
March 5: Three people were killed in Tel Aviv when a Palestinian terrorist
opened fire on two adjacent restaurants. An Israeli woman was killed in shooting
attack on the Bethlehem bypass "tunnel" road, south of Jerusalem, on her way to
work. Her husband was injured. An 85-year-old Israeli was killed when a suicide
bomber exploded in an Egged No. 823 bus as it entered the Afula central bus
station.
March 7: Five Israeli teenagers were killed and 23 were injured when a
Palestinian gunman penetrated the pre-military training academy in the Gush
Katif settlement of Atzmona. Hamas terrorists entered the southern Gush Katif
community, opening fire and throwing hand grenades at the school and nearby
houses.
March 9: A 9-month-old baby and a man were killed when two Palestinians opened
fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya,
close to the city's boardwalk and hotels. 11 people were killed and 54 others
were wounded when a suicide bomber exploded in the crowded Cafe Moment in the
center of Jerusalem.
March 12: One Israeli was killed and another wounded in a shooting attack at the
Kiryat Sefer checkpoint, east of Modi'in. Six people (three men and three women,
including a teenager) were killed when two terrorists opened fire from an ambush
on Israeli vehicles traveling between Shlomi and Kibbutz Metzuba near the
northern border with Lebanon.
March 17: An 18-year-old girl was killed and 16 people were injured when a
terrorist opened fire on passersby in the center of Kfar Sava.
March 20: Seven Israelis were killed in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus No.
823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth, near Afula.
March 21: Three people were killed and 86 injured when a suicide bomber
detonated a bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd
of shoppers on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem.
March 24: A 23-year-old Israeli woman was killed in a shooting attack northwest
of Ramallah, while traveling to work in a reinforced Egged bus. A 24-year-old
Israeli man was killed in a terrorist shooting south of Hebron, as he was
returning home from shopping for Passover in Jerusalem.
March 26 Temporary International Presence in Hebron observers Major Cengiz
Soytunc of Turkey and Catherine Berruex, of Switzerland, were shot dead by
terrorist gunfire west of the Halhoul Bridge. The attacker was a Palestinian
Authority policeman in uniform.
March 27: The Passover Massacre: 30 Israelis were killed and over 140 wounded
when a suicide bomber exploded in the crowded dining room of the Park Hotel in
Netanya.
March 28: Four family members were killed in Elon Moreh, when a Palestinian
terrorist infiltrated the hilltop community near Nablus, burst into their home,
and shot them.
March 29: Two elderly men were stabbed to death while on their way to the
synagogue for morning prayers, when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the
Neztarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.
March 30: Two people killed when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the
Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. Some 30 people were injured in a suicide
bombing in a cafe in southern Tel-Aviv. One of the victims, a 36-year-old woman,
died of her wounds five days later.
March 31: 15 people killed in a suicide bombing in Haifa, in the Matza
restaurant massacre.
April 2003
April 1: A 19-year-old police volunteer was killed in Jerusalem when a
Palestinian suicide bomber driving toward the city center blew himself up after
being stopped at a roadblock. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
April 10: Eight people were killed and 22 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged
bus #960, en route from Haifa to Jerusalem, which exploded near Kibbutz Yagur,
east of Haifa.
April 12: Seven people were killed by a woman suicide bomber who detonated a
powerful charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road next to the entrance to Jerusalem's
Mahane Yehuda open-air market. Another 104 people were injured in the blast,
among them nine Arabs. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
April 27: Four people, including a 5-year-old girl, were killed when terrorists
dressed in IDF uniforms and combat gear cut through the settlement's defensive
perimeter fence and entered Adora, west of Hebron. The terrorists entered
several homes, firing on people in their bedrooms.
May 2003
May 7: 15 people were killed and 55 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a
powerful charge in a game club on the 3rd floor of a building in Rishon LeZion,
causing part of the building to collapse. Hamas claimed responsibility for the
attack.
May 8: A suicide bomber exploded prematurely at Megiddo Junction in the I'ron
Valley. The terrorist was the only casualty.
May 12: Nissan Dolinger, 43, of Pe'at Sadeh, was shot and killed by an Arab
laborer Nissan employed in the Rafiah Yam hothouses.
May 19: Three Israelis were killed and more than 55 wounded when a suicide
bomber blew himself up in a crowded section of Netanya's open-air market.
May 21: An Israeli was injured when a bomb exploded on Kehilat Katzuvitch Street
in northern Tel Aviv.
May 22: Two people (one of them a teenager) were killed in a suicide bombing in
the heart of Rishon LeZion.
May 24: Two people were wounded by the premature detonation of a car bomb when
an security guard fired at a car heading towards crowded a Tel Aviv club.
May 27: A woman and her infant granddaughter, aged 14 months, of Petah Tikva
were killed and 53 others were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself
near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall.
May 28: Two Israelis were killed when shots were fired at the car in which they
was traveling south on the Ramallah bypass road.
May 28: Three yeshiva high school students were killed and several others
wounded in Itamar when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the community and
opened fire on the teenagers.
June 2003
June 5: 17 people were killed when a car packed with a large quantity of
explosives struck Egged bus No. 830 traveling from Tel-Aviv to Tiberias at the
Megiddo junction near Afula. The car exploded near the gasoline tank of the bus,
causing it to burst into flames. Most of the casualties were soldiers who were
on their way to their bases. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the
attack.
June 6: An 18-year-old Israeli student died of gunshot wounds to the chest
sustained in a shooting attack near Ofra, north of Ramallah, when Palestinian
terrorists opened fire from an ambush.
June 8: Three Israelis, including a pregnant woman, were shot dead when
terrorists infiltrated the community of Carmei Tzur south of Bethlehem.
June 11: Hadar Hirschkovitz, a 15 year old girl, was killed and eleven other
Israelis wounded when a Palestinian female suicide bomber set off a relatively
small pipe bomb at a shwarma restaurant in Herzliya.
June 11: D'vir Musai, an eighth grader, and two other children were wounded when
terrorists detonated a bomb against an Israeli schoolbus.
June 18: 19 people were killed and 74 wounded in a suicide bombing at the Patt
junction in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem.
