Svenska presentationer av nyheter, suck

Dags att läsa nyheterna om Israel/Mellanöstern efter svensk filtrering, och man tänker hela tiden på hur man hade kunna skriva mycket mer informativt, med vettigare rubriksättning och av ungefär samma längd.

Och för att upprepa mej: min information ligger i länkarna, resten är Karlssons Klister emellan och möjligtvis lite stimulans för att motivera dig att läsa dessa. Du vet - en snabb dubbelklick.

Känner du visst motstånd mot att läsa engelska bör du definitivt prenumerera på Dick Haas nyheter på svenska från Jerusalem. Han arbetade en gång på DN, men vart vred på deras censur av verkligheten. Han skriver som DN borde skriva för att vara ett neutralt nyhetsorgan! Gå till http://www.dickhaas.com/

Hamas släppte kameraman

Ett fenomen man ser i svenska nyheter är att de ALDRIG tar sig tid att ge lite bakgrund till sin information, trots att det är idén med tidningarna - att de ska kunna ge lite mer allsidig information än radio/TV. Man nämner inte ens att snälla Hamas torterade kamerakillen i 5 dagar - sånt för väl inte Hamas! Kameramannen, Sawah Abu Saif, är i dåligt skick efter tortyren.

Hamas, en ren och skär terroristorganisation liksom Fatah (tills de har skrivit om sina Stadgar) försöker desperat att bli rumsrena här och där. Har du funderat på varför? Har du skummat igenom Hamas och PLO:s stadgar vet du - och de följer faktiskt dessa stadgar till punkt och pricka om du tänker efter, speciellt om du läser lite andra än TT-genererade nyheter.

ALLT Hamas gör går ut på att sprida deras variant av Islam över världen, inget annat får existera. Hamas är en blindtarm till Muslim Brotherhood som utvecklades i Egypten, och som växer och frodas där. De har inte en mikroskopisk tanke på att bli civiliserade i västerländsk mening, d.v.s. demokratiska i den meningen att människor ska välja dem UTAN att först i generationer ha indoktrinerats i hatpropaganda för att välja rätt! De västerländska skämtare som talar för, eller förhandlar med, Hamas är antingen antisemiter eller missade de en väsentlig del av sin skolgång. Hamas är DEFINIERAT av dem själva, i sina Stadgar, vilket bland annat säger att de aldrig någonsin kommer att fredsförhandla med såna där judar. Möjligen lite hudna, så de kan ladda upp, som de gör just nu.

Varfrö finns absolut inget internationellt tryck mot Hamas att låta Röda Korset besöka den kidnappade soldaten Shalit? Inget tryck från regeringen Olmert heller.

Memri har just översatt en intervju med en Egyptisk imam, Amr Khaled. som med glädje berättade hur Europa automatiskt islamiserades pga att här redan finns 25-30 miljoner muslimer pga politisk korrekthet, vars kvinnor inte har något annat att göra än - barn, medan de västerländska kvinnorna har tröttnat på sådant trams. Imamen menar att om tio år har islam segrat i Europa, att muslimerna här nu måste ägna all tid år att visa sin förträfflighet. Jag antar att han menar som i Rosengård i Malmö där brandkåren behöver poliseskort för att komma dit, hmpf.

Han kunde ju tipsa muslimerna i Mellanöstern att också visa sin förträfflighet. Abbas och Arafat - hur många miljarder dollars har de tagit emot? Vilket idealsamhälle har de skapat därifrån? Jämför med de 13 miljarder dollars som Europa fick i Marshall-hjälp, som fick Europa att blomstra igen efter det senaste världskriget.

En av de stora givarna direkt till terroristorganisationer som Hamas - är faktiskt Norge. De flesta andra länder i Europa gör det på ett lite mera och mindre iögonenfallande sätt. Jag refererar ofta till Palestinian Media Watch som övervakar palestinaarabiska media och dess chef har just varit i Norge och vållat lite rabalder, talat i TV etc - se en svensk blogg som skriver om det här och en israelisk tidning som skriver här. Han talar om hur mycket av pengarna från Norge som går direkt till antisemitisk hatpropaganda.

Faktum är att INGET land i Mellanöstern är i verklig fred med Israel. Det passar inte in med deras idéer. Regeringen i Egypten och Jordanien är officiellt i fred med Israel, men inte befolkningen och statspropagandan där. Abbas “den Moderate” har själv sagt att han inte siktar på fred med Israel, enbart hudna. Han vill bara suga ut så mycket som möjligt från landet. Eller kommer DU ihåg något han har erbjudit i förhandlingarna?

Abbas har försökt att lite lite rensa ut bland sina fiender, Hamas, i Judéen/Samarien, vilket förstås har gjort Hamas sura. Bägge terroristgrupperna vill ju vinna över den andra! Detta trots att de i själ och hjärta är tämligen lika - de är bara ytterligare ett tecken på att det inte existerar något slags “palestinsk nationalitet” trots att de har haft 40 år på sej, sedan de fick den finurliga idén att uppfinna detta fenomen, som inte existerade före 1967. Det är fortfarande ett stamsamhälle där stamhövdingen är ledaren. Utan Israels närvaro i Judéen/Samarien hade Abbas klarat sig - experter har gissat mellan en timme och en vecka, innan Hamas tar över och förvandlar området till ett nytt Gaza. Deras kamp sker på många nivåer, se här. Hamas hotar Abbas för hans minimala utrensningaktioner.

Senilgalningen Carter tänker förresten provocera Israel igen…..

Olmert, suck

Så han har äntligen insett att han förstör det BÅDE för sig själv och Israel genom att fortsätta farsen att spela orientalisk envåldshärskare. Det viktiga är självklart att försöka lyfta sitt ytterst nersmutsade rykte innan han försvinner ut ur historien, förutom en mycket liten fotnot i avskräckande syfte. Därav detta moln med “fredsdiskussioner” utan att kräva ett dugg från motparten, bara erbjuda bitar av Israel som om han var den personliga ägaren. Han vet att polisen har nog material mot honom för stämma honom - med fyra allvarliga ekonomiska utredningar mot honom.

Frågan är hur mycket han hoppas på att förstöra för Israel denna sista månaden. Han är villig att ge bort Golanhöjderna till Syrien enbart för att få ett fototillfälle!!! Utan att kräva ett dugg förutom det. Hade Syrien fått det hade där snart varit Iranska raketer på bergstoppen riktade mot hela israel.

Han vill sluta “fred” med Abbas som inte har något tvång alls att erbjuda något för att få det han pekar på. Man har känslan att Abbas lusläser israelisk dagspress och är väl medveten om att israels premiärminister efter nästa val kommer att bli Netanyahu - som klart uttryckt att Olmerts givarkonferenser gentemot Abbas kommer att få ett abrupt slut när han börjar leda landet i stället för att ge bort det. Abbas säger det rätt klart. Som han säger är han helt ointresserad av en låtsasfred om han inte får halva Jerusalem. Där har aldrig någonsin varit en arabisk huvudstad i närheten av Jerusalem så enda anledningen är Arafats finurliga idé att klämma åt judarna ordentligt - med hjälp av en snyftande oinformerad världsopinion - genom att stjäla så mycket som möjligt av deras huvudstad. Som bekant existerade inget annat Jerusalem fram till ca 1860 än “gamla stan” innanför murarna, och redan då var judarna den största folkgruppen där igen, efter att diverse andra folk hade kommit och gått under många århundraden. Är det någon som har missat att judarna har haft två Tempel i Jerusalem och aldrig någon annanstans?

Nioåring ihjälskjuten…..

“Sammandrabbning” som TT skriver, mellan soldater och barn i ett krigsområde - tills fredsförhandlingar har avslutats - har en och endast en ansvarig - föräldrarna till dessa barn. Om de tvingar barnen att kasta sten i ansiktet på fiendesoldater - de kommer knappast på idén på egen hand - så är vi tillbaka till det vanliga - Golda Meirs uttalande om att freden kommer först när araberna börjar älska sina barn mer än de hatar judarna.

Föreställ dig en arabisk mamma som VILL att telningen ska kasta sten på fiendesoldat, kanske en ung 17-årig pojke nyss ut från skolan, och tänk efter hur mycket hatpropaganda som har fått henne att slänga all självbevarelsedrift i sjön! Och du - kom ihåg de senaste nyheterna på bilden ovan.

ISM:arna har lika stor moralisk skyldighet - de är inte hjärntvättade från officiella media sedan födseln utan vill enbart leka krig - och om då skjutna barn blir följden, så är det bättre reklam. De fattar trots allt - om de någonsin tänker efter - att deras bråk inte leder någon vart, att det är uttryck för ren antisemitism. Judar FÅR inte försvara sig och därmed basta! Ett år i finkan i Israel hade varit helt försvarbart, och sen portade för alltid.

Judar FÅR inte försvara sig

Detta är det eviga utropet från kreti och pleti! Hela världen blev svårt chockskadad både 1948 och 1967 när det visade sig att dessa nickande gubbar som man normalt såg med onormalt tjocka böcker framför sig, ivrigt läsande, plötsligt kunde försvara sig - inte endast med böner utan också med rätt vassa vapen! Eftersom vapnen utvecklas krävs också allt allvarligare skydd. Det är inte alltid som barnhagar hjälper - som Israel med stor effektivitet har satt upp mot galopperande arabiska terrorister från Judéen/Samarien - utan också från de terrorister som tror att de har vuxit till sej genom att ta emot raketer från Iran och ha verkstäder för att göra om sina kloakrör till nog så dödliga raketer. I förbifarten ser vi hur kloakerna läcker ut i havet i Gaza…… Det oerhörda att Israel också måste skydda sig mot allt större raketer ses inte med blida ögon av - vissa. USA:s Patrioter var uppställda när Saddam började bli hysterisk och sända iväg raketer mot Tel Aviv, Israel har utvecklat Arrow - ett motsvarande system som du kan läsa om här och här. Man utvecklar ochså vanliga dödsstrålar - Nautilussystemet har redan kostat sköna miljarder för USA och Israel, men det fungerar så en ny regering i Israel med större intresse av att försvara Israel än att ge bort det, kan mycket väl tänka om.

Muhammedteckningar

Hade jag kunnat rita en kines och skrivit Muhammed under, över eller bredvid - hade jag blivit hotad då? Tyvärr kan jag inte rita alls. Det säregna är att inga tidningar alls försöker göra jämförelser med det överflöd av nidteckningar i ett stort antal muslimska tidningar och andra media - av allt som inte är muslimskt. Jag har skrivit om detta fenomen ett antal gånger, även till tidningar i samband med Muhammedteckningsskriverier - varken reaktion eller svar. Jag skrev till statsministern när han skulle förödmjuka sig inför ett gäng muslimska ambassadörer - det enda jag fick var ett besök på min blogg. Ahmedinejads tävling om nidteckningar mot Förintelsen har till och med fått egen plats i Wikipedian. Se även här och här och här

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Och varför inte nya judiska bosättningar?

Det är fascinerande att se allt som svenska media aldrig skriver om Israel och dess grannar. De älskar att slänga ut blixtmeddelanden - som nyheterna i radio/TV, men de följer ytterst sällan upp med (korrigerade) basfakta, vilket de är tvungna att göra enligt Pressens Etiska Regler. Jag har på sistone sett sådana ursäkter från både Aftonbladet och SvD om att “ja, men i den sekunden hade vi inte mer information”……. DN vägrar besvara förfrågningar.

Om man till exempel berättar om att en ny judisk by ska byggas i det område som har stadgats som det “judiska hemlandet” - en stadga som aldrig ändrats, så varför är det nyhetsmaterial?

The Legal Right The legal right of Jews to reside in Judea, Samaria and Gaza was given its first modern expression in the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. Article 6 of the Mandate required the mandatory power to encourage “close settlement by Jews on the land.”

The legal right of Jews remains in force today. As the internationally-recognized legal expert and former US Undersecretary of State Eugene V. Rostow has written, “The right of the Jewish people to settle in Palestine has never been terminated for the West Bank…” (American Journal of International Law, Vol. 84, July 1990, p.718)

Dessutom har vi rekommendationerna från FN, att ett fredsavtal mellan Israel och araberna kräver säkra och försvarbara gränser. Vad innebär detta om du tänker efter? Varken Arafat eller Abbas har skrivit under något fredsavtal. Ingen av dem var/är intresserade, enbart av temporärt stillestånd medan de blir starkare. Jag hoppas du läste Abbas uttalande nyligen, att så snart han är stark nog anfaller han. Som vi vet doktorerade han i Moskva på att förneka Förintelsen, han har ingen avsikt att ta bort paragrafen i sin grundlag som säger att Israel ej får existera, och han har inte tagit första steget in på Vägplanen, som kräver absolut stopp för hatpropaganda mot Israel/judar.

Jordandalen är gräns österut och behöver i hög grad bevakas. Gränsen mot Jordanien. Israel har fred med kungen där, men långt ifrån med många andra jordanier.

Israel försökte fängsla en välkänd Hamas-terrorist och mördare, som tidningarna skriver om just nu, och eftersom han kände sej skyldig nog sköt han tillbaka. Det gick alltså inte att ta honom tillfånga - vilket väl var lika bra, eftersom terrorister ofta inte sitter så länge i israeliska fängelser. Bara så länge att de kan ta en universitetsexamen och äta upp sej, som fete Kuntar.

Där har varit gissningar på mellan en timme och en vecka hur länge Abbas hade klarat sig utan Israels upprensningsaktioner. Abbas, liksom Arafat, har spenderat enorm energi och utländska pengar, på att hyra säkerhetsfolk i stället för att samla in alla illegala vapen, vilket hade begränsat behovet av dessa säkerhetskillar.

Varken Abbas eller svenska media har den minsta lust att erkänna detta.

För att gå till judiska “bosättningar”. Utan att vara militärförläggningar - har du upptäckt vilken nytta de gjorde i Gaza i mer än 30 år? För araberna också. De utgjorde spärr mot terrorn, som riktar sig mot både arab och jude. Araberna i Gaza kunde exportera sina jordbruksprodukter till Israel och Egypten och tjäna bra. Allt det slutade när judarna lämnade för 3 år sedan, och såg jag inte en siffra om att 50000 hade lyckats fly Gaza sedan dess, eftersom himmelriket under Hamas aldrig ville komma?

Berätta det för TT.

VARFÖR där inte finns en enda arabisk/muslimsk stadsbildning TILL vilken arabiska flyktingar vill resa, vet jag inte heller. Der reser på vinst och förlust till Sverige, med den fasta förhoppningen att det åtminstone inte kan bli sämre.

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YTTERLIGARE arabisk snyftare i DN!

Att läsa temporärt inlånade Lotta Schüllerqvist (med utsatt icke-fungerande mailadress) är en bekräftelse på DN:s vanligaste stil att beskriva företeelser med Israel inblandat: 98% judehat, 1% snyfthistoria, 1% fakta och 0% tips hur lätt det kunde bli bättre, alla möjligheter som araberna har där. Om de gitter.

Det är svårt att hitta särskilt exakta uppgifter på oljeinkomsterna till arabländerna (jag är knappast expert….) men jag hittade en snutt, ett år gammal:

The recent increase in oil income, according to World Bank and Swiss bank executives who study the issue, has seen the Gulf countries, along with China and India, experience the fastest collective economic growth rate in the world, averaging 5-6 percent annually in the past five years. During that period, GNP for the Gulf region doubled, from $600 billion to $1.2 trillion. An estimated $700-800 billion will be accumulated in surplus income during this boom, and much of this is already being deployed within the Arab world.

Med sådana enorma inkomster vore det trivialt för dem att hyra palestinaarabisk arbetskraft, som Kuwait gjorde innan de tröttnade på Arafat. Irak har sötvatten och jord - palestinaarabisk arbetskraft skulle kunna återställa de Hängande Trädgårdarna som fanns där fordomdags, och odla mat för hela Arabvärlden.

Jag undrar varför det är så helt omöjligt för DN att berätta som det är: Hamas, som valdes av Gazanerna, försöker via mord att både behålla kakan och äta den! De KRÄVER att judarna matar dom och förser dem med allt de behöver, utan att betala, och de KRÄVER samtidigt att de ska kunna skjuta raketer mot israelisk civilbefolkning SAMTIDIGT som - vilket DN aldrig berättar - de laddar upp med nya vapen och sprängämnen och gräver som mullvadar enligt känd Hizbollah-stil för att göra det svårare för Israel att rensa upp när det drivs till sin spets under nästa regering - till bekostnad av civilbefolkningen där, men varför skulle de bry sig om det. Deras kvinnor och barn fungerar ju bra som mänskliga sköldar som alltid!

DN försöker anklaga Israel för något, ungefär som om Gaza var ockuperat på det klassiska sättet och därmed hade ansvar för det - lika vansinnigt som att svenska UD fortfarande kallar Gaza “ockuperat” utan att vara ockuperat. De fick full frihet att göra vad de ville - UNDER ANSVAR. Det innebar inte att de fick förvandla stället till en raketramp och skita i att odla grönsaker i de växthus de fått till skänks! Det innebar inte att de kunde utföra regelbundna terroristangrepp mot gränserna mot Israel och samtidigt använda dessa för export av grönsaker till Israel och Europa - som både judar och araber gjorde därifrån fram till judarna lämnade.

Gaza får 60-70% av sin el via kabel från Israel - en kabel och ett kraftverk de försöker förstöra. De får några procent i kabel från Egypten - en kabel som lätt kunde byggas ut med lite arabiska oljemiljarder. De har gas värt uppskattningsvis 4 miljarder dollars utanför kusten - som kan börja betala sig så snart terrorn har upphört.

Inget får DN-läsaren veta.

Har DN någonsin berättat att Israel började bygga byar för alla i flyktingläger i Gaza redan för länge sedan?

Sheik Radwan, Gaza: New houses for Palestinian refugees built by Israel. (1977, Moshe Milner)		Sheik Radwan, Gaza: Road construction in neighborhood built for Palestinian refugees by Israel (1977, Moshe Milner)

Helt enligt UNHCR:s mönster. Men som du vet tillåter inte UNRWA att deras omhuldade flyktingar blir nyttiga samhällsmedborgare och icke-flyktingar, utan FN blev rasande, PLO blev rasande, resten av araberna blev rasande - och därför är Gaza fortfarande fullt av icke arbetande flyktingar i läger betalda av FN.

DN ljuger också om att palestinaarabernas ekonomi försämrades i och med invalet av Hamas - alla givare hittade bakvägar och gav MER pengar under året efter valet!

Visst stinker Gaza - medan judarna var där fick de - under polisbevakning - gräva avlopp för araberna! Nu har de inte lust själva. Utländsk hjälp står redo med pengar, arbetaskraft, material - att hjälpa Gazanerna - om de slutar terrorn. Mer här. Självklart går kloakvattnet också in i dricksvattnet, men de föredrar helt påtagligt terror. De behövde inte sälja många av sina vapen för att ha pengar att göra något åt det.

Singapore har ungefär samma yta och folkmängd. Om området hade befolkats av kineser eller judar hade det också sett ut ungefär som Singapore.

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MERA pengar till araberna ???????

Sverige ska överösa Abbas med än mer fickpengar. Varför får jag inget? Abbas ska få 50 miljoner kronor för ingen anledning alls förutom att han har anställt så många att skatteinkomsterna inte alls räcker att betala deras löner. Således ska Sverige betala dem……….

Här en mycket intressant artikel, som jag kopierar och översätter bitvis, resten får stå på engelska:

Ökar det palestinska våldet pga utländska donationer?

avSteven Stotsky Middle East Quarterly Summer 2008, pp. 23-30 http://www.meforum.org/article/1926

December 17, 2007, samlades 87 länder och internationella organisationer i Paris och lovade att ge PA (Palestinska myndigheterna) $7.4 miljarder under tre år[1] (PA), en mycket mycket större summa än någonsin tidigare. Detta motiverades med “nödvändigheten att ge support till hela den palestinska befolkningen”[2] och som en belöning för att stärka de moderata palestinierna, som önskar en fredlig samvaro med Israel.[3]

Inget nämndes om de ofta dödliga konsekvenserna som har observerats efter tidigare donationer. Man kan påvisa en direkt korrelation mellan ekonomisk hjälp och våld. Inte så att pengar direkt producerar våld, men där är starka bevis att det befäster en kultur av korruption, maktmissbruk och terror med dödliga konsekvenser för både israeler och araber, under det senaste decenniet.

Donationer utlovade under Pariskonferensen fortsätter femton års internationella donationer vilket har gjort palestinaaraberna till en av världens ledande socialhjälpstagare (se tabell 1). Siffror publicerade av Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development för 2005 visar att palestinaaraberna fick $304 per person i utländskt stöd,[4] jämförbart enddast med Kongo - men till skillnad från Kongo har de fått det under decennier.

[Fortsätt och läs på engelska, men artikeln påvisar den starka korrelationen mellan donationer och terroraktiviteter bland palestinaaraberna]

Tabell 1

Largest Recipients of Humanitarian Aid per Capita, 2005 (with populations exceeding one million)

Entity	Aid per capita (US$)
Republic of Congo	362
West Bank and Gaza	304
Timor-Leste	189
Nicaragua	144
Serbia and Montenegro	140
Jordan	115
Macedonia	113
Source: Calculations based on data from World Bank Development Indicators Data Base, 2005

Amidst the internal turmoil of 2006 and 2007, aid to the Palestinians increased by more than 50 percent,[5] and in July 2007 the Israeli government handed over $300-400 million in import taxes it had collected on behalf of the PA.[6] This revenue windfall came despite the 2005 warning by George Abed, head of the Palestinian Monetary Authority, that “if you poured in a lot of financing at this time, it would not have a big impact. It would not be very effective … It would be wasted.”[7] International organizations and diplomats acknowledge Palestinian misuse and diversion of aid money,[8] but they remain reluctant to study the deeper implications of how such aid affects Palestinian political culture.

An examination of key measures of violence reveals a troublesome correlation between the number of homicides committed by Palestinians and the level of funding provided to the Palestinian Authority. As aid to the Palestinian government increased, there was a corresponding increase in the number of people, both Israeli and Palestinian, killed by Palestinians. The correlation between aid and homicide statistics does not mean that foreign aid causes violence, but it does raise a question about whether the flow of aid to the Palestinian government has helped fuel Palestinian violence and hindered efforts to restore calm.

Correlating Aid and Violence

Figures 1 and 2 (see below) illustrate how the number of homicides[9] and level of donor aid[10] correlate.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Sources for Figures 1 and 2: Anti-Israeli Terrorism, 2006: Data, Analysis and Trends, Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), Gelilot, Mar. 2007, p. 62; The Status of Palestinian Citizens’ Rights, fifth through twelfth annual reports, The Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights (PICC), Ramallah, West Bank, 1999-2007; Associated Press, Oct. 6, 2005; “Palestinians Killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories,” B’Tselem, Jerusalem, accessed Feb. 29, 2008; “OCHA-Opt Protection of Civilians,” United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Dec. 2006; “OCHA-Opt Protection of Civilians,” United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Aug. 2007; Reuters, June 8, 2007; Four Years: Intifada, Closures and Palestinian Economic Crisis (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Oct. 2004), p. 6; “West Bank and Gaza: Fiscal Performance in 2006,” International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C., Mar. 2007, p. 4.

The graphs show that increased aid to the PA after the start of the second intifada in September 2000 precipitated an increase in the Palestinian murder rate of both Israelis and Palestinians in 2001 and 2002. After June, 2002, Israeli countermeasures against Palestinian terrorism, such as checkpoints and targeted killings of terrorist leaders, began to reduce the number of Israeli dead. By August 2003, the first portion of Israel’s security barrier was in place, leading to a rapid decrease in Israeli fatalities. While Israel’s new security measures reduced the number of Israeli victims, factional and societal violence increased the number of Palestinian victims. By counting both Palestinian and Israeli victims, the correlation between increased aid and violence continued into 2007.

The correlation between aid and terrorism murders becomes even stronger when the amount of aid given in one year is compared to the number of terrorist murders the following year (Figure 2). The lag between increased aid and increased homicides suggests a cause and effect association. However, when comparing the number of attempted terrorist attacks against Israelis with the level of aid, the correlation is stronger, without introducing any time lag (Figure 3).[11]

Figure 3

To investigate the possible linkage between aid and violence, it is useful to examine changes in how foreign aid was distributed during the second intifada.

