Palestinian political violence

Palestinian insurgents during the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt during the British Mandate of Palestine
Palestinian fedayeen at a Fatah rally in Beirut, Lebanon in 1979
Hamas' military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, on parade in 2011

Palestinian political violence refers to acts of violence or terrorism committed by Palestinians with the intent to accomplish political goals, and often carried out in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.[1][2][3][4][5] Common objectives of political violence by Palestinian groups[6] include self-determination in and sovereignty over all of the region of Palestine (including seeking to replace Israel),[7][8] or the recognition of a Palestinian state inside the 1967 borders. This includes the objective of ending the Israeli occupation. More limited goals include the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and recognition of the Palestinian right of return.[9][10][11][12][13]

Palestinian groups that have been involved in politically motivated violence include the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Fatah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Abu Nidal Organization, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Hamas.[14] Several of these groups are considered terrorist organizations by the governments of the United States,[1] Canada,[2] the United Kingdom,[15] Japan,[16] New Zealand[17] and the European Union.[18][19]

Palestinian political violence has targeted Israelis, Palestinians, Lebanese, Jordanians,[20] Egyptians,[21] Americans,[22] and citizens of other countries.[23] Attacks have taken place both within Israel and the Palestinian territories as well as internationally and have been directed at both military and civilian targets. Tactics have included hostage taking, plane hijacking, boat hijacking, stone and improvised weapon throwing, improvised explosive device (IED), knife attacks, shooting sprees, vehicle-ramming attacks, car bombs and assassinations. In the 1990s, groups seeking to disrupt the Israeli-Palestinian peace process began adopting suicide bombings, predominantly targeting civilians, which later peaked during the Second Intifada. In recent decades, violence has also included rocket attacks on Israeli urban centers. The October 7, 2023, attacks resulted in massacres, and hostage-taking.

Israeli statistics state that 3,500 Israelis have been killed as a result of Palestinian political violence since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.[24][23] Suicide bombings constituted 0.5% of Palestinian attacks against Israelis in the first two years of the Al Aqsa Intifada; though this percentage accounted for half of the Israelis killed in that period.[25] As of 2022, a majority of Palestinians, 59%, believe armed attacks against Israelis inside Israel are an effective measure to end the occupation, with 56% supporting them.[26]

History

Overview and context

A Jewish bus equipped with wire screens to protect against rock, glass, and grenade throwing, late 1930s
A demolished farmhouse in Tel Mond, Israel, after a fedayun attack

In protest against the Balfour Declaration, which proposed Palestine as a homeland for the Jewish people, and its implementation under a League of Nations Mandate for Great Britain, Palestinians, both Muslim and Christian, from November 1918 onwards, began to organize in opposition to Zionism. By the end of Ottoman rule, the Jewish population of Palestine was 56,000[27] or one-sixth of the population.[28] Hostility to Jewish immigration led to numerous incidents such as the 1920 Nebi Musa riots, the Jaffa riots of 1921, the 1929 Palestine riots and the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine (which was suppressed by British security forces and led to the deaths of approximately 5,000 Palestinians). After the passing of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947 which called for the establishment of independent Arab and Jewish States, a Palestinian Civil War broke out. On the declaration of the state of Israel, May 15, 1948, a full-scale war, involving also the intervention of neighbouring Arab states, took place, with casualties of 6,000 Israelis and, according to the 1958 survey by Arif al-Arif, 13,000 Palestinians[29] and the exodus, through expulsion, or panicked flight, of approximately 700,000 Arab Palestinians who subsequently became refugees.[30]

In the Six-Day War, a further 280,000–360,000 Palestinians became refugees, and the remaining Palestinian territories were also occupied from Jordan and from Egypt, and later began to be settled by Jewish and Israeli settlers, while the Palestinians were placed under military administration. While historically, Palestinian militancy was fragmented into several groups, the PLO led, and eventually united, most factions, while conducting military campaigns that varied from airplane hijackings, militant operations and civil protest. In 1987, a mass revolt of predominantly civil resistance, called the First Intifada, exploded, leading to the Madrid Conference of 1991, and subsequently to the Oslo I Accord, which produced an interim understanding allowing a new Palestinian authority, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to exercise limited autonomy in 3% (later 17%) of the West Bank, and parts of the Gaza Strip not used or earmarked for Israeli settlement. In order to derail the peace process, Islamist organizations such as Hamas and the PIJ adopted the usage of suicide bombings,[31][32] predominantly against Israeli civilians.[33] Frustration over the perceived failure of the peace talks to yield a Palestinian state[34] led to the outbreak of the Al Aqsa Intifada in September 2000, which ended in 2005, coincident with the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. The rise of Hamas, the use of Palestinian rocketry and Israel's control of Gaza's borders, has led to further chronic violence, culminating in a further two conflicts, the Gaza War of 2008–09 and Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012.

Since 1967, some reports estimate that some 40% of the male population of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been arrested or detained in Israeli prisons for political or military reasons.[35]

British-mandated Palestine (1917–1947)

Violence against the Jews in Palestine followed the Balfour Declaration in November 1917 which stimulated Jewish migrants to settle in Palestine. At this time the Arabs were both geographically and demographically dominant compared to the Jewish population, where the majority of Arabs were distributed throughout the highlands of Judea, Samaria and Galilee and the Jewish population was scattered in small towns and rural communities. The Arabs realized that the Jewish community, due to their lower numbers, was vulnerable to attrition and less able to take casualties. Therefore, they adopted a "war of attrition" tactic which was advantageous to the more numerous Arab community.[36]

Many of the deaths were inflicted during short time spans and in a few locations. For instance, in April 1920 about 216 Jews became casualties (killed or wounded) in a single day in Jerusalem. By May 1921, the casualty rate for Jews was approaching 40 per day and in August 1929 it had risen to 80 per day. During the 1929 riots, one percent of the Jewish population of Jerusalem became casualties, in Safed 2 percent and in Hebron 12 percent.[36] During the 1920–1929 attacks on Jews were organized by local groups and encouraged by local religious leaders. As the Jewish community did not count on the British authorities to protect them, they formed the Haganah which were predominantly defensive in the 1920s.[36] During the Arab Revolt in the 1936–1939 period, violence was coordinated and organized by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and was directed against both Jews and the British. Due to the rising level of Arab violence, the Haganah started to pursue an offensive strategy.[36]

Independence of Israel to establishment of PLO (1949–1964)

See also: List of attacks against Israeli civilians before 1967

Throughout the period 1949–56 the Egyptian government opposed the movement of refugees from the Gaza strip into Israel, but following the IDF's Gaza Raid on February 28, 1955, the Egyptian authorities facilitated militant infiltration but still continued to oppose civilian infiltration.[37]

Around 400 Palestinian "infiltrators" were killed by Israeli Security Forces each year in 1951, 1952 and 1953; a similar number and probably far more were killed in 1950. 1,000 or more were killed in 1949. At least 100 were killed during 1954–1956. In total upward of 2,700 and possibly as many as 5,000 'infiltrators' were killed by the IDF, police, and civilians along Israel's borders between 1949 and 1956. Most of the people in question were refugees attempting to return to their homes, take back possessions that had been left behind during the war and to gather crops from their former fields and orchards inside the new Israeli state.[38] Meron Benivasti states that the fact that the "infiltrators" were for the most part former inhabitants of the land returning for personal, economic and sentimental reasons was suppressed in Israel as it was feared that this may lead to an understanding of their motives and to the justification of their actions.[38]