The terrorist boarded the bus at the stop in Beit Safafa, an Arab neighborhood
opposite Gilo, and almost immediately detonated the large bomb which he carried
in a bag stuffed with ball bearings. The blast destroyed the front half of the
bus, packed with people on their way to work and schoolchildren.
June 19: Seven people, including a 5 year old girl and her grandmother, were
killed and 20 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus
stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem.
Hamas claimed responsibility.
June 19: Avraham Eliyahu Nechmad, 17, from Rishon L'Tzion, died as a result of
wounds suffered in the suicide bombing of 2 March 2002, becoming the 12th victim.
June 20: Five people, including a mother and three of her sons of the Shabo
family, were murdered and four others wounded when a terrorist entered the
community of Itamar and opened fire.
July 2003
July 4: A terrorist gunman opened fire at the El Al desk in the Los Angeles
Airport murdering 46-year-old Yaakov Aminov of Los Angeles and a El Al clerk, in
her 20s. A number of people were wounded.
July 16: Nine people (two men, six women, and an infant child) were killed and
over 20 wounded in a Palestinian terrorist attack on Dan bus no. 189 traveling
from Bnei Brak to Emmanuel in Samaria. Two 20 kg bombs were set off about 200
meters from the town's entrance, damaging the bus's front tires and forcing it
off the road. The explosion damaged the bus doors, trapping the passengers
inside. The terrorists then started to shoot at the bus, firing through the
unprotected roof and throwing grenades through the narrow upper windows, which
are not armored.
July 17: Five people were murdered and about 40 injured in a double suicide
bombing on Neve Sha'anan Street near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv.
July 21: Palestinian terrorists detonated a bomb near Yavne against a train
traveling Binyamina to Ashdod. The conductor was wounded.
July 25: Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, 43, was murdered and another civilian wounded
in a terrorist shooting attack near the West Bank community of Alei Zahav, west
of Ariel.
July 26: Yosef Dickstein, his wife Chana, and their 9 year old son Shuvel Zion
were murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack. Two of their other children
were wounded in the same attack.
July 30: Two brothers were shot and killed when their truck came under fire in
the West Bank village of Jama'in, near Ariel, apparently while selling diesel
oil to a cement factory in the village.
July 31: Nine people (including four Americans) were killed and 86 were wounded
when a bomb exploded in the Frank Sinatra cafeteria on the Hebrew University Mt.
Scopus campus in Jerusalem.
August 2003
August 1: Shani Ladani, 27 years old, was tied up and shot in the head at
point-blank range by Arabs, west of Tulkarem, near the Green Line.
August 4: Nine people were killed in the suicide bombing of Egged bus No. 361
traveling from Haifa to Safed at the Meron junction in northern Israel. The
blast blew off the roof of the bus, which then burst into flames, killing or
wounding nearly everyone inside.
August 4: A 34-year-old Israeli and a 52-year-old Palestinian were killed and 14
others were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a pistol near
the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City.
August 5: Avi (29) and Avital (27) Volansky were killed when terrorists opened
fire on their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus road near Luban
el-Sharqiya. Two of their children were wounded in the attack.
August 7: An Israeli was stabbed at the Cave of Eliyahu in Haifa.
August 7: A gasoline tanker truck containing 15,000 liters of fuel exploded in
Rishon L'Tzion due to a terrorist bomb. Only the driver was wounded.
August 10: A 30 year old woman was killed and her husband seriously wounded when
a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated Moshav Mechora in the Jordan Valley and
opened fire outside their home.
August 10: The eighth victim of the 31 July bombing attack at Hebrew University
died of injuries suffered in that attack.
September 2003
September 18: The charred body of a 67-year-old Israeli construction contractor
was found near el-Azzariya, a Palestinian village near Ma'ale Adummim, east of
Jerusalem. He was the victim of a terrorist killing.
September 18: Yosef Ajmi, 36 years old, was killed when terrorists opened fire
on his car near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank.
September 18: An Israeli policeman was killed and three people were wounded in a
suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Umm al Fahm junction.
September 19: Five people were killed and 69 wounded when a suicide bomber
terrorist detonated a bomb in Dan bus No. 4 on Allenby Street, opposite the
Great Synagogue in Tel-Aviv. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
September 20: Yoni Jesner of wounds suffered in a suicide bombing attack the
previous day.
September 23: Shlomo Yitzhak Shapira, 48 years old, resident of Jerusalem, was
killed and three of his sons wounded, in a shooting attack near the Cave of the
Patriarchs in Hebron during the Sukkot festival.
September 26: Five persons were wounded in a terrorist shooting attack at K'vasim
Junction in the Hevron Hills. All the victims, four adults and an infant were
residents of nearby Beit Haggai.
October 2003
October 3: An Israeli Arab was wounded terrorist gunfire between Tul Karem and
Jenin while working on the road from Baka el-Sharqiya to Hermesh.
October 8: A 51 year-old Israeli was critically wounded in an ambush shooting
south of Hebron. He died of his wounds the following day. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack.
October 10: A 71 year-old woman was killed and about 30 people were wounded when
a suicide bomber blew himself up while trying to board Dan bus No. 87 across
from Bar-Ilan University on the Geha highway (Route 4) in central Israel.
October 15: Seven people are wounded when an intercity bus traveling from Beit
Shean to Afula was targeted by terrorist gunfire.
October 21: 14 persons were killed and 65 wounded when an intracity bus
traveling from Kiryat Shmona to Tel Aviv was blown up in a suicide bombing by a
terrorist member of Islamic Jihad driving an explosives-laden jeep near the
Alonit Junction.
October 27: Three were killed and 21 wounded in a suicide bombing at the Eshel
HaShomron gas station at the entrance to Ariel in Samaria.
October 29: A woman and two 14-year-old girls were killed and one person was
wounded by a terrorist who infiltrated the community of Hermesh, north of
Tulkarm, in Samaria.
November 2003
November 4: Two persons were killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated
at a Kfar Sava shopping mall.
November 6: Two Israeli farmers were shot to death and one wounded by a
Palestinian terrorist posing as a worker near Pe'at Sadeh in the southern Gaza
Strip.