Funding the Palestinian Authority

Prior to the outbreak of the second intifada, donors directed nearly all foreign aid to the Palestinians to economic and infrastructure development programs, so that by 1999 the Palestinian Authority could raise enough revenue through taxation and private borrowing to pay its bills. This era of relative self-sufficiency would not last long, however. The Palestinian terror campaign launched against Israel in 2000 disrupted the three main PA revenue sources — clearance taxes collected by Israel, taxes on wages earned by Palestinians working in Israel, and domestic tax revenue. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) measures against terrorists interfered with commerce in the West Bank and Gaza and led to a 40 percent decline in domestic tax revenues between 1999 and 2002.[12] At the same time, the Israeli government curtailed the number of Palestinians working within its borders, reducing a lucrative source of tax revenue for the PA.[13] The Israeli government also decided to withhold tax receipts it collected for the PA in response to the failure of Palestinian leaders to make a serious effort to halt terrorism.

The international community responded to the ensuing Palestinian financial crisis by replacing much of the lost revenue. Foreign donations to the Palestinians nearly doubled, from $482 million in 2000 to $929 million in 2001.[14] The changes in how the aid was distributed were even more dramatic: In 1999, no foreign aid went directly into the Palestinian Authority budget; by 2001, 58 percent of it went to the government budget and less than 20 percent to development programs.[15]

In a classic example of the creation of perverse incentives, the decision to fund the government budget made the Palestinian Authority less dependent on revenue derived from commerce, detaching the PA’s solvency from the health of the economy. Thus, while the intifada sent the Palestinian economy into free fall, the PA’s coffers swelled. The conditions were thus established that ensured the separation of Palestinian governance from responsibility for the economic health of the Palestinian people.

A comparison of the proportion of aid allocated to the government budget with the number of homicides yields a correlation similar to the previously discussed correlation of aid and homicides. (See Figures 4 and 5.)

Figure 4

Figure 5

Sources for Figures 4 and 5: “Two Years after London: Restarting Palestinian Economic Recovery,” Ad-hoc Liaison Committee, World Bank, London, Sept. 24, 2007, p. 29, Table 3; Four Years: Intifada, Closures and Palestinian Economic Crisis (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Oct. 2004), p. 66, Table 5.3.

By 2003, the ratio began to shift so that aid was more evenly distributed between the PA budget and development programs. However, the proportion of aid allocated to the government began to rise again in 2005, so that by January 2008, Palestinian economist Samir Barghouthi estimated that the Paris conference aid package would commit 70 percent of donations to paying the wages and pensions of Palestinian employees.[16] In other words, a higher proportion of aid will be allocated to the government and a lower proportion to development programs than even at the height of the terrorist violence of the intifada.

The new flow of funding to the Palestinian government will likely replicate the dynamics of the past decade: In 1999, the PA had 98,500 on its payroll; by 2002, the payroll had grown to nearly 125,000, and by 2007, it stood at 168,319.[17] Rising Palestinian government employment was reflected in the proportionate growth of the security services, which accounted for nearly half of all government wage earners. Security personnel on the PA payroll grew from 44,400 in 1999, to 53,600 in 2002, to 78,000 in mid-2006.[18] In addition, the Jordanian foreign ministry has confirmed plans to increase the Palestinian police force in the West Bank from 7,000 to 50,000 men, an increase that will create an unprecedented police presence and require an investment of several billion dollars beyond what was promised at the Paris conference.[19] These dramatic increases in the number of security personnel have never resulted in a reduction in terror attacks against Israelis—and as the history of the intifada shows, such attacks in fact increased from 1999 to 2002.

Palestinian Security Forces’ Terrorist Ties

Not only did the security forces fail to prevent terrorist attacks, in many cases they colluded with terrorist groups and sometimes perpetrated attacks themselves. For example, on January 30, 2004, a Palestinian policeman belonging to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades boarded a crowded bus in Jerusalem and detonated a bomb strapped to his body, killing ten Israelis.[20] The Palestinians responded that they could not prevent terrorism because the Israeli military had destroyed their capacity to do so.[21]

In A Police Force without a State, Brynjar Lia, a Norwegian Defense Research Establishment analyst, suggests that the Palestinian leadership gave preference in police recruitment to those who had served prison terms in Israeli jails for terror-related offenses.[22] This, he argues, allowed terrorists to shape the police force “as a vehicle for achieving national independence [rather] than as a non-political law and order agency.”[23] Fatah paramilitaries, he contends, “made themselves indispensable as popular forces in anti-Israeli riots and clashes.”[24]

Lia offers a plausible path by which foreign aid ended up in the hands of terrorists. As early as 2003, the World Bank recognized there was a problem with how aid was used, noting in its annual report on the West Bank and Gaza that “donors should have spent more on oversight mechanisms in 2001 and early 2002, thereby, putting themselves in a better position to answer questions about the diversion of funds to support terrorism.”[25] Still, the World Bank justified the redirection of funds for emergency aid in the belief that donors “had no choice if they wanted to keep alive the hope of reconciliation, since a collapse of the PA service structure and the further radical impoverishment of the population would have vitiated this.”[26]

The Israeli government and military watched the diversion of funds but could not change donor practices. On June 5, 2002, the IDF published a document calculating that the Palestinian Authority only needed 55 to 65 percent of its budget to fund legitimate government activities and estimated that the Palestinian Authority siphoned off $100 million a year to fund terrorism.[27] The estimates of need versus budget are consistent with more recent news accounts.[28]

Documents captured during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002 detail security forces involvement in terrorist operations.[29] An Israeli document describing the interrogation of Fatah leader Nasser Aweis in 2002 revealed the links between Tanzim operatives and the PA national security apparatus and showed not only how Palestinian security officers instructed Tanzim operatives in bomb-making, but also how they regularly updated Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat.[30] Other documents detailed Palestinian Authority salary payments to terrorists in the employ of security service officials.[31]

The correlation between donor aid and violence becomes murky when examining the affiliations of the terrorists. Palestinian terrorism is conducted by a variety of organizations, many of which derive their support from foreign sources separate from Western government aid.[32] Islamist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which have carried out the majority of attacks against Israel,[33] have had an uneasy and frequently adversarial relationship with Fatah-dominated Palestinian governments. Groups directly linked to Fatah, such as Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and Tanzim, account for only about 20 percent of the suicide bombings against Israel. Suicide bombings have been responsible for more than half of all Israeli fatalities since 2000. These circumstances make it difficult to understand why the correlation between aid to the Palestinians and terror homicides appears so strong.

The organizational affiliations of terrorists, however, may be multiple. Despite their strong internal differences, Fatah and the Islamists enjoy a high degree of cooperation in terrorism against Israel.[34] The Palestinian Authority’s Preventive Security Apparatus, for example, supported both Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Jenin.[35] Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and one or the other Islamist groups have carried out a number of joint operations.[36] These collaborative relationships continue. There remains ongoing concern that donor funds given to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas are subsidizing Hamas members on government ministry payrolls. And then there is the larger problem of the fungibility of money: Every dollar Hamas saves on having to fund jobs and programs unrelated to security is a dollar the organization can devote to terrorism. While collusion is clear, fully explaining the correlation requires better data on funds supplied covertly by Iran and sources within Saudi Arabia and better understanding of the role of tacit support from the Palestinian security services.

Perhaps U.S. and European officials still believe that supporting those suffering from the Palestinians’ damaged economy outweighs the negative effect of the diversion of funds to terrorists. While international officials often say they seek to promote a more moderate political culture among Palestinians, the Hamas victory in the January 2006 elections suggests such hope may be misplaced. At the time, the Palestinian economy had begun to improve. Similarly, in 1998 and 1999, the two years immediately preceding the second intifada Palestinian gross domestic product increased by 7 and 6 percent respectively.[37] Perhaps the bitterness of conflict outweighed the moderating influence of the aid—or, perhaps, the theory that aid moderates is itself flawed.[38]

What Changed between 2000 and 2007?

The aid windfall promised at the Paris conference will seek to strengthen the Palestinians’ West Bank leadership in the wake of Hamas’ violent expulsion of Fatah from Gaza in June 2007.[39] Western officials regard the Palestinians’ West Bank leadership as moderate[40] while Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is viewed as a technocrat who will ensure fiscal transparency in the PA. Nevertheless, the West Bank leadership retains armed militias incorporating terrorists. How much control Abbas and Fayyad have over these armed elements remains unclear. The commander of Israeli forces in the West Bank, Major General Gadi Shamni, recently told Israeli president Shimon Peres that “without the massive presence of the IDF in the West Bank, Hamas would take over the institutions and apparatuses of the Palestinian Authority within days.” [41]

The aid windfall comes amid the PA’s refusal to take responsibility for Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli towns. In 2006 and 2007, 1,719 rockets launched from Gaza hit Israeli territory.[42] On January 3, 2008, an upgraded 122 mm rocket fired from Gaza reached the major Israeli city of Ashkelon.[43] Nor has any Palestinian leader repudiated terrorism. Attacks by Fatah continue.[44] While the security barrier has curtailed terrorist attacks, the terrorist groups have not stopped trying.

Yet even some prominent Palestinians are troubled by the current determination to fund the Palestinian Authority. Abed of the Palestinian Monetary Authority, although supportive of financial assistance to the Palestinians, has spoken openly of the futility of providing donor aid, asserting that what is needed is investment. This view was echoed by James Prince, consultant to the Palestinian Investment Fund, who cautioned that “many of the donor programs have not only been ineffective, they have harmed the economy.”[45]

Infusions of foreign funds into the Palestinian Authority budget from late 2000 through 2002 correlated with increased violence. Increased aid in 2005 and 2006 corresponded to increasing internal violence, which is consistent with the fact that money was still finding its way to militant groups to purchase weapons and pay the salaries of the expanding militias.

Although the correlation does not prove cause and effect or provide irrefutable evidence of a direct link, it seems likely that increased aid helps sustain Palestinian violence in several ways: by creating the opportunity to divert funds for militant activities; by insulating the Palestinian leadership from the fiscal consequences of the economic fallout from terrorism; and by creating a revenue surplus that allows the Palestinian government both to pay for salaries and programs and to funnel money to terrorists. As Western donors prepare to pour unprecedented amounts of money into the PA, more discussion is needed to explain what controls will be imposed to ensure that the aid is not diverted to terrorists or used to fund a broader conflict with Israel.

Steven Stotsky is a senior research analyst at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).

[1] The New York Times, Dec. 18, 2007. [2] Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, speech to International Donors’ Conference for the Palestinian State, France Diplomatie, French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Dec. 17, 2007. [3] Condoleezza Rice, U.S. secretary of state, remarks at the International Donors’ Conference for the Palestinian State, U.S. Department of State, Dec. 17, 2007. [4] Calculations from World Bank Development Indicators Data Base, 2005 and Recipient Aid Charts, Development Cooperation Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Jan 1, 2006. [5] USA Today, Dec. 17, 2007; The Washington Post, Oct. 31, 2007; International Middle East Media Center (West Bank and Gaza), Dec. 15, 2007. [6] Reuters, July 1, 2007. [7] The San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 4, 2005. [8] West Bank and Gaza: Economic Performance and Reforms under Conflict Conditions (Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund [IMF], Sept. 2003), pp. 87-98. [9] Anti-Israeli Terrorism, 2006: Data, Analysis and Trends, Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center (IICC), Gelilot, Mar. 2007, p. 62; The Status of Palestinian Citizens’ Rights, 5th through 12th annual reports, The Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights (PICC), Ramallah, West Bank, 1999-2007; Associated Press, Oct. 6, 2005; “Palestinians Killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories,” B’Tselem, Jerusalem, accessed Feb. 29, 2008; “OCHA-Opt Protection of Civilians,” United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Dec. 2006; “OCHA-Opt Protection of Civilians,” United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Aug. 2007; Reuters, June 8, 2007. [10] Four Years: Intifada, Closures and Palestinian Economic Crisis (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Oct. 2004), p. 6; “West Bank and Gaza: Fiscal Performance in 2006,” International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C., Mar. 2007, p. 4. [11] Anti-Israeli Terrorism, 2006, IICC, p. 16. [12] West Bank and Gaza: Economic Performance and Reforms, IMF, p. 71; Four Years: Intifada, World Bank, p. 20. [13] West Bank and Gaza: Economic Performance and Reforms, IMF, pp. 34, 71. [14] Four Years: Intifada, World Bank, p. 66. [15] Ibid., pp. 65- 6. [16] The Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 4, 2008. [17] West Bank and Gaza: Economic Performance and Reforms, IMF, p. 92; “Two Years after London: Restarting the Palestinian Economic Recovery,” World Bank, London, Sept. 24, 2007, p. 10; “West Bank and Gaza Update,” World Bank Group, Gaza and West Bank Office, Mar. 2007, p. 10. [18] West Bank and Gaza: Economic Performance and Reforms, IMF, p. 92; author’s calculation from data in West Bank and Gaza: Recent Fiscal and Financial Developments, IMF, Washington, D.C., Oct. 2006, p. 7, ftnt. 8, p. 10, Table 3; James D. Wolfensohn, Quartet special envoy for disengagement, testimony to the Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Senate, Mar. 15, 2006, p. 3. [19] Reuters, Feb. 9, 2008; The Jordan Times (Amman), Feb. 27, 2008. [20] CNN News, Jan. 30, 2004. [21] Saeb Erekat, interview, CNN, Sept. 19, 2002. [22] Brynjar Lia, A Police Force without a State: A History of the Palestinian Security Forces in the West Bank and Gaza (Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 2006), p. 137. [23] Ibid., pp. 429-31. [24] Ibid., p. 432. [25] Twenty-Seven Months, Intifada, Closure and Palestinian Economic Crisis (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, May. 2003), p. 88. [26] Ibid., p. 52. [27] “International Financial Aid to the Palestinian Authority Redirected to Terrorist Elements,” Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), June 5, 2002; Rachel Ehrenfeld, “Eurocash,” National Review Online, Dec. 10, 2003. [28] The Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 4, 2008. [29] “The Involvement of Arafat, PA Senior Officials and Apparatuses in Terrorism against Israel,” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 6, 2002. [30] “Senior Fatah Leaders Describe Arafat’s Link to Terrorism,” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 2, 2002. [31] “Palestinian Authority Security Services Supplied Guidance, Weapons and Funds to Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in Order to Perpetrate Terrorist Attacks,” Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C., Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 2002. [32] Rachel Ehrenfeld and Sarah Zebaida, “EU and the PA Money Trail,” National Review Online, Jan. 27, 2003; Jonathan D. Halevi, “What Drives Saudi Arabia to Persist in Terrorist Financing,” Jerusalem Viewpoints, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem, June 1, 2005. [33] “Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks since the Declaration of Principles (Sept. 1993),” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed Feb. 13, 2008. [34] “The Involvement of Arafat,” MFA, May 6, 2002. [35] “Palestinian Authority Security Services,” MFA, May 2002. [36] “Documents Seized during Operation Defensive Shield Linking Yasser Arafat to Terrorist Activities,” doc. no. 6, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Apr. 15, 2002, accessed Feb. 13, 2008; The New York Times, Jan. 14, 2005; “Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks in Israel,” MFA, accessed Feb. 13, 2008. [37] Four Years: Intifada, World Bank, p. 20; “Report No. 23820,” An Evaluation of Bank Assistance, World Bank, Washington D.C., Mar. 7, 2002, p. 2, Table 1.1. [38] Claude Berrebi, “Evidence about the Link between Education, Poverty and Terrorism among Palestinians,” Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, Rand Corporation, Jan. 2007; Alan B. Krueger and Jitka Maleckova, “Education, Poverty and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2003; Jean Paul Azam and Alexandra Delacroix, “Aid and the Delegated Fight against Terrorism,” Review of Development Economics, May 2006, pp. 330-44. [39] Associated Press, Nov. 24, 2007. [40] USA Today, June 19, 2007. [41] The Jerusalem Post, Feb. 27, 2008. [42] “Rocket Threat from Gaza,” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dec. 16, 2007. [43] “Katyusha Rocket Fired at Ashkelon,” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jan. 3, 2008. [44] The Jerusalem Post, Jan. 1, 2008. [45] The San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 5, 2005.

Och efter allt detta känner sig lilla Sverige nödsakade att ge ytterligare 50 miljoner kronor för att förstärka terrorn!!!!!

Vi minns fortfarande Palmes “jammmen - det hade jag inte en AAAAANING om!!!” Något som är utmärkande för Sverige i många sammanhang.

Efter Pariskonferensen har pengarna fortsatt flöda, ekonomisk konferens i Betlehem i maj i år, Brown var nere och hade en dryg halv miljard kronor i byxfickan som de fick. Och som vi vet har redan 30 judar mördats i år jämfört med 13 under hela 2007.

Har du läst vad UD skriver om palestinaaraberna? Bered dej på en chock - läs först här.

Precis som extremvänsteryngel insisterar de på att Israel fortfarande ockuperar Gaza eftersom de inte tillåter en massiv uppbyggnad av raketramper där, riktade mot Israel! Läs nedan allt jag har skrivit om Gazas möjligheter - enbart stoppade genom deras egna terroraktiviteter!

I deras historik glömmer UD bekvämt det beslut som fattades i San Remo efter första världskriget, om upprättandet av ett judiskt nationalhem, men de betraktar FN:s rekommendationer som viktigare att nämna..

De nämner att många palestinaaraber flydde en bit - oftast inom det palestinska mandatet - där de av de andra araberna tvingades in i koncentrationsläger, inte absorberades i byar och städer. De glömmer helt att betydligt fler judar vid ungefär samma tillfälle tvingades från arabländerna och att Israel av dessa absorberade kanske 600.000. Ett utbyte som Indien-Pakistan, som i folkmun har blivit “etisk rensning” och svenska UD stöder alltså detta påhitt.

Observera terminologin. Jordaniens och Egyptens illegala ockupation av de palestinska områdena 1948-67 har i Stockholm automagiskt blivit “överhöghet” . . . . . medan därefter Israel “ockuperar”.

Åtminstone skriver de inte att de judiska byarna, “bosättningarna” är illegala, vilket de inte är, varken enligt San Remobeslutet 1920 eller några andra lagar. De som den israeliska regeringen godkänner befinner sig på mark sedan länge köpt av judar, eller på statlig mark: några stycken från denna artikeln:

Shimon Peres also stated, “Building [i Judéen/Samarien] which is necessary for normal life, like schools, private apartments, we are not going to stop.” (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, January 25, 1995)

Consistent With Oslo Israel’s policy is fully consistent with the terms of the Oslo Accords.

Neither the Declaration of Principles of September 13, 1993 nor the Interim Agreement (”Oslo 2″) of September 28, 1995 contains any provisions prohibiting or restricting the establishment or expansion of Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

When he presented the Oslo 2 accords before the Knesset on October 5, 1995, the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin stated, “I wish to remind you, we made a commitment, meaning we reached an agreement, we made a commitment to the Knesset not to uproot any settlement in the framework of the Interim Agreement, nor to freeze construction and natural growth.”

No Requisition of Private Land As a matter of policy, Israel does not requisition private land for the establishment of Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Housing construction is allowed only on public land after an exhaustive investigation has confirmed that no private rights exist regarding the land in question.

The Right of Jews to Live in Judea, Samaria and Gaza Jews have a historical, moral and legal right to live in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

The Historical Right The Jewish communities of Judea, Samaria and Gaza signify the return of the Jewish people to their ancestral homeland.

Since the dawn of Jewish history, Jews have resided in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. It is unthinkable that Jews would not be able to live in areas which are the cradle of Jewish civilization, religion and culture.

The Moral Right Jews have the right to live wherever they may choose. The assertion that Jews should not be allowed to live in a certain area because they are Jews smacks of racism and segregation.

The Legal Right The legal right of Jews to reside in Judea, Samaria and Gaza was given its first modern expression in the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. Article 6 of the Mandate required the mandatory power to encourage “close settlement by Jews on the land.”

The legal right of Jews remains in force today. As the internationally-recognized legal expert and former US Undersecretary of State Eugene V. Rostow has written, “The right of the Jewish people to settle in Palestine has never been terminated for the West Bank…” (American Journal of International Law, Vol. 84, July 1990, p.718)

UD fortsätter, helt korrekt: “År 1987 inleddes det första palestinska upproret” DE har upptäckt att där inte existerade en enda arab som kallade sig ‘palestinier’ förrän det blev politiskt korrekt efter 1967! Däremot är nittonhundratalet fullt av arabiska uppror och massakrer mor judar i området.

Det är roande att UD tar upp Annapolis och nämner Färdplanen. Visst, den har sina goda sidor - om arabsidan hade brytt sig om att uppfylla SINA krav, men de har enbart ägnat tid åt att kräva från Israel! Den startar med ett totalt stopp för hatpropaganda mot Israel/judar - denna har påtagligt intensifierats. Innan detta har skett behöver inte Israel uppfylla några av sina åtaganden.

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Gaza och därikring. Carter. Den stukade tån.

Vad sysslar araberna i Gaza med? Nä, inte odlar de grönsaker precis, det som judarna - medan de var där - tjänade bra på. Se mina tidigare artiklar. Då såldes det för $100 miljoner per år till Europa, och ändå gick 75% av produktionen av gift- och ohyresfria grönsaker till Israel.

Nu? Detta förrädiska "lugn" som Olmert har förhandlat fram, gör att Hamas arbetar stenhårt på att "importera" vapen och sprängämnen, och minera hela Gazaremsan. De antas ha fått raketer som når 3 mil från Iran, vilket är långt i lilla Mellanöstern. Ashdod och Kiriyat Gat är i farozonen.

Hamas applåderar högljutt den senaste arabiska bulldozerföraren i Jerusalem - tycker att alla araber ska uppföra sej lika exemplariskt.

Diskin, chef för Shin Bet i Israel berättar ofta och förgäves för regeringen Olmert att det håller på att gå åt skogen, men DEN regeringen har inte tid för sådana småsaker när deras lukrativa lön i Knesset är i farozonen. Redan i år har 30 israeler dödats av arabiska terrorister, jämfört med 13 under hela 2007. Han nämner att Hamas var i en mycket taskig sits innan de fick livlinan från Olmert Nu har de tid att ladda upp och återhämta sig. Olmert har till och med tankar på att frige massmördaren Barghouti, i klass med Kuntar.....

Diskin hade också varnat regeringen för en ny bulldozerattack 3 timmar innan den hände - Olmert hade inte tid att lyssna. Om inte regeringen faktiskt gör vad de har sagt, att eliminera husen där de terroristerna bodde, kommer terrorn att fortsätta. Mera här.

Hamas har nu 200 ton sprängämnen och 10 miljoner kulor. Olmert tycker det är bra att de inte har skjutit så många raketer på sistone, men de har väl inte haft tid, med alla transporter att ta emot.

Olmerts välvilja sträcker sig till och med till arabiska spioner mot Israel, som får sin pension utbetald till hans näste i Damaskus!

Och vad gör Carter? Försöker smuggla i skepp till Gaza!!! Inte för att TT har berättat om det.

Tre palestinaarabiska nätverk laddar upp omkring Jerusalem, stora mängder vapen och sprängämnen lagras i byarna omkring Jerusalem. De byar de senaste tre Jerusalemterroristerna bodde. Mängder av arabiska byggnadsarbetare i många projekt i Jerusalem - som det föreslogs, tänk om en av de enorma byggnadskranarna ramlade över några kvarter...... Där har också gjorts undersökningar - Israel har godkänt familjeåterföreningsprogram för araber där, och genom dessa har många aktiva terrorister importerats.

Fanatiker som Hizb al-Tahrir har utmanövrerat de muslimer som innan fick överinseende över Tempelplatsen. Galilee Liberation Brigades, som har tagit åt sig äran för de senaste attackerna i Jerusalem, är inblandade. Polisen har inte en aaaaaaaning. Läs länken ovan!

Den skjutna tån

Officeren som ska ha givit order om skjutemanget insisterar på att han inte har gjort det - och lögndetektorn håller med honom.

Var där något TT hade missat? Hm, de skriver om blahasaker som att Peres och Abbas har tagit på varandra. DN SvD * * Månntro Peres påminde Abbas om att Arafat hade lovat att omarbeta PLO Charter, Abbas grundlag, så att den inte förbjöd existensen av Israel? När Arafat sa det, jublade Peres och sa att NU var allt bra.......

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"Arab sköts" eller "arab försökte mörda" ???

