Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2001
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Note: This compilation includes only those attacks on Israelis that resulted in casualties and no Palestinian deaths are recorded. Numerous other attacks which failed to kill, maim, or wound
are not included.
Wound
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are not included.
Criticism
Some claim that the claims of violences are not properly evidenced, and that these are lies of anti-islamic jews.Total Death Toll in 2001: 2011
MDT stands for Monthly Death Toll and the number after denotes how many Israeli nationals were killed by attacks this month.January (MDT: 6)
- January 14: a settler murdered.
- January 17: Ofir RahumOfir RahumThe murder of Ofir Rahum was a shooting attack which occurred on January 17, 2001, in which Palestinian militants killed 16-year-old Israeli high school student Ofir Rahum....
, a 16 year old IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i youth is seduced by a PalestinianPalestinian peopleThe Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
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 eating and shot to death in Tul Karem.
- January 25: an Israeli killed in a shooting attack in AtarotAtarotAtarot was a moshav in Mandatory Palestine, north of Jerusalem along the highway to Ramallah. The village was captured and destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Legion during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War...
(a suburb of Jerusalem). - January 29: an Israeli killed in a drive-by shootingDrive-by shootingA drive-by shooting is a form of hit-and-run tactic, a personal attack carried out by an individual or individuals from a moving or momentarily stopped vehicle without use of headlights to avoid being noticed. It often results in bystanders being shot instead of, or as well as, the intended target...
north of Jerusalem.
February (MDT: 13)
- February 1: two Israelis murdered in different places in the West BankWest BankThe West Bank ) of the Jordan River is the landlocked geographical eastern part of the Palestinian territories located in Western Asia. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan...
while driving in their cars. - February 5: an Israeli soldier killed by sniperSniperA sniper is a marksman who shoots targets from concealed positions or distances exceeding the capabilities of regular personnel. Snipers typically have specialized training and distinct high-precision rifles....
fire. - February 11: an Israeli settler killed by gunfire while driving.
- February 14: 8 Israeli soldiers run down by a Palestinian driving a bus.
- February 26: a body of an Israeli found. AutopsyAutopsyAn autopsy—also known as a post-mortem examination, necropsy , autopsia cadaverum, or obduction—is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse to determine the cause and manner of death and to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present...
and investigation revealed it was most likely he was murdered by militant Palestinians.
March (MDT: 8)
- March 1: an Israeli killed in a suicide bombing in a service taxi.
- March 4: 3 elderly Israelis killed in a suicide bombing in downtown NetanyaNetanyaNetanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...
. Hamas claimed responsibility. - March 19: a settler killed in a gunfire attack while driving.
- March 26: an 10-months old settler babygirl, Shalhevet PassShalhevet PassThe murder of Shalhevet Pass was a shooting attack which was carried out on March 26, 2001 in Hebron, in which a Palestinian sniper killed the ten-month-old Israeli infant Shalhevet Pass...
, killed by deliberate sniper fire in Hebron. - March 28: two Israelis killed in a suicide bombing. HamasHamasHamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades...
claimed responsibility.
April (MDT: 7)
- April 1: an Israeli soldier killed in a firefight near NablusNablusNablus is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, approximately north of Jerusalem, with a population of 126,132. Located in a strategic position between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a Palestinian commercial and cultural center.Founded by the...
. An Israeli woman stabbed to death on a Haifa street. - April 2: an Israeli soldier killed by a sniper while guarding a Jewish religious shrine in Nablus.
- April 3: eight people are lightly injured by a bomb late at night on Yisod HaMaaleh Street in Hod HaSharon.
- April 3: 15-month-old Ariel Yered, a resident of the southern Gaza Israeli settlement of Atzmona was critically injured in a mortar attack. His mother was moderately wounded. They were in their back yard when rockets landed during the afternoon hours.
- April 21: a mutilated body of an Israeli found near RamallahRamallahRamallah is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank located 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem, adjacent to al-Bireh. It currently serves as the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority...
, militants suspected. - April 22: a Kfar-Saba doctor of American origin killed by a suicide bomber. 60 people are wounded, Hamas claimed responsibility.
- April 28: an Israeli soldier off-duty killed and 4 women injured in a drive-by shooting in the GalileeGalileeGalilee , is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative North District of the country. Traditionally divided into Upper Galilee , Lower Galilee , and Western Galilee , extending from Dan to the north, at the base of Mount Hermon, along Mount Lebanon to the...