November 10: Five people, including a mother and her 4- and 5-year-old children,
were shot and killed by a Fatah terrorist who infiltrated Kibbutz Metzer,
located east of Hadera near the Green Line. The terrorist shot the mother and
children as they hugged one another. [12]
November 15: terrorists open fire with automatic weapons and hand grenades at
Jewish worshippers walking homr from prayers at the Cave of the Patriarchs. 12
people are killed and twenty wounded. Among the dead are nine military personnel.
November 21: 11 people were killed and about 50 wounded in a suicide bombing on
a No. 20 Egged bus in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem. Most of the
victims were high-school students on their way to school.
November 28: Kenyan hotel bombing: Three Israelis, including two brothers, and
10 Kenyans killed when a car bomb exploded in the lobby of the Israeli-owned
beachfront Paradise Hotel, frequented almost exclusively by Israeli tourists
near Mombasa in Kenya. 21 Israelis and 60 Kenyans were wounded in the attack.
Six Israelis were killed when two terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at
the Likud polling station in Beit She'an, where party members were casting their
votes in the Likud primary.
December 2003
December 20: Rabbi Yitzhak Arama, aged 40, of Netzer-Hazani, was shot and killed
on the Kissufim corridor road (in the Gaza Strip) while driving with his wife
and six children to attend a pre-wedding Sabbath celebration in Afula.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
December 27: Four yeshiva students were killed in Otniel while working in the yeshiva kitchen, serving the Shabbat meal to some 100 students in the adjacent dining room. Two terrorists infiltrated the settlement, entered the yeshiva building through the kitchen service door, and shot dead the four unarmed students.
2004
January 2004
January 3: Israeli soldiers kill three Palestinians in a clash with Palestinian stone throwers in Nablus in the West Bank, one of them a 15-year-old boy. Later, during the funeral service for the three dead, another Palestinian was shot dead. Three others were wounded.
January 13: A father of five was shot dead and three Israelis were injured in a roadside ambush by the Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.
January 14: Four Israelis were killed at Erez crossing after a suicide bomber exploded herself in a checkpoint to the industrial zone of Erez. Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility.
January 28: Israeli forces entered the Alzaytoun area south of Gaza City,
killing eight Palestinians, five of whom were armed members of the Palestinian
Islamic Jihad, and wounding dozens.
January 29: Eleven Israelis killed and 50 wounded in a suicide bombing of a city
bus in Jerusalem. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility. Hamas
also claimed responsibility the next day. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign
Affairs released a video documenting the sights that police forensic expert
encountered at the scene. (contains graphic content).
January 30: Three armed Palestinians were killed in gun fights with IDF forces.
Two were killed while carrying explosives near Dugit. The third died in a
gunfight at Bethlehem.
February 2004
February 2: Yasser Abu al-Aesh, an alleged local leader of Islamic Jihad, was
among four militants killed during an Israeli raid in the Rafah refugee camp in
the Gaza Strip. The house where the men had been staying was later destroyed.
February 11: Twelve Palestinian militants and civilians were killed in clashes
with Israeli forces in al-Shojaeya neighbourhood in Gaza city. In Rafah refugee
camp one Palestinian civilian was killed by Israeli sniper fire. During the day
more than 50 Palestinians were wounded, 23 of them children.
February 22: Eight Israelis killed and 60 wounded in a suicide bombing of a city
bus (14A) in Jerusalem, occurring one day before the start of hearings at the
International Court of Justice regarding the Israeli West Bank barrier. The
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
February 26: Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Amir Zimmerman, 25, of Kfar Monash was killed and
two other soldiers wounded when two Palestinian guerrillas opened fire near the
Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The guerrillas were killed by
IDF forces. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the
attack.
February 27: An Israeli couple (parents of a 2-year old girl) were shot dead in
their car on their way home, in the northern Negev. After firing at the car from
a distance, causing the driver to lose control, the terrorists approached the
car and shot the couple at point-blank range. Altogether, over 40 bullets were
used. Yasser Arafat's Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.[12],
February 28: Mahmud Jhouda, head of Islamic Jihad's "military wing" in Gaza was killed together with another Islamic Jihad member and a relative of his, when the car in which the three were driving was targeted by an Israeli helicopter.
March 2004
March 3: Three Hamas militants were killed in the Gaza Strip when their car was
targeted by an Israeli helicopter. Hamas said the three were on "a jihad mission".
March 13: Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers near the Karni border
crossing in Gaza.
March 14: Two Palestinian suicide bombers kill 10 and wound 12 in the Israeli port of Ashdod. Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim joint responsibility.
March 18: Four Palestinians, two militants and two children, die in two Israeli
air strikes on Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. Several more are wounded.
March 19: An Israeli man, George Elias Khouri, is shot dead from a passing
vehicle while jogging in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem. Al-Aqsa
Martyrs' Brigades claim the attack, and later apologize when it becomes known
that the victim was George Khouri, a Christian Arab.
March 22: Ahmed Yassin, leader and founder of Hamas in the Gaza Strip was killed
by an Israeli missile.
April 2004
April 3: Yaakov Zagha, a 40 year father of six, is shot dead outside his house
after his daughter Chana, 14, was wounded by a Palestinian from nearby Tul Karem.
The shooter was later killed by IDF forces. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility.
April 7: A demonstration of Palestinians and international activists against the
West Bank wall was fired upon by Israeli soldiers. Twenty people were injured,
none seriously.
April 17: Israeli border policeman Kfir Ohaiyon, 20, of Eilat was killed and
three other Israelis injured in a suicide bombing at the Erez Crossing in
northern Gaza.
April 25: Border Policeman Cpl. Yaniv Mashiah, 20, of Jaffa, was killed and
three others lightly wounded just an hour after the beginning of Memorial Day
for Israel's fallen soldiers, when shots were fired at their vehicle near Hebron.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 2004
May 2: Tali Hatuel, a 34-year-old Israeli woman who was eight months pregnant,
and her four daughters -- Hila (11), Hadar (9), Roni (7) and Meirav (2) -- were
shot to death in the Gaza Strip, near the Kissufim checkpoint. Three other
Israelis were wounded. The Popular Resistance Committees and Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility.