Om man känner för att skriva en artikel finns det något som heter kausalitetsprincipen - att orsak kommer före verkan. Om en arab med urusel fantasi försöker kopiera mordattacken från en annan arab i grannbyn i Muslimernas Tredje Heligaste Stad genom att använda en bulldozer för att mörda så många judar som möjligt, och en polis sköt honom, vilket kommer först och alltså hör hemma i rubriken? Vad vill folk veta?

Jag undrar om man lär ut doublespeak på journalisthögskolan.

DN: “Bulldozerchaufför sköts ihjäl i Jerusalem” Vi får alltså veta att en bulldozerförare, kanske jude, kanske drus, sköts ihjäl lite hipp som happ utan anledning. För de som enbart läser rubriker.

Svd (letar lite - det är mycket viktigare där att en arab har fått tån stukad - en med stor sannolikhet fejkad film): “Ny attack med schaktmaskin i Israel” - korrekt.

AB: “Grävmaskinsförare ihjälskjuten” resp. “Förare i grävmaskin ihjälskjuten i Jerusalem” - samma kommentar som DN.

Att jämföra med hur de representeras i Israel:

“Another bulldozer attack in Jerusalem;: 23 wounded”

“16 wounded in copycat Bulldozer attack in Jerusalem”

“Second Palestinian bulldozer rampage injures 29 on Jerusalem main street“, där det också nämns att Hizballah-sponsrade “Galilee Liberation Brigades” har tagit sig åt äran, liksom vid förra bulldozerattacken. Se under Annat här.

De palestinska nyheterna är även de, mer rakt på sak än DN och AB: “Driver killed after second Jerusalem ‘bulldozer rampage‘” De berättar också att det var en “bosättare” som snabbt dödade föraren: “Ya’akov Asahel, a 53-year-old resident of the West Bank settlement of Susiya, in the hills south of Hebron.”

Den fortsätter: “About 50 right-wing Israelis immediately began a demonstration at the site of the incident, chanting slogans in Hebrew and holding a sign reading “Olmert, Bush, and Arafat, accomplices in terror.”

Det är ytterst påtagligt att DN/AB endast är ute efter en sak: att svärta ner Israel. Vad gäller SvD:s prioriteringar - hm, inte mycket bättre.

Terroriten hette Ghassan Abu Tir, 22 år och var en släkting till Muhammad Abu Tir, en av de Hamasledare som Israel har fängslat.

Det är ytterst påtagligt att DN och AB vill skylla Israel för något, eftersom rubrikläsarna enbart får tillskott till det Israelhat som TT:s rubriksättning (eller vem som nu sätter rubriken) och artiklar har byggt upp i Sverige under lång tid. Måste man påpeka att de Pressetiska Reglerna också kräver att rättelser på felaktigheter införs.

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Iran Brown Sudan Israel

Iran

Solana sitter bekymrad och undrar vad som var fel med skålen med morötter han hade satt framför Irans chefsförhandlare - kanske han inte är en kanin? Man ser framför sig hur en bamseskål med morötter sätts framför Hitler med en förväntansfull min. Förväntar man sig ett glatt gläfs i retur?

Vi minns väl hur Arafat, när han behövde några miljoner, bara ringde Solana och fick dem levererade prompto. Varför skulle han uppträda bryskare mot Ahmedinejad?

EU har alls icke följt kraven från Säkerhetsrådet. Som synes står det där "acting under Article 41 of Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter" Hur de följer det när det gäller att handla med Iran kan du se här. Hade EU ögonblickligen förbjudit all handel med Iran hade det kunnat hjälpa. Man kunde påminna Iran om att ryssarna har lovat att förse deras reaktor i Burshehr med uran.

William Burns från USA satt med på morotskalaset. Detta visar i stort sett en sak: USA har gett upp planerna på att använda hårdhandskarna mot Iran, och har överlämnat jobbet till Israel, som nu har fria händer.

Under tiden "övar" USA, Frankrike och England 15.000 sailors från och med idag utanför Irans kust.

Sudan

Arabförbundet står helt på ledarens sida, knappast på de som har utsatts för folkmord. 400.000 mördade tycker inte Arabförbundet är nåt att bråka om - de har ju medhåll från FN:s Människorättsråd! Hade det varit i Israel eller dess närhet - wow! Minns "massakern i Jenin"? Veckor efter det att Hamas hade mördat 30 personer i Netanya på ett pensionärskalas, gick den israeliska armén in i Jenin för att rensa upp. Storskrävlaren själv, Saeb Erekat, berättade att det var ett folkmord på mer än 500 människor. även om det rätt snart krympte till 32 - legenderna berättar fortfarande om "Massakern i Jenin"! Två personer mer än massakern i Netanya, som var en av orsakerna till att israelerna var tvungna att rensa i Jenin.

Om Israel slog ihjäl 400.000 araber, vad tror du hade hänt? Spekulera utan förutfattade meningar.

Brown

Suck. Vad är han, premiärminister eller nåt? Det är roligt att läsa kommentarerna under denna artikel av några engelsmän, som undrar om han behöver ännu ett land att förstöra. Hans enda lösning på alla problem är ännu en 570 miljoner kronor till Arafat, förlåt Abbas. Hur vore det om Abbas först i lugn och ro kan få konsumera de 45 miljarder kronor han förärats i december??? Betlehemkonferensen i maj gav - bortåt 10 miljarder kronor. Risken finns att han dränks och förgås i pengar. Uttrycket Gator av Guld låter mer kristet men.....

Gripen aktivist sköts?

Det är helt otroligt vilket rabalder det kan bli av en stukad tå, om man kan anklaga Israel för det. Att B'tselem, en extremvänsterorganisation, människorättsorganisationen som aldrig någonsin ägnat sig åt mänskliga rättigheter för judar, påstår något beror på att de lever på stora donationer från bl.a. utrikesdepartementen i Norge och England, och från Diakonia.

Detta fallet är under utredning, men som vi vet kan man skrika och gasta hur mycket som helst i tidningarna, men när det sedan visar sig helt fel, råkar man glömma att ge en lika tydlig dementi. Al Durafallet är typiskt. Om du läser artikeln så står det bl.a.

Expert Says Film Was Edited

Yonatan D. HaLevy, an expert on Arab affairs and an IDF Lt.-Col. in the reserves, says the video leaves much to be explained. For one thing, he told Arutz-7's Uzi Baruch, "For one thing, the film shows the soldier firing to the left of the detained man, and certainly not at his feet.

Why don't they show the boot that would certainly have been damaged had he been shot in the foot? In addition, the military doctor said he had a small injury on the bottom of his right foot - while the injured man said he was hurt in the toe of his left foot."

"Finally," HaLevi said, "even though he was surprised by the shooting, as can be expected from one who is blindfolded, the Arab did not fall down right away from the supposed injuries to his foot, but rather remained standing on two feet, and actually leaning on his supposedly-injured left foot.

The film is then cut, apparently on purpose, and we don't see how he ended up lying down on the ground." "I must emphasize," HaLevy concluded: "There is no filmed proof that the man was shot in his foot."

Killen hade en skadad tå, som blev omplåstrad. Detta blev av TT omarbetat till "skott mot palestinier". Ett ytterst påtagligt brott mot de Pressetiska Reglerna.

Abu-Rahma, a resident of Bil’in, was detained for about 30 minutes by IDF soldiers at the scene of the rioting, one of many arrests for rioting during several days of Arab violence in Naalin. The video appears to show that while he was standing next to the officer's jeep for questioning, another soldier fired at him. He later said that his large left toe was slightly injured. He was treated at the scene and was released by the soldiers.

TT ljuger som vanligt och påstår att Internationella Domstolen har mer än en rådgivande uppgift. De fattade sitt "beslut" utan att en enda gång nämna ordet terror, terrorism, terrorist!!!! Sverige hjälpte till att betala advokaterna för arabsidan.

TT:s och extremvänsterns idé att Israel placerar barriären för att stjäla jord - det hade varit otroligt enkelt för dem att helt enkelt annektera det hela, om det hade ingått i planerna. Tyvärr har araberna där fånskrattat åt Arafats löfte om tillgängligheten för judar till alla deras historiska minnesmärken i Judéen/Samarien, en del har araberna förstört, så innan deras mänskliga/kulturella nivå har stigit några grader kan de inte lämnas utan översyn. Barriären är i princip en barnhage.

Tredjeklassarna i Gaza, vad lär de sej? Hur de ska använda de hypermoderna växthusen som judarna lämnade efter sig, som hade givit $100 miljoner i exportinkomster till Europa per år? Du kan se på denna videon.

Under tiden laddar Hizb-Allah, ordagrant Guds Parti, upp sej. Din Gud, min Gud, Broderskaparnas Gud?

Iran och Syrien har hjälpt sina knähundar, Hizb-allah, att sätta upp 1000 C-802 missiler - minns den missil som skadade ett israeliskt skepp under Libanonkriget för två år sedan. Räckvidd på 12 mil, svåra att se innan det smäller. Nya radarsystem etc. har satts upp i glädjen att få tillbaka en av sina likasinnade, en barnamördare. Användarna är väl tränade i Iran och Syrien.

Konstigt att FN inte protesterar. Guds Parti intygar att kriget kommer att fortsätta. Säkerhetsrådet sa att INGEN fick ge vapen till Hizb-Allah. UNIFIL ha inte sett ett dyft.....

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Så mycket är en jude värd

Och - hur mycket är ett människoliv värt?

Sverige var alltid ett fattigt land, fram till kristendomens införande var det rutin att oönskade barn, eller barn man inte kunde ta hand om, sattes ut i skogen för vidare öden. Därefter skedde det bara diskret och om absolut nödvändigt. De senaste tusen åren har vi värderat människoliv som något speciellt - undantag som kom fram i ljuset, har bestraffats hårt.

I Indien har flickebarn alltid varit oönskade. Ibland har man himlat med ögonen och vänligt förklarat att man slår ihjäl dom för att de snabbare ska kunna återfödas som pojkar. De som är ännu vänligare dränker dom i mjölk. Här en bild jag hittade i en intressant bok i bokhyllan: The Oriental Annual, från 1839.

(Bilden är tjusig i detaljerna, men du kan inte se dem här. Vill du se dem måste din dator kunna visa DjVu-bilder! Kan de inte det kan du hitta lämplig plugin på denna länken. Gå dit, installera och därefter prova att dubbelklicka på bilden.)

Vad är ett människoliv värt? Israelerna, judarna, älskar livet! Läs denna artikel! Araberna har Koranen, som berättar om att älska döden:

Leading Muslim clerics often refer to the love of death. Chief Palestinian Authority cleric Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri stated, “We tell them, in as much as you love life, the Muslim loves death and martyrdom. There is a great difference between he who loves the hereafter and he who loves this world. The Muslim loves death and [strives for] martyrdom.” Saudi Sheikh Abd Al-Muhsin Al-Qassem in Al-Madina added: “The Jews preached permissiveness and corruption, as they hid behind false slogans like freedom and equality, humanism and brotherhood… They are cowards in battle… they flee from death and fear fighting… They love life.”

Former head of the Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee Sheikh Atiyyah Saqr was asked the following question in an online chat room on March 22, 2004: “What, according to the Koran, are the Jews’ main characteristics and qualities?” He explained one of their worst traits: “Cowardice and love for this worldly life are undisputable traits [of the Jews].” http://talkinjihadblues.wordpress.com/2008/04/page/2/

Year Number killed 1920 9 1921 24 1922 5 1923 0 1924 4 1925 1 1926 1 1927 1 1928 0 1929 119 1920s total = 164	Year Number killed 1930 0 1931 2 1932 4 1933 0 1934 0 1935 1 1936 44 1937 10 1938 94 1939 26 1930s total = 181
Year Number killed 1940 137 1941 14 1942 4 1943 1 1944 3 1945 1 1946 28 1947 152 1948 379 1949 37 1940s total = 756	Year Number killed 1950 52 1951 41 1952 40 1953 46 1954 41 1955 30 1956 53 1957 19 1958 15 1959 10 1950s total = 347

Aug 23, 1929, 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 April 19, 1936, Jaffa Massacre: Arab rioters attacked Jaffa and killed 16 Jews. Jan 01, 1952 - Seven armed terrorists attacked and killed a nineteen year-old girl in her home, in the neighborhood of Beit Yisrael, in Jerusalem. Apr 14, 1953 - Terrorists tried for the first time to infiltrate Israel by sea, but were unsuccessful. One boat was intercepted and the other escaped. Jun 07, 1953 - A youngster was killed and three others were wounded, in shooting attacks on residential areas in southern Jerusalem. Jun 09, 1953 - Terrorists attacked a farming community near Lod, and killed one of the residents. The terrorists threw hand grenades and sprayed gunfire in all directions. On the same night, another group of terrorists attacked a house in the town of Hadera. This occurred a day after Israel and Jordan signed an agreement, with UN mediation, in which Jordan undertook to prevent terrorists from crossing into Israel from Jordanian territory. Jun 10, 1953 - Terrorists infiltrating from Jordan destroyed a house in the farming village of Mishmar Ayalon. Jun 11, 1953 - Terrorists attacked a young couple in their home in Kfar Hess, and shot them to death. Sep 02, 1953 - Terrorists infiltrated from Jordan, and reached the neighborhood of Katamon, in the heart of Jerusalem. They threw hand grenades in all directions. Miraculously, no one was hurt. Mar 17, 1954 - Terrorists ambushed a bus traveling from Eilat to Tel Aviv, and opened fire at short range when the bus reached the area of Maale Akrabim in the northern Negev. In the initial ambush, the terrorists killed the driver and wounded most of the passengers. The terrorists then boarded the bus, and shot each passenger, one by one. Eleven passengers were murdered. Survivors recounted how the murderers spat on the bodies and abused them. The terrorists could clearly be traced back to the Jordanian border, some 20 km from the site of the terrorist attack. Jan 02, 1955 - Terrorists killed two hikers in the Judean Desert. Mar 24, 1955 - Terrorists threw hand grenades and opened fire on a crowd at a wedding in the farming community of Patish, in the Negev. A young woman was killed, and eighteen people were wounded in the attack. Apr 07, 1956 - A resident of Ashkelon was killed in her home, when terrorists threw three hand grenades into her house. Two members of Kibbutz Givat Chaim were killed, when terrorists opened fire on their car, on the road from Plugot Junction to Mishmar Hanegev. There were further hand grenade and shooting attacks on homes and cars, in areas such as Nitzanim and Ketziot. One person was killed and three others wounded. Apr 11, 1956 - Terrorists opened fire on a synagogue full of children and teenagers, in the farming community of Shafrir. Three children and a youth worker were killed on the spot, and five were wounded, including three seriously. Apr 29, 1956 - Egyptians killed Roi Rotenberg, 21 years of age, from Nahal Oz. Sep 12, 1956 - Terrorists killed three Druze guards at Ein Ofarim, in the Arava region. Sep 23, 1956 - Terrorists opened fire from a Jordanian position, and killed four archaeologists, and wounded sixteen others, near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. Sep 24, 1956 - Terrorists killed a girl in the fields of the farming community of Aminadav, near Jerusalem. Oct 04, 1956 – Terrorists killed five Israeli workers in Sdom. Oct 09, 1956 - Two workers were killed by terrorists in an orchard of the youth village, Neve Hadassah, in the Sharon region. Nov 08, 1956 - Terrorists opened fire on a train, attacked cars and blew up wells, in the North and Center of Israel. Six Israelis were wounded. Feb 18, 1957 - Two civilians were killed by terrorist landmines, next to Nir Yitzhak, on the southern border of the Gaza Strip. Mar 08, 1957 - A shepherd from Kibbutz Beit Govrin was killed by terrorists in a field near the Kibbutz. Apr 16, 1957 - Terrorists infiltrated from Jordan, and killed two guards at Kibbutz Mesilot. May 20, 1957 - A terrorist opened fire on a truck in the Arava region, killing a worker. May 29, 1957 - A tractor driver was killed and two others wounded, when the vehicle struck a terrorist landmine, next to Kibbutz Kisufim. Jun 23, 1957 - Israelis were wounded by terrorist landmines, close to the Gaza Strip. Aug 23, 1957 - Two guards of the Israeli Mekorot water company were killed by terrorists near Kibbutz Beit Govrin. Dec 21, 1957 - A member of Kibbutz Gadot was killed by terrorists in the Kibbutz fields. Feb 11, 1958 - Terrorists killed a resident of Moshav Yanov who was on his way to Kfar Yona, in the Sharon area. Apr 05, 1958 - Terrorists lying in ambush shot and killed two people near Tel Lachish. Apr 22, 1958 - Jordanian terrorists shot and killed two fishermen near Aqaba. May 26, 1958 - Four Israeli police officers were killed in a Jordanian terrorist attack on Mt. Scopus, in Jerusalem. Nov 17, 1958 - Syrian terrorists killed the wife of the British air attache in Israel, who was staying at the guesthouse of the Italian Convent on the Mt. of the Beatitudes. Dec 03, 1958 - A shepherd was killed at Kibbutz Gonen. In the artillery attack by terrorists that followed, 31 civilians were wounded. Jan 23, 1959 - A shepherd from Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan was killed by terrorists. Feb 01, 1959 - Three civilians were killed by a terrorist landmine near Moshav Zavdiel. Apr 15, 1959 - A guard was killed by terrorists at Kibbutz Ramat Rahel. Apr 27, 1959 - Two hikers were shot at close range by terrorists and killed near Massada. Sep 06, 1959 - Bedouin terrorists killed a paratroop reconnaissance officer near Nitzana. Sep 08, 1959 - Bedouins terrorists opened fire on an army bivouac in the Negev, killing an IDF officer, Captain Yair Peled. Oct 03, 1959 - A shepherd from Kibbutz Heftziba was killed by terrorists near Kibbutz Yad Hana. Apr 26, 1960 - Terrorists killed a resident of Ashkelon south of the city. Apr 12, 1962 - Terrorists fired on an Egged bus on the way to Eilat; one passenger was wounded. Sep 30, 1962 - Two terrorists attacked an Egged bus on the way to Eilat. No one was wounded. Jan 01, 1965 - Palestinian terrorists attempted to bomb the National Water Carrier. This was the first attack carried out by the PLO’s Fatah faction. May 31, 1965 - Jordanian terrorists fired on the neighborhood of Musrara in Jerusalem, killing two civilians and wounding four. Jun 01, 1965 - Terrorists attack a house in Kibbutz Yiftach. Jul 05, 1965 - A Fatah terrorism cell planted explosives at Mitzpe Massua, near Beit Guvrin; and on the railroad tracks to Jerusalem near Kafr Battir. Aug 26, 1965 - A waterline was sabotaged by terrorists at Kibbutz Manara, in the Upper Galilee. Sep 29, 1965 - A terrorist was killed as he attempted to attack Moshav Amatzia. Nov 7, 1965 - A Fatah terrorist cell that infiltrated from Jordan blew up a house in Moshav Givat Yeshayahu, south of Beit Shemesh. The house was destroyed, but the inhabitants were miraculously unhurt. Apr 25, 1966 - Explosions placed by terrorists wounded two civilians and damaged three houses in Moshav Beit Yosef, in the Beit Shean Valley. May 16, 1966 - Two Israelis were killed when their jeep hit a terrorist landmine, north of the Sea of Galilee and south of Almagor. Tracks led into Syria. Jul 13, 1966 - Two soldiers and a civilian were killed near Almagor, when their truck struck a terrorist landmine. Jul 14, 1966 - Terrorists attacked a house in Kfar Yuval, in the North. Jul 19, 1966 - Terrorists infiltrated into Moshav Margaliot on the northern border and planted nine explosive charges. Oct 27, 1966 - A civilian was wounded by a terrorist bomb on the railroad tracks to Jerusalem. Jan 14, 1967 - Terrorists laid a land mine that at a soccer game, which exploded killing 1 and injuring 2. Mar 06, 1968 - A terrorist explosion at the Hebrew University cafeteria wounded dozens of students. Mar 18, 1968 - Terrorists laid a land mine that blew up a school bus, killing 2 children and injuring 28 others. Sep 04, 1968 - Palestinian terrorists planted explosives in the Tel Aviv bus station, killing one person, and wounding 70. Sep 22, 1968 - Palestinian terrorists booby trapped a car. The car exploded in the shopping market Mahen Yehuda in Jerusalem, killing 12 people and wounding 70. Jun 17, 1969 - Shirley Louise Anderson, a 25 year -old tourist from Rochester, New York, was killed when PLO shelled the Israeli resort town of Kallia Dec 27, 1969 - Leon Holz, 48, a tourrist from Brooklyn, New York was killed when PLO terrorists fired shots at a tourist bus near Hebron Feb 21, 1970 - Barbara Ertle, of Grandville, Michigan, wife of Reverend Theodore Ertl, was killed during a PLO terrorist shooting attack on a busload of pilgrims in the village of Halhoul, near Hebron May 22, 1970- Palestinian terrorists attacked a school bus at the Mosha Avivim in the Upper Galilee. 9 children, the driver and 2 other adults are killed, and 19 children are wounded. Jan 22, 1971 - Palestinian terrorists attacked an Israeli family in the Gaza Strip, killing 2 children and wounding the mother. Jul 07, 1971 - Palestinian terrorists launched Katushya rockets on Petach Tikva, near Tel Aviv, killing 3 women and one child. Oct 09, 1971 - A terrorist threw a hand grenade at the Western Wall, wounding 16 Israelis. May 30, 1972 - Terrorists from the Red Army allied with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine shoot indiscriminately in the Lod airport, killing 25 people and wounding 70. One of those killed was Aharon Katzir, an internationally renowned scientist. Sept 5, 1972, Munich Massacre: Palestinian terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes and one German policeman in a dormitory of the Munich Olympic Games. Mar 05, 1974 - Eight PLO terrorists reached Tel Aviv by sea and took over a hotel killing 3 Israeli soldiers. Apr 11, 1974 - PLO terrorists attacked Kiryat Shmona, killing 8 children, 8 adults, and 2 soldiers. May 15, 1974 - Maalot Massacre: 22 children and several adults were killed (66 children were wounded) by Palestinian terrorists of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Nov 19, 1974 - PLO terrorists infiltrate into the town of Bet She’an, killing 4 residents and wounding 20 others. Nov 20, 1974 - PLO terrorists infiltrated from Syria into the Ramat Magshimim settlement, killing 3 students and wounding 2. Dec 11, 1974 - A terrorist threw a bomb into a Tel Aviv movie theater killing 2 people and wounding 60 others. Nov 21, 1975 - Michael Nadler, an American-Israeli student from Miami Beach, Florida, was killed when axe-wielding terrorists from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a PLO faction, attacked students at in the Israeli town of Ramat Hamagshimim. Apr 28, 1976 - A terrorist explosion in the heart of Jerusalem killed 2 police officers. Dec 08, 1977 - PLO terrorists launched a Katushya rocket at Nahariya, killing one woman. Mar 11, 1978 - PLO terrorists seized a bus on the coastal road, killing 35 men, women, and children. Mar 11, 1978 - Gali Rubin, niece of U.S Senator Abraham Ribicoff, was shot to death by PLO terrorists on the Tel-Aviv beachfront. Mar 17, 1978 - PLO terrorists launched Katushyas on the Western Galilee, killing 2 and wounding 2. Jun 02, 1978 - A PLO terrorist bomb blows up in a bus in Jerusalem killing 6 people and wounding 19. Aug 03, 1978 - A terrorist bomb blew up in the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv, killing 1 and wounding nearly 50. Dec 21, 1978 - PLO terrorists launched a katushya rocket, which killed 1 and wounded 10 in Kiryat Shmona. Apr 22, 1979 - Terrorists killed a father his two daughters and a policeman in Netanya. Apr 07, 1980 - PLO terrorists attacked Kibbutz Misgav Am at the northern border, killing 3 Israelis and wounding 16. May 02, 1980 - PLO terrorists attacked worshipers walking home from synagogue in Hebron. Eli Haze’ev, an American-Israeli from Alexandria, Virginia, was one of those killed. Oct 05, 1980 - A terrorist planted a bomb in a package which exploded in a post office in Givatayim, killing 3 and wounding 7 Israelis. Mar 06, 1981 - A Palestinian terrorist landed in Israel by wind surfer and took a hostage. Jan 08, 1983 - PLO terrorists wound 11 after throwing a hand grenade at a bus. Jul 01, 1983 - Aharon Gross, age 19, an American-Israeli from New York, was stabbed to death by PLO terrorists in the Hebron marketplace. Dec 06, 1983 - PLO terrorists attacked a bus in Jerusalem, killing 6 Israeli citizens and wounding 50. Apr 02, 1984 - A Palestinian terrorist indiscriminately opened fire in West Jerusalem killing 1 and injuring 60. Apr 12, 1984 - PLO terrorists hijacked bus #300, killing one Israeli. Two terrorists are captured alive and later beaten to death by General Security Service agents. Oct 22, 1984 - Palestinian terrorists murdered 2 students one male and one female, near a monastery in Bethlehem. Nov 06, 1984 - IDF soldier David Manos was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists on the Lod-Petah Tikva road. His body was found on 14 March 1986 near the village of Dir Balut. His murderers were apprehended. Nov 29, 1984 - IDF soldier Hadas Kedmi was kidnapped by terrorists after entering a vehicle in which she hitched a ride. Her body was found at the Carmel foothills near Kibbutz Beit Oren on 11 Dec 1994. Jun 10, 1985 - Reservist David Pelzan, from Eilat, was kidnapped by terrorists and murdered. His body was discovered at the Kissufim junction. Jun 27, 1985 - An Israeli man and woman were shot to death by terrorists near Beit Shemesh. The perpetrators were caught and claimed affiliation with Fatah. Aug 03, 1986 - Yaron Chen, a Tsahal soldier, was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists while hitch-hiking back home. His body was later found in the burnt truck. Oct 15, 1986 - Terrorists threw a grenade at the Western Wall killing Gail Klein and injuring 69 people. Apr 11, 1987 - Palestinian terrorists threw a bomb into the car of Ofra Moses, who burned to death. Her family members were also injured in the incident. Sep 04, 1987 - A Palestinian terrorist murdered a hitchhiking soldier at Megido Junction. Oct 21, 1987 - Palestinian terrorists murdered an 8 year old girl from Elon Moreh. Nov 25, 1987 - A PLO terrorist infiltrated from Jordan on a hang glider. He entered an Israeli army base, and killed 6 soldiers. Dec 28, 1987 - December 28th to the 29th Israeli postal workers discovered 8 terrorist letter bombs. One exploded that wounded 2 Israelis. Mar 07, 1988 - PLO terrorists infiltrated from Egypt, killing 3 nuclear reactor workers riding a bus. Apr 08, 1988 - Palestinian terrorists attacked a group of hikers, causing one girl to die, wounding 15. Jun 15, 1988 - A Palestinian terrorist stabbed to death Professor Menahem Stern while walking through the Valley of the Cross, in Jerusalem. Aug 20, 1988 - Terrorists exploded a bomb in a Haifa pedestrian mall, injuring 25 Israeli shoppers. Oct 30, 1988 - Palestinian terrorists firebombed an Israeli bus in Jericho, killing a mother and her 3 children. Feb 16, 1989 - Sgt. Avi Sasportas was kidnapped by terrorists and shot to death while hitchhiking at the Hodaya junction. His body, which had been buried at the Givati junction in southern Israel, was discovered on 7 May 1989. May 03, 1989 - Cpl. Ilan Saadon was kidnapped by a Hamas terrorist cell. On 22 Nov 1990, Saadon was declared a fallen IDF soldier. His body was found on 29 Jul 1996. May 03, 1989 - A Palestinian terrorist stabbed 2 civilians and wounded another 3 in the shopping district at Zion Square, Jerusalem. Jun 16, 1989 - A Palestinian terrorist stabbed an Israeli to death in Ariel. Jul 06, 1989 - A Palestinian terrorist forced the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem bus off a cliff, killing 14 Israelis and wounding dozens of others.