After Israel's Operation Black Arrow in 1955 which came as a result of a series of massacres in the city of Rehovot, the Palestinian fedayeen were incorporated into an Egyptian unit.[39] John Bagot Glubb, a British general who commanded the Arab Legion, claimed in his 1957 autobiography A Soldier with the Arabs that he convinced the Legion to arm and train the fedayeen for free.[40] Between 1951 and 1956, 400 Israelis were killed and 900 wounded by fedayeen attacks.[41][42]

The Palestine Liberation Organization was founded in 1964. At its first convention in Cairo, hundreds of Palestinians met to "call for the right of self-determination and the upholding of the rights of the Palestinian nation".[43] To achieve these goals, a Palestinian army of liberation was thought to be essential; thus, the Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) was established with the support of the Arab states.[43] Fatah, a Palestinian group founded in the late 1950s to organize the armed resistance against Israel, and headed by Yasser Arafat, soon rose to prominence within the PLO. The PLO charter called for "an end to the State of Israel, a return of Palestinians to their homeland, and the establishment of a single democratic state throughout Palestine".[44]

Six-Day War and aftermath

Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the consequences of the June War. The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.

— Yasser Arafat, 1970[45]

Due to Israel's defeat of Arab armies in the Six-Day War, the Palestinian leadership came to the conclusion that the Arab world was unable to challenge Israel militarily in open warfare. Simultaneously, the Palestinians drew lessons from movements and uprisings in Latin America, North Africa and Southeast Asia which led them to move away from guerilla warfare in rural areas towards terrorist attacks in urban environments with an international reach. This led to a series of aircraft hijackings, bombings and kidnappings which culminated in the killings of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. The military superiority of Israel led Palestinian fighters to employ guerrilla tactics from bases in Jordan and Lebanon.[44]

George Habash, founder of the PFLP, masterminded the hijackings of four Western airliners to Jordan, which led to the Black September conflict.[46]

In the wake of the Six-Day War, confrontations between Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan and government forces became a major problem within the kingdom. By early 1970, at least seven Palestinian guerrilla organizations were active in Jordan, one of the most important being the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) led by George Habash. Based in the Jordanian refugee camps, the fedayeen developed a virtual state within a state, receiving funds and arms from both the Arab states and Eastern Europe and openly flouting the law of the country. The guerrillas initially focused on attacking Israel, but by late 1968, the main fedayeen activities in Jordan appeared to shift to attempts to overthrow the Jordanian monarchy.[20]

Black September

Main article: Black September in Jordan

Various clashes between the fedayeen and the army occurred between the years 1968–1970. The situation climaxed in September 1970, when several attempts to assassinate King Hussein failed. On September 7, 1970, in the series of Dawson's Field hijackings, three planes were hijacked by PFLP: a SwissAir and a TWA that were landed in Azraq area and a Pan Am that was landed in Cairo. Then on September 9, a BOAC flight from Bahrain was also hijacked to Zarqa. The PFLP announced that the hijackings were intended "to pay special attention to the Palestinian problem". After all hostages were removed, the planes were dramatically blown up in front of TV cameras.

A bitterly fought 10-day civil war known as Black September ensued, drawing involvement by Syria and Iraq, and sparking troop movements by Israel and the United States Navy. The number of people killed on all sides were estimated as high as 3,500,[20] other sources claiming it to be as high as 20,000.

Battles between Palestinian guerrilla forces and the Jordanian army continued during the closing months of 1970 and the first six months of 1971. In November 1971, members of the Palestinian Black September group, who took their name from the civil war, assassinated Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal in Cairo. In December the group made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Jordanian ambassador in Britain.[20]

Relocation to Lebanon and Lebanese Civil War

In the aftermath of Black September in Jordan, many Palestinians arrived in Lebanon, among them Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). In the early 1970s their presence exacerbated an already tense situation in Lebanon, and in 1975 the Lebanese Civil War broke out. Beginning with street fighting in Beirut between Christian Phalangists and Palestinian militiamen, the war quickly deteriorated into a conflict between two loosely defined factions: the side wishing to preserve the status quo, consisting primarily of Maronite militias, and the side seeking change, which included a variety of militias from leftist organizations and guerrillas from rejectionist Palestinian (nonmainstream PLO) organizations. The Lebanese civil war lasted until 1990 and resulted in an estimated 130,000 to 250,000 civilian fatalities and one million wounded.[citation needed]

Charred remains of the bus hijacked and burnt by Palestinian militants in 1978 in the Coastal Road massacre

After Black September, the PLO and its offshoots waged an international campaign against Israelis. Notable events were the Munich Olympics massacre (1972), the hijacking of several civilian airliners (some were thwarted, see for example: Entebbe Operation), the Savoy Hotel attack, the Zion Square explosive refrigerator and the Coastal Road massacre. During the 1970s and the early 1980s, Israel suffered attacks from PLO bases in Lebanon, such as the Avivim school bus massacre in 1970, the Maalot massacre in 1974 (where Palestinian militants massacred 21 school children) and the Nahariya attack led by Samir Kuntar in 1979, as well as a terrorist bombing by Ziad Abu Ein that killed two Israeli 16-year-olds and left 36 other youths wounded during the Lag BaOmer celebration in Tiberias.[47][48] Following the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, called "Operation Peace for Galilee" by the IDF, and the exile of the PLO to Tunis, Israel had a relatively quiet decade.[citation needed]

First Intifada (1987–1993)

Palestinians in Qalandiya throw rocks from behind an ambulance during a riot as part of the Nakba protests.

The First Intifada was characterized more by grassroots and non-violent political actions from among the population in the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories.[49] A total of 160 Israelis and 2,162 Palestinians were killed, including 1,000 Palestinians killed by other Palestinians under the accusation of being collaborators.[50] The Intifada lasted five years and ended with the signing of the Oslo Accords.[51] The strategy of non-violence, though widespread among Palestinians, was not always adhered to, and there were youth who threw molotov cocktails and stones, with such violence generally directed against Israeli soldiers and settlers.[52]

There were two attacks that represented new developments in terms of political violence inside Israel in this period. The first Palestinian suicide attack took place on July 6, 1989, when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad boarded the Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus 405. He walked up to the driver and pulled the wheel to the right, driving the vehicle into a ravine, killing 16 people.[53] The end of the intifada also saw the first use of suicide bombing as a tactic by Palestinian militants. On April 16, 1993, Hamas carried out the Mehola Junction bombing, in which operative Saher Tamam al-Nabulsi detonated his explosives-laden car between two buses. One person, a Palestinian, other than the attacker was killed, and 21 were wounded.[54]

During this period, the Abu Nidal Organization became subsumed by infighting and mass executed hundreds of its members and their families during 1987–1988. The number of executed is estimated at 600 people, mostly Palestinians, across several separate locations in Syria, Lebanon and Libya.[55]

Oslo Accords to Camp David Summit (1993–2000)

Further information: Palestinian suicide bombings
Bus after 1996 terror bombing in Jerusalem

The years between the intifadas were marked by intense diplomatic activity between Israel and Palestinians, who were represented by the PLO. This led to the signing of the Oslo Accords and the creation of the Palestinian National Authority. In response, Islamist organizations such as Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) adopted the tactic of suicide bombings, influenced by Lebanese groups, to derail the peace process, weaken the PLO and polarize Israeli politics.[31][32]

In this period, suicide bombings of Israeli buses and crowded spaces as a regular tactic, particularly by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. [citation needed] Attacks during this period include the Beit Lid massacre, a double-suicide bombing at a crowded junction that killed 21 people and the Dizengoff Center massacre, a suicide bombing outside a Tel Aviv shopping mall that killed 13 people.