. An Israeli woman stabbed to death in , Galilee.
May (MDT: 19)
- May 1: a settler is killed by gunfire while driving.
- May 8: a guard of an Israeli settlement killed.
- May 9: two 14-year settler boys Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran were stoned to deathMurder of Koby Mandell and Yosef IshranThe murder of Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran occurred on May 8, 2001, when two Jewish teenagers, Yaakov "Koby" Mandell and Yosef Ishran, were killed on the outskirts of the Israeli settlement of Tekoa in the West Bank, where they lived with their families...
. - May 10: two RomaniaRomaniaRomania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
n workmen are killed in a bomb attack in Gaza. - May 14: A 22-year-old Israeli was wounded in a shooting attack in the vicinity of Kohav HaShachar.
- May 14: Gunmen fire from Beit JalaBeit JalaBeit Jala is an Arab Christian town in the Bethlehem Governorate of the West Bank. Beit Jala is located 10 km south of Jerusalem, on the western side of the Hebron road, opposite Bethlehem, at altitude...
into the settlement of GiloGiloGilo is a neighborhood in southern East Jerusalem with a population of 40,000, mostly Jewish. It is one of the five ring neighborhoods of Jerusalem and is built on land in the West Bank that was annexed to Israel in 1980 under the Jerusalem Law. The international community regards it as an...
wounding four Israelis. - May 15: an Israeli young woman is killed by gunfire while driving.
- May 18: 5 Israelis killed in a suicide bombing in NetanyaNetanyaNetanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...
. Over 100 are wounded, Hamas claimed responsibility. An Israeli soldier off-duty is killed by gunfire while driving. - May 23: an Israeli is killed while driving from a road-side ambush.
- May 25: a burnt body of an Israeli is found near Tulkarem.
- May 29: an Israeli settler is killed by gunfire while driving, FatahFatahFataḥ is a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization , a multi-party confederation. In Palestinian politics it is on the left-wing of the spectrum; it is mainly nationalist, although not predominantly socialist. Its official goals are found...
claiming responsibility. Two other Israelis were killed north of Jerusalem. - May 31: an Israeli settler shot and killed in a drive-by shooting.
June (MDT: 30)
- June 1: Dolphinarium massacreDolphinarium massacreThe Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing was a terrorist attack by on June 1, 2001 in which a suicide bomber Saeed Hotari, a millitant linked to the Palestinian group Hamas, blew himself up outside a discotheque on a beachfront in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 Israeli teenagers and injuring 132...
: 21 Israeli young people murdered and over 120 wounded by a HamasHamasHamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades...
militant suicide bombing at a discoDiscoDisco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
near the Dolphinarium in Tel-Aviv. - June 5: Infant Yehuda Shoham was critically injured in an Arab stone-throwing attack near his home in Shilo. The baby died of his injuries.
- June 12: a Greek OrthodoxEastern Orthodox ChurchThe Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to as the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the second largest Christian denomination in the world, with an estimated 300 million adherents mainly in the countries of Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece,...
churchman is murdered in an Arab drive-by shooting on the Maaleh Adumim road. - June 14: an Israeli intelligence official is murdered by one of his informants.
- June 18: two Israelis were murdered in various locations by Fatah gunfire.
- June 20: an Israeli is ambushed and murderded.
- June 22: two soldiers killed in a suicide explosion of a jeep that signaled for help.
- June 28: a woman murdered and another injured in a drive-by shooting.
August (MDT: 30)
- August 5: a pregnant Israeli settler woman is murdered in a gunfire ambush.
- August 6: an Israeli businessman killed in AmmanAmmanAmman is the capital of Jordan. It is the country's political, cultural and commercial centre and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. The Greater Amman area has a population of 2,842,629 as of 2010. The population of Amman is expected to jump from 2.8 million to almost...
, JordanJordanJordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...
. - August 7: an Israeli Arab killed because of suspected collaboration with Israel. An Israeli is killed while driving.
- August 9: 15 people die and 130 are injured in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Both Hamas and Islamic JihadIslamic Jihad Movement in PalestineThe Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine known in the West as simply Palestinian Islamic Jihad , is a small Palestinian militant organization. The group has been labelled as a terrorist group by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Australia and Israel...
claim responsibility. An Israeli student killed in a shooting attack north of the West Bank. - August 25: 3 Israeli soldiers killed in an attack against an Israeli outpost. The DFLP claimed responsibility. 3 Israeli civilians killed by gunfire while driving near Jerusalem.