May 28, 1990 - Terrorists exploded a bomb in Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, killed one and injured 9. May 30, 1990 - Israeli forces foiled a terrorist attack by sea on the beaches of Tel-Aviv by the Palestine Liberation Front. Four PLF members were killed and twelve wounded. Jul 28, 1990 - Marnie Kimelman, a Canadian tourist, was killed by a terrorist bomb on a Tel Aviv beach. Aug 04, 1990 - Palestinian terrorists kidnapped and murdered two teenagers from Jerusalem. Sep 20, 1990 - Amnon Pomeranz, a soldier, was brutally murdered by terrorists after losing his way and ending up in al-Bureis Refugee Camp in Gaza. Oct 21, 1990 - A Palestinian terrorist stabbed and killed a female solder, a policeman, and a civilian in Jerusalem. Nov 12, 1990 - A Palestinian terrorist infiltrated from Jordan, killing an outpost’s commanding officer. Nov 25, 1990 - An Egyptian terrorist shot at passing Israeli military and civilian vehicles, killing 4 and wounding 26. Dec 02, 1990 - Three Hamas terrorists stabbed and killed an Israeli, wounding 3 others, on a bus between Petach Tikva and Tel Aviv. Dec 14, 1990 - Two Hamas terrorists killed 3 employees, one female, in a Jaffa metal works factory. Mar 18, 1991 - A Palestinian terrorist murdered 4 women in Jerusalem. Oct 11, 1991 - Master Sergeant Aaron Agmon Klijami and Sergeant Shmuel Michaeli were run over and killed at the Tel Hashomer soldiers’ hitch-hiking station by a terrorist who deliberately drove a van into a queue of soldiers waiting for lifts. Eleven other soldiers were injured. Oct 28, 1991 – Terrorist gunmen fired on a bus carrying Israeli settlers, killing two Israelis and wounding several others. The PIJ and the PFLP claimed responsibility. Feb 14, 1992 - Israeli Arab terrorists axed to death three soldiers near Kibbutz Gal ‘Ed. May 24, 1992 - Helena Rapp, a fifteen year old girl from Bat-Yam was stabbed to death by a Hamas terrorist from Nuseirat, Gaza District. The murderer was apprehended at the scene. May 30, 1992 - Two Palestinian terrorists killed an Israeli civilian in Eilat. Jun 25, 1992 - A resident of Ma’ale Levona was injured while traveling with his family to Jerusalem by an axe-wielding terrorist from the village of Sanjiel. The terrorist was shot and apprehended. Sep 18, 1992 - IDF soldier, Alon Caravani, was kidnapped by terrorists from the Izz al-Din al-Qassam squad who gave the hitchhiking soldier a lift in their car. He was stabbed, and then thrown from the vehicle. Sep 22, 1992 - A border policeman, Avinoam Peretz, was shot and killed by a terrorist at Shoefat junction, French Hill, Jerusalem. The terrorist claimed that he had been recruited by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam squads (Hamas). Nov 20, 1992 - Terrorists from the Izz al-Din al-Qassam gang planned a car-bomb attack in a heavily populated area in the center of the country. The car was detected in Or Yehuda and, after a chase, the car was stopped and the bomb in it was defused. Two of the terrorists in the car were apprehended and admitted affiliation with the Izz al-Din al-Qassam (Hamas). Dec 12, 1992 - Staff Sgt. Major Nissim Toledano, of the Border Police, a 29 year old resident of Lod, was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists while traveling from his home to his base. He was murdered several hours later, while the terrorists were still negotiating for the return of their imprisoned leader Ahmad Yassin. His body was found on 15 Dec 1992 near the Samaritan grave on the Maaleh Adumim-Jericho road. Dec 19, 1992 - A Hamas terrorist kidnapped and murdered a policeman in Jerusalem. Feb 24, 1993 - Hava Wechsberg, age 11, was killed when Palestinian terrorist rock-throwers attacked the car in which she was riding, causing it to crash, near Karmei Tzur. Mar 12, 1993 - Pvt. Yehoshua Friedberg was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists. The Canadian-born soldier, who were serving in the Golani Brigade, had immigrated to Israel in 1991. He resided in Jerusalem. Jul 01, 1993 - A Hamas terrorist killed 2 women and wounded one man. Sep 24, 1993 - Yigal Vaknin was stabbed to death by terrorists in an orchard near the trailer home where he lived near the village of Basra. A squad of the Hamas’ Iz a-Din al Kassam claimed responsibility for the attack. Oct 9, 1993 - Dror Forer and Aran Bachar were murdered by terrorists in Wadi Kelt in the Judean Desert. The Popular Front and the Islamic Jihad ‘Al-Aqsa Squads’ each publicly claimed responsibility. Oct 24, 1993 - Two IDF soldiers, Staff Sgt. (res.) Ehud Rot, age 35, and Sgt. Ilan Levi, age 23, were killed by a Hamas Iz a-Din al Kassam terrorist squad. The soldiers entered a Subaru with Israeli license plates outside a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, whose passengers were apparently terrorists disguised as Israelis. Following a brief struggle, the soldiers were shot at close range and killed. Hamas publicly claimed responsibility for the attack. Oct 29, 1993 - Chaim Mizrahi, resident of Beit-El, was kidnapped by three terrorists from a poultry farm near Ramallah. He was murdered and his body burned. Three Fatah members were convicted of the murder on Jul 27, 1994. Nov 07, 1993 - Efraim Ayubi of Kfar Darom, Rabbi Chaim Druckman’s personal driver, was shot to death by terrorists near Hebron. HAMAS publicly claimed responsibility for the murder. Nov 09, 1993 - Salman ‘Id el-Hawashla, age 38, an Israeli Bedouin of the Abu Rekaik tribe who was driving a car with Israeli plates, was killed by three armed terrorists driving a truck hijacked from the Gaza municipality, in a deliberate head-on collision. Nov 17, 1993 - Sgt. 1st Cl. Chaim Darina, age 37, was stabbed by a Gazan terrorist while seated at the cafeteria at the Nahal Oz road block at the entrance to the Gaza Strip. The terrorist was apprehended. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the murder. Dec 01, 1993 - Shalva Ozana, age 23, and Yitzhak Weinstock, age 19, were shot to death by terrorists from a moving vehicle, while parked on the side of the road to Ramallah because of engine trouble. Weinstock died of his wounds the following morning. Iz a-Din al Kassam claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that it was carried out in retaliation for the killing by Israeli forces of Imad Akel, a wanted HAMAS leader in Gaza. Dec 05, 1993 - David Mashrati, a reserve soldier, was shot and killed by a terrorist attempting to board a bus on route 641 at the Holon junction. The Islamic Jihad Shekaki group claimed responsibility for the attack. Dec 06, 1993 - Mordechai Lapid and his son Shalom Lapid, age 19, were shot to death by terrorists near Hebron. Hamas publicly claimed responsibility for the attack. Dec 22, 1993 - Eliahu Levin and Meir Mendelovitch were killed by shots fired at their car by terrorists from a passing vehicle in the Ramallah area. Hamas claimed responsibility. Dec 23, 1993 - Anatoly Kolisnikov, an Ashdod resident employed as a relief watchman at a construction site there, was stabbed to death by terrorists while on duty. Dec 24, 1993 - Lieut.Col. Meir Mintz, commander of the IDF special forces in the Gaza area, was shot and killed by terrorists in an ambush on his jeep at the T-junction in Gaza. The Hamas Iz a-Din al Kassam squads publicly claimed responsibility for the attack. Dec 31, 1993 - Chaim Weizman and David Bizi were found after being murdered by terrorists in a Ramle apartment. ID cards of two Gaza residents were found in the apartment, together with a leaflet of the Popular Front ‘Red Eagle’ group, claiming responsibility for the murder. Jan 12, 1994 - Moshe Becker of Rishon Le-Zion was stabbed to death by three Palestinian terrorist employees while working in his orchard. The Popular Front claimed responsibility for the murder. Jan 14, 1994 - Grigory Ivanov was stabbed to death by a terrorist in the industrial zone at the Erez junction, near the Gaza Strip. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 09, 1994 - Ilan Sudri, a taxi driver, was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists while returning home from work. The Islamic Jihad Shekaki group sent a message to the news agencies claiming responsibility for the murder. Feb 10, 1994 - Naftali Sahar, a citrus grower, was murdered by blows to his head, inflicted by terrorists. His body was found in his orchard near Kibbutz Na’an. Feb 13, 1994 - Noam Cohen, age 28, member of the General Security Service, was shot and killed in a terrorist ambush on his car. Two of his colleagues who were also in the vehicle suffered moderate injuries. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 17, 1994 - Yuval Golan, stabbed on December 29, 1993 by a terrorist near Adarim in the Hebron area, died of his wounds. Feb 19, 1994 - Zipora Sasson, resident of Ariel and five months pregnant, was killed on the trans-Samaria highway in an ambush when Hamas terrorists fired shots at her car. Feb 25, 1994 - Sam Eisenstadt, age 80, was assaulted by a terrorist with an axe in the center of Kfar Saba. He died of his wounds shortly afterwards. Mar 23, 1994 - Victor Lashchiver, employed as a guard at the Income Tax offices in East Jerusalem, was shot and killed by terrorists near Damascus Gate on his way to work. The Popular Front claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 29, 1994 - Yitzhak Rothenberg, age 70, of Petah Tikva, was attacked on a construction site by two residents of Khan Yunis by axe blows to the head. He died several days later of his wounds. The murderers, apprehended the next day, stated that they carried out the attack in order to clear themselves of suspected collaboration with the Israeli authorities. Mar 31, 1994 - Yosef Zandani, age 28, of Bnei Ayish, was found killed in his apartment near Gedera. Near the body was a leaflet of the DFLP “Red Star”, explaining that the murder was carried out in revenge for the shooting of one of its members by an Israeli citizen. The Israeli acted in self-defense. Apr 06, 1994 - Eight people were killed in a Hamas terrorist car-bomb attack on a bus in the center of Afula. This was the first documented car bombing in Israel. Apr 07, 1994 - Yishai Gadassi, age 32, of Kvutzat Yavne, was shot and killed at a hitchhiking post at the Ashdod junction by a member of HAMAS. The terrorist was killed by bystanders at the scene. Apr 13, 1994 - Five people, Rahamim Mazgauker, age 34, of Hadera; David Moyal, age 26 of Ramat Gan , an Egged mechanic; Daga Perda, age 44, immigrated from Ethiopia in 1991; Bilha Butin, age 49, of Hadera; Sgt. Ari Perlmutter, age 19, of Ir Ovot in the Arava were all killed when a Hamas terrorist detonated himself in a homicide bombing attack on a bus in the central bus station of Hadera. Apr 21, 1994 - Officer cadet Shahar Simani, age 20, of Ashkelon, was found stabbed to death near the roadside at the village of Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem . He had been kidnapped while hitchhiking in the south. May 17, 1994 - Rafael Yairi (Klumfenbert), age 36, of Kiryat Arba and Margalit Ruth Shohat, age 48, of Ma’ale Levona were killed when their car was fired upon by by terrorists in a passing car near Beit Haggai, south of Hebron. May 20, 1994 - Staff Sgt. Moshe Bukra, age 30 and Cpl. Erez Ben-Baruch, age 24 were shot dead by HAMAS terrorists at a roadblock one kilometer south of the Erez checkpoint in the Gaza Strip. July 07, 1994 - Sarit Prigal, age 17, was shot to death when terrorists opened fire from a passing car near the entrance to Kiryat Arba. July 07, 1994 - Arye Frankenthal, age 20, of Moshav Gimzo had left his base in the south the previous day, his body was found stabbed and shot near the Arab village of Kafr Akab, near Ramallah. July 17, 1994 - Sgt.-Maj. Jacques Attias, age 24, working as a border policeman, was shot by Palestinian policemen during the riots at Erez checkpoint on July 17. He died of his wounds a few days later. July 19, 1994 - Lt. Guy Ovadia, age 23, of Kibbutz Yotvata, was fatally wounded in an ambush near Rafiah. HAMAS took responsibility for the attack, saying it was “a response to the massacre at the Erez checkpoint”. July 23, 1994 - Two Palestinian terrorists stabbed an American woman in the Old City of Jerusalem. July 26, 1994 - A car bomb exploded at the Israel Embassy in London, wounding 14 people. Aug 02, 1994 - Yoram Sakuri, age 30, of Kiryat Netafim in Samaria, was stabbed when a terrorist broke into his home on July 1st. He died of his wounds shortly thereafter. Aug 14, 1994 - Ron Soval, age 18, of Lehavim, north of Beersheba was shot to death in an ambush near Kissufim junction in the Gaza Strip. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack. Aug 26, 1994 - Shlomo Kapach, age 22, and Gil Revah, age 21, both elevator technicians from Bat Yam, were killed at a Ramle building site. Their killers are known but protected by the Palestinian Authority, who refuse extradition to Israel. Sept 04, 1994 - Sgt. Victor Shichman, age 24, was killed at the Morag junction in the southern Gaza Strip while on patrol, from shots fired from a vehicle bearing Palestinian license plates. Sept 1994 - Natasha Ivanov, age 32, of Ashdod was strangled to death. In March 2001, a Palestinian arrested for being in Israel illegally, admitted to carrying out the murder in order to gain acceptance into a terrorist organization. Oct 09, 1994 -Ma’ayan Levy, age 19, an off-duty soldier from Zayit and Samir Mugrabi, age 35, a civilian from Kafr Aka were killed in a terrorist attack in the Nahalat Shiva section of downtown Jerusalem . HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack. Oct 14, 1994 - Cpl. Nahshon Wachsman, age 20 was first abducted by HAMAS, and then killed by his captors. Oct 14, 1994 - Capt. Nir Poraz, age 23, was killed in the course of the unsuccessful IDF rescue operation to obtain his release. Oct 19, 1994 – When a terrorist detonated himself on the No. 5 bus on Dizengoff Street in Tel-Aviv, 21 Israelis and one Dutch national were killed. Nov 11, 1994 - Three soldiers were killed at the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip when a Palestinian terrorist riding a bicycle detonated explosives strapped to his body. Islamic Jihad said it carried out the attack to avenge the car bomb killing of Islamic Jihad leader Hani Abed on Nov 2. Nov 19, 1994 - Sgt.-Maj. Gil Dadon, age 26, of Bat Yam, was killed at the army post at Netzarim junction by shots fired from a passing car. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack. Nov 27, 1994 - Rabbi Amiran Olami, age 34, of Otniel was killed near Beit Hagai 10 kms south of Hebron by shots fired from a passing car. Nov 30, 1994 - Sgt. Liat Gabai, age 19, of Afula, was axed to death in the center of Afula. Jan 06, 1995 - Ofra Felix, age 20, of Beit El, a university student, killed when terrorists opened fire on her car north of Beit El. Jan 22, 1995 - Two consecutive terrorist bombs exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, killing 18 soldiers and one civilian. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 06, 1995 - Yevgeny Gromov, age 32, of Ashkelon, was killed while working as a security guard when terrorists opened fire from a passing car on the Gaza bypass road between Jabalya and Gaza City as he was escorting a gasoline truck to a Gaza Strip filling station. Feb 13, 1995 - Rafael Cohen, age 35, of Jerusalem, a taxi driver, was fatally stabbed on the Jerusalem-Ma’aleh Adumim road. Mar 19, 1995 - Nahum Hoss, age 32, of Hebron and Yehuda Fartush, age 41, of Kiryat Arba were killed when terrorists fired on an Egged bus near the entrance to Hebron. Mar 29, 1995 - Police Insp. Nitzan Cohen, age 22, of Jerusalem and Sgt.-Maj. Jamal Suwitat, of Makr village were killed when a Palestinian driver rammed his truck into their jeep in a convoy east of the Netzarim junction in Gaza. Apr 09, 1995 - Seven Israelis and one American were killed when a bus was hit by a terrorist’s explosives-laden van near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Apr 13, 1995 - A Hamas suicide bomber blew himself up at the Hadera Central Bus Station, killing 5 and injuring 30. Jul 18, 1995 - Ohad Bachrach, age 18, of Beit El and Ori Shahor, age 20, of Ra’anana were killed while hiking in Wadi Kelt. Jul 24, 1995 - Six civilians were killed when a terrorist detonated himself in an attack on a bus in Ramat Gan. Aug 21, 1995 - Three Israelis and one American were killed when a terrorist detonated himself in an attack on a Jerusalem bus. Sept 5, 1995 - Daniel Frei, age 28, of Ma’aleh Michmash was stabbed to death when a terrorist broke into his home at night. Jan 16, 1996 - Sgt. Yaniv Shimel, and Major Oz Tibon, both from Jerusalem, were killed when terrorists fired on their car on the Hebron-Jerusalem road. Jan 30,1996 -Staff Sgt. Ehud Tal, age 21, of Kibbutz Maoz Haim, was stabbed to death at the liaison office in an army camp south of Jenin. Feb 25, 1996 – When a Hamas terrorist detonated himself in an attack on a bus No. 18 near the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, 26 were killed (17 civilians and 9 soldiers). Feb 25, 1996 - Sgt. Hofit Ayyash, age 20, of Ashdod, was killed in an explosion when a Hamas terrorist detonated himself in an attack at a hitchhiking post outside Ashkelon. Feb 26, 1996 - Flora Yehiel, age 28, of Kiryat Ata, was killed when a car was driven into a bus stop at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem. Mar 03, 1996 - In a homicide bombing of bus No. 18 on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, 19 were killed (16 civilians and 3 soldiers). Mar 04, 1996 - Outside Dizengoff Center in Tel-Aviv, a homicide bomber detonated a 20-kilogram nail bomb, killing 13 (12 civilians and one soldier). May 14, 1996 - David Reuven Boim, age 17, a yeshiva high school student in Beit El, was killed when terrorists fired at students at a hitchhiking post at Beil El, near Ramallah. June 09, 1996 - Yaron Unger, age 26, and Efrat Unger, age 25, both from Kiryat Arba, were killed when terrorists fired on their car near Beit Shemesh. June 16, 1996 - First-Sgt. Meir Alush, age 40, an off-duty policeman, was shot and killed in a toy store in the village of Bidiya. June 26, 1996 - Staff Sgt. (Res.) Asher Berdugo, age 22, of Kiryat Bialik, Sgt. Ashraf Shibli, age 20, of Shibli and Cpl. (Res.) Ya’acov Turgeman, age unknown, of Rishon Lezion, were killed in an ambush along the Jordan River north of Jericho by terrorists who infiltrated from Jordan. July 26, 1996 - Uri Munk, age 53, of Moshav Mevo Betar and Rachel Munk, age 24, of Moshav Mevo Betar, (Munk’s daughter-in-law) were killed in a drive-by shooting attack near Beit Shemesh. Ze’ev Munk, age 30, of Moshav Mevo Betar, (Rachel’s husband) was critically wounded and died in the hospital the following week. Dec 11, 1996 - Etta Tzur, 48, and her son, Ephraim Tzur, 12, were killed when their car was shot at by terrorists near Surda, west of Beit El. Mar 21, 1997 - Three people were killed when a homicide bomber detonated a bomb on the terrace of a Tel Aviv cafe. 48 people were wounded. Apr 10, 1997 - IDF Staff-Sgt. Sharon Edri’s body, missing for seven months, was found buried near the West Bank village of Kfar Tzurif . Edri had been kidnapped and killed by a Hamas terrorist cell in September 1996 while hitchhiking to his home in Moshav Zanoah. April 25, 1997 - Hagit Zavitzky, age 23, of Kfar Adumim and Liat Kastiel, age 23, of Holon were found stabbed to death in Wadi Kelt nature reserve. July 20, 1997 - An Arab attacked two Israelis with an iron rod in Rishon L’Tzion. One of the Israelis later died of his wounds. July 22, 1997 - 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. Jul 30, 1997 - 16 people were killed and 178 wounded in two consecutive homicide bombings in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. Sep 04, 1997 - Five people were killed and 181 wounded in three homicide bombings on the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall in Jerusalem. Nov 19, 1997 - Gabriel Hirschberg, age 26, was killed by automatic gunfire in the Old City of Jerusalem. Dec 31, 1997 - Yael Meivar, age 25 was shot near the settlement of Alei Zahav in Samaria. He died of his wounds on January 6, 1998. Feb 11, 1998 - David Ktorza, age 40, of Jerusalem, was stabbed to death near his home. Apr 19, 1998 - Dov Driben, age 28, of Maon, an American-Israeli farmer, was murdered by Arab terrorists near the Israeli town of Maon in the Hevron Hills. May 06, 1998 - Haim Kerman, age 28, a student at the Atert Cohanim Yeshiva, was stabbed to death in the Old City of Jerusalem. Aug 05, 1998 - Harel Bin-Nun, age 18 and Shlomo Liebman, age 24, were shot and killed in an ambush by terrorists while on patrol at the Yizhar settlement in Samaria . Aug 20, 1998 - Rabbi Shlomo Ra’anan, age 63, was stabbed to death in the bedroom of his caravan in Hebron. The terrorist escaped after detonating a fire bomb inside the home. Aug 27, 1998 - Twelve people were wounded by a bomb detonated in front of the Tel Aviv Great Synagogue. Sept 24, 1998 - One Israeli was wounded by bomb explosion at a public bus stop near the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Sept 30, 1998 - During Yom Kippur, fourteen IDF soldiers and eleven Arabs were wounded by two grenades thrown in Hebron. Oct 09, 1998 - Michal Adato, age 19, an IDF soldier, was stabbed to death at Moshav Tomer in the Jordan Valley. Oct 14, 1998 - Itamar Doron, age 24, Itamar was shot to death while swimming in a spring near Moshav Ora, outside Jerusalem. Oct 19, 1998 - 59 people are wounded when a Hamas terrorist hurled two grenades into a crowd at the Central bus station before running from the scene. Oct 26, 1998 - Danny Vargas, age 29, of Kiryat Arba, was shot to death in Hebron. Oct 29, 1998 - Sergeant Alexey Neykov, age 19, One Israeli soldier was killed when a terrorist drove an explosives-laden car into an Israeli army jeep escorting a bus with 40 elementary school students from the settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. Jan 13, 1999 - Sergeant Yehoshua Gavriel, 25, of Ashdod, was killed when terrorists opened fire at the Othniel junction near Hebron. Aug 03, 1999 - Baruch Ben-Yaakov and Ephraim Rosenstein were wounded by terrorists near Hevron. Aug 07, 1999 - The body of an Israeli, shot in the head, was found in a burned vehicle. Aug 10, 1999 - 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. Aug 15, 1999 - A Hamas bomb attack in an office building in Netanya injured about 20. Aug 30, 1999 - Yehiel Finfeter, 25, of Kiryat Motzkin, and Sharon Steinmetz, 21, of Haifa, were murdered while hiking in the Megiddo region Sept 5, 1999 - Two civilians were wounded when a car bomb exploded in Tiberias. Oct 30, 1999 - Five Israelis were wounded by terrorist gunfire directed at a bus three kilometers from the Tarkumiya Checkpoint in the Hevron Hills area. Nov 07, 1999 - 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.