May 11: Six IDF soldiers were killed during an IDF operation to target Qassam
rocket workshops in Gaza City, when an armored personnel carrier was struck by
an explosive device planted by Palestinian terrorists. Hamas and the Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The soldiers killed: Sgt. Adaron
Amar, 20, of Eilat; Sgt. Aviad Deri, 21, of Maale Adumim; Staff-Sgt. Ofer Jerbi,
21, of Moshav Ben-Zakai; Staff-Sgt. Ya'akov (Zelco) Marviza, 25, of Kibbutz
Hama'apil; Sgt. Kobi Mizrahi, 20, of Moshav Mata; and Staff-Sgt. Eitan Newman,
21, of Jerusalem.
May 12: An IDF officer and four soldiers were killed, and three IDF soldiers
were lightly injured, while preparing to detonate a weapon-smuggling tunnel on
the Philadelphi Route near the Israeli-Egyptian border near Rafah. Their armored
personnel carrier exploded, apparently after being hit by an RPG anti-tank
rocket. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The soldiers
killed: Cpl. Elad Cohen, 20, of Jerusalem; Sgt.-Maj. Aiman Ghadir, 24, of Bir
Makhsur; Capt. Aviv Hakani, 23, of Ashdod; Sgt. Za'ur (Zohar) Smelev, 19, of
Ofakim; and Sgt. Lior Vishinski, 20, of Ramat Gan.
May 14: Staff-Sargent Rotem Adam, 21, Rishon Lezion and Sargent Alexei Hayat,
21, of Beer Sheva were killed and two soldiers moderately wounded by Palestinian
sniper fire in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.
May 29: Major Shachar Ben-Yishai, 25, of Menahemia was killed by Palestinian
gunfire following a search in the Balata camp near Nablus. The Fatah Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 2004
June 21: Weerachai Wongput, 37, from the Nong Han District of the northeastern
province of Udon Thani in Thailand, died after being hit by shrapnel from a
mortar fired into greenhouses in Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. The mortar was
fired by Palestinians trying to divert attention from an attempt to infiltrate
the settlement. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 27: Staff-Sergeant Ro’i Nissim, 20, from Rishon L’Tzion, was killed and
five others were injured when an underground tunnel laden with more than 1000 kg
of explosives detonated under IDF outpost of the "Urhan" junction near Gush
Katif in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed
responsibility.
June 28: Four-year-old Afik Zahavi, and Mordehai Yosefof, 49, were killed in
Sderot by a Palestinian Qassam rocket that hit a kindergarten, the first fatal
Qassam attack. The boy's mother, Ruthie Zahavi, 28, was critically wounded.
Hamas claimed responsibility. *June 29: Moshe Yohai, 63, from Ashdod, an Israeli
truck driver, was shot dead near Ramallah. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed
responsibility.
July 2004
July 4: Victor Kreiderman, 49, was killed and his wife, Emma, wounded, in a
shooting attack between Mevo Dotan and Shaked. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
claimed responsibility. The militant fled to the nearby Arab village of Yabed.
July 6: Captain Moran Vardi, 25, of Shayetet-13 was killed during a battle with
two militants barricaded in a house in Nablus. In that battle four Palestinians
were killed, two of them were PFLP militants.
July 11: A remote-control bomb killed Ma'ayan Naim, 19, and wounded 34, in a bus
station in Har-Zion Boulevard in Tel Aviv. Yasser Arafat's al-Aqsa Martyrs'
Brigades claim responsibility. Israeli prime-minister Ariel Sharon said that: "Today’s
fatality [in the Tel Aviv bombing] was the first act of murder perpetrated under
the protective wing of the Hague ruling".
August 2004
August 2: A Qassam rocket hits Sderot and damages a house, causing blast
injuries to three people.
August 11: Two people were killed and 16 wounded when an explosive device was
detonated by Palestinian militants inside an Arab taxi as it attempted to cross
the Qalandia checkpoint just north of Jerusalem. Two Palestinians were killed,
and about 20 people, the majority of them Arabs, were wounded. The al-Aqsa
Martyrs' Brigades faction of Fatah claimed responsbility and expresses regret
that Arabs were among the dead and wounded.
August 13: Shlomo Miller, 50, father of seven children, was shot dead and
another person wounded in an ambush near Itamar. The gunman was killed by
Israeli security forces and was identified as an officer in Yasser Arafat's
Preventative Security Force. Fatah claimed responsibility.
August 15: A MAGAV policeman was slashed with a knife across the neck by an Arab from Shuafat, in the Old City of Jerusalem. The officer managed to kill the attacker, but was seriously wounded and underwent emergency surgery.
August 20: Nail Khalil Abu Ghulah, reported to suffer a psychological disorder,
was shot dead by Israeli soldiers east of Wadi Gaza village while climbing the
fence of an Israeli community.
August 27: A IDF Combat Engineering force rescues three Israelis from lynching
by Arabs in the Qalandia refugee camp. A Palestinian mob attacked the Israelis,
stoned them, beat them and tried to set their truck on fire. The Israelis were
wounded and after rescue were treated at "Haddasah Ein-Kerem" hospital in
Jerusalem.
August 30: An Israeli civilian was wounded by gunfire directed towards an IDF
position near Khan Yunis. He was evacuated to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon.
August 31: Two Palestinian suicide bombers kill 16 Israelis and wound more than
94 others aboard two city buses in Beer Sheva. Among the dead is four-year-old
Avial Atash. Hamas claims responsibility. The victims, all residents of
Beersheba: Shoshana Amos, 64; Aviel Atash, 3; Vitaly Brodsky, 52; Tamara
Dibrashvilli, 70; Raisa Forer, 55; Larisa Gomanenko, 48; Denise Hadad, 50;
Tatiana Kortchenko, 49; Rosita Lehman, 45; Karine Malka, 23; Nargiz Ostrovsky,
54; Maria Sokolov, 57; Roman Sokolovsky, 53; Tekele Tiroyaient, 33; Eliyahu Uzan,
58; Emmanuel Yosef (Yosefov), 28.,
September 2004
September 3: Two Arabs transporting a bomb are hit by Israeli gunfire causing
the bomb to explode. Both Arabs die.
September 7: A 60 year old jogger is wounded by shrapnel from a Qassam rocket
fired at Sederot.
September 7: Fourteen Hamas militants are killed and 40 wounded in an Israeli
airstrike on their training camp. ,
September 8: A car bomb explodes near a MAGAV road block in Baqa al-Sharkiya,
managing to kill only its driver. The Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed
responsibility.