Second Intifada (2000–2005)

Main article: Second Intifada
Further information: Palestinian suicide bombings
Bus after 2003 terror bombing in Haifa

The Second Intifada (2000–2005) witnessed a significant increase in Palestinian political violence, including many suicide bombings, which predominantly targeted Israeli civilians.[33] According to B'Tselem, as of July 10, 2005, over 400 members of the Israeli Security forces, and 821 Israeli civilians have been killed by Palestinians since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, 553 of whom were killed within the 1949 Armistice lines, mainly by suicide bombings. Targets of attacks included buses, Israeli checkpoint, restaurants, discothèques, shopping malls, a university, and civilian homes.[23][56][57]

Ramallah lynching

Main article: 2000 Ramallah lynching

In October 2000 a Palestinian mob lynched two non-combatant Israel Defense Forces reservists, Vadim Nurzhitz (sometimes spelled as Norzhich) and Yossi Avrahami (or Yosef Avrahami),[58] who had accidentally entered the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Ramallah in the West Bank. The brutality of the event, captured in a photo of a Palestinian rioter proudly waving his blood-stained hands to the crowd below, sparked international outrage and further intensified the ongoing conflict between Israeli and Palestinian forces.[59][60][61]

Suicide bombings and attacks on civilians

A spate of suicide bombings and attacks, aimed mostly at civilians (such as the Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing), was launched against Israel and elicited a military response. A suicide bombing dubbed the Passover Massacre (30 Israeli civilians were killed at Park hotel, Netanya) climaxed a bloody month of March 2002, in which more than 130 Israelis, mostly civilians, were killed in attacks. Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield. The operation led to the apprehension of many members of militant groups, as well as their weaponry and equipment. 497 Palestinians and 30 Israelis were killed during Operation Defensive Shield.[62]

Main article: 2004 Sinai bombings

In 2004, 31 people were killed and 159 others were wounded in a simultaneous attack against multiple tourist destinations in Egypt.[63] Of the dead, 15 were Egyptians, 12 were from Israel, two from Italy, one from Russia, and one was an Israeli-American. According to the Egyptian government, the bombers were Palestinians led by Iyad Saleh, who had tried to enter Israel to carry out attacks there but were unsuccessful.[64]

2005–2013

See also: List of Palestinian suicide attacks and Palestinian domestic weapons production
A kindergarten classroom in the Israeli city of Beer Sheva after being hit by a Grad rocket fired from the Gaza Strip

In the mid-2000s Hamas started putting greater emphasis on its political characteristics and strengthened its popularity amongst Palestinians. In 2006 Palestinian legislative elections Hamas won a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council, prompting the United States and many European countries to cut off all funds to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority,[65] insisting that Hamas must recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept previous peace pacts.[66]

After the Israel's unilateral disengagement plan in 2005 and the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections Hamas took control over all the Gaza Strip in June 2007 in a bloody coup. Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza strip increased the firing of Qassam rockets, mortars and Grad missiles on southern Israel. Attacks continued outside the Gaza Strip perimeter, including the attack that resulted in the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit being captured and held in the Gaza Strip for over five years.

Hamas has made use of guerrilla tactics in the Gaza Strip and to a lesser degree the West Bank.[67] Hamas has adapted these techniques over the years since its inception. According to a 2006 report by rival Fatah party, Hamas had smuggled "between several hundred and 1,300 tons" of advanced rockets, along with other weaponry, into Gaza. Some Israelis and some Gazans both noted similarities in Hamas's military buildup to that of Hezbollah in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.[67]

Hamas has used IEDs and anti-tank rockets against the IDF in Gaza. The latter include standard RPG-7 warheads and home-made rockets such as the Al-Bana, Al-Batar and Al-Yasin. The IDF has a difficult, if not impossible time trying to find hidden weapons caches in Palestinian areas – this is due to the high local support base Hamas enjoys.[68]

During the Gaza War (2008–09), Palestinian militant groups fired rockets aimed at civilian targets which struck the cities of Ashdod, Beersheba and Gedera. The military wing of Hamas said that after a week from the start, it had managed to fire 302 rockets, at an average of 44 rockets daily. 102 rockets and 35 mortars were fired by Fatah at Israel. Over 750 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza into Israel during the conflict wounded 182 civilians, killing 3 people, and causing minor suffering to another 584 people suffering from shock and anxiety. Several rockets landed in schools and one fell close to a kindergarten, all located in residential areas. The UN fact finding mission stated that this constituted a deliberate attack against the civilian population and was unjustifiable in international law.[69][70][71]

In 2012, terror attacks against Israelis in the West Bank increased compared to 2011. The number of terror attacks in the West Bank increased from 320 in 2011 to 578 in 2012.[72] The attacks mainly involved rock throwing, Molotov cocktails, firearms and explosives.[72]

In 2013, Hamas stated that the "kidnapping of IDF soldiers to trade for Palestinian prisoners is at the heart of Palestinian culture".[73]

Israel-Hamas war

Main articles: Israel–Hamas war and 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel
See also: Sexual and gender-based violence in the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel, War crimes in the Israel–Hamas war, and Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
A blood-stained home floor in the aftermath of the Nahal Oz massacre

On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian factions launched an attack, breaching the Gaza–Israel barrier. For months prior to the attack, Hamas had been leading Israeli intelligence to believe that they were not seeking conflict.[74] Hamas fighters proceeded to massacre hundreds of civilians at a music festival and in kibbutz Be'eri and take hostages in Southern Israel back to the Gaza Strip. In total, 1,139 civilians, IDF soldiers and foreign nationals were killed in Israel, making this the deadliest attack by Hamas militants since the foundation of Israel in 1948.[75] The Hamas-led attack marked the beginning of the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.