Feb 09, 2000 - Dov Weiss, of Givat Ze’ev and Gabriella Weiss, (Dov’s wife) were bludgeoned to death by terrorists in their home. Feb 27, 2000 - Gadi Rejwan, of Jerusalem was shot to death by one of the Arab workers in his factory located in the Atarot Industrial Park in Jerusalem. Apr 27, 2000 - Efrat Lesser, age 17, resident of Elon Moreh was shot by terrorists and suffered a head wound. May 07, 2000 - Yaakov Manzor, aged 9 and his brother, Yitzhak Manzor, aged 17, were stabbed repeatedly in the chest and abdomen in Jerusalem. May 21, 2000 - Shalev Shabbat, aged 2, was critically burned and the child’s mother Segal Egozi was injured in a firebomb attack in Jericho. June 20, 2000 - A roadside bomb was detonated as a vehicles passed on the Netzarim/Karnei Road in the Gaza Strip. One person was wounded. July 23, 2000 - Arabs attacked and stabbed a Jerusalem municipality inspector near the Damascus Gate. Sep 27, 2000 - Sgt. David Biri, 19, of Jerusalem, was fatally wounded in a bombing near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip. Sep 29, 2000 - Border Police Supt. Yossi Tabaja, 27, of Ramle was shot to death by his Palestinian terrorist counterpart on a joint patrol near Kalkilya. Oct 01, 2000 - Border Police Cpl. Yosef Madhat, 19, of Beit Jann, died of gunshot wounds sustained in a gun battle with Palestinian terrorists at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus. Oct 02, 2000 - Wichlav Zalsevsky, 24, of Ashdod, was shot in the head in the village of Masha on the trans-Samaria highway. Oct 02, 2000 - Sgt. Max Hazan, 20, of Dimona, died of gunshot injuries sustained near Beit Sahur. Oct 08, 2000 - The bullet-riddled body of Hillel Lieberman, 36, of Elon Moreh was found at the southern entrance to Nablus. Oct 12, 2000 - First Cpl. Yosef Avrahami and First Sgt. Vadim Novesche, 33, two reserve IDF soldiers, were lynched by a Palestinian terrorist mob at the police building in Ramallah. Oct 19, 2000 - Rabbi Binyamin Herling, 64, of Kedumim, was killed when Fatah members and Palestinian terrorist security forces opened fire on a group of Israeli men, women, and children on a trip at Mount Ebal near Nablus. Oct 28, 2000 - The body of Marik Gavrilov, 25, of Bnei Aysh was found inside his burned-out car, between the village of Bitunia and Ramallah. Oct 30, 2000 - Eish-Kodesh Gilmor, 25, of Mevo Modi’in, was shot and killed while on duty as a security guard at the National Insurance Institute’s East Jerusalem branch. Another guard was injured. Oct 30, 2000 -Amos Machlouf, 30, of the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem, was found murdered in a ravine near Beit Jala. Nov 01, 2000 - Lt. David-Hen Cohen, 21, of Karmiel and Sgt. Shlomo Adshina, 20, of Kibbutz Ze’elim were killed in a shooting incident in the Al-Hader area, near Bethlehem. Nov 01, 2000 - Maj. (res.) Amir Zohar, 34, of Jerusalem was killed in the Nahal Elisha settlement in the Jordan Valley while on active reserve duty. Nov 02, 2000 - Ayelet Shahar Levy, 28, and Hanan Levy, 33, were killed in a car bomb explosion near the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. 10 people were injured. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Nov 08, 2000 - Noa Dahan, 25, of Moshav Mivtahim in the south, was shot to death while driving to her job at the Rafah border crossing in Gaza. Nov 10, 2000 - Sgt. Shahar Vekret, 20, of Lod was fatally shot by a Palestinian terrorist sniper near Rachel’s Tomb at the entrance to Bethlehem. Nov 11, 2000 - Sgt. 1st Class Avner Shalom, 28, of Eilat, was killed in a shooting attack at the Gush Katif junction in the Gaza Strip. Nov 13, 2000 - Sarah Leisha, 42, of Neveh Tzuf was killed by gunfire from a passing car while traveling near Ofra, north of Ramallah. Nov 13, 2000 - Cpl. Elad Wallenstein, 18, of Ashkelon, and Cpl. Amit Zanna, 19, of Netanya were killed by gunfire from a car passing the military bus carrying them near Ofra. Nov 13, 2000 - Gabi Zaghouri, 36, of Netivot was killed by gunfire directed at the truck he was driving near the Kissufim junction in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Nov 18, 2000 - St.-Sgt. Baruch (Snir) Flum, 21, of Tel-Aviv was shot and killed by a senior Palestinian terrorist Preventive Security Service officer who infiltrated the Kfar Darom greenhouses in the Gaza Strip. St.-Sgt. Sharon Shitoubi, 21, of Ramle, wounded in the Palestinian shooting attack in Kfar Darom, died of his wounds on Nov 20. Nov 20, 2000 - A roadside bomb exploded at 7:30 in the morning alongside a bus carrying children from Kfar Darom to school in Gush Katif. Miriam Amitai, 35, and Gavriel Biton, 34, were killed and 9 others, including 5 children, were injured, 5 of them seriously. Nov 21, 2000 - Itamar Yefet, 18, of Netzer Hazani died from a gunshot wound to the head by Palestinian terrorist sniper fire at the Gush Katif junction. Nov 22, 2000 - Shoshanna Reis, 21, of Hadera, and Meir Bahrame, 35, of Givat Olga, were killed, and 60 wounded when a powerful car bomb was detonated alongside a passing bus on Hadera’s main street, when the area was packed with shoppers and people driving home from work. Nov 23, 2000 - Lt. Edward Matchnik, 21, of Beersheba, was killed in an explosion at the District Coordination Office near Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip. (The joint DCOs were established at the borders of Palestinian terrorist-ruled areas under the interim peace accords and were responsible for coordinating security and humanitarian cooperation.) Nov 23, 2000 - Sgt. Samar Hussein, 19, of Hurfeish, was killed when Palestinian terrorist snipers opened fire at soldiers patrolling the border fence near the Erez crossing. Nov 24, 2000 - Maj. Sharon Arameh, 25, of Ashkelon was killed by Palestinian terrorist sniper fire in fighting near Neve Dekalim in the Gaza Strip. Nov 24, 2000 - Ariel Jeraffi, 40, of Petah Tikva, a civilian employed by the IDF, was killed by Palestinian terrorist fire as he travelled near Otzarin in the West Bank. Dec 8, 2000 - Rina Didovsky, 39, a Beit Hagai school teacher on her way to work, and Eliyahu Ben-Ami, 41, of Otniel, the driver of the van, were killed when a car full of gunmen opened fire on the van near Kiryat Arba. Dec 8, 2000 - Sgt. Tal Gordon, 19, was killed when gunmen in a passing car opened fire on an Egged bus traveling south from Tiberias to Jerusalem on the Jericho bypass road. Dec 21, 2000 - Eliahu Cohen, 29, of Modi’in was shot and killed tonight by Palestinian terrorists waiting in ambush on the road between Givat Ze’ev and Beit Horon. Dec 22, 2000 - Three soldiers were injured in a homicide bomb attack at the Mehola Junction roadside cafe in the northern Jordan Valley. The terrorist, who detonated a belt of explosives strapped to him, was killed in the blast. Dec 28, 2000 - Capt. Gad Marasha, 30, of Kiryat Arba and Border Police Sgt.-Maj. Yonatan Vermullen, 29, of Ben-Shemen, were killed when called to dismantle a road-side bomb near the Sufa crossing in the Gaza Strip. The bomb was dismantled, but another bomb exploded, killing both and injuring two other soldiers. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Dec 31, 2000 - Binyamin Zeev Kahane, the son of the late right-wing leader Meir Kahane, and his wife, Talia, were killed when Palestinian terrorist snipers opened fire while they were driving on the Ramallah bypass road. Five of their children, aged two months to 10 years, were injured.

Jan 01, 2001 - A car bomb exploded near a bus stop in the shopping district in the center of Netanya. About 60 people were injured, most lightly. One unidentified person, apparently one of the terrorists involved in the bombing, died of severe burns. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Jan 05, 2001 - The body of Mordechai Cohen, 34, of Hadera was found in the Caesarea industrial area. Jan 14, 2001 - The bullet-ridden body of Ron Tzalah, 32, of Kfar Yam in Gush Katif, apparently killed on Sunday night (Jan 14), was found the following morning near the Kfar Yam hothouses. Jan 17, 2001 - Ofir Rahum, 16, of Ashkelon, traveled to Jerusalem to meet a young woman with whom he had conducted a relationship over the Internet. She then drove him toward Ramallah. At a prearranged location, another vehicle drove up and three Palestinian terrorist gunmen inside shot Rahum more than 15 times. One terrorist drove off with Rahum’s body and dumped it, while the others fled in the second vehicle. Jan 23, 2001 - Motti Dayan, 27, and Etgar Zeituny, 34, cousins from Tel Aviv, were abducted from a restaurant in Tulkarem by masked Palestinian terrorist gunmen and executed. Jan 25, 2001 - Akiva Pashkos, 45, of Jerusalem, was shot dead in a terror attack near the Atarot industrial zone north of Jerusalem. Jan 29, 2001 - Arye Hershkowitz, 55, of Ofra, was killed by shots fired from a passing car near the Rama junction north of Jerusalem. Feb 01, 2001 - Dr. Shmuel Gillis, 42, of Carmei Tzur, was killed by Palestinian terrorist gunmen who fired at his car near the Aroub refugee camp on the Jerusalem-Hebron highway. Feb 01, 2001 - Lior Attiah, 23, of Afula was shot to death by terrorists while traveling near Jenin. Feb 05, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Rujayah Salameh, 23, was killed by sniper fire near Rafah. Feb 08, 2001 - A powerful car bomb exploded at 4:40 PM in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Beit Yisrael in Jerusalem, causing mild injuries to four people. Feb 11, 2001 - Tzachi Sasson, 35, of Kibbutz Rosh Tzurim in Gush Etzion, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorist gunmen as he drove home from Jerusalem. Feb 14, 2001 - Eight people were killed and 25 injured when a bus driven by a Palestinian terrorist plowed into a group of soldiers and civilians waiting at a bus stop near Holon, south of Tel-Aviv. Feb 26, 2001 - The body of Mordechai Shefer, 55, of Kfar Sava, was found in an olive grove near Moshav Hagor. An autopsy revealed that he was murdered. Investigators suspect terrorist motives. Mar 01, 2001 - One person was killed and 9 injured when a terrorist detonated a bomb in a Tel Aviv to Tiberias service taxi at the Mei Ami junction in Wadi Ara. Mar 04, 2001 - Three people were killed and at least 60 injured in a homicide bombing in downtown Netanya. Mar 19, 2001 - Baruch Cohen, 59, of Efrat, was killed by shots fired at his car while driving to work in Jerusalem from his home in the Gush Etzion area. After being hit by bullets, he lost control of the car and collided with an oncoming truck. Mar 26, 2001 - Shalhevet Pass, age 10 months, was killed by sniper fire at the entrance to the Avraham Avinu neighborhood in Hebron. Mar 27, 2001 - A car bomb exploded at 7:40 in the morning in the Talpiot industrial/commercial zone in Jerusalem. Seven people were injured, one moderately. The Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 27, 2001 - 28 people were injured, two seriously, in a homicide bombing directed against a northbound No. 6 bus at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 28, 2001 - Two teenagers were killed and four injured, one critically, in a homicide bombing at the Mifgash Hashalom (”peace stop”) gas station several hundred meters from an IDF roadblock near the entrance to Kalkilya, east of Kfar Saba. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 01, 2001 - Staff Sgt. Ya’akov Krenschel, 23, of Nahariya, an IDF reserve soldier, was killed in a firefight between army and Palestinian terrorist forces southeast of Nablus. Apr 01, 2001 - Dina Guetta, 42, of Haifa, was stabbed to death on Ha’atzmaut Street. Her murder was the initiation rite into a terrorist cell apprehended in Jul. Apr 02, 2001 - Sgt. Danny Darai, 20, of Arad, was killed by a Palestinian terrorist sniper after completing guard duty at Rachel’s Tomb at the entrance to Bethlehem. Apr 21, 2001 - The mutilated body of Stanislav Sandomirsky, 38, of Beit Shemesh, was found in the trunk of his car near a village north of Ramallah late last night. Terrorist motives are suspected. Apr 22, 2001 - A terrorist detonated a powerful bomb he was carrying near a group of people waiting at a bus stop on the corner of Weizman and Tchernichovsky streets in Kfar Sava. One person was killed and about 60 injured in the blast, two severely. The terrorist was also killed in the explosion, for which Hamas claimed responsibility. Apr 23, 2001 - Eight people were lightly hurt in a car bombing in Or Yehuda, a few kilometers north of Ben-Gurion Airport, which senior police officers said could only be described as a “miracle” in an area packed with pre-Independence Day shoppers. Apr 28, 2001 - Sgt. Shlomo Elmakias, 20, of Netanya, was killed and four women passengers wounded in a drive-by terrorist shooting attack on the Wadi Ara highway in the Galilee. Apr 28, 2001 - Simcha Ron, 60, of Nahariya, was found stabbed to death in Kfar Ba’aneh, near Carmiel in the Galilee. The terrorists responsible for the attack were apprehended in Jul. Apr 29, 2001 - A car bomb blew up close to a school bus traveling near the West Bank city of Nablus. There were no injuries in the attack. The body of the homicide bomber was found in the car. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. May 01, 2001 - Assaf Hershkowitz, 30, of Ofra, was killed when his vehicle was fired upon and overturned at a junction between Ofra and Beit El. May 08, 2001 - Arnaldo Agranionic, 48, was murdered by terrorists as he guarded the Binyamin Farm, a lonely outpost where he lived, on an isolated hilltop east of Itamar in Samaria. May 09, 2001 - Yossi Ish-Ran, 14, and Kobi Mandell, 14, both of Tekoa, were found stoned to death in a cave about 200 meters from the small community south of Jerusalem where they lived. May 10, 2001 - Constantin Straturula, 52, and Virgil Martinesc, 29, two Romanian citizens employed by an Israeli contractor, were killed in a bomb attack while repairing a vandalized fence at the Kissufim Crossing into the Gaza District. May 15, 2001 - Idit Mizrahi, 20, of Rimonim, was fatally shot in a terrorist ambush as she drove with her father and brother on the Alon Highway to attend a family wedding. Terrorists fired 30 bullets, 19 of which hit the family’s car. May 18, 2001 - Lt. Yair Nebenzahl, 22, of Neve Tzuf (Halamish), was killed and his mother seriously wounded, in a Palestinian terrorist roadside ambush north of Jerusalem. May 18, 2001 - A Palestinian terrorist homicide bomber wearing an explosive vest detonated himself outside the Hasharon Shopping Mall in the seaside city of Netanya. Five civilians were killed and over 100 wounded in the attack. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. May 23, 2001 - Asher Iluz, 33, of Modi’in was killed outside Ariel en route to supervise a road paving in the area, when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire in an ambush. May 25, 2001 - 65 people were injured in a car bombing in the Hadera central bus station. The two terrorists were apparently killed in the explosion. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. May 25, 2001 - The burnt body of Yosef Alfasi, 50, of Rishon Letzion, was discovered near the West Bank city of Tulkarem. May 27, 2001 - A car bomb exploded in the center of Jerusalem shortly after midnight. There were no injuries. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility. May 27, 2001 -A bomb exploded at 9:00 in the morning near the intersection of the capital’s main Jaffa Road and Heshin Street. The bomb included several mortar shells, some of which were propelled hundreds of meters from the site of the explosion. 30 people were injured, most suffering from shock. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. May 29, 2001 - Gilad Zar, 41, of Itamar, was shot dead in a terrorist ambush while driving in the West Bank between Kedumim and Yizhar. The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack. May 29, 2001 - Sara Blaustein, 53, and Esther Alvan, 20, of Efrat, were killed in a drive-by shooting near Neve Daniel in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack. May 30, 2001 - A car bomb exploded shortly before 16:00 outside a school in Netanya while a number of students were still in the building studying for matriculation exams. Eight people were injured, suffering from shock and hearing impairment. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. May 31, 2001 - Zvi Shelef, 63, of Mevo Dotan, was killed in a drive-by shooting attack in northern Samaria north of Tulkarem. He was shot in the head and died en route to hospital. Jun 01, 2001 - 21 people were killed and 120 wounded when a homicide bomber blew himself up outside a disco near Tel Aviv’s Dolphinarium along the seafront promenade just before midnight on Friday, Jun 01, while standing in a large group of teenagers waiting to enter the disco. Jun 11, 2001 - Yehuda Shoham, aged 5 months, of Shilo, died of injuries incurred in a fatal stoning on Jun 5. He was critically injured by a rock thrown at the family’s car near Shilo in Samaria. Jun 12, 2001 - Father Georgios Tsibouktzakis, 34, a Greek Orthodox monk from the St. George Monastery in Wadi Kelt in the Judean desert, was shot and killed while driving on the Jerusalem-Ma’ale Adumim road. Jun 14, 2001 - Lt.Col. Yehuda Edri, 45, of Ma’ale Adumim was killed by a Palestinian terrorist informant for Israeli intelligence in a shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass tunnel road connecting the Gush Etzion bloc with Jerusalem. One of his security guards was seriously injured. Jun 18, 2001 - Dan Yehuda, 35, of Homesh was killed in a drive-by shooting attack between Homesh and Shavei Shomron, near Nablus. Alex Briskin, 17, was moderately injured. Jun 18, 2001 - Doron Zisserman, 38, of Einav, was shot and killed in his car by sniper fire near the entrance to Einav, east of Tulkarem. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 20, 2001 - Ilya Krivitz, 62, of Homesh in Samaria was shot and killed at close range in an ambush late Wednesday afternoon in the nearby Palestinian terrorist town of Silat a-Dahar. Jun 22, 2001 - Sgt. Aviv Iszak, 19, of Kfar Saba, and Sgt. Ofir Kit, 19, of Jerusalem, were killed near Dugit in the Gaza Strip as a jeep with yellow Israeli license plates, supposedly stuck in the sand, blew up as they approached. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 28, 2001 - Ekaterina (Katya) Weintraub, 27, of Ganim in northern Samaria was killed and another woman injured late Thursday afternoon by shots fired at the two-car convoy on the Jenin bypass road.

