Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2006
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January
- January summary: 13 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories
- January 19: 20 injured in bombing at fast-food restaurant in Tel AvivTel AvivTel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
February
- February summary: 29 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories; 1 Israeli killed by Palestinian man.
- February 5: 1 killed, 5 injured in stabbing attack on taxi bus en route to Tel Aviv.
March
- March summary: 15 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories; 1 Palestinian kills himself in Occupied Territories; 5 Israelis killed by Palestinians in Occupied Territories; 2 Israelis killed in Israel by Palestinian security forces (rocket).
- March 1: 1 killed in shooting attack at gas station near Migdalim, 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...
. - March 28: 2 killed (incl. 1 child) in explosion of Qassam rocketQassam rocketThe Qassam rocket is a simple steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. Three models have been produced and used between 2001 and 2011....
found in western NegevNegevThe Negev is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The Arabs, including the native Bedouin population of the region, refer to the desert as al-Naqab. The origin of the word Neghebh is from the Hebrew root denoting 'dry'...
area. - March 30: 4 killed (incl. 1 child) by suicide bomber posing as Jewish hitchhiker, in KedumimKedumimKedumim , also spelled Qedumim, is an Israeli settlement and a town located in the Samarian hills of the West Bank that was founded during Hanukkah 1975 and now enjoys the municipal status of local council. Founded in 1975 by members of the Gush Emunim settlement movement, its current population is...
in Occupied Territories.
April
- April summary: 31 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories; 1 Palestinian kills himself in Israel; 6 Israeli civilians killed by Palestinians in Israel; 10 others killed by a Palestinian in Israel.
- April 17: 11 killed (including 2 Romanians, 1 French citizen, 1 US citizen and 1 dual Israeli-French citizen), over 60 injured by suicide bomber outside a fast-food restaurant in Tel Aviv after being prevented by a security guard from entering.
May
- May summary: 36 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories
- Gaza ZooGaza ZooThe Gaza Zoo is a leisure complex, series of public gardens, children's amusement park and zoo created by the government of Gaza in the spring of 2010 on government property that was formerly a garbage dump....
in Rafah reportedly damaged.
June
- June summary: 41 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories; 2 Palestinians detained by Israelis in Occupied Territories and taken to Israel; 1 Israeli detained by Palestinians in Israel and taken to Gaza; 64 members of the Palestinian Legislative CouncilPalestinian Legislative CouncilThe Palestinian Legislative Council, the legislature of the Palestinian Authority, is a unicameral body with 132 members, elected from 16 electoral districts in the West Bank and Gaza...
detained by Israeli forces and held in Israel as of October 24, 2006. - June 9: an explosion on a Gaza beachGaza beach blastThe Gaza beach blast was an incident on June 9, 2006 in which eight Palestinians were killed and at least thirty others injured in an explosion on a beach near the municipality of Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip...
, of disputed origin, kills 8 Palestinians. - June 24, 03:30-04:30 local time, near RafahRafahRafah , also known as Rafiah, is a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip. Located south of Gaza, Rafah's population of 71,003 is overwhelmingly made up of Palestinian refugees. Rafah camp and Tall as-Sultan form separate localities. Rafah is the district capital of the Rafah Governorate...
: Ali Muamar is beatenMuamar family detention incidentThe Muamar family detention incident occurred very early on the morning of June 24, 2006, in the first taking of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by Israeli Defence Forces since the Israeli evacuation of Gaza one year earlier, when IDF soldiers entered the house of the Muamar family in a village...
by Israeli soldiers, his sons Osama and Mustafa Muamar are detained and taken to an undisclosed location in Israel, and Ali Muamar is treated in hospital. - June 25: Palestinian militants infiltrate Israel through a secret tunnel and start a gunbattle at a military checkpoint - 2 Israeli soldiers and 3 militants are killed and an Israeli soldierGilad ShalitGilad Shalit is an Israeli – French citizen and Israel Defense Forces soldier. On 25 June 2006, he was captured inside Israel by Hamas militants in a cross-border raid via underground tunnels near the border with Gaza. The Hamas militants held him for over five years, until he was released on...
is reported as missing and is later found out to have been captured by the militants. - June 28: Israel starts a military operation in the Gaza strip, deploying a large number of tanks, APCs and troops in order to rescue the soldier captured in the attack three days before that.
- June 29: Israeli troops detain one third of the Palestinian governmentPalestinian government of March 2006This is the list of members of the Palestinian National Authority cabinet that was formed by Ismail Haniya on 29 March 2006. This new government is formed of Hamas members and of independents associated with it.[1]...
and altogether 64 members of the Palestinian Legislative CouncilPalestinian Legislative CouncilThe Palestinian Legislative Council, the legislature of the Palestinian Authority, is a unicameral body with 132 members, elected from 16 electoral districts in the West Bank and Gaza...
who are 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...
members.
July
- July summary: 177 Palestinians killed by Israel security forces (1–15 July: 97 in the Occupied Territories);
- July 16: Three Palestinian militants are killed in an Israeli airstrike, soon after Israeli forces re-entered the Gaza Strip.
August
- August 10: An Italian tourist is stabbed to death by a Palestinian affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Old City of Jerusalem
- August 19: An Israeli citizen is shot and killed by a Palestinian in Bkaot in the Bikaa region in Israel.
See also
- Israel-Gaza conflictIsrael-Gaza conflictThe Gaza–Israel conflict is a theater of the long-term Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the territory of the Gaza Strip. Palestinians' active resistance to military occupation was escalated in the territory following the overwhelming election to government of the militant Islamic political party...
- 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict2006 Israel-Gaza conflictThe 2006 Israel–Gaza conflict refers to the series of battles between Palestinian militants and the Israel Defense Forces . Large-scale conventional warfare beyond the peripheries of the Gaza Strip began when Israel launched Operation Summer Rains , the codename for an IDF military operation in the...
- Timeline up to 2006 Gaza crisis
- Operation Summer Rains suboperationsOperation Summer Rains suboperationsOperation Summer Rains suboperations were the Israel Defense Forces' military operations launched as part of Operation Summer Rains in 2006.-Operation Southern Shalit :An operation in southern Gaza which began on June 28...
- Operation Autumn Clouds (2006)Operation Autumn Clouds (2006)Operation Autumn Clouds is an Israeli military operation that began on 1 November 2006, following numerous Rocket and mortar attacks on southern Israel, when the Israeli Defense Forces entered the Gaza Strip triggering sporadic fighting near Beit Hanoun...
- 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict casualties timeline2006 Israel-Gaza conflict casualties timelineThis is the account of major events and casualties suffered by Israelis and Palestinians during the 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict.-2006:-June 25, 2006:...
- Gaza beach blast (2006)
- Beit Hanoun November 2006 massacre
- 2006 Franco–Italian–Spanish Middle East Peace Plan2006 Franco–Italian–Spanish Middle East Peace PlanOn 2006-11-16, France, Italy and Spain announced a new Middle East peace plan proposed by Spanish Premier José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero during talks with French president Jacques Chirac. Later on, the plan was introduced to Romano Prodi, Italy's prime minister who gave his full support to the plan...
External links
- Casualties of War
- Palestinian terrorism since September 2000 (from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- List of victims (from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- Fatalities From B'TselemB'TselemB'Tselem is an Israeli non-governmental organization . It calls itself "The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories"...