Government involvement

In 2011, Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu stated that the incitement promulgated by the Palestinian Authority was destroying Israel's confidence, and he condemned what he regarded as the glorification of the murderers of the Fogel family in Itamar on PA television. The perpetrator of the murders had been described as a "hero" and a "legend" by members of his family, during a weekly program.[76][77]

Isi Leibler wrote in the Jerusalem Post that Mahmoud Abbas and his chief negotiator Saeb Erekat deny Israel's right to exist and promote vicious hatred against Jews, in statements made in Arabic. He claimed that the state-controlled Palestinian media praised the murders committed by Palestinians. Abbas al-Sayed who perpetrated the Passover suicide attack at the Park Hotel in Netanya which killed 30 civilians was described by Abbas as a "hero" and "symbol of the Palestinian Authority".[78]

Following the Itamar massacre and a bombing in Jerusalem, 27 US senators sent a letter requesting the US Secretary of State to identify the administration's steps to end Palestinian incitement to violence against Jews and Israel that they said was occurring within the "Palestinian media, mosques and schools, and even by individuals or institutions affiliated with the Palestinian Authority".[79]

The United Nations body UNESCO stopped funding a children's magazine sponsored by the Palestinian Authority that commended Hitler's killing of Jews. It deplored this publication as contrary to its principles of building tolerance and respect for human rights and human dignity.[80]

Palestinian Media Watch reported that the Palestinian Authority spent more than $5 million a month paying salaries to Palestinians and Israeli Arabs imprisoned in Israel for terror crimes. They also stated that groups in a summer camp for children sponsored by PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad were named after militants: Dalal Mughrabi, who led the Coastal Road Massacre; Salah Khalaf, head of Black September that carried out the Munich massacre; and Abu Ali Mustafa, the general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who perpetrated many attacks. Saddam Hussein, the leader of Iraq, donated $25,000 to the families of suicide bombers, and $10,000 to the families of Palestinian civilians killed by the Israeli military.[81][82]

After Israel agreed to hand over the bodies of dead Palestinian suicide bombers and other militants as part of what the Israeli Government described as 'a humanitarian gesture' to PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas to help the peace process, the Palestinian Authority planned a national rally to honour them and to provide full military funerals. The bodies included the suicide bombers that perpetrated the bus bombing in Jerusalem's Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood which killed twenty-three people, many of them children, and the attacker in the Cafe Hillel bombing. Israel will also return the remains of the bombers that committed the bombings on two buses in Beersheba in 2004 killing 16 people, the Stage night club bombing, the attack on the open-air Hadera market as well as the attackers of the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv who killed eight hostages. The Palestinian Authority and Hamas both planned official ceremonies and PA president Abbas attended a ceremony at his Muqataa compound. Prisoners Affairs Minister Qaraqi called on Palestinians for a day of celebration. The rally in honor of the dead will be attended by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, PLO leaders, and families of the dead militants. The dead are considered martyrs by Palestinians, but viewed as terrorists by Israelis.[83][84][85]

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been accused of incitement to violence, on the basis of a statement he made concerning youths injured in defending the Haram al Sharif/Temple Mount from what Palestinians have seen as attempts to alter the status quo. He declared in September 2015: "Every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem is pure, every shahid will reach paradise, and every injured person will be rewarded by God."[86][87]

Involvement of women and children

Bloody child's shoe after Palestinian attack on an Israeli shopping mall

In the 1930s, the emergence of organized youth cadres was rooted in the desire to form a youth paramilitary. It was believed that armed youth might bring an end to British hegemony in the Middle East. Youth were cajoled into violence by Palestinian political figures and newspapers that glorified violence and death. The Palestinian Arab Party sponsored the development of storm troops consisting solely of children and youth. A British report from the period stated that "the growing youth and scout movements must be regarded as the most probable factors for the disturbance of the peace".[88]

As a youngster, Yasir Arafat led neighborhood children in marching and drills, beating those who did not obey. In the 1940s, Arafat's father organized a group of militants in Gaza which included Yasir Arafat and his brothers. The leader, Abu Khalid, a mathematics teacher in Gaza, gave Arafat the name Yasir in honor of the militant Yasir al-Bireh.[89]

Child suicide bombers

Main article: Child suicide bombers in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

As part of the Arab–Israeli conflict, especially during the Second Intifada from 2000 to 2005, Palestinian militant groups used children for suicide bombings. Minors were recruited to attack Israeli targets, both military and civilian. This deliberate involvement of children in armed conflict was condemned by international human rights organizations.[90][91]

According to Amnesty International: "Palestinian armed groups have repeatedly shown total disregard for the most fundamental human rights, notably the right to life, by deliberately targeting Israeli civilians and by using Palestinian children in armed attacks. Children are susceptible to recruitment by manipulation or may be driven to join armed groups for a variety of reasons, including a desire to avenge relatives or friends killed by the Israeli army."[92]

Human shields

Main articles: Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel § United Nations, and Human shield § Israeli–Palestinian conflict

According to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2015,[93] Hamas launched rockets from inside schools to use the retaliatory child deaths for propaganda and deter Israel from attacking Gaza.[94] This tactic is called the human shield.

Involvement of women

Women in particular have increasingly associated political violence with expanded citizenship rights due to the perceived failure of nonmilitaristic tactics to achieve political goals, primary amongst these, the achievement of Palestinian autonomy.[95]

The profile of the female Palestinian suicide bombers has been the subject of study by Katherine VanderKaay, who presented her profiling of the subjects at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting. While the first suicide bombing undertaken by a Palestinian took place in 1994, the first female suicide bomber from among Palestinian society did not emerge until January 2002. The bomber was Wafa Idris, a 28-year-old paramedic and a supporter of secularist parties.[96][97]

Violence against civilians

Qassam rockets fired at Sderot
Timeline of Israelis and Palestinians killed in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel from 2008 to October 6, 2023

According to B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, 500 Israeli civilians were killed by Palestinians from September 29, 2000, to March 31, 2012, in Israel, and another 254 Israeli civilians were killed in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.[98]

B'tselem reported that the main argument used to justify violence against civilians is that "all means are legitimate in fighting for independence against a foreign occupation". B'Tselem criticized this argument, saying it is completely baseless, and contradicts the fundamental principle of international humanitarian law.

"According to this principle, civilians are to be protected from the consequences of warfare, and any attack must discriminate between civilians and military targets. This principle is part of international customary law; as such, it applies to every state, organization, and person, even those who are not party to any relevant convention."[99]

B'Tselem further noted that Palestinian spokespersons distinguish between attacks inside Israel proper and attacks directed at settlers in the Occupied Territories, stating that since the settlements are illegal and many settlers belong to Israel's security forces, settlers are not entitled to the international law protections granted to civilians. Human rights group B'tselem rejected this argument, and stated:

"The illegality of the settlements has no effect at all on the status of their civilian residents. The settlers constitute a distinctly civilian population, which is entitled to all the protections granted civilians by international law. The Israeli security forces' use of land in the settlements or the membership of some settlers in the Israeli security forces does not affect the status of the other residents living among them, and certainly does not make them proper targets of attack. B'Tselem strongly opposes the attempts to justify attacks against Israeli civilians by using distorted interpretations of international law. Furthermore, B'Tselem demands that the Palestinian Authority do everything within its power to prevent future attacks and to prosecute the individuals involved in past attacks."[99]

Rocket attacks on Israel

See also: Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel
Rocket attacks fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip, 2001-2021[100]

Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip have occurred since 2001. Between 2001 and January 2009, over 8,600 rockets had been launched, leading to 28 deaths and several hundred injuries,[101][102] as well as widespread psychological trauma and disruption of daily life.[103]

The weapons, often generically referred to as Qassams, were initially crude and short-range, mainly affecting the Israeli city of Sderot and other communities bordering the Gaza Strip. In 2006, more sophisticated rockets began to be deployed, reaching the larger coastal city of Ashkelon, and by early 2009 major cities Ashdod and Beersheba had been hit by Katyusha and Grad rockets.