Jul 02, 2001 - Aharon Obadyan, 41, of Zichron Ya’akov was shot and killed near Baka a-Sharkia, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem and close to the 1967 Green Line border, after shopping at the local market. Jul 02, 2001 - The body of Yair Har Sinai, 51, of Susiya in the Hebron hills, missing since Monday (Jul 2) was found early Tuesday morning shot in the head and chest. Jul 02, 2001 - Two separate bombs exploded at about 8:20 Monday morning in cars in the Tel-Aviv suburb of Yehud. Six pedestrians were lightly injured. Police sources say the bombs were probably set by terrorists. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical PLO faction, claimed responsibility. Jul 04, 2001 - Eliahu Na’aman, 32, of Petah Tikva, was shot at point-blank range just inside the Green Line at Sueika, near Tulkarem. Jul 09, 2001 - A Palestinian terrorist homicide bomber was killed in a car-bombing attack near the Kissufim crossing point in the southern Gaza Strip, causing no other casualties. Disaster was averted as the bomb exploded without hitting any other vehicles. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Jul 09, 2001 - Capt. Shai Shalom Cohen, 22, of Pardes Hanna, was killed and another soldier was wounded when an explosive charge detonated beneath their jeep after leaving the Adoraim IDF base south of Hebron. Jul 13, 2001 - Yehezkel (Hezi) Mualem, 49, father of four from Kiryat Arba, was shot and killed between Kiryat Arba and Hebron while protesting a shooting attack in the area the previous day. Jul 14, 2001 - David Cohen, 28, of Betar Illit, died of injuries sustained in a drive-by shooting in Kiryat Arba on Jul 12. Jul 16, 2001 - Cpl. Hanit Arami, 19, and St.Sgt. Avi Ben Harush, 20, both of Zichron Yaakov, were killed and 11 wounded - 3 seriously - when a bomb exploded in a homicide terrorist attack at a bus stop near the train station in Binyamina, halfway between Netanya and Haifa, at about 19:30 Monday evening. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Jul 24, 2001 - The body of Yuri Gushchin, 18, of Jerusalem, brutally murdered, bearing stab and gunfire wounds, was found in Ramallah. Jul 26, 2001 - Ronen Landau, 17, of Givat Ze’ev, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists while returning home from Jerusalem with his father. Aug 05, 2001 - Tehiya Bloomberg, 40, of Karnei Shomron, mother of five and 5 months pregnant, was killed when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire on the family vehicle between Alfei Menashe and Karnei Shomron. Three people were seriously wounded, including her husband, Shimon, and daughter, Tzippi, 14. Aug 06, 2001 - Yitzhak Snir, 51, of Ra’anana, an Israeli diamond merchant, was shot dead in Amman, in the yard of the building where he kept a flat. His body was found the following morning. Aug 07, 2001 - Wael Ghanem, 32, an Arab Israeli resident of Taibeh, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorist assailants on the road near Kalkilya. Police believe he was murdered because of suspected collaboration with Israeli authorities. Zohar Shurgi, 40, of Moshav Yafit in the Jordan Valley, was shot and killed by terrorists while driving home at night on the Trans-Samaria Highway. Aug 08, 2001 - A homicide bomber was killed when he detonated his car bomb, lightly wounding one soldier, at a roadblock near the B’kaot moshav in the northern Jordan Valley shortly after 9:00. One soldier was lightly wounded. Aug 09, 2001 - 15 people were killed, including 7 children, and about 130 injured in a homicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria on the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Aug 09, 2001 - Aliza Malka, 17, a boarding student at Kibbutz Merav, was killed by terrorists in a drive-by shooting at the entrance to the kibbutz in the Gilboa region, west of Beit She’an. Three teenage girls who were with her in the car were injured, one seriously Aug 12, 2001 - 21 people were injured in a homicide bombing in the Wall Street Cafe in the center of Kiryat Motzkin at 17:30. The terrorist was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Aug 21, 2001 - A bomb placed under a car exploded at 14:15 near the Russian Compound in downtown Jerusalem; one woman was treated for shock. A second, very large unexploded bomb was discovered inside the car and dismantled. Aug 25, 2001 - Maj. Gil Oz, 30, of Kfar Sava; St.-Sgt. Kobi Nir, 21, of Kfar Sava; and Sgt. Tzahi Grabli, 19 of Holon were killed and seven soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists infiltrated an IDF base in Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip at about 3:00 AM Saturday morning. The attackers, members of the PLO Fatah faction and of the Palestinian terrorist security forces, were killed by IDF soldiers. The Democratic Front claimed responsibility for the attack. Aug 25, 2001 - Sharon, 26, and Yaniv Ben-Shalom, 27, of Ofarim, were killed when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire on their car as they were returning home on the Jerusalem-Modi’in on road Saturday night. Their children, aged one and two, were lightly wounded. Sharon’s brother, Doron Sviri, 20, of Jerusalem was fatally wounded and died the following day. Aug 26, 2001 - Dov Rosman, 58, of Netanya was killed in a shooting attack shortly before 17:00 on Sunday afternoon near the entrance to the village of Zaita, opposite Kibbutz Magal. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack. Aug 27, 2001 - Meir Lixenberg, 38, of Itamar, father of five, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists from a roadside ambush while traveling between the communities of Har Bracha and Itamar, south of Nablus. Aug 29, 2001 - Oleg Sotnikov, 35, of Ashdod, a truck driver employed by Dor Energy, was killed in a terrorist shooting attack outside the Palestinian terrorist village of Kutchin, west of Nablus. Aug 30, 2001 - Amos Tajouri, 60, of Modi’in, was shot in the head at point-blank range by a masked gunman in the Arab village of Na’alin, while dining at a restaurant owned by close friends. Sep 04, 2001 - 20 people were injured when a homicide terrorist exploded a powerful charge on Hanevi’im Street near Bikur Holim hospital in central Jerusalem shortly before 8:00 AM. The terrorist, disguised as a Jew in ultra-orthodox clothing, aroused the suspicion of passersby due to the large backpack he was wearing. As two Border Police officers approached the man, he detonated his shrapnel-packed bomb. Both officers were wounded - one critically. The terrorist was killed in the blast. Hamas claimed responsibility. Sep 06, 2001 - Lt. Erez Merhavi, 23, of Moshav Tarum was killed in an ambush shooting near Kibbutz Bahan, east of Hadera, while driving to a wedding. A female officer with him in the car was seriously injured. Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack. Sep 09, 2001 - Three people were killed and some 90 injured, most lightly, in a homicide bombing near the Nahariya train station in northern Israel. The terrorist, killed in the blast, waited nearby until the train arrived from Tel-Aviv and people were exiting the station, and then exploded the bomb he was carrying. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Sep 09, 2001 - A car bomb exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, injuring 17 people. One person killed in the explosion is believed to be the terrorist bomber. Sep 11, 2001 - Border Policemen Sgt. Tzachi David, 19, of Tel-Aviv, and St.-Sgt. Andrei Zledkin, 26, of Carmiel, were killed just after midnight when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire on the Ivtan Border Police base near Kibbutz Bachan in central Israel. A Fatah group claimed responsibility for the attack. Sep 12, 2001 - Ruth Shua’i, 46, of Alfei Menashe, was traveling home around 19:30 PM when shots were fired from a passing vehicle near the village of Habla near Kalkilya. She sustained injuries to her head and stomach and died en route to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba. Sep 15, 2001 - Meir Weisshaus, 23, of Jerusalem, was fatally shot late Saturday night in a drive-by shooting on the Ramot-French Hill road in northern Jerusalem. Sep 16, 2001 - Sgt. David Gordukal, 23, of Upper Nazareth, was killed in the exchange of fire on Saturday night in the south of Ramallah, during which five senior Palestinian terrorists were arrested and a number of Palestinian terrorist positions and a Force 17 camp were attacked. Sep 20, 2001 - Sarit Amrani, 26, of Nokdim, was killed Thursday morning and her husband Shai was seriously wounded in a shooting attack near Tekoa, south of Bethlehem. The couple’s three children who were traveling in the vehicle were not injured. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack. Sep 24, 2001 - Salit Sheetrit, 28, of Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu was killed by gunfire shortly after 6:30 near Shadmot Mehola on the Jordan Valley road. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Sep 26, 2001 - Zvia Pinhas, 64, of Moshav Maor was stabbed to death in her home. The terrorist who carried out the attack, from Jenin, was arrested.

Oct 01, 2001 - A large car bomb exploded in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem. Several people were lightly injured. Oct 02, 2001 - Cpl. Liron Harpaz, 19, of Alei Sinai, and Assaf Yitzhaki, 20, of Lod, were killed when a Palestinian terrorist cell infiltrated the northern Gaza District community of Alei Sinai, opening fire on residents and hurling grenades into homes. 15 others were wounded in the attack. Oct 04, 2001 - Sgt. Tali Ben-Armon, 19, an off-duty woman soldier from Pardesia, Haim Ben-Ezra, 76, of Givat Hamoreh, and Sergei Freidin, 20, of Afula were killed when a Palestinian terrorist, dressed as an Israeli paratrooper, opened fire on Israeli civilians waiting at the central bus station in Afula. 13 other Israelis were wounded in the attack. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack. Oct 05, 2001 - Hananya Ben-Avraham, 46, of Elad was killed by Palestinian terrorists in a machine gun ambush near Avnei Hefetz in central Israel. Oct 07, 2001 - Yair Mordechai, 43, of Kibbutz Sheluhot was killed when a Palestinian terrorist homicide terrorist affiliated with the Islamic Jihad detonated a large bomb strapped to his body near the entrance of the kibbutz in the Beit She’an Valley. Oct 17, 2001 - Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze’evy, 75, was assassinated by two shots to the head outside his room at the Jerusalem Hyatt Hotel. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack. Oct 18, 2001 - Lior Kaufman, 30, of Ramat Sharon was killed and two injured, one seriously, by shots fired by terrorists at their jeep in the Judean desert, near the Mar Saba monastery. Oct 28, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Yaniv Levy, 22, of Zichron Yaakov was killed by Palestinian terrorists in a drive-by machine-gun ambush near Kibbutz Metzer in northern Israel. The Tanzim wing of Arafat’s Fatah faction claimed responsibility for the murder. Oct 28, 2001 - Ayala Levy, 39, of Elyachin; Smadar Levy, 23, of Hadera; Lydia Marko, 63, of Givat Ada; and Sima Menahem, 30, of Zichron Yaakov were killed when two Palestinian terrorists, members of the Palestinian terrorist police, armed with assault rifles and expanding bullets, opened fire from a vehicle on Israeli pedestrians at a crowded bus-stop in downtown Hadera. About 40 were wounded, three critically. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Nov 02, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Raz Mintz, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin was killed by Palestinian terrorist gunmen 5:45 P.M. on Friday at an IDF roadblock at near Ofra, north of Ramallah. The Fatah-affiliated Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack. Nov 04, 2001 - Shoshana Ben Ishai, 16, of Betar Illit and Menashe (Meni) Regev, 14, of Jerusalem were killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a sub-machine gun shortly before 16:00 at a No. 25 Egged bus at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem. 45 people were injured in the attack. Nov 06, 2001 - Capt. (Res.) Eyal Sela, 39, of Moshav Nir Banim, was shot dead in an ambush by three Palestinian terrorists on the southern Nablus bypass road. Nov 9, 2001 - Hadas Abutbul, 39, of Mevo Dotan in northern Samaria was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists on Friday afternoon as she drove from work in nearby Shaked. Nov 11, 2001 - Aharon Ussishkin, 50, head of security at Moshav Kfar Hess, east of Netanya, was shot and killed at the entrance to the moshav on Sunday evening, after being summoned to investigate a suspicious person. Nov 24, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Barak Madmon, 26, of Holon, an IDF reservist, was killed by a mortar shell that landed in the soccer field of Kfar Darom in Gush Katif, while on his way to take up guard duty. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Nov 26, 2001 - A Palestinian terrorist homicide bomber blew himself up and lightly wounded two Border Policemen at the Erez crossing point in the Gaza Strip. The bomber joined workers waiting to be cleared for entry into Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Nov 27, 2001 - Noam Gozovsky, 23, of Moshav Ramat Zvi, and Michal Mor, 25, of Afula were killed when two Palestinian terrorists from the Jenin area opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a crowd of people near the central bus station in Afula. Police officers and a reserve soldier confronted them, killing the terrorists in the ensuing firefight. Another 50 people were injured, 10 of them moderately to seriously. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility. Nov 27, 2001 - Etty Fahima, 45, of Netzer Hazani was killed three others were injured when a Palestinian terrorist threw grenades and opened fire at a convoy on the road between the Kissufim crossing and Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Nov 29, 2001 - 1st Sgt. Yaron Pikholtz, 20, of Ramat Gan, was killed and a second soldier was injured in a drive-by shooting incident on the Green Line, near the West Bank village of Baka el-Sharkiya. Nov 29, 2001 - Three people were killed and nine others were wounded in a homicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack. Dec 01, 2001 - 11 people were killed and about 180 injured when explosive devices were detonated by two homicide bombers close to 11:30 P.M. Saturday night on Ben Yehuda Street, the pedestrian mall in the center of Jerusalem. A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Dec 02, 2001 - 15 people were killed and 40 injured, several critically, in a homicide bombing on an Egged bus No. 16 in Haifa shortly after 12:00. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Dec 02, 2001 - Prof. Baruch Singer, 51, of Gedera was killed when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire on his car near the northern Gaza settlement of Elei Sinai. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Dec 05, 2001 - A homicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb shortly after 7:30 AM on King David Street in Jerusalem. A number of people waiting at a nearby bus stop were lightly injured. The terrorist was killed in the blast. Police are investigating whether the bomb, packed with nails and shrapnel, went off prematurely. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. Dec 09, 2001 - A homicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb near a bus stop at the Checkpost Junction in Haifa shortly after 7:30 AM. About 30 people were injured, most lightly and suffering from shock. A second explosive device was found and detonated nearby. The terrorist was killed. Dec 12, 2001 - Four people traveling in two cars were lightly wounded in an attack at 18:00 PM by two homicide bombers near the Gaza Strip community of Neve Dekalim. Dec 12, 2001 - Yair Amar, 13, of Emmanuel; Esther Avraham, 42, of Emmanuel; Border Police Chief Warrant Officer Yoel Bienenfeld, 35, of Moshav Tel Shahar; Moshe Gutman, 40, of Emmanuel; Avraham Nahman Nitzani, 17, of Betar Illit; Yirmiyahu Salem, 48, of Emmanuel; Israel Sternberg, 46, of Emmanuel; David Tzarfati, 38, of Ginot Shomron; Hananya Tzarfati, 32, of Kfar Saba; Ya’akov Tzarfati, 64, of Kfar Saba were killed when three terrorists attacked a No. 189 Dan bus and several passenger cars with a roadside bomb, anti-tank grenades, and light arms fire near the entrance to Emmanuel in Samaria at 18:00 P.M. About 30 others were injured. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Haim Chiprot, 52, of Emmanuel, injured in the attack, died of his wounds on March 25, 2002. Dec 17, 2001 - Zion Ohana, 45, of Adam was brutally murdered by three residents of Jaba in Samaria. Dec 25, 2001 - Sgt. Michael Sitbon, 23, of Beit Shemesh, an IDF reserve soldier, was killed, and four other soldiers were injured, in a shooting attack Tuesday morning near the Jordanian border north of Beit She’an.

Jan 9, 2002 - Maj. Ashraf Hawash, 28, of Beit Zarzir; Sgt.-Maj. Ibrahim Hamadieh, 23, of Rehaniya; Sgt.-Maj. Hana (Eli) Abu-Ghanem, 25, of Haifa; and St.-Sgt. Mofid Sawaid, 25, of Abu Snan, four IDF soldiers of the Bedouin desert patrol unit, were killed and two injured when two armed Palestinian terrorists from the southern Gaza Strip, carrying explosive belts, assault rifles, grenades, and dressed in Palestinian terrorist Authority police uniforms, infiltrated into Israel at 04:30 this morning and attacked an IDF post near Kerem Shalom. The terrorists, one a member of the Palestinian terrorist Authority’s naval force, and the second a Hamas operative, were killed. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Jan 14, 2002 - Sgt. Elad Abu-Gani, 19, of Tiberias, was killed and an officer sustained gunshot wounds in a terrorist ambush near Kuchin, between Nablus and Tulkarm. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack. Jan 15, 2002 - Avraham (Avi) Boaz, 71, of Ma’aleh Adumim, an American citizen, was kidnapped at a PA security checkpoint in Beit Jala. His bullet-riddled body was found in a car in Beit Sahur, in the Bethlehem area. The Fatah’s Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder. Jan 15, 2002 - Yoela Chen, 45, of Givat Ze’ev, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists near the gas station at the entrance to Givat Ze’ev shortly before 20:00. Her aunt who was with her in the car was injured. The Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder. Jan 16, 2002 - Shahada Dadis, 30, an Arab resident of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem, was killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting. He was found dead in a car bearing Israeli license plates south of Jenin in the West Bank. Jan 17, 2002 - Edward Bakshayev, 48, of Or Akiva; Anatoly Bakshayev, 63, of Or Akiva; Aharon Ben Yisrael-Ellis, 32, of Ra’anana; Dina Binayev, 48, of Ashkelon; Boris Melikhov, 56, of Sderot; and Avi Yazdi, 25, of Hadera were killed and 35 injured, several seriously, when a terrorist burst into a bat mitzva reception in a banquet hall in Hadera shortly before 23:00, opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Jan 22, 2002 - Sarah Hamburger, 79, and Svetlana Sandler, 56, both of Jerusalem, were killed and 40 were injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with an M-16 assault rifle near a bus stop in downtown Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Jan 25, 2002 - 25 people were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist homicide bomber detonated explosives outside a cafe on a pedestrian mall near Tel Aviv’s old central bus station at 11:15 AM on Friday. Jan 27, 2002 - Pinhas Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem was killed and over 150 people were wounded, four seriously, in a homicide bombing on Jaffa Road, in the center of Jerusalem, shortly before 12:30. The female terrorist, identified as a Fatah member, was armed with more than 10 kilos of explosives. Feb 06, 2002 - Miri Ohana, 45, and her daughter Yael, 11, were murdered in their home when an armed terrorist infiltrated Moshav Hamra, halfway between Jericho and Beit She’an in the Jordan Valley on Wednesday evening, opening fire. IDF reserve soldier, St.-Sgt. Maj.(res.) Moshe Majos Meconen, 33, of Beit She’an, was also killed in the attack. The terrorist, who entered the Ohana home disguised in IDF uniform, was killed by IDF forces. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility. Feb 08, 2002 - Moranne Amit, 25, of Kibbutz Kfar Hanasi was stabbed to death by four Palestinian terrorists, aged 14 to 16, while strolling on the Sherover Promenade in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood Friday afternoon. Feb 09, 2002 - Atala Lipobsky, 78, of Ma’ale Ephraim was shot dead on Saturday night while driving on the Trans-Samaria Highway with her son. Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire on the car, apparently from an ambush, between Ariel and the Tapuah Junction. Feb 10, 2002 - Lt. Keren Rothstein, 20, of Ashkelon and Cpl. Aya Malachi, 18, of Moshav Ein Habesor were killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at the entrance to the IDF Southern Command base in Be’er Sheva. Four others were wounded, one critically. One of the terrorists was killed at the scene; the second, wearing an explosives belt, fled in the direction of a nearby school when he was shot and killed by a soldier and police officer. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 14, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Ron Lavie, 20, of Katzrin, St.-Sgt. Moshe Peled, 20, of Rehovot, and St.-Sgt. Asher Zaguri, 21, of Shlomi were killed and four soldiers injured when a powerful mine exploded under a IDF tank on the Karni-Netzarim road in the Gaza Strip Thursday night, following the detonation of a roadside bomb at a civilian convoy of cars and a bus. Feb 15, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Lee Nahman Akunis, 20, of Holon, was shot and killed by gunmen on Friday night at a roadblock north of Ramallah. The Fatah’s Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 16, 2002 - Two teenagers were killed and about 30 people were wounded, six seriously, when a homicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday night at a pizzeria in the shopping mall in Karnei Shomron in Samaria. A third person subsequently died of his injuries. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 18, 2002 - Policeman Ahmed Mazarib, 32, of the Bedouin village Beit Zarzir in the Galilee, was killed by a homicide bomber whom he had stopped for questioning on the Ma’ale Adumim-Jerusalem road. The terrorist succeeded in detonating the bomb in his car. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 18, 2002 - Ahuva Amergi, 30, of Ganei Tal in Gush Katif was killed and a 60-year old man was injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on her car. Maj. Mor Elraz, 25, of Kiryat Ata and St.-Sgt. Amir Mansouri, 21, of Kiryat Arba, who came to their assistance, were killed while trying to intercept the terrorist. The terrorist was killed when the explosives he was carrying were detonated. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 19, 2002 - Lt. Moshe Eini, 21, of Petah Tikva; St.-Sgt. Benny Kikis, 20, of Carmiel; St.-Sgt. Mark Podolsky, 20, of Tel Aviv; St.-Sgt. Erez Turgeman, 20, of Jerusalem; St.-Sgt. Tamir Atsmi, 21, of Kiryat Ono; and St.-Sgt. Michael Oxsman, 21, of Haifa were killed and one wounded in an attack near a roadblock west of Ramallah. Several terrorists opened fire at soldiers at the roadblock, including three off-duty soldiers inside a structure at the roadblock, killing them at point-blank range. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 21, 2002 - Minhal Dragma, 22, of Baka al-Garbiya, was killed when a terrorist opened fire at IDF soldiers at the entrance to Baka al-Sharkiya. Feb 22, 2002 - 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 as he returned home from work. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 25, 2002 - Avraham Fish, 65, and Aharon Gorov, 46, both of Nokdim, were killed in a terrorist shooting attack between Tekoa and Nokdim, south of Bethlehem. Fish’s daughter, 9 months pregnant, was seriously injured but delivered a baby girl. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 25, 2002 - Police officer 1st Sgt. Galit Arbiv, 21, of Nesher, died after being fatally shot, when a terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in the Neve Ya’akov residential neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. Eight others were injured, two seriously. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 27, 2002 - Gad Rejwan, 34, of Jerusalem, was shot and killed early Wednesday morning by one of his Palestinian terrorist employees in a factory in the Atarot industrial area, north of Jerusalem. Two Fatah groups issued a joint statement taking responsibility for the murder.