- August 26: an Israeli settler is invited to an Arab village and then killed.
- August 27: an Israeli settler is killed in a roadside ambush.
- August 29: an Israeli fuel truck driver is killed near Nablus.
- August 30: an Israeli is killed in the restaurant owned by his ArabArabArab people, also known as Arabs , are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing...
friends.
September (MDT: 13)
- September 6: an Israeli officer shot and killed in an ambush while driving off-duty to a wedding. Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility.
- September 9: 3 people die in a suicide bombing in Nahariya. A teacher and a school janitor killed in a shooting attack while driving in a van to school in Jordan Valley.
- September 11: an Israeli soldier and an Israeli border police serviceman killed in an attack on a border police base.v
- September 12: an Israeli woman killed while driving.
- September 15: a Jerusalem resident killed in a drive-by shooting.
- September 16: an Israeli soldier killed while arresting Palestinian militant leaders.
- September 20: a settler woman is killed, and her husband injured while driving. Their three children were also riding in the car, but were not hurt. Fatah claimed responsibility.
- September 28: an Israeli woman killed in a shooting attack in Jordan ValleyJordan Valley (Middle East)The Jordan Valley forms part of the larger Jordan Rift Valley. It is 120 kilometers long and 15 kilometers wide, where it runs from Lake Tiberias in the north to northern Dead Sea in the south. It runs for an additional 155 kilometer south of the Dead Sea to Aqaba, an area also known as Wadi...
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October (MDT: 14)
- October 2: an Israeli soldier off-duty and her boyfriend killed in a Palestinian infiltration of a GazaGazaGaza , also referred to as Gaza City, is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip, with a population of about 450,000, making it the largest city in the Palestinian territories.Inhabited since at least the 15th century BC,...
settlement. - October 4: 3 people killed when a gunman opens fire in the central bus station in Afula. 13 people are injured, Fatah claimed responsibility.
- October 5: an Israeli settler killed in a machine gun ambush.
- October 7: an Israeli farmer killed in a suicide bombing north of Jordan Valley.
- October 17: Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam ZeeviRehavam Zeevi' 20 June 1926 - 17 October 2001) was an Israeli general, politician, and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party, mainly advocating population transfer....
is assassinated by the PFLP. - October 18: an Israeli tourist is killed while driving in a jeep in the Judean desert.
- October 28: 4 people killed and 40 wounded when Palestinian policemen attack a crowded bus stop in Hedera. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. An Israeli soldier killed in the Galilee in a drive-by shooting. TanzimTanzimTanzim is a militant faction of the Palestinian Fatah movement.-Overview:The Tanzim militia, founded in 1995 to counter Palestinian Islamism, is widely considered to be an armed offshoot of Fatah with its own leadership structure...
claimed responsibility.
November (MDT: 14)
- November 2: An Israeli soldier killed in a roadblock near Ramallah. Fatah (Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade) claimed responsibility.
- November 4: two Israeli teenagers killed when fire opened by a Palestinian gunman in Jerusalem. 45 people are injured.
- November 6: an Israeli officer is shot in an ambush.
- November 9: an Israeli settler woman is killed while driving in West Bank.
- November 11: an Israeli man, the security coordinator of a Sharon-plain settlement killed.
- November 24: an Israeli soldier killed in a mortar attack in Gaza, the Hamas claiming responsibility.
- November 27: two Israeli young women killed when the central bus station in Afula is attacked. 50 people are injured. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility. An Israeli settler killed in a grenade attack in Gaza. Hamas claimed responsibility.
- November 29: 3 people are killed and 9 wounded in a suicide bombing of a bus near HaderaHaderaHadera is a city located in the Haifa District of Israel approximately from the major cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city is located along of the Israeli Mediterranean Coastal Plain...
. Both Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility. A soldier is killed and another wounded in a shooting incident on the Green LineGreen Line (Israel)Green Line refers to the demarcation lines set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and its neighbours after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War...
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External links
- Major Palestinian Terror Attacks Since Oslo, Jewish Virtual LibraryJewish Virtual LibraryJewish Virtual Library is an online encyclopedia published by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise . Established in 1993, it is a comprehensive website covering Israel, the Jewish people, and Jewish culture.-History:...
- In Memory of the Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism in Israel, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Chronology of Terrorist Attacks in Israel - Part V: 2001, Johnston Archive
- Casualties of War: 2001, Jerusalem Post