September 8: An Arab fugitive was killed and two others wounded in Jericho
during a shootout with Israeli soldiers trying to arrest them.
September 10: Abdel Aziz Ashkar, 34, a Hamas leader was killed by Israeli forces.
September 13: Three senior militants belonging to the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades were killed in an Israeli targeted assassination in Jenin. ,
September 15: Nine Palestinian militants and a child were killed in two IDF
operations in Nablus and Jenin. In Nablus, Shayetet-13 killed four Fatah
militants, and one from Islamic Jihad. A child was killed in the crossfire. In
Jenin, four wanted Fatah militants were killed by undercover Border Police
troops. Two female suicide bombers turned themselves in to IDF forces following
the death of their handler Hanni Aqad. ,
September 20: Senior Hamas commander in Gaza Khaled Abu Shamiyah was killed by
Israeli forces. ,
September 20: Two Hamas members, Rabah Zakut and Nabil al-Saidi, while on their
way to launch Qassam rockets into Israel, were killed by Israeli forces in the
Rimal neighborhood of Gaza.
September 22: A female suicide bomber killed herself, wounding some 15 people
and killing Momoya Tahio, 20, from Rehovot, and Menashe Komemi, 19, from Moshav
Aminadav. Both were MAGAV officers who stopped her from approaching the nearby
bus stop in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem. The Fatah al-Aqsa
Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
September 23: A Qassam rocket attack on Sederot resulted in eight Israelis being
treated at Barzalai Hospital in Ashkelon.
September 23: Three terrorists were killed during an attack on the Israeli
community of Morag.
September 23: Three Israeli soldiers were killed defending the community of
Morag, Captain Tal Bardugo, 22, from Jerusalem; St.-Sergeant Nir Sami, 21, from
Jerusalem; St.-Sgt. Yisrael Lutati, 20, from N’vei Dekalim.
September 24: Tif’eret Tretner, 24, an Israeli woman, is killed and another is
wounded, on Friday morning when four mortar shells were fired at Neveh Dekalim,
part of the Gush Katif bloc in the Gaza Strip.
September 27: Two terrorists detected while placing a bomb near the Erez
Crossing were shot and wounded by Israeli troops.
September 29: Hamas member Tawfik Ali Charafi, and two or three others were
killed.
September 29: Three Qassam rockets hit Sderot, killing two-year-old Dorit Aniso
and four-year-old Yuval Abebeh, and injuring 10-20 people. Terrorist group Hamas
claimed responsibility.
September 30: Gilad Fischer, 22, from Hoshaiya, an Israeli soldier, was killed
near Beit Hanoun.
September 30: At least 24 Palestinians killed and dozens injured in wave of
fighting. Seven of the dead were hit by Israeli tank fire in a crowded
marketplace
September 30: Shulamit Batito, 36, from Nisanit, an Israeli woman, was shot dead
while jogging between Nisanit and Alei Sinai.
September 30: Victor Ariel, 20, from Moshav Kadima, a medic, was killed while
treating Shulamit Batito.
According to Haaretz, 97 Palestinians were killed during September 2004, 83 of
whom were armed militants.
October 2004
October 1, 2004: A Palestinian is killed and six are arrested,
by IDF forces, in a Palestinian police office near the Erez crossing. An explosive belt and
several rifles were captured in the same office. The seven planned to commit a
combined suicide attack on the Erez crossing.
October 2, 2004: Ten Palestinians are killed by IDF forces in another day of
fighting in the Gaza Strip. Four terrorists were killed, during an infiltration
attempt, 200 meters outside Kibbutz Nahal Oz in the Negev, while six others,
Hamas members, were killed by the Israeli Air Force's targeted strikes.
October 4: Two Israeli soldiers are wounded and six militants are killed,
including a Hamas field commander, and two Arab civilians are killed during the
sixth day of the Israeli incursion into the Jabaliya refugee camp. Two Qassam
rockets are fired at the Israeli town of Sderot, injuring one Israeli.
October 4: Ronen Ben-Meiri, 31, from Haifa, an Israeli undercover policeman was
killed in a gunfight with Palestinian Authority Force 17 members in Ramallah.
During the gunfight the three targeted Arabs were killed and two other wounded.
Among the dead Arabs was Nadiv Sawahteh, wanted for his role in numerous
terrorist shooting attacks.
October 5: An Israeli Arab motorist is shot and wounded by occupants of a
passing car while he was changing the tire of his vehicle on Route 60 near Gush
Etzion.
October 5: Bashir Dabash, a senior member Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip was
killed by Israeli helicopter air-to-surface missiles fired at his vehicle. A
second member of Islamic Jihad riding in the vehicle was killed as well. Also,
on this day, Iman Darweesh Al Hams, a 13 year-old girl, was shot and killed in
Rafah, Gaza Strip, by the IDF.
October 6: Pratheep Nanongkham, 24, a greenhouse worker from Maha Sarakham
province in Thailand, was killed when armed terrorists infiltrated the hothouse
area of Kfar Darom in the central Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility for
the attack.
October 7: Three car bombs are detonated in Egyptian towns in the Sinai
Peninsula frequented by Israeli tourists. The largest explosion, which killed at
least 35 and wounding 114, was at a Hilton Hotel in Taba, near the border with
Israel. The other two explosions occurred at the towns of Ras al-Sultan and
Nuweiba, killing two Israelis and four Egyptians. A group calling itself Jamayia
al-Islamia al-Alamiya ("World Islamist Group") later claims responsibility and
threatens further attacks. 13 of the victims were Israelis, 6 where Egyptians, 2
were Italians and 14 were from Russia and Eastern Europe.
October 8: A Palestinian worker died from his wounds Friday morning following a
Palestinian sniper attack on hothouse workers on the Rafah Yam settlement in the
southern Gaza Strip.
October 16: Operation Days of Penitence is officially ended, with an estimated
130 Palestinian killed, of which 87 were armed combatants.
October 18: six Palestinian militants are killed in failed attacks IDF forces.
Two crossed the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier and killed by IDF patrol, two were
killed in Kissufim junction and two were killed in Rafah, after trying to plant
a bomb.