Attacks have been carried out by all Palestinian armed groups,[104] and, prior to the 2008–2009 Gaza War, were consistently supported by most Palestinians,[105][106][107][108] although the stated goals have been mixed. The attacks, widely condemned for targeting civilians, have been described as terrorism by United Nations, European Union and Israeli officials, and are defined as war crimes by human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

Osher Twito, an Israeli boy crippled by Palestinian rocket fire

Defenses constructed specifically to deal with the weapons include fortifications for schools and bus stops as well as an alarm system named Red Color. Iron Dome, a system to intercept short-range rockets, was developed by Israel and first deployed in the spring of 2011 to protect Beersheba and Ashkelon, but officials and experts warned that it would not be completely effective. Shortly thereafter, it intercepted a Palestinian Grad rocket for the first time.[109]

The attacks were a stated cause of the Gaza blockade, the Gaza War (December 27, 2008 – January 21, 2009) and other Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, including Operation Rainbow (May 2004), Operation Days of Penitence (2004), the 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict, Operation Autumn Clouds (2006), and Operation Hot Winter (2008). Attacks began in 2001. Since then, nearly 4,800 rockets have hit southern Israel, just over 4,000 of them since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in August 2005. The range of the rockets has increased over time. The original Qassam rocket has a range of about 10 km (6.2 mi) but more advanced rockets, including versions of the old Soviet Grad or Katyusha have hit Israeli targets 40 km (25 mi) from Gaza.[101]

Some analysts see the attacks as a shift away from reliance on suicide bombing, which was previously Hamas's main method of attacking Israel, and an adoption of the rocket tactics used by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.[110]

Stone-throwing

Main article: Palestinian stone-throwing

Palestinian stone-throwing is a violent political statement celebrated in the literature of the Palestinian national liberation movement. Stone throwing was the primary tactic of the First Intifada (1987 – 1993.) It encompasses the practice of throwing stones by hand and using powerful slings variously aimed at Israel security personnel, Israeli civilians, and at both civilian and military vehicles. It has resulted in the death of both Israelis and Arabs unknowingly targeted by stone-throwers.[citation needed]

Internal violence

Main article: Palestinian internal political violence
See also: Hamas violence against Palestinians, Fatah–Hamas conflict, and Palestinian Authority–West Bank militias conflict

B'Tselem reports that from September 29, 2000, to March 31, 2012, there were 669 Palestinians killed by Palestinians. Of those, 134 were killed for suspected collaboration with Israel.[23][111]

Concerning the killing of Palestinians by other Palestinians, a January 2003 Humanist magazine article reports:[112]

For over a decade the PA has violated Palestinian human rights and civil liberties by routinely killing civilians—including collaborators, demonstrators, journalists, and others—without charge or fair trial. Of the total number of Palestinian civilians killed during this period by both Israeli and Palestinian security forces, 16 percent were the victims of Palestinian security forces.

... According to Freedom House's annual survey of political rights and civil liberties, Freedom in the World 2001–2002, the chaotic nature of the Intifada along with strong Israeli reprisals has resulted in a deterioration of living conditions for Palestinians in Israeli-administered areas. The survey states:

"Civil liberties declined due to: shooting deaths of Palestinian civilians by Palestinian security personnel; the summary trial and executions of alleged collaborators by the Palestinian Authority (PA); extrajudicial killings of suspected collaborators by militias; and the apparent official encouragement of Palestinian youth to confront Israeli soldiers, thus placing them directly in harm's way."

Internal Palestinian violence has been called an Intrafada, a play on "intifada".[113][114]

Palestinian attitudes

The PLO officially "declared its rejection and condemnation of terrorism in all its forms" in 1988.[115]

1995–2000

A study conducted by Mkhaimer Abusada of Al-Azhar University explored attitudes towards the use of political violence. Four questions were posed on the subject of political violence to over a thousand respondents randomly selected from localities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The first question was: "Do you support the continuing resort of some Palestinian factions to armed operations against Israeli targets in Gaza and Jericho?" Overall, 56% of respondents responded negatively. Those affiliated with leftist groups showed the highest levels of support for armed attacks against Israelis (74%), while those affiliated with parties supporting the peace process showed the lowest levels (24%). The Islamic opposition was split, with slightly over half in favor, and slightly less than half opposed.[116]

In September 1995, survey participants were asked whether they supported, opposed or had no opinion with regard to "armed attacks against Israeli army targets", "armed attacks against Israeli settlers", and "armed attacks against Israeli civilian targets". The majority supported the use of armed attacks against Israeli military targets and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Support crossed all party lines and groups, and was highest among the Islamic opposition (91% and 84%) and the leftists (90% and 89%), though a significant majority of those who supported the peace process also supported armed attacks on military targets and settlers (69% and 73%). To explain the apparent paradox in the latter position, Abusada quotes Shikaki (1996) who "contends that Palestinian support for the use of armed attacks against Israeli military targets and settlers does not indicate 'opposition to the peace process but Palestinian insistence that the process entails an end to occupation and settlements.'"[116] Palestinian support for armed attacks against Israeli civilian targets in Israel was 20% overall, with support being highest among those affiliated with the Islamic opposition (42%) and the leftists (32%), and lowest among supporters of the peace process (12%) and the National Independents (10%).[116]

2000–04

A July 2001 poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research (PSR) found that 58 percent of Palestinians supported armed attacks against Israeli civilians inside Israel and 92 percent supported armed confrontations against the Israeli army in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.[117] A May 2002 poll by the center found that support for bombings of civilians inside Israel dropped to 52%, but support for armed attacks against Israeli settlers remained "very high" at 89 percent. Support for armed attacks against soldiers stood at 92 percent.[118] A poll after the 2003 Maxim restaurant suicide bombing, in which 20 Israelis were killed, concluded that 75 percent of Palestinians supported the attack, with support higher "in the Gaza Strip (82%) compared to the West Bank (70%), in refugee camps (84%) compared to towns and villages (69%), among women (79%) compared to men (71%), among the young (78%) compared to the old (66%), among students (81%) compared to professionals (33%), and among supporters of Hamas (92%) compared to supporters of Fateh (69%)".[119]

The firing of rockets from Beit Hanoun into Israel was acceptable to about three-quarters of the Palestinian public in the occupied territories, and was higher in the West Bank (78%) compared to the Gaza Strip (71%), among students (83%) compared to merchants (63%), and among supporters of Hamas (86%) compared to supporters of Fatah (73%). While firing rockets from Beit Hanoun was supported by a majority of Palestinians (75%), 59% of the residents of Beit Hanoun rejected this practice. 83% of Palestinians favored a mutual cessation of violence.[120]

A report by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center, a Palestinian organization, showing trends based on polls conducted since 1997, indicated that Palestinian support for military operations against Israeli targets stood at 34–40 percent in 1997–1999, climbed to 65–85 percent in 2000–2004, and dropped back to 41 percent at the end of 2004. "Military operations" were defined as including shootings, car bombs and mortar rocket attacks, but not suicide bombings.[121] A 2005 poll by the center indicated that 53 percent of Palestinians supported "the continuation of [the] Al-Aqsa Intifada, 50 percent supported "suicide bombings against Israeli civilians", and 36 percent supported "the resumption of military operations against Israeli targets".[122]

A 2004 study by Victoroff et al. was conducted on a group of 52 boys, all 14 years old, from the al-Shati camp in Gaza. Forty-three percent of the boys reported that a family member had been wounded or killed by the IDF, and half lived in households where the father's employment was lost following the outbreak of the Second Intifada. "Sympathy for terrorism" was found to be correlated with depression and anxiety scores, as well as with the level of "perceived oppression", and "emotional distress". Of those who felt subject to unjust treatment, 77 percent expressed sympathy for political violence.[123]

2005–2012

Jerusalem, July 2, 2008. A Palestinian man drives a front-end loader into several vehicles in Jerusalem, killing three before being shot dead.