Feb 27, 2002 - A Palestinian terrorist homicide bomber blew herself up at the Maccabim roadblock on the Jerusalem-Modi’in highway Wednesday night, injuring three policemen. Feb 28, 2002 - IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Haim Bachar, 20, of Tel Aviv was killed during clashes with Palestinian terrorists in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. IDF forces entered the camp to search for wanted terrorists. Mar 01, 2002 - IDF soldier Sgt. Ya’acov Avni, 20, of Kiryat Ata was killed by Palestinian terrorist sniper fire in the Jenin refugee camp. Mar 02, 2002 - The bullet-ridden body of Jerusalem police detective Chief-Supt. Moshe Dayan, 46, of Ma’aleh Adumim, was discovered next to his trail motorcycle, near the Mar Saba Monastery in the Judean Desert. Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 02, 2002 - Ten people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically, in a homicide bombing at 19:15 on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar-mitzva celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the attack. Mar 03, 2002 - Ten Israelis - 7 soldiers and 3 civilians - were killed and 6 injured when a terrorist opened fire at an IDF roadblock near Ofra in Samaria: Capt. Ariel Hovav, 25, of Eli; Lt.(res.) David Damelin, 29, of Kibbutz Metzar; 1st Sgt.(res.) Rafael Levy, 42, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Avraham Ezra, 38, of Kiryat Bialik; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Eran Gad, 24, of Rishon Letzion; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Yochai Porat, 26, of Kfar Sava; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Kfir Weiss, 24, of Beit Shemesh; Sergei Birmov, 33, of Ariel; Vadim Balagula, 32, of Ariel; and Didi Yitzhak, 66, of Eli. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 03, 2002 - Sgt. Steven Kenigsberg, 19, of Hod Hasharon was killed and 4 soldiers injured when a Palestinian terrorist gunman opened fire near the Kissufim crossing in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad and Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 05, 2002 - Maharatu Tagana, 85, of Upper Nazareth was killed and a large number of people injured, most lightly, when a homicide bomber exploded in an Egged No. 823 bus as it entered the Afula central bus station. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 05, 2002 - Police officer FSM Salim Barakat, 33, of Yarka; Yosef Habi, 52, of Herzliya; and Eli Dahan, 53, of Lod were killed and over 30 people were wounded in Tel-Aviv when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on two adjacent restaurants shortly after 2:00 AM. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 05, 2002 - Devorah Friedman, 45, of Efrat, was killed and her husband injured in shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass “tunnel road”, south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 06, 2002 - 1st Lt. Pinhas Cohen, 23, of Jerusalem, was killed overnight near the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis, in the course of anti-terrorist activity. Cpl.(res.) Alexander Nastarenko, 37, of Netanya was killed when Palestinian terrorist gunmen crossed the border fence and ambushed an army jeep on the patrol road near Kibbutz Nir Oz. Mar 07, 2002 - Arik Krogliak of Beit El, Tal Kurtzweil of Bnei Brak, Asher Marcus of Jerusalem, Eran Picard of Jerusalem, and Ariel Zana of Jerusalem, all aged 18, were killed and 23 people were injured, four seriously, when a Palestinian terrorist gunman penetrated the pre-military training academy in the Gush Katif settlement of Atzmona. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 07, 2002 - A homicide bomber blew himself up in the lobby of a hotel in the commercial center on the outskirts of Ariel in Samaria. 15 people were injured, one seriously. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 8, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Edward Korol, 20, of Ashdod, was killed by a Palestinian terrorist sniper in Tulkarem. Mar 9, 2002 - Avia Malka, 9 months, of South Africa, and Israel Yihye, 27, of Bnei Brak were killed and about 50 people were injured, several seriously, when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya on Saturday evening, close to the city’s boardwalk and hotels. The terrorists were killed by Israeli border police. The Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 09, 2002 - 11 people were killed and 54 injured, 10 of them seriously, when a homicide bomber exploded at 22:30 PM Saturday night in the crowded Moment cafe at the corner of Aza and Ben-Maimon streets in the Rehavia neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 10, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Kobi Eichelboim, 21, of Givatayim died Sunday afternoon from wounds suffered in the morning when a Palestinian terrorist gunman disguised as a worker opened fire at the entrance to Netzarim in the Gaza Strip. Mar 12, 2002 - Eyal Lieberman, 42, of Tzoran was killed and another person was wounded in a shooting attack at the Kiryat Sefer checkpoint, east of Modi’in. Mar 12, 2002 - Yehudit Cohen, 33, of Shlomi; Ofer Kanarick, 44, of Moshav Betzet; Alexei Kotman, 29, of Kibbutz Beit Hashita; Lynne Livne, 49, and her daughter Atara, 15, of Kibbutz Hanita; and Lt. German Rozhkov, 25, of Kiryat Shmona 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. Seven others were injured. Israeli forces killed the two gunmen, who were dressed in IDF uniforms, and carried out wide-scale searches for additional terrorists. Mar 13, 2002 - Lt. Gil Badihi, 21, of Nataf died of injuries suffered Wednesday morning in Ramallah. He was shot in the head by a Palestinian terrorist gunman as he stood next to his tank. Mar 14, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Matan Biderman, 21, of Carmiel, St.-Sgt. Ala Hubeishi, 21, of Julis, and Sgt. Rotem Shani, 19, of Hod Hasharon were killed and two soldiers were injured early Thursday morning when a tank escorting a civilian convoy drove over a land mine exploded on the Karni-Netzarim road in the Gaza Strip. Terrorists hiding in a nearby mosque detonated the remote-controlled explosive charge beneath the armored vehicle. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Fatah’s al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade both claimed responsibility. Mar 17, 2002 - A homicide bomber exploded himself near an Egged bus no. 22 at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem. 25 people were lightly injured. Mar 17, 2002 - Noa Auerbach, 18, of Kfar Sava was killed and 16 people were injured when a terrorist opened fire on passersby in the center of Kfar Sava. The gunman was shot and killed by police. Mar 19, 2002 - 1st Lt. Tal Zemach, 20, of Kibbutz Hulda, was killed and three soldiers were injured when Palestinian terrorists opened fire on them in the Jordan Valley. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack Mar 20, 2002 - Seven people, four of them soldiers, were killed and about 30 wounded, several seriously, in a homicide bombing of an Egged bus No. 823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth at the Musmus junction on Highway 65 (Wadi Ara) near Afula. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 21, 2002 - Three people were killed and 86 injured, 3 of them seriously, in a homicide bombing on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem. The terrorist detonated the bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd of shoppers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 24, 2002 - Esther Kleiman, 23, of Neve Tzuf, was killed in a shooting attack northwest of Ramallah, while traveling to work in a reinforced Egged bus. Mar 24, 2002 - Avi Sabag, 24, of Otniel was killed in a terrorist shooting south of Hebron. Mar 26, 2002 - Major Cengiz Soytunc of Turkey and Catherine Berruex of Switzerland, members of the TIPH observer force in Hebron, were killed in an ambush shooting by a Palestinian terrorist gunman near Halhul. Mar 27, 2002 - 29 people were killed and 140 injured - 20 seriously - in a homicide bombing in the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya, in the midst of the Passover holiday seder with 250 guests. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The terrorist was a member of Hamas from Tulkarem, on the list of wanted terrorists Israel had requested be arrested. Mar 28, 2002 - Rachel and David Gavish, 50, their son Avraham Gavish, 20, and Rachel’s father Yitzhak Kanner, 83, were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the community of Elon Moreh in Samaria, entered their home and opened fire on its inhabitants. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 29, 2002 - Two people were killed and 28 injured, two seriously when a female homicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 29, 2002 - Tuvia Wisner, 79, of Petah Tikva and Michael Orlansky, 70, of Tel-Aviv were killed Friday morning, when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the Neztarim settlement in the Gaza Strip. Mar 29, 2002 - Lt. Boaz Pomerantz, 22, of Kiryat Shmona and St.-Sgt. Roman Shliapstein, 22, of Ma’ale Efraim were killed in the course of the IDF anti-terrorist action in Ramallah (Operation Defensive Shield). Mar 29, 2002 - Rachel Levy, 17, and Haim Smadar, 55, the security guard, both of Jerusalem, were killed and 28 people were injured, two seriously, when a female terrorist blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 30, 2002 - Border Policeman Sgt.-Maj. Constantine Danilov, 23, of Or Akiva was shot and killed in Baka al-Garbiyeh, during an exchange of fire with two Palestinian terrorists trying to cross into Israel to carry out a terrorist attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility. Mar 30, 2002 - One person was killed and about 30 people were injured in a homicide bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 31, 2002 - An MDA paramedic was very seriously injured along with three other people at 17:00 Sunday afternoon in a homicide bombing at the emergency medical center in Efrat, in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem. Mar 31, 2002 - 15 people were killed and over 40 injured when a terrorist detonated himself in Haifa, in the Matza restaurant of the gas station near the Grand Canyon shopping mall. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 01, 2002 - Sgt.-Maj. Ofir Roth, 22, of Gan Yoshiya, an IDF reserve soldier, was killed at a roadblock near Jerusalem’s Har Homa neighborhood by a Palestinian terrorist sniper firing from Beit Sahur, near Bethlehem. Apr 01, 2002 - Tomer Mordechai, 19, of Tel-Aviv, a policeman, was killed in Jerusalem, when a Palestinian terrorist driving toward the city center blew himself up after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Apr 03, 2002 - IDF reservist Maj. Moshe Gerstner, 29, of Rishon Lezion was killed in Jenin during anti-terrorist action (Operation Defensive Shield). Apr 04, 2002 - Rachel Charhi, 36, of Bat-Yam, critically injured when a terrorist detonated himself in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv on March 30, died of her wounds. Some 30 others were injured in the attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility. Apr 04, 2002 - Border Police Supt. Patrick Pereg, 30, of Rosh Ha’ayin, head of operations in an undercover unit, was killed Thursday while attempting to arrest a wanted member of Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. Apr 04, 2002 - Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Einan Sharabi, 32, of Rehovot; Lt. Nissim Ben-David, 22, of Ashdod; and St.-Sgt. Gad Ezra, 23, of Bat-Yam were killed during the IDF anti-terrorist action in Jenin (Operation Defensive Shield). Apr 05, 2002 - Sgt. Marom Moshe Fisher, 19, of Moshav Avigdor; Sgt. Ro’i Tal, 21, of Ma’alot; and Sgt. Oded Kornfein, 20, of Kibbutz Ha’on - were killed in exchanges of fire between IDF troops and Palestinian terrorist gunmen in Jenin (Operation Defensive Shield). Apr 06, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Nisan Avraham, 26, of Lod was killed and five other soldiers were lightly injured when two Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire and threw grenades at the entrance to Rafiah Yam in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian terrorists, members of the Islamic Jihad, were killed. Apr 08, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Matanya Robinson, 21, of Kibbutz Tirat Zvi, and Sgt. Shmuel Weiss, 19, of Kiryat Arba were killed in an ambush by Palestinian terrorist gunfire in the Jenin refugee camp (Operation Defensive Shield). Apr 09, 2002 - 13 IDF soldiers were killed and 7 injured in the Jenin refugee camp by Palestinian terrorists. An IDF patrol by reserve soldiers was ambushed during operations in the refugee camp. Explosive devices were detonated against them, as well as gunfire directed against the soldiers from the rooftops of the surrounding buildings. Apr 09, 2002 - Maj. Assaf Assoulin, 30, of Tel Aviv was killed in an exchange of fire in Nablus. Apr 09, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Gedalyahu Malik, 21, of Jerusalem was killed and 12 soldiers were injured in Jenin when an explosive charge was thrown at a patrol. Apr 10, 2002 - Avinoam Alfia, 26, of Kiryat Ata; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Shlomi Ben Haim, 27, of Kiryat Yam; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Nir Danieli, 24, of Kiryat Ata; Border Police Lance Cpl. Keren Franco, 18, of Kiryat Yam; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Ze’ev Hanik, 24, of Karmiel; Border Police Lance Cpl. Noa Shlomo, 18, of Nahariya; Prison Warrant Officer Shimshon Stelkol, 33, of Kiryat Yam; and Sgt. Michael Weissman, 21, of Kiryat Yam were killed and 22 people injured when a terrorist detonated himself on Egged bus #960, en route from Haifa to Jerusalem, which exploded near Kibbutz Yagur, east of Haifa. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Apr 12, 2002 - Lt. Dotan Nahtomi, 22, of Kibbutz Tzuba, died of wounds sustained earlier in the week during IDF operations in Dura (Operation Defensive Shield). Apr 12, 2002 - Border policeman St.-Sgt. David Smirnoff, 22, of Ashdod was killed when a Palestinian terrorist gunman opened fire near the Erez crossing, in the Gaza Strip, killing one and injuring another four Israelis. The terrorist killed one and injured three Palestinian terrorist workers in the same shooting spree. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Apr 12, 2002 - Nissan Cohen, 57; Rivka Fink, 75; Suheila Hushi, 48; and Yelena Konrab, 43, all of Jerusalem; and Ling Chang Mai, 34, and Chai Siang Yang, 32, both foreign workers from China, were killed and 104 people were wounded when a woman terrorist blew hereselt up by detonating a powerful charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Apr 20, 2002 - Border Policeman St.-Sgt. Uriel Bar-Maimon, 21 of Ashkelon was killed in an exchange of fire near the Erez industrial park in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pursued the Palestinian terrorist gunman and killed him. An explosive belt was found on his body. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility. Apr 22, 2002 - Sgt. Maj. Nir Krichman, 22 of Hadera, was killed in an exchange of gunfire, when IDF forces entered the village of Asira a-Shamaliya, north of Nablus, to arrest known Hamas terrorists. Apr 27, 2002 - Danielle Shefi, 5; Arik Becker, 22; Katrina (Katya) Greenberg, 45; and Ya’acov Katz, 51, all of Adora, 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. Seven other people were injured, one seriously. The terrorists entered several homes, firing on people in their bedrooms. Both Hamas and the PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack. May 03, 2002 - IDF officer Major Avihu Ya’akov, 24, of Kfar Hasidim, was killed and two other soldiers injured in Nablus in a raid against a terror cell that was planning a terrorist attack in Israel. May 07, 2002 - 16 people were killed and 55 wounded in a crowded game club in Rishon Lezion, southeast of Tel-Aviv, when a homicide bomber detonated a powerful charge in the 3rd floor club, causing part of the building to collapse. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. May 12, 2002 - Nisan Dolinger, 43, of Pe’at Sadeh in the southern Gaza Strip was shot and killed by a Palestinian terrorist laborer. The terrorist was apprehended. May 19, 2002 - Yosef Haviv, 70, Victor Tatrinov, 63, and Arkady Vieselman, 40, all of Netanya, were killed and 59 people were injured - 10 seriously - when a terrorist, disguised as a soldier, blew himself up in the market in Netanya. Both Hamas and the PFLP took responsibility for the attack. May 20, 2002 - A homicide bomber, apparently bound for Afula, killed himself after Border Policemen approached him for questioning at a bus stop. There were no other injuries. May 22, 2002 - Elmar Dezhabrielov, 16, and Gary Tauzniaski, 65, both of Rishon Lezion, were killed and about 40 people were wounded when a terrorist detonated himself in the Rothschild Street downtown pedestrian mall of Rishon Lezion. May 23, 2002 - A bomb planted by terrorists exploded underneath a fuel truck at the Pi Glilot fuel depot north of Tel Aviv. The truck burst into flames, but the blaze was quickly contained. May 24, 2002 - A security guard opened fire on a terrorist attempting to ram a car bomb into the Studio 49 Disco in Tel Aviv. The terrorist was killed and five Israelis slightly injured when the bomb exploded prematurely. May 24, 2002 - Reserve IDF Sgt. 1st Class Oren Tzelnik, 23, of Bat Yam was killed and two soldiers wounded when terrorists opened fire on their APC during a counter-terrorist operation in Tulkarm. May 27, 2002 - Ruth Peled, 56, of Herzliya and her infant granddaughter Sinai Keinan, aged 14 months, of Petah Tikva were killed and 37 people were injured, some seriously, when a terrorist detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. May 28, 2002 - Albert Maloul, 50, of Jerusalem, was killed when shots were fired at the car in which he was traveling south on the Ramallah bypass road. Maloul and his cousin, who was lightly injured, were returning home to Jerusalem from Eli, where they operate the swimming pool. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. May 28, 2002 - Netanel Riachi, 17, of Kochav Ya’akov; Gilad Stiglitz, 14, of Yakir; and Avraham Siton, 17, of Shilo - three yeshiva high school students - were killed and two others wounded in Itamar, southeast of Nablus, when a Palestinian terrorist gunman infiltrated the community and opened fire on the teenagers playing basketball, before he was shot dead by a security guard. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 05, 2002 - 17 people were killed and 38 injured 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 bus, which burst into flames, was completely destroyed. The terrorist was killed in the blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 06, 2002 - Erez Rund, 18, of Ofra 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. Jun 08, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Eyal Sorek, 23, his wife Yael, 24 - 9 months pregnant - of Carmei Tzur, and St.-Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Shalom Mordechai, 35, of Nahariya were killed and five others injured when terrorists infiltrated the community of Carmei Tzur in the Gush Etzion bloc and opened fire at 2:30 A.M. on Friday night. The Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 11, 2002 - A 14-year-old girl was killed and 15 others were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist homicide bomber set off a relatively small pipe bomb at a shwarma restaurant in Herzliya. Jun 15, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Haim Yehezkel (Hezki) Gutman, 22, of Beit El, and St.-Sgt. Alexei Gladkov, 20, of Be’er Sheva were killed and four soldiers were wounded in a confrontation with terrorists near Alei Sinai and Dugit in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility. Lt. Anatoly Krasik, 22, of Petah Tikva died of his wounds on Jun 22. Jun 18, 2002 - 19 people were killed and 74 injured - six seriously - in a homicide bombing at the Patt junction in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem. The bus, which was completely destroyed, was carrying many students on their way to school. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 19, 2002 - Seven people were killed and 50 injured - three of them in critical condition - when a homicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem shortly after 7:00 P.M., as people were returning home from work. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 19, 2002 - Maj. Shlomi Cohen, 26, of Rehovot and St.-Sgt. Yosef Talbi, 20, of Yehud were killed and four soldiers were wounded Wednesday night in Kalkilya when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire while the soldiers were in pursuit of two terrorists inside a building Jun 20, 2002 - Rachel Shabo, 40, and three of her sons - Neria, 16, Zvika, 12, and Avishai, 5 - as well as a neighbor, Yosef Twito, 31, who came to their aid, were murdered when a terrorist entered their home in Itamar, south of Nablus, and opened fire. Two other children were injured, as well as two soldiers. The terrorist was killed by IDF forces. The PFLP and the Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 04, 2002 - El Al ticket agent Victoria Hen, 25, and Yaakov Aminov, 46, of Los Angeles, were shot and killed at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport by Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a 41-year-old Egyptian national. Four others were wounded before he was shot dead by an El Al security guard. U.S. authorities subsequently ruled it a terrorist attack related to the Israeli-Palestinian terrorist conflict. Jul 10, 2002 - IDF officer Capt. Hagai Lev, 24, of Jerusalem, deputy commander of a Givati reconaissance unit, was killed by Palestinian terrorist sniper fire while conducting a search for weapons smuggling tunnels in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. The Fatah Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the shooting. Jul 16, 2002 - Nine people were killed and 20 injured in a terrorist attack on Dan bus no. 189 traveling from Bnei Brak to Emmanuel in Samaria. An explosive charge was detonated next to the bullet-resistant bus. The terrorists waited in ambush, reportedly wearing IDF uniforms, and opened fire on the bus. While four terror organizations claimed responsibility for the attack, it was apparently carried out by the same Hamas cell which carried out the attack in Emmanuel on Dec 12, 2001. Jul 17, 2002 - Five people were killed - two Israeli and three foreign workers - and about 40 were injured, four seriously, in a double homicide bombing on Neve Shaanan Street near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Jul 17, 2002 - Lt. Elad Grenadier, 21, of Haifa was killed and three soldiers were wounded early Wednesday morning in an exchange of fire with the terrorists responsible for the attack in Emmanuel on Jul 16. Jul 25, 2002 - Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, 43, of Peduel, was killed and another civilian injured in a shooting attack near the West Bank community of Alei Zahav, west of Ariel. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Jul 26, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Elazar Lebovitch, 21, of Hebron; Rabbi Yosef Dikstein, 45, of Psagot, his wife Hannah, 42, and their 9-year-old son Shuv’el Zion were killed in a shooting attack south of Hebron. Two other of their children were injured. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Jul 30, 2002 - Five people suffered light to moderate injuries in a terrorist bombing at a falafel stand on Hanevi’im Street in the center of Jerusalem. The bomber, who was killed, apparently exploded prematurely. Jul 30, 2002 - Shlomo Odesser, 60, and his brother Mordechai, 52, both of Tapuach in Samaria, were shot and killed when their truck came under fire in the West Bank village of Jama’in, near Ariel. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Jul 31, 2002 - Nine people - four Israelis and five foreign nationals - were killed and 85 injured, 14 of them seriously, when a bomb exploded in the Frank Sinatra student center cafeteria on the Hebrew University’s Mt. Scopus campus. The explosive device was planted inside the cafeteria, which was gutted by the explosion. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Aug 01, 2002 - The body Shani Ladani, 27, of Moshav Olash, shot and bound, was found west of Tulkarem, near the Green Line, in the industrial zone where he was employed. Aug 04, 2002 - Nine people were killed and some 50 wounded in a terrorist bombing of Egged bus No. 361 traveling from Haifa to Safed at the Meron junction in northern Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Aug 04, 2002 - Yekutiel Amitai, 34, of Jerusalem, a security guard, and Nizal Awassat, 52, of the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood in East Jerusalem, were killed and 17 were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a pistol near the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City. Border policemen exchanged fire with the gunman, killing him. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Aug 05, 2002 - Avi Wolanski (29) and his wife Avital (27), of Eli, were killed and one of their children, aged 03, was injured when terrorists opened fire on their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus road near Eli in Samaria. The Martyrs of the Palestinian terrorist Popular Army, a splinter group associated with Arafat’s Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack. Aug 10, 2002 - Yafit Herenstein, 31, of Moshav Mechora in the Jordan Valley, was killed and her husband, Arno, seriously wounded when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the moshav and opened fire outside their home. The terrorist was killed by soldiers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Aug 20, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Kevin Cohen, 19, of Petah Tikva, was killed by a Palestinian terrorist sniper near Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. Sep 05, 2002 - 1st Lt. Malik Grifat, 24, of Zarzir was killed and a soldier wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire, from a crowded school, towards an IDF patrol near Nisanit in the northern Gaza Strip. The terrorist was killed. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Sep 05, 2002 - Sgt. Aviad Dotan, 21, of Moshav Nir Galim was killed and three soldiers were wounded when a large bomb weighing over 100 kgs exploded under a Merkava tank near the Kissufim Crossing in central Gaza Strip. An umbrella group representing several Palestinian terrorist factions claimed responsibility. Sep 18, 2002 - The charred body of David Buhbut, 67, of Ma’ale Adumim, shot in the head, was found near el-Azzariya, a Palestinian terrorist village near Ma’ale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, the victim of a terrorist killing. Sep 18, 2002 - Yosef Ajami, 36, of Jerusalem was killed Wednesday afternoon when terrorists opened fire on his car near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank. The other occupant of the car, a foreign worker, was lightly injured. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Sep 18, 2002 - Police Sgt. Moshe Hezkiyah, 21, of Elyachin was killed and three people were wounded in a homicide bombing at a bus stop at the Umm al Fahm junction. The terrorist, who was apparently planning to detonate the bomb after boarding a bus, set the charge off early when approached by the police for questioning. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Sep 19, 2002 - Solomon Hoenig, 79, of Tel Aviv; Yossi Mamistavlov, 39 of Or Yehuda; Yaffa Shemtov, 49, of Tel Aviv; Rosanna Siso, 63, of Gan Yavneh; Ofer Zinger, 29, of Moshav Pazael; and Jonathan (Yoni) Jesner, 19, of Glasgow, Scotland were killed and about 70 people were wounded when a 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. Sep 23, 2002 - Shlomo Yitzhak Shapira, 48, of Jerusalem was killed and three of his children wounded, one seriously, in a shooting attack Monday evening near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. The family, from Jerusalem, had come to Hebron to celebrate the Sukkot festival. Sep 26, 2002 - Capt. Harel Marmelstein, 23, of Mevasseret Zion, an IDF officer from the naval commando, was killed while leading a search for wanted terrorists in the West Bank village of Labed near Tulkarem. Senior Hamas terrorist Nisa’at Jaber ambushed the troops, opening fire and killing the commander. Jaber was killed by the soldiers. Sep 30, 2002 - Sgt. Ari Weiss, 21, of Ra’anana, was killed and another soldier from the engineering battalion of the Nahal Brigade was wounded when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire on an army position in the Nablus casbah. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 08, 2002 - Oded Wolk, 51, of Modi’in, who was critically wounded in an ambush shooting south of Hebron, died of his wounds the following day (Oct 9). Three other Israelis were injured in the attack when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire on their car. Hamas claimed resopnsibility for the attack. Oct 10, 2002 - Sa’ada Aharon, 71, of Ramat Gan was killed and about 30 people were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist blew himself up while trying to board Dan bus No. 87 across from Bar-Ilan University on the Geha highway (Route 4). Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Oct 21, 2002 - 14 people were killed and some 50 wounded when a car bomb containing about 100 kilograms of explosives was detonated next to a No. 841 Egged bus from Kiryat Shmona to Tel-Aviv, while traveling along Wadi Ara on Route No. 65 toward Hadera. The bus had pulled over at a bus stop when the terrorist bomber, from Jenin, driving a jeep, approached from behind and exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Oct 27, 2002 - Maj. (res.) Tamir Masad, 41, of Ben Shemen; Lt. Matan Zagron, 22, of Itamar; and Sgt.-Maj. Amihud Hasid, 32, of Tapuah were killed and about 20 people were wounded in a homicide bombing at the Sonol gas station at the entrance to Ariel in Samaria. The two officers and soldier were killed while trying to prevent the terrorist from detonating the bomb. The terrorist was identified as a member of Hamas. Oct 29, 2002 - Three Hermesh residents - Orna Eshel, 53, Linoy Saroussi and Hadas Turgeman, both 14 - were killed and two were wounded when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and wearing an explosive belt opened fire, after infiltrating the settlement in northern Samaria. The terrorist was shot dead. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Nov 04, 2002 - Security guard Julio Pedro Magram, 51, of Kfar Sava, and Gastón Perpiñal, 15, of Ra’anana, both recent immigrants from Argentina, were killed and about 70 people were wounded in a homocide bombing at a shopping mall in Kfar Sava. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Nov 06, 2002 - Assaf Tzfira, 18, of B’dolah and Amos Sa’ada, 52, of Rafiah Yam were killed when when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire in a hothouse and textile factory at Pe’at Sadeh in the southern Gaza Strip. The terrorist was killed by a security officer. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Nov 09, 2002 - Sgt.-Maj. Madin Grifat, 23, of Beit Zarzir was killed when a mine exploded during a routine patrol northeast of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip. The Givati Brigade company commander was wounded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Nov 10, 2002 - Revital Ohayon, 34, and her two sons, Matan, 05, and Noam, 04, as well as Yitzhak Dori, 44 - all of Kibbutz Metzer - and Tirza Damari, 42, of Elyachin, were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the kibbutz, located east of Hadera near the Green Line, and opened fire. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Nov 15, 2002 - Twelve people - 9 soldiers and three civilians from the Kiryat Arba emergency response team - were killed and 15 others wounded Friday night in Hebron when Palestinian terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at a group of Jewish worshipers and their guards as they were walking home from Sabbath prayers at the Cave of the Patriarchs. The dead included civilian worshipers and soldiers, some of whom were caught in an ambush as they pursued the attackers. Three terrorists were killed in the attack, which was claimed by the Islamic Jihad. The victims: Col. Dror Weinberg, 38, of Jerusalem; Border Police officer Ch.-Supt. Samih Sweidan, 31, of Arab al-Aramsha; Sgt. Tomer Nov, 19, of Ashdod; Sgt. Gad Rahamim, 19, of Kiryat Malachi; St.-Sgt. Netanel Machluf, 19, of Hadera; St.-Sgt. Yeshayahu Davidov, 20, of Netanya; Sgt. Igor Drobitsky, 20, of Nahariya; Cpl. David Marcus, 20, of Ma’aleh Adumim; and Lt. Dan Cohen, 22, of Jerusalem. The three civilian members of the Kiryat Arba emergency response team killed were Yitzhak Buanish, 46; Alexander Zwitman, 26; and Alexander Dohan, 33. Nov 18, 2002 - Esther Galia, 48, of Kochav Hashahar, was killed in a shooting attack near Rimonim, on the Allon Road, some 15 kilometers northeast of Ramallah. Nov 21, 2002 - Eleven people were killed and some 50 wounded by a terrorist bomber on a No. 20 Egged bus on Mexico Street in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem. The bus was filled with passengers, including schoolchildren, traveling toward the center of the city during rush hour. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Hodaya Asaraf, 13, of Jerusalem; Marina Bazarski, 46, of Jerusalem; Hadassah (Yelena) Ben-David, 32, of Jerusalem; Sima Novak, 56, of Jerusalem; Kira Perlman, 67, and her grandson Ilan Perlman, 8, of Jerusalem; Yafit Ravivo, 14 of Jerusalem; Ella Sharshevsky, 44, and her son Michael Sharshevsky, 16, of Jerusalem; Mircea Varga, 25, a tourist from Romania; Dikla Zino, 22, of Jerusalem. Nov 22, 2002 - IDF tracker Sgt.-Maj. Shigdaf (Shai) Garmai, 30, of Lod, was killed when an Israel Defense Forces Givati Brigade patrol near Tel Qateifa, in the Gaza Strip, came under Palestinian terrorist gunfire. Hamas claimed responsibility. Nov 28, 2002 - Noy and Dvir Anter, aged 12 and 14, of Ariel, and Albert (Avraham) de Havila, 60, of Ra’anana were killed along with 10 Kenyans 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 were among the 80 wounded. Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack, as well as for the simultaneous attempt to down an Arkia plane. Nov 28, 2002 - Haim Amar, 56; Ehud (Yehuda) Avitan, 54; Mordechai Avraham, 44; Ya’acov Lary, 35; and David Peretz, 48 - all of Beit She’an; and Shaul Zilberstein, 36, of Upper Nazareth, were killed and about 40 wounded when two terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at the Likud polling station in Beit She’an, near the central bus station, where party members were casting their votes in the Likud primary. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Dec 12, 2002 - Cpl. Keren Ya’akobi, 19, of Hadera and Sgt. Maor Kalfon, 19, of Kiryat Yam were killed while on guard near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Dec 20, 2002 - Rabbi Yitzhak Arama, 40, of Netzer Hazani in Gush Katif, in the Gaza Strip, was shot and killed on the Kissufim corridor road while driving with his wife and six children to attend a pre-wedding Sabbath celebration in Afula. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Dec 27, 2002 - Four yeshiva students - St.-Sgt. Noam Apter, 23, of Shilo; Pvt. Yehuda Bamberger, 20, of Karnei Shomron; Gavriel Hoter, 17, of Alonei Habashan; and Zvi Zieman, 18, of Reut - were killed in Otniel, south of Hebron, while working in the yeshiva kitchen, serving the Shabbat meal to some 100 students in the adjacent dining room. The two terrorists from the Islamic Jihad, which claimed responsibility for the attack, were killed by IDF forces. Ten other, including six soldiers, were wounded in the attack.