October 19: Yair Turgeman, 22, is killed by sniper fire directed at the Menashe
Battalion in northern Sameria. The al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a faction of
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah, claimed responsibility.
October 21: two Hamas terrorists were shot dead while trying to infilitrate
Kibbutz Nahal Oz in the cover of morning fog.
October 21: Moshe Elmaleh, 34, of Dimona, husband and father of three, soldier
in the Israeli Engineering Corps was killed by a Hamas bomb blast along the
Philadelphi Route.
October 21: Hamas chief explosives engineer Adnal al-Ghoul and his deputy, Imad
al-Baas, were killed and two others wounded by the Israel Air Force helicopter
strike in Jabalia.
October 28: IDF Sergeant Michael Chizik was killed by mortars fired at an army post near the Gaza settlement of Morag. Six other soldiers were injured in the attack, of them three suffered serious wounds.
November 2004
November 1: Three Israelis (Leah Levine aged 64, Shmuel Levy aged 65, and
Tatiana Ackerman aged 34) were killed and 30 wounded when a 16-years old child
suicide bomber blow himself at the open air Carmel Market in Tel Aviv. The
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a part of Yasser Arafat's PLO
organization claims the bombing as theirs. Arafat's Palestinian Authority
condemned the bombing.
November 5: Two Palestinian children, Ahmad al-Sameiri (8) and his cousin
Muhammad al-Sameiri (7), are killed by an explosion in the refugee camp of Khan
Yonis in the Gaza Strip. Hospital officials say it was from a tank shell that
hit a house. Israeli spokesmen said there had been no army fire in the area.
They believe it was either caused when a Palestinian mortar misfired or by the
detonation of a roadside bomb. , ,
November 6: Two terrorists were killed en route to attacking the Israeli
community of Gadid. One Israeli soldier was wounded. Islamic Jihad confirms that
the dead were theirs.
November 6: Two Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades militants are killed when their car
bomb explodes prematurely in Qalqilya.
November 7: Cpl. Tom Dekel (20), is killed during a military operation near
Tulkarm, apperently by friendly fire.
November 7: Four terrorists were killed after they opened fire upon IDF soldiers
in Jenin. The four, Amin Abu-Qamil, Fadi Ajabriya, Muhmad Mashraqa and Muhmad
Simi-Salah, include two from Fatah and two from Islamic Jihad.
November 10: One terrorists was killed en route to the Israeli community of
Dugit and an Israeli naval patrol.
November 10: An Israeli child was wounded when the Israeli community of N'vei
Dekalim was attacked with mortars. Five mortar bombs hit the community in two
separate attacks.
November 11: A Thai worker was wounded in a mortar attack on the Israeli
community of Netzer-Hazani.
November 11: al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades attack Netzarim with bombs, mortar rounds,
rocket propelled grenades and automatic weapons. Three Arabs are killed.
November 13: A 26 year old woman was injured by shrapnel from a bomb attack in
eastern Gush Etzion. Fatah claims responsibility.
November 25: Three Hamas operatives were killed and one was seriously injured
during fights with IDF forces. In Hebron, Two Hamas seniors were killed and one
was seriously wounded after the IDF demolished the house they were hiding in. In
Rafah, one Hamas member was killed from a tank shell as the IDF uncovered a
smuggling tunnel in a residental building.
December 2004
December 7: Nadav Kudinski, an Israeli soldier from the K9 unit, and his dog
were killed from a bomb hidden in a chicken coop covering an underground tunnel.
In the ensuing battle two Hamas militants were killed. Later, two Islamic Jihad
were killed.
December 12: At least 5 Israeli soldiers from the Bedouin Scouts Battalion are
killed and 10 are injured, as a tunnel rigged with 1500 kg of explosives,
combined with two suicide bombers, exploded near the Humanitarian Rafah crossing
between Rafah and Egypt. Hamas and al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades' offshoot called "Fatah
Hawk" claimed joint responsibility. A Fatah gunmen was killed by IDF forces
after he shot on the rescue unit soldiers.
December 14: A Thai worker is killed and two more are injured in Gush Katif by
Palestinian mortar shell.
December 15: Five Israelis are injured, one critically, as Palestinian
terrorists shoot on two cars near the Kissufim crossing in the Gaza Strip. IDF
force managed to kill one of the shooters. Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa Martyrs'
Brigades claimed joint responsibility. ,
December 15: In the West Bank, gunmen of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades shot dead
20-year-old Ibrahim Zeita, who they said had acted as an informant for Israel.
His body was then dumped in a Ramallah square.
December 16 and December 17: Israel launched Operation Orange Iron in Khan Yunis,
in which IDF tanks and armored bulldozers entered the west part of the town to
prevent mortar shellings. During the operation 11 Palestinians were killed, of
whome 8 militants and 3 civilian, and between 24-50 were injured. IDF said that
two soldiers were lightly injured from anti-tank missile and that "21 were hurt".
December 21: Ariela Fahima, 39, mother to four and resident of Moshav Nechusa,
was found dead near her home. The Israeli Police said that this was an act of
terror, committed by Palestinians from the near-by West Bank.
December 22: Israeli civil security guard who guarded bulldozers used for
building the Israeli West Bank barrier was killed in a shooting attack by two
Palestinian terrorists.
December 30: Ten Palestinians, of whome 9 were armed, are killed in an Israeli army incursion into the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. During the raid the local Hamas commander is killed and two Israeli soldiers are slightly wounded. The raid, codenamed "Purple Iron" was the third operation in Khan Yunis in response to constant mortars shelling on Israeli settlements.
2005
January 2005
January 2: one Israeli civilian was seriously wounded when a Palestinian mortar
shell hit the Erez crossing.
January 2:one women was lightly injured when a barrage of Qassam rockets hit
Sderot.
January 2: Vladimir Rubin, a 66 years old security guard of the natural reserve
of Beit Jubrin was shot dead. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed
responsibility.
January 4: two Israeli children were injured when a Palestinian mortar shell
landed near a school bus.
January 5: 12 soldier are wounded, when a Qassam rocket hit a base near the
Gaze-Israeli border.
January 6: One Hamas activist was shot dead by Israeli soldiers while he was
infiltrating the Ganei Tal settlement in Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip.