A March 2008 report by Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research (PSR) noted that the level of support for armed attack against Israeli civilians inside Israel increased significantly with 67% supporting and 31% opposed, compared to support by 40% in 2005 and 55% in 2006. A February 2008 suicide bombing that killed one Israeli woman in Dimona was supported by 77% and opposed by 19%. An overwhelming majority of 84 percent supported the March 2008 Mercaz HaRav massacre, in which a Palestinian gunman killed eight students and wounded eleven in a Jerusalem school. Support for the attack was 91 percent in the Gaza Strip compared to 79 percent in the West Bank. Similar suicide attacks in 2005 had been less widely supported, with 29% support for a suicide attack that took place in Tel Aviv, and 37% support for another one in Beersheba.[124]

The 2009 Hamas political violence took place in the Gaza Strip during and after the 2009 Gaza War. A series of violent acts, ranging from physical assaults, torture, and executions of Palestinians suspected of collaboration with the Israel Defense Forces, as well as members of the Fatah political party, occurred. According to Human Rights Watch, at least 32 people were killed by these attacks: 18 during the conflict and 14 afterward, and several dozen more were maimed, many by shots to the legs.[125][126]

In 2012, the number of militant attacks in the West Bank rose from 320 in 2011 to 578 in 2012, including 282 in Jerusalem alone compared to 191 in 2011. According to an annual Shin Bet report, the increase was due in part to a 68% rise of attacks using molotov cocktails. The number of attacks involving firearms and explosives grew by 42%, from 26 to 37.[127]

Casualties

Palestinian deaths by other Palestinians since 1982.

Conflict Killed
Operation Pillar of Defense 8[128]
Gaza War 75[citation needed]
Internal violence 2007–present 600[129]
Battle of Gaza (2007) 130[citation needed]
Second Intifada 714[130]
First Intifada 1,100[citation needed]
War of the Camps

Groups

PLO

Fatah associates

  • Tanzim (founded 1995)
    • Means "organization" in Arabic
    • Loosely organized Fatah militia
    • Led by Marwan Barghouti until his arrest in 2002.
  • Force 17 (early 1970s–2007)
    • Elite unit of the PLO once under Yasser Arafat's direct guidance.
    • Acts as a versatile unit for combat and intelligence-gathering.
    • Dismantled in 2007 and incorporated into the Palestinian Presidential Guard.
  • Fatah Special Operations Group (Fatah-SOG)
    • Founded in the early 1970s by Col. Abdullah Abd al-Hamid Labib
    • Also known as the Martyrs of Tel Al Za'atar, Hawari, and Amn Araissi.
    • Recently inactive (as of 2004)
  • Ahmed Abu Reish Brigade
    • Extremist offshoot of Fatah.
    • Was involved in the July 17, 2004, kidnappings in the Gaza Strip.
    • Possibly linked to the Popular Resistance Committees
    • Led by Ahmed Abu Reish
  • Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
    • Responsible for many suicide bombings and shootings of Israeli civilians
    • Responsible for executing suspected conspirators and leaders of opposition against Arafat
    • Funded by Fatah and the Palestinian Authority[citation needed]
    • Offshoot of this group, Fatah Hawks, has carried out guerrilla attacks against Israeli military personnel in the Gaza Strip.
  • Black September Organization (1970–1973)
    • Began as a small cell of Fatah men determined to take revenge upon King Hussein and the Jordanian army for Black September in Jordan. Recruits from the PFLP, as-Sa'iqa, and other groups also joined.
    • Carried out Munich massacre.
    • Carried out Attack on the Saudi embassy in Khartoum
    • In 1973 two members of the Black September attacked, with sub-machine guns and grenades, at the passenger lounge at Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece. Three civilians have been killed and 55 have been wounded. After the attack the gunmen took hostages, for more than two hours, before surrendering to the Greek police. Most of the casualties and injured were Greeks and Americans.[138]

Splinter

Al-Qaeda associates

  • Army of Islam (Jaysh al-Islam)
    • Also known as the Tawhid and Jihad Brigades and al-Qaeda in Palestine
    • The group are an armed Gaza clan named Doghmush who are affiliated with al-Qaeda and Abu Qatada
  • Abdullah Azzam Brigades
  • Jund Ansar Allah (2008–)
    • al-Qaeda-affiliated group in the Gaza Strip, founded in November 2008 by Abdel Latif Moussa
    • In August 2009, the group proclaimed the creation of an Islamic emirate in Gaza and led an armed rebellion against Hamas.
    • The group's leader Abdel Latif Moussa was killed during that rebellion.
  • Fatah al-Islam (2006–)
  • Jund al-Sham (1999–2008)
    • Radical Islamist group set up by Palestinians and Syrians which operated in different areas of the Middle East.
    • The group's leader Abu Youssef Sharqieh was captured by Lebanese forces during the 2007 conflict in Palestinian refugee camps.
    • The group was disbanded in 2008 as its members joined Lebanese al-Qaeda affiliated group Osbat al-Ansar.
  • Jaljalat (2006–)
    • A Hamas-splinter organisation founded in 2006 by Mahmoud Taleb, a former al-Qassam Brigades commander, after he opposed Hamas joining the 2006 elections
    • The group is affiliated with both Jund Ansar Allah and al-Qaeda
  • Jahafil Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad fi Filastin (2008–)

Sabireen Movement

The Sabireen Movement's leadership converted to Shia Islam in 2014. It is at odds with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and supports Hezbollah, Iran and Syria.

Notable attacks

In Israel and the Palestinian territories

Main article: List of massacres in Israel
Year Main article Location Perpetrator Fatalities
1953 Yehud attack Yehud 3 civilians
1954 Ma'ale Akrabim massacre Scorpions Pass, Route 227 11 civilians
1956 Shafrir synagogue shooting Kfar Chabad 6 civilians
1956 Ein Ofarim killings near Hatzeva 3 civilians
1956 Negev desert road ambush Highway 25, Southern District 5 civilians
1970 Avivim school bus bombing Avivim PFLP-GC 12 civilians
1971 Murder of the Aroyo children Gaza Strip 2 civilians
1972 Lod Airport massacre Lod Airport Japanese Red Army and PFLP-EO 24 civilians
1974 Kiryat Shmona massacre Kiryat Shmona PFLP-GC 18 civilians
1974 Ma'alot massacre Ma'alot-Tarshiha DFLP 31 civilians
1974 Nahariya attack Nahariya Fatah 3 civilians, 1 soldier
1974 Beit She'an attack Beit She'an DFLP 4 civilians
1975 Savoy Hotel attack Tel Aviv PLO 8 civilians, 3 soldiers
1975 Kfar Yuval hostage crisis Kfar Yuval Arab Liberation Front 3 civilians
1975 Zion Square refrigerator bombing Zion Square, Jerusalem PLO 15 civilians
1978 Coastal Road massacre Coastal Highway, near Tel Aviv Fatah and PLO 38 civilians, 1 soldier
1979 Nahariya attack Nahariya PLF 4 civilians
1980 Misgav Am hostage crisis Misgav Am Arab Liberation Front 3 civilians
1983 Murder of Danny Katz Northern District 1 civilian
1984 Bus 300 affair near Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip PFLP 1 civilian
1987 Night of the Gliders near Kiryat Shmona PFLP-GC 6 soldiers
1988 Mothers' bus attack near Aroer PLO 3 civilians
1989 Killing of Binyamin Meisner Nablus, West Bank 1 soldier
1989 Killing of Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon Southern District Hamas 2 civilians
1989 Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus attack near Kiryat Yearim 16 civilians
1992 Night of the Pitchforks IDF training base near Gal'ed 3 soldiers
1992 Murder of Helena Rapp Bat Yam 1 civilian
1993 Mehola Junction bombing Mehola, West Bank Hamas 1 civilian
1993 Abduction and killing of Yaron Chen Ramallah, West Bank Hamas 1 soldier
1994 Afula bus suicide bombing Afula Hamas and PIJ 8 civilians
1994 Hadera bus station suicide bombing Hadera Hamas 5 civilians
1994 Dizengoff Street bus bombing Tel Aviv Hamas 22 civilians
1994 Netzarim Junction bicycle bombing Netzarim Junction, Gaza Strip PIJ 3 soldiers
1994 Afula axe attack Afula Hamas 1 soldier
1995 Beit Lid suicide bombing Beit Lid Junction PIJ 22 soldiers, 1 civilian
1995 Kfar Darom bus attack near Kfar Darom, Gaza Strip PIJ 1 civilian, 7 soldiers
1995 Ramat Gan bus bombing Tel Aviv Hamas 6 civilians
1995 Ramat Eshkol bus bombing Jerusalem Hamas 5 civilians, 1 police officer
1996 Jaffa Road bus bombings Jerusalem Hamas 17 civilians, 9 soldiers
1996 Dizengoff Center suicide bombing Tel Aviv Hamas 12 civilians, 1 soldier
1996 Murder of Yaron and Efrat Ungar Route 383 near Gefen Al-Qassam Brigades 2 civilians
1997 Café Apropo bombing Tel Aviv Hamas 3 civilians
1997 Mahane Yehuda Market bombings Jerusalem Hamas 16 civilians
1997 Ben Yehuda Street bombing Jerusalem Hamas 5 civilians
2000 Ramallah lynching Ramallah, West Bank 2 soldiers
2001 Murder of Ofir Rahum Ramallah, West Bank 1 civilian
2001 Azor attack Azor Hamas 7 soldiers, 1 civilian
2001 Netanya bombing Netanya Hamas 3 civilians
2001 Murder of Shalhevet Pass Hebron, West Bank Tanzim 1 civilian
2001 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing Netanya Hamas 6 civilians
2001 Dolphinarium discotheque massacre Tel Aviv Hamas 21 civilians
2001 Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing Jerusalem Hamas 16 civilians
2001 Binyamina train station suicide bombing Binyamina-Giv'at Ada PIJ 2 soldiers
2001 Nahariya train station suicide bombing Nahariya Hamas 3 civilians
2001 Assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi Jerusalem PFLP 1 civilian
2001 Camp 80 junction bus 823 attack near Pardes Hanna-Karkur Fatah and PIJ 3 civilians
2001 Ben Yehuda Street bombing Jerusalem Hamas 11 civilians
2001 Haifa bus 16 suicide bombing Haifa Hamas 15 civilians
2002 Hadera attack Hadera Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 6 civilians
2002 Jaffa Street bombing Jerusalem Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 1 civilian
2002 Karnei Shomron Mall suicide bombing Karnei Shomron, West Bank PFLP 3 civilians
2002 Yeshivat Beit Yisrael bombing Jerusalem Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 10 civilians
2002 Seafood Market attack Tel Aviv Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 2 civilians, 1 police officer
2002 Atzmona attack Atzmona, Gaza Strip Hamas 5 civilians
2002 Café Moment bombing Jerusalem Hamas 11 civilians
2002 Matzuva attack Matzuva PIJ 5 civilians, 1 soldier
2002 King George Street bombing Jerusalem Hamas 3 civilians
2002 Passover massacre Netanya Hamas 30 civilians
2002 Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing Jerusalem Hamas 2 civilians
2002 Matza restaurant suicide bombing Haifa Hamas 16 civilians
2002 Yagur Junction bombing Highway 70, east of Haifa Hamas 6 soldiers, 2 civilians
2002 Mahane Yehuda Market bombing Jerusalem Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 6 civilians
2002 Rishon LeZion bombing Rishon LeZion Hamas 16 civilians
2002 Netanya Market bombing Netanya Hamas and PFLP 3 civilians
2002 Megiddo Junction bus bombing Megiddo Junction PIJ 13 soldiers, 4 civilians
2002 Herzliya bombing Herzliya Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 1 civilian
2002 Patt Junction bus bombing Jerusalem Hamas 19 civilians
2002 Itamar attack Itamar, West Bank PFLP 5 civilians
2002 Immanuel bus attack Immanuel, West Bank DFLP and Fatah 9 civilians
2002 Neve Shaanan Street bombing Tel Aviv PIJ 5 civilians
2002 Hebrew University bombing Jerusalem Hamas 9 civilians
2002 Meron Junction Bus 361 attack Meron Junction, near Safed Hamas 6 civilians, 3 soldiers
2002 Kissufim tank ambush Kissufim 2 soldiers
2002 Allenby Street bus bombing Tel Aviv Hamas 6 civilians
2002 Karkur junction suicide bombing Karkur PIJ 7 civilians, 7 soldiers
2002 Sonol gas station bombing Ariel, West Bank Hamas 3 soldiers
2002 Metzer attack Metzer Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 5 civilians
2002 Hebron ambush Hebron, West Bank PIJ 12 soldiers
2002 Kiryat Menachem bus bombing Jerusalem Hamas 11 civilians
2002 Beit She'an attack Beit She'an Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 6 civilians
2002 Yeshivat Otniel shooting Otniel, West Bank PIJ 4 civilians
2003 Tel Aviv central bus station massacre Tel Aviv 23 civilians
2003 Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing Haifa Hamas 17 civilians
2003 Mike's Place suicide bombing Tel Aviv Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 3 civilians
2003 French Hill suicide bombings East Jerusalem Hamas 7 civilians
2003 Afula mall bombing Afula PIJ and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 3 civilians
2003 Davidka Square bus bombing Jerusalem Hamas 17 civilians
2003 Murder of Oleg Shaichat near Kafr Kana "Free People of the Galilee" 1 soldier
2003 Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing Jerusalem Hamas 23 civilians
2003 Tzrifin bus stop attack Tzrifin Hamas 9 soldiers
2003 Café Hillel bombing Jerusalem 7 civilians
2003 Maxim restaurant suicide bombing Haifa PIJ 21 civilians
2003 Geha Interchange bus stop bombing Geha Interchange PFLP 3 soldiers, 1 civilian
2004 Erez Crossing bombing Erez Crossing Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 4 civilians
2004 Gaza Street bus bombing Jerusalem Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 11 civilians
2004 Liberty Bell Park bus bombing Jerusalem Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 8 civilians
2004 Ashdod Port bombings Ashdod Hamas and Fatah 10 civilians
2004 Murder of the Hatuel family Kissufim 5 civilians
2004 Beersheba bus bombings Beersheba Hamas 16 civilians
2004 Carmel Market bombing Tel Aviv PFLP 3 civilian
2004 IDF outpost bombing attac IDF outpost near the Philadelphi Route Hamas and Fatah
2005 Karni border crossing attack Karni Crossing Hamas, al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and the Popular Resistance Committees 6 civilians
2005 Stage Club bombing Tel Aviv PIJ 5 civilians
2005 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing Netanya PIJ 5 civilians
2005 Hadera Market bombing Hadera PIJ 7 civilians
2005 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing Netanya PIJ 5 civilians
2005 2nd Rosh Ha'ir restaurant bombing Tel Aviv PIJ 11 civilians
2005 Kidnapping and murder of Sasson Nuriel East Jerusalem Hamas 1 civilian
2006 Kedumim bombing Kedumim, West Bank Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 4 civilians
2006 Gaza cross-border raid near Kerem Shalom Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Popular Resistance Committees and the Army of Islam 2 soldiers
2006 Murder of Eliyahu Asheri West Bank Popular Resistance Committees 1 civilian
2007 Eilat bombing Eilat Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and PIJ 3 civilians
2007 Nahal Telem shooting Nahal Telem, West Bank 2 soldiers
2008 Dimona suicide bombing Dimona Hamas 1 civilian
2008 Jerusalem yeshiva attack Jerusalem 8 civilians
2008 Jerusalem bulldozer attack Jerusalem 3 civilians
2009 Bat Ayin axe attack Bat Ayin, West Bank 1 civilian
2009 Killing of Rabbi Meir Hai Highway 57, near Shavei Shomron, West Bank Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 1 civilian
2010 Tapuah Junction stabbing Kfar Tapuach, West Bank 1 soldier
2010 West Bank shooting attack near Kiryat Arba, West Bank Hamas 4 civilians
2010 Murders of Neta Sorek and Kristine Luken Beit Jamal and Beit Shemesh 2 civilians
2011 Itamar attack Itamar, West Bank 5 civilians
2011 Sha'ar HaNegev school bus attack Negev 1 civilian
2011 Jerusalem bus stop bombing Jerusalem Hamas 2 civilians
2011 Murder of Asher and Yonatan Palmer Kiryat Arba, West Bank 2 civilians
2013 Tapuah Junction stabbing Kfar Tapuach, West Bank 1 civilian
2014 Murder of Shelly Dadon Migdal HaEmek 1 civilian
2014 Gush Etzion kidnapping and murder Gush Etzion, West Bank Hamas 3 civilians
2014 Jerusalem tractor attack Jerusalem 1 civilian
2014 October Jerusalem vehicular attack East Jerusalem 2 civilians
2014 November Jerusalem vehicular attack Jerusalem 3 civilians
2014 Killing of Sergeant Almog Shiloni Tel Aviv 1 civilian
2014 Murder of Dalia Lemkus Alon Shvut, West Bank 1 civilian
2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack Jerusalem 6 civilians
2015 Shvut Rachel shooting Allon Road, West Bank 1 civilian
2015 Murder of Eitam and Na'ama Henkin near Beit Furik, West Bank Hamas 2 civilians
2015 Lions' Gate stabbings Jerusalem 2 civilians
2015 Beersheba bus station shooting Beersheba 1 civilian
2015 Gush Etzion Junction attack Gush Etzion Junction, West Bank 3 civilians
2016 January Tel Aviv shooting Tel Aviv 3 civilians
2016 Tel Aviv stabbings Tel Aviv 1 civilian
2016 June Tel Aviv shooting Tel Aviv 4 civilians
2016 Murder of Hallel Yaffa Ariel Kiryat Arba, West Bank 1 civilian
2016 Jerusalem shooting East Jerusalem 2 civilians
2017 Jerusalem truck attack Jerusalem 4 soldiers
2017 Jerusalem Light Rail stabbing Jerusalem 1 civilian
2017 June Jerusalem attack Jerusalem 4 police officers
2017 Temple Mount shooting Jerusalem Islamic Movement in Israel 2 police officers
2017 Har Adar shooting Har Adar, West Bank 3 security guards
2018 Murder of Itamar Ben Gal Ariel, West Bank 1 civilian
2018 Barkan Industrial Park shooting Barkan Industrial Park, West Bank 2 civilians
2019 Samaria combined attack Samaria, West Bank 1 civilian, 1 soldier
2019 Murder of Dvir Sorek Migdal Oz, West Bank 1 civilian
2022 Beersheba attack Beersheba 4 civilians
2022 Bnei Brak shootings Bnei Brak 5 civilians
2023 Hamra junction shootings Highway 57, West Bank Al-Qassam Brigades 3 civilians
2023 Tel Aviv car-ramming off Kaufmann Street in Tel Aviv, Israel suspected 1 civilian
2023 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel Gaza Strip Envelope Hamas 797 civilians, 379 soldiers