January 7: One Israeli is killed and four Israelis were wounded from in a
shooting attack in the West Bank. In Gaza, two Palestinians were killed.
January 8: One Palestinian police man was shot dead by Israeli forces at a
roadblock in southern Gaza
January 11: Nissim Arviv, 26, dies from his wounds, after being struck by a Palestinian mortar in the Erez crossing nine days ago.
January 12: Gideon Rivlin, 50, a father of five, is killed and 4 Israeli
soldiers are wounded in attack by 3 Palestinian militants who detonated a
roadside bomb near the Morag settlememt greenhouse in Gush Katif. IDF forces
returned fire and killed two of the attackers. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility.
January 13: Two Palestinian suicide bombers explode themselves and a truck ladden with explosives in the Karni crossing - a terminal in the eastern Gaza Strip allowing Palestinian merchants to export goods. At least 6 civilians, all Israelis, were killed and about 10-20 were wounded in the attack. The six were Hertzle Shlomo (50), Ivan Shmilov (53), Dror Gazari (31) from Sderot, Ofer Tiri (23) of Ashkelon, Muna'am Abu-Sabia (33) of Daburia and Ibrhim Kahili (46) of Um-al-Ghanem. Palestinian militants launched mortar shells and automatic weapsons fire against ambulances who came to evacuate the wounded and treat the casualties. Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Hamas and The Popular Resistance Committees claimed joint responsibility. About 3 militants were killed during the attack. Palestinian President-elect Mahmoud Abbas is the chairman of Fatah.
January 15: Eight Palestinian militants have been killed in three separate
clashes in the Gaza strip: 4 were killed in al-Zaytoun neigborhood, a Hamas
stronghold in Gaza City, 2 were killed in Rafah and other 2 were killed near
Kissufim junction.
January 15: On noon, an Israeli child living on a settlement was injured from a
Qassam rocket, loosing his hand. In the afternoon, aQassam rocket hit Sderot and
wounded 6 people. An Israeli 17-years-old woman suffered critical wounds. Hamas
claimed responsibility.
January 18: Palestinian suicide bomber killed one security officer and wounded
six Israelis in Gush Katif junction in the Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed
responsibility.
January 21: Ella (Chaya) Abukasis, 17, who sustained critical wounds from a
Qassam rocket on January 15 when she tried to shield her 10-years-old brother
from the rocket, died from her wounds in the Soroka hospital.
January 31: 2 people suffered shock injuries as 7 mortar shells hit Neve Dekalim
settlement in the Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility and say the shooting
was a revenge for the killing of a 10-years-old girl in Rafah earlier this
morning. Palestinians initially claimed she was killed from IDF tank shell but
it was letter revealed that she was killed by Palestinian pilgrims, who shot
spontanously into the air.
February 2005
February 3: 6 Israeli soldiers were hurt in two separate incidents southwest to
Hebron and in the Gaza Strip, when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on their cars.
In the Gaza Strip, Givati Brigade soldiers returned fire and killed the militant.
The Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
February 25 - February 26: A Palestinian suicide bomber explodes himself at the
entrance of the near-coast "Stage" club in Tel Aviv, killing at least 5 Israelis
and wounding 38 more. Responsibility is reportedly claimed by Palestinian
Islamic Jihad and Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. The al-Aqsa Brigades said
that Hizbullah was involved in the attack. All three groups subsequently deny
responsibility. However, on the 26th, the Islamic Jihad HQ in Damascus, Syria
claimed responsibility.
February 28: two Israelis are wounded by a Palestinian shooting attack eastern
to the city of Modi'in.
March 2005
March 7: Two Israeli soldiers were shot in Hebron, the two were injured, one
seriously.
March 10: Israeli troops kill Mohammed Abu Hazneh, a member of Palestinian
Islamic Jihad and one of the plotter of the recent Tel Aviv "Stage" nightclub
suicide bombing. After he shot and killed a K9 dog, the troops bulldozed his
house, crushing him to death. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the
recent suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv Nightclub.
March 20: Three Israeli soldier and one police officer are wounded (two of them
seriously) after they were shot by Palestinians in Ramallah. They entered the
city by accident during a search for stolen cars. The Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs'
Brigades claim responsibility.
April 2005
April 5: one Israeli citizen is shot in the chest and critically wounded in the settlement of Morag (northwest to Rafah). The Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility.
April 7: a Qassam rocket hit a cemetery in Sderot, but causes no casualties.
April 18: Two Israelis, one engineering NCO and one civilian, where wounded by a
Palestinian sniper in attack on Philadelphi Route of southern Gaza. The Popular
Resistance Committees claimed responsibility.
April 21: Three Israeli soldiers were hurt in blast when there jeep went on an
IED roadside bomb, near Karni Crossing, on the edge of the Gaza Strip.
April 22 and April 23: A Qassam rocket was launched toward northen Gaza
community. No casualties were reported. Also, Palestinian militants stabbed a
soldier near Ganim settlement, injuring him moderately.
April 25: Tsiki Eyal, 23, an Israel reserves soldier was killed in Hebron, in an
incident involving running Palestinian car. Inital reports said an Israeli
reserves soldier was killed, when he was run over by a Palestinian car in Hebron.
Soldiers in the scene opened fire and killed the running driver. Autopsy found
bullets remain in the soldier's head, suggesting the soldier was hit by his
comrades after they opened fire on the running car. Recent reports say that the
driver was unarmed and did not have ties to any militant organization. It is
still unclear rather the incident was a deliberate attack by the driver or a
combination of a dark night and misunderstanding that caused a fatal accident.
May 2005
May 2: Following an Israeli raid on the Palestinian city of Tulkarm, one Israeli
soldier and one Islamic Jihad leader are killed. The soldier is killed in a
gunfight with 3 members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The three were suspected
to have been part of a the cell which was involved in Tel Aviv "Stage" club
bombing in February 2005. Shafiq Abdul Rani, the leader of the Jihad cell in
Tulkarm was killed and another militant was arrested.
May 16: A Palestinian is killed after he tries to stab a soldier.
May 16: Four Israeli construction workers were injured by a Palestinian
anti-tank rocket attack on Philadelphi Route.