International attacks

Year Country Events
1968  Greece El Al Flight 253 attack
1968  USA Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
1970   Switzerland Swissair Flight 330
1970  Germany 1970 Munich bus attack
1972  Germany Munich massacre
1972  Yemen Lufthansa Flight 649
1972  Thailand Bangkok Israeli embassy hostage crisis
1973  Greece Hellinikon Airport attack
1973  USA NYC bomb plot
1973  Japan Hijacking of Japan Air Lines Flight 404
1973  Italy,  Greece,  Syria,  Kuwait Rome airport attacks and Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 303
1973  Sudan Attack on the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
1974 Mediterranean Sea TWA Flight 841 crashing
1974  Kuwait Japanese Embassy attack
1975  France 1975 Orly Airport attacks
1976  Greece,  Uganda Hijacking of Air France Flight 139
1976  Turkey Yeşilköy airport attack
1977  France,  Italy,  Cyprus,  Bahrain,  UAE,  Yemen,  Somalia Lufthansa Flight 181
1978  France 1978 Orly Airport attack
1978  UK London bus attack
1980  France Paris synagogue bombing
1981  France Antwerp bombing
1985  Italy,  Austria Rome and Vienna airport attacks
1985  Egypt Achille Lauro hijacking
1985  Cyprus Larnaca yacht killings
1985  Malta EgyptAir Flight 648
1990  Egypt 1990 Cairo bus attack
1994  Argentina AMIA bombing
2002  Kenya 2002 Mombasa attacks
2004  Egypt 2004 Sinai bombings

See also

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