May 18: It was the peak of a sharp increase in violence in the Gaza Strip after
Palestinian factions shelled Israeli settlements and towns with more than 31
mortar shells and Qassam rockets. Two Hamas militants were killed this day: one
in Rafah, while trying to plant a bomb, and one in Khan Yunis while trying to
launch a mortar shell. Palestinian claim that the Khan Yunis mortar squad was
hit by a missile fired from an [UAV|unmanned drone]]. Israel refused to comment.
May 20: A big terror attack on an Israeli settlement was thwarted. 3-4
Palestinian militants snuck into an abandoned UNRWA structure watching over Kfar
Darom settlement and started to bombard the settlement with mortar shells and
anti-tank missiles. IDF and MAGAV forces returned fire, killing one militant and
chasing off the rest. Hamas claimed joint responsibility with the Fatah's Al
Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and the Popular Resistance Committees.
May 28: A Hamas militant was killed after a rocket he was handling has misfired.
May 28: Three Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an Israeli base near Jenin.
Soldiers returned fire, wounding the three. They were arrested and taken into
medical treatement. Later, one of the militants died from his wounds.
May 29: a Palestinian is shot dead by Israeli soldiers after he tried to stab
them in Hebron. Soldier called him to stop and fired warning shots but he kept
advancing toward them, drawing a 12-cm dagger.
May 29: Two Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades militants were killed in the Gaza Strip
after a bomb they made exploded prematurely.
June 2005
June 7: A day of violence erupts in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. :
It begins with a barrage of three Qassam rockets on Sderot, severely damaging
one house. Hamas claimed responsibility.
Israeli soldiers kill senior Islamic Jihad militant Marwah Kamil after he fired
on troops that attempted to arrest him. The operation took place under heavy
fire exchanges, in which another Palestinian gunmen was killed and an IDF
officer was wounded from a grenade. An IDF Caterpillar D9 started to demolish
Kamil's house after he shot at troops, killing him.
A Qassam rocket hit the Ganey Tal and killed 3 workers: 2 Palestinians and a
Chinese citizen. Another 6 workers were wounded. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility.
A total of 9 Qassam rockets, 5 mortar shells and 5 anti-tank missiles were fired
upon Israeli settlements.
June 18: a militant attack on Kfar Darom settlement is foiled. Four militants
from the Fatah and the Islamic Jihad tried to infiltrate into the settlement,
but were noticed by IDF soldiers. The soldiers opened fire and killed 1 or 2
militants. Earlier in the morning, two Palestinian teenagers were arrested while
trying to smuggle weapons. .
June 19:
One Israeli soldier is killed and 2 construction workers are injured after
Palestinian militants fired anti-tank missile at them in the Philadelphi Route.
The soldiers returned fire and managed to kill one of the attackers. The Islamic
Jihad and the Fatah's Abu-Reish Brigades claimed responsibility.
At the Hawara checkpoint near Nablus, another Palestinian teenager was caught
smuggling five pipe bombs in a wooden box. Palestinian sources identified the
boy as 16-year-old Khalil Mohammed Hashash.
June 20:
One Israeli is killed in a West Bank ambush after Palestinian gunmen shot his
car. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. ,
A Palestinian female suicide bomber was caught in the Erez Crossing, carrying
explosives and a detonator in her underwear. She planned to carry out a suicide
bombing attack in the Soroka hospital were she received medical treatment and
was scheduled for a doctors appointment. The woman was identified as Wafa Samir
Ibrahim Bass and said she was sent by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. ,
June 24: An Israeli teenager, Avichay Levi (17), is killed and four others are
injured after a shooting attack from a Palestinian car in Beit Haggai junction
south of Hebron. The Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility. ,
June 26: Avi Mantzur (16), who was critically injured in the June 24 Beit Haggai
attack, dies from his wounds.
According to Haaretz, 5 Israelis and 7 Palestinians were killed during June.
Three of the Israelis killed were civilians, one was a soldier that was killed
by Hizbullah. Four of the Palestinians killed were armed militants; one was
killed when he tried to infilitrate through the Gaza Strip barrier. Two more
Palestinians were killed by a Qassam rocket fired by Palestinians; this attack
also killed a Chinese worker.
July 2005
July 9: Israeli security guard shoots a fifteen year-old Palestinian boy by the
name of Muheeb Ahmad Assi near the village of Beit Lakiya. Palestinians were not
allowed near the boy until over a hour had passed, by which point he had bled to
death, doctors said.
July 12: Palestinian militants carried out two suicide bombings against Israel.
A car bomb was detonated near a school in the Shavey Shomron settlement, but
failed to cause casualties, though the bomber was seriously injured. In Netanya,
a suicide bomber exploded himself near HaSharon Mall, killing at least four
women (including two friends aged 16) and one male. The Palestinian Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility. , , , , Update on the 5th victim:
July 14: One Israeli woman was killed after the Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades fired a barrage of more than a dozen Qassam rockets over Israeli settlements inside and outside the Gaza Strip. The woman, aged 22, was killed by a direct hit from a rocket in Netiv Ha'asara, a settlement north of the Gaza Strip.
July 15: Seven Hamas militants were killed by Israeli Air Force targeted strikes.
The attacks came after Hamas and Fatah launched more than two dozen Qassam
rockets over Israeli settlements, killing one woman and jeopardizing the Sharem
al-Sheikh truce. ,
July 17:
Two Hamas mortars injure five residents of the Jewish settlement Neve Dekalim in
the Gaza Strip. Four Qassam rockets land in Israeli territory but no injuries
are reported. An Israeli missile attack on a car in Beit Lahiya misses the two
men in the car but seriously wounds a Palestinian bystander.
An Israeli army sniper kills Said Seyam, 30, a Hamas commander of the
Ezzedeen-al-Qassam Brigades in Khan Yunis. The sniper, operating from an
observation tower at the Jewish settlement of Ganei Tal, shoots Seyam in the
neck while he is standing outside his home.
July 24: Two Israeli civilians, eldery husband ans wife, were slain by
Palestinian shooting attack in Kisufim road in the Gaza Strip. The Fatah's
al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees and the Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. IDF Engineering forces managed to
kill the two terrorists. The attack came after a Palestinian suicide bomber from
Jebaliya, sent by Fatah, was caught near Kibbutz Nir Am outside the Gaza Strip.