Jan 02, 2003 - The charred body of Massoud Makhluf Alon, 72, from Menahemiya in the Lower Galilee, was found in the northern Jordan Valley in his burned out car. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder. Jan 05, 2003 - Twenty-three people - 15 Israelis and 8 foreign nationals - were killed and about 120 wounded when two terrorists blew themselves up near the old Central Bus Station in Tel-Aviv. The attack was apparently carried out by two members of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, with the help of the Islamic Jihad. The Israeli victims: Moshe (Maurice) Aharfi, 60, of Tel-Aviv; Mordechai Evioni, 52, of Holon; Andrei Friedman, 30, of Tel-Aviv; Meir Haim, 74, of Azor; Hannah Haimov, 53, of Tel Aviv; Avi Kotzer, 43, of Bat Yam; Ramin Nasibov, 25, of Tel-Aviv; Staff Sgt. Mazal Orkobi, 20, of Azor; Ilanit Peled, 32, of Azor; Viktor Shebayev, 62, of Holon; Boris Tepalshvili, 51, of Yehud; Sapira Shoshana Yulzari-Yaffe, 46, of Bat Yam; Lilya Zibstein, 33, of Haifa; Amiram Zmora, 55, of Holon; Igor Zobokov, 32, of Bat Yam. Foreign workers: Krassimir Mitkov Angelov, 32, of Bulgaria; Steven Arthur Cromwell, 43, of Ghana; Ivan Gaptoniak, 46, of Ukraine; Ion (Nelu) Nicolae, 34, of Romania; Guo Aiping, 47, of China; Li Peizhong, 41, of China; Mihai Sabau, 38, of Romania. Zhang Minmin, 53, of China died of her wounds on January 13. Jan 12, 2003 - Eli Biton, 48, of Moshav Gadish was killed and four people wounded when terrorists infiltrated the community and opened fire. Two terrorists were killed by Israeli forces. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Jan 12, 2003 - Sgt.(res.) Mikhail Kazakov, 34, of Jerusalem was killed by terrorists who infiltrated across the Israel-Egypt border, near the Negev town of Nitzana. Jan 17, 2003 - Netanel Ozeri, 34, was killed when terrorists entered his home, in an outpost north of Kiryat Arba, and opened fire. His 5-year-old daughter and two friends were wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Jan 23, 2003 - Cpl. Ronald Berer, 20, of Rehovot; Cpl. Assaf Bitan, 19, of Afula; and St.-Sgt. Ya’akov Naim, 20, of Kfar Monash were killed by terrorists while on patrol south of Hebron. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 06, 2003 - 2nd Lt. Amir Ben-Aryeh, 21, of Maccabim, and St.-Sgt. Idan Suzin, 20, of Kiryat Tivon were killed and two more soldiers were wounded in a shooting attack in the area of Nablus. Both gunmen were killed by return fire from IDF troops. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 11, 2003 - Maj. Shahar Shmul, 24, of Jerusalem was killed by a terrorist sniper near the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem while checking a suspicious vehicle. The PFLP and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 15, 2003 - Cpl. Noam Bahagon, 20, of Elkana; Sgt. Tal Alexei Belitzky, 21, of Rishon Lezion; St.-Sgt. Doron Cohen, 21, of Rishon Lezion; and Sgt. Itay Mizrahi, 20, of Be’er Sheva were killed when their tank drove over an explosive device weighing 100 kgs while on patrol in the Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 23, 2003 - Sgt. Doron Lev, 19, of Holon was shot and killed when a terrorist sniper opened fire at an army position in the southern Gaza Strip. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 05, 2003 - Seventeen people were killed and 53 wounded when a terrorist blem himself up aboard an Egged bus #37 on Moriah Blvd. in the Carmel section of Haifa, en route to Haifa University. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Maryam Atar, 27, of Haifa; Smadar Firstater, 16, of Haifa; Kamar Abu Hamed, 12, of Daliat al-Carmel; Daniel Haroush, 16, of Safed; Mordechai Hershko, 41, of Haifa; Tom Hershko, 15, of Haifa; Meital Katav, 20, of Haifa ; Elizabeta Katzman, 16, of Haifa; Tal Kerman, 17, of Haifa; St.-Sgt. Eliyahu Laham, 22, of Haifa; Abigail Litle, 14, of Haifa; Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, of Haifa; St.-Sgt. Be’eri Oved, 21, of Rosh Pina; Mark Takash, 54, of Haifa; Assaf Tzur (Zolinger), 17, of Haifa. Anatoly Biryakov, 20, of Haifa, died of his injuries on March 8. Moran Shushan, 20, of Haifa, died of her injuries on March 11. Mar 07, 2003 - Rabbi Eli Horowitz, 52, and his wife Dina, 50, of Kiryat Arba, were killed and five wounded Friday night by armed terrorists disguised as Jewish worshippers who infiltrated Kiryat Arba, entered their home and murdered them while they were celebrating the Sabbath. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 10, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Tomer Ron, 20, of Moshav Moledet, was killed and four soldiers were wounded - one seriously - in Hebron, on the road between the Cave of the Patriarchs and Kiryat Arba, when terrorists opened fire on a foot patrol. Two organizations - Hamas and Ahmed Jibril’s Popular Front-General Command - claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 12, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Assaf Moshe Fuchs, 21, of Kibbutz Gvat was killed and another soldier wounded Wednesday morning in an exchange of fire with wanted terrorists from the Islamic Jihad in the West Bank village of Saida, near Tulkarm. Mar 18, 2003 - Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Ami Cohen, 27, of Netanya was killed and another soldier wounded south of Bethlehem when Palestinian terrorists opened fire during a search for wanted terrorists. Mar 19, 2003 - Zion Boshirian, 51, of Mevo Dotan was shot and killed while driving in his car between Mevo Dotan and Shaked in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 10, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Yigal Lifshitz, 20, of Rishon Lezion, and St.-Sgt. Ofer Sharabi, 21, of Givat Shmuel were killed and nine others wounded when Palestinian terrorists opened fire before dawn on their base near Bekaot in the northern Jordan Valley. The PFLP and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Apr 15, 2003 - Lt. Daniel Mandel, 24, of Alon Shvut was killed and another soldier was wounded in an exchange of gunfire during a search for wanted Hamas terrorists in Nablus. Apr 15, 2003 - Zachar Rahamin Hanukayev, 39, of Sderot and Ahmed Salah Kara, 20, of Shuafat in northern Jerusalem were killed and four Israelis were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire at the Karni industrial zone crossing in the Gaza Strip. The gunman was killed by security personnel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Apr 20, 2003 - IDF photographer Cpl. Lior Ziv, 19, of Holon, was killed and three other soldiers were wounded during an operation to destroy a Hamas smuggling tunnel in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip. Apr 24, 2003 - Alexander Kostyuk, a 23-year-old security guard from Bat Yam, was killed and 13 were wounded, two seriously, in a terrorist bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP clamied joint responsibility for the attack. Apr 30, 2003 - Ran Baron, 23, of Tel Aviv, Dominique Caroline Hass, 29, of Tel Aviv, and Yanai Weiss, 46, of Holon, were murdered and about 60 people were wounded when a terrorist bomber blew himself up at a beachfront pub, “Mike’s Place,” in Tel Aviv. The Fatah Tanzim and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out as a joint operation. Investigation revealed that the two British Muslims involved in the bombing were dispatched to perpetrate the attack by the Hamas military command in the Gaza Strip. May 04, 2003 - The body of Tali Weinberg, 26, of Beit Aryeh, was discovered in a garage in Rosh Ha’ayin with numerous stab wounds. The suspect, Weinberg’s boyfriend, arrested on Jun 11, a 21-year-old Arab resident of Kafr Qasem, is believed to have carried out the murder as part of a “loyalty test” administered by Palestinian terrorist organizations. May 05, 2003 - Gideon Lichterman, 27, of Ahiya, was killed and two other passengers, his six-year-old daughter Moriah and a reserve soldier, were seriously wounded when terrorists fired shots at their vehicle near Shvut Rachel, in Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. May 11, 2003 - Zion David, 53, of Givat Ze’ev near Jerusalem, was shot in the head and killed by Palestinian terrorists in a roadside ambush half a kilometer from Ofra, north of Jerusalem. Both Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack. May 17, 2003 - Gadi Levy and his wife Dina, aged 31 and 37, of Kiryat Arba were killed by a terrorist bomber in Hebron. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. May 18, 2003 - Seven people were killed and 20 wounded in a terrorist bombing on Egged bus no. 6 near French Hill in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Olga Brenner, 52; Yitzhak Moyal, 64; Nelly Perov, 55; Marina Tsahivershvili, 44; Shimon Ustinsky, 68; and Roni Yisraeli, 34 - all of the Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood in Jerusalem; and Ghalab Tawil, 42, of Shuafat. A second terrorist bomber detonated his bomb when intercepted by police in northern Jerusalem. The terrorist was killed; no one else was injured. May 19, 2003 - Kiryl Shremko, 22, of Afula; Hassan Ismail Tawatha, 41, of Jisr a-Zarqa; and Avi Zerihan, 36, of Beit Shean were killed and about 70 people were wounded in a terrorist bombing at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 05, 2003 - The bodies of David Shambik, 26, and Moran Menachem, 17, both of Jerusalem, were found near Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem, brutally beaten and stabbed to death. Jun 08, 2003 - Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Assaf Abergil, 23, of Eilat; Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Udi Eilat, 38, of Eilat; Sgt. Maj. Boaz Emete, 24, of Beit She’an; and Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Chen Engel, 32, of Ramat Gan were killed and four reserve soldiers were wounded when Palestinian terrorists wearing IDF uniforms opened fire on an IDF outpost near the Erez checkpoint and industrial zone in the Gaza Strip. Three terrorists were killed by IDF soldiers. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad issued a joint statement claiming responsibility for the attack. Jun 08, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Matan Gadri, 21, of Moshav Moledet was killed in Hebron while pursuing two Palestinian terrorist gunmen who earlier had wounded a Border Policeman on guard at the Tomb of the Patriarchs. The two terrorists were killed. Jun 11, 2003 - Seventeen people were killed and over 100 wounded in a terrorist bombing on Egged bus #14A outside the Klal building on Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Sgt. Tamar Ben-Eliahu, 20, of Moshav Paran; Alan Beer, 46, of Jerusalem; Eugenia Berman, 50, of Jerusalem; Elsa Cohen, 70, of Jerusalem; Zvi Cohen, 39, of Jerusalem; Roi Eliraz, 22, of Mevaseret Zion; Alexander Kazaris, 77, of Jerusalem; Yaffa Mualem, 65, of Jerusalem; Yaniv Obayed, 22, of Herzliya; Bat-El Ohana, 21, of Kiryat Ata; Anna Orgal, 55, of Jerusalem; Zippora Pesahovitch, 54, of Zur Hadassah; Bianca Shahrur, 62, of Jerusalem; Malka Sultan, 67, of Jerusalem; Bertin Tita, 75, of Jerusalem. Miriam Levy, 74, of Jerusalem died of her wounds on Jun 12. Haile Abraha Hawki, 56, a foreign worker from Eritrea, was positively identified on Jun 24. Jun 12, 2003 - Avner Maimon, 51, of Netanya, was found shot to death in his car near Yabed in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 13, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Mordechai Sayada, 22, of Tirat Carmel, was shot to death in Jenin by a Palestinian terrorist sniper as his jeep patrol passed by. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 17, 2003 - Noam Leibowitz, 7, of Yemin Orde was killed and three members of her family wounded in a shooting attack near the Kibbutz Eyal junction on the Trans-Israel Highway. The terrorist fired from the outskirts of the West Bank city of Kalkilya. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 19, 2003 - Avner Mordechai, 58, of Moshav Sde Trumot, was killed when a terrorist bomber blew up in his grocery on Sde Trumot, south of Beit Shean. The terrorist bomber was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 20, 2003 - Zvi Goldstein, 47, of Eli, was killed when his car was fired upon in an ambush by Palestinian terrorists near Ofra, north of Ramallah. His parents, Eugene and Lorraine Goldstein, from New York, were seriously wounded and his wife lightly injured. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 26, 2003 - Amos (Amit) Mantin, 31, of Hadera, a Bezeq employee, was killed in a shooting attack in the Israeli Arab town of Baka al-Garbiyeh. The shots were fired by a Palestinian terrorist teenager, who was apprehended by police. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 27, 2003 - Sgt. Maj. Erez Ashkenazi, 21, of Kibbutz Reshafim, an Israeli navy commando, was killed in an operation in Gaza to capture a Hamas cell, believed responsible for several bombings and the firing of anti-tank missiles in the Netzarim area. Jun 30, 2003 - Krastyu Radkov, 46, a construction worker from Bulgaria, was killed in a shooting attack on the Yabed bypass road in northern Samaria, west of Jenin, while driving a truck. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, in opposition to the declared ceasefire.

Jul 07, 2003 - Mazal Afari, 65, of Moshav Kfar Yavetz was killed in her home on Monday evening and three of her grandchildren lightly wounded in a terrorist bombing. The remains of the bomber were also found in the wreckage of the house. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Jul 15, 2003 - Amir Simhon, 24, of Bat Yam was killed when a Palestinian terrorist armed with a long-bladed knife stabbed passersby on Tel Aviv’s beachfront promenade, after a security guard prevented him from entering the Tarabin cafe and was wounded. The terrorist, who was shot and apprehended, is a member of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which claimed responsibility for the attack. Aug 08, 2003 - Third Petty Officer Roi Oren, 20, an Israel Navy commando, was shot in the head and killed in an assault on a Hamas bomb factory in Nablus. Jul 21, 2003 - The body of IDF soldier Cpl. Oleg Shaichat, 20, of Upper Nazareth, abducted and murdered on Jul 21 while on his way home, was found on Jul 28, buried in an olive grove near Kafr Kana, an Arab village in the Lower Galilee. Aug 10, 2003 - Haviv Dadon, 16, of Shlomi, was struck in the chest and killed by shrapnel from an anti-aircraft shell fired by Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon, as he sat with friends after work. Aug 12, 2003 - Yehezkel (Hezi) Yekutieli, 43, of Rosh Ha’ayin, was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist bomber, 17, who detonated himself as Yekutieli was shopping for his children’s breakfast at his local supermarket. Aug 12, 2003 - Erez Hershkovitz, 18, of Eilon Moreh, was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist bomber, 17, who detonated himself at a bus stop outside Ariel less than half an hour after the Rosh Ha’ayin attack. Amatzia Nisanevitch, 22, of Nofim, died of his wounds on August 28. Aug 19, 2003 - Twenty-three people were killed and over 130 wounded when a Palestinian terrorist detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem’s Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Avraham Bar-Or, 12, of Jerusalem; Binyamin Bergman, 15, of Jerusalem; Yaakov Binder, 50, of Jerusalem; Feiga Dushinski, 50, of Jerusalem; Miriam Eisenstein, 20, of Bnei Brak; Lilach Kardi, 22, of Jerusalem; Menachem Leibel, 24, of Jerusalem; Elisheva Meshulami, 16, of Bnei Brak; Tehilla Nathanson, 03, of Zichron Ya’acov; Chava Nechama Rechnitzer, 19, of Bnei Brak; Mordechai Reinitz, 49, and Issachar Reinitz, 9, of Netanya; Maria Antonia Reslas, 39, of the Philippines; Liba Schwartz, 54, of Jerusalem; Hanoch Segal, 65, of Bnei Brak; Goldie Taubenfeld, 43, and Shmuel Taubenfeld, 3 months, of New Square, New York; Rabbi Eliezer Weisfish, 42, of Jerusalem; Shmuel Wilner, 50, of Jerusalem; Shmuel Zargari, 11 months, of Jerusalem. Fruma Rahel Weitz, 73, of Jerusalem died of her wounds on August 23. Mordechai Laufer, 27, of Netanya died of his wounds on Sepember 5. Tova Lev, 37, of Bnei-Brak died of her wounds on Sepember 12. Aug 29, 2003 - Shalom Har-Melekh, 25, of Homesh was killed in a shooting attack while driving northeast of Ramallah. His wife, Limor, who was seven months pregnant, sustained moderate injuries, and gave birth to a baby girl by Caesarean section. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Sep 04, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Gabriel Uziel, 20, of Givat Ze’ev was shot and mortally wounded by a terrorist sniper in Jenin; he died en route to the hospital. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Sep 05, 2003 - 2nd Petty Officer Ra’anan Komemi, 23, of Moshav Aminadav, from the Naval Commandos was killed in a clash with armed Palestinian terrorists in Nablus. A senior Hamas bomb-maker, believed to have orchestrated several fatal terrorist bombings, was also killed in the clash. Four soldiers were wounded, one seriously. Sep 09, 2003 - Eight IDF soldiers were killed and 32 people were wounded when a terrorist detonated himself at a hitchhiking post for soldiers outside a main entrance to the Tzrifin army base and Assaf Harofeh Hospital. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Senior Warrant Officer Haim Alfasi, 39, of Haifa; Chief Warrant Officer Yaakov Ben-Shabbat, 39, of Pardes Hanna; Cpl. Mazi Grego, 19, of Holon; Capt. Yael Kfir, 21, of Ashkelon; Cpl. Felix Nikolaichuk, 20, of Bat Yam; Sgt. Yonatan Peleg, 19, of Moshav Yanuv; Sgt. Efrat Schwartzman, 19, of Moshav Ganei Yehuda; and Cpl. Prosper Twito, 20, of Upper Nazareth. Sep 09, 2003 - Seven people were killed and over 50 wounded when a terrorist detonated himself at Cafe Hillel on Emek Refaim St., the main thoroughfare of the German Colony neighborhood in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Dr. David Appelbaum, 51, and his daughter Nava Appelbaum, 20, of Jerusalem; David Shimon Avizadris, 51, of Mevaseret Zion; Shafik Kerem, 27, of Beit Hanina; Alon Mizrahi, 22, of Jerusalem; Gila Moshe, 40, of Jerusalem; and Yehiel (Emil) Tubol, 52, of Jerusalem. Sep 25, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Avihu Keinan, 22, of Shilo was killed and six soldiers wounded in an IDF operation to arrest wanted Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorists in the El Boureij refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. Sep 26, 2003 - Eyal Yeberbaum, 27, and seven-month-old Shaked Avraham, both of Negohot, south of Hebron, were killed during the holiday meal on the eve of Rosh Hashana in the Yeberbaum home when a Palestinian terrorist who infiltrated the settlement opened fire with an M-16 assault rifle. The terrorist was killed by IDF forces. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 04, 2003 - Nineteen people were killed, including four children, and 60 wounded in a bombing carried out by a female terrorist from Jenin in the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Oct 15, 2003 - Three American diplomatic personnel - John Eric Branchizio, 37, of Texas, John Martin Linde, Jr., 30, of Missouri, and Mark T. Parson, 31, of New York, were killed and one was wounded at the Beit Hanoun junction in the Gaza Strip when a massive bomb demolished an armor-plated jeep in a convoy carrying U.S. diplomats. Oct 19, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Erez Idan, 19, of Rishon Lezion, Sgt. Elad Pollack, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin, and Sgt. Roi Ya’acov Solomon, 21, of Tel Aviv, were killed and another soldier was seriously wounded while on patrol in Ein Yabrud, north of Ramallah, when terrorists fired on them from behind. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Oct 24, 2003 - Three IDF soldiers - St.-Sgt. Alon Avrahami, 21, of Or Yehuda, Sgt. Adi Osman, 19, of Kfar Sava, and Sgt. Sarit Schneor-Senior, 19, of Shoham - were killed and two others wounded when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the army base in the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim and opened fire on the soldiers’ barracks. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the attack. Nov 18, 2003 - Two IDF soldiers, Sgt.-Maj. Shlomi Belsky, 23, of Haifa, and St.-Sgt. Shaul Lahav, 20, of Kibbutz Shomrat, were killed by a Palestinian terrorist who opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle, hidden in a prayer rug, at a checkpoint on the tunnel bypass road, linking Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion bloc. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Nov 19, 2003 - Patricia Ter´n Navarrete, 33, of Ecuador was killed and four other tourists, pilgrims from Ecuador, were wounded when a terrorist entered the Israel-Jordan border crossing terminal north of Eilat from the Jordanian side and opened fire. The terrorist was killed by Israeli security guards. Nov 22, 2003 - Two Israeli security guards, Ilya Reiger, 58, of Jerusalem, and Samer Fathi Afan, 25, of the Bedouin village Uzeir near Nazareth, were shot dead at a construction site along the route of the security fence near Abu Dis in East Jerusalem. The Jenin Martyrs’ Brigades, affiliated with Fatah, claimed responsibility for the attack. Dec 22, 2003 - Capt. Hagai Bibi, 24, of Maaleh Adumim, and Lt. Leonardo (Alex) Weissman, 23, of Afula were killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire and threw hand grenades as they emerged from their jeep on the Kissufim-Gush Katif road in the Gaza Strip. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Dec 25, 2003 - Adva Fisher, 20, of Kfar Sava; St.-Sgt. Noam Leibowitz, 22, of Elkana; Cpl. Angelina Shcherov, 19, of Kfar Sava; and Cpl. Rotem Weinberger, 19, of Kfar Sava were killed and over 20 people were wounded in a terrorist bombing at a bus stop at the Geha Junction, east of Tel Aviv, near Petah Tikva. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 13, 2004 - Ro’i Arbel, 29, of Talmon, was killed in a terror shooting ambush near his home in Samaria. Three other passengers of the vehicle were wounded. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Jan 14, 2004 - Cpl. Andrei Kegeles, 19, of Nahariya; St.-Sgt. Tzur Or, 20, of Rishon Lezion; security guard Gal Shapira, 29, of Ashkelon; and Border Policeman St.-Sgt. Vladimir Trostinsky, 22, of Rehovot were killed and 10 wounded when a female terrorist detonated herself at the Erez Crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack. Jan 29, 2004 - Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded, 13 of them seriously, in a terrorist bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. Both the Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, naming the bomber as Ali Yusuf Jaara, a 24-year-old Palestinian terrorist policeman from Bethlehem. Feb 22, 2004 - Eight people were killed and over 60 wounded, 11 of them school pupils, in a terrorist bombing on Jerusalem bus no. 14A near the Liberty Bell Park. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by Mohammed Za’ul, from the Bethlehem area. Feb 26, 2004 - Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Amir Zimmerman, 25, of Kfar Monash was killed and two other soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire near the Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 27, 2004 - Eitan Kukoi, 30, and his wife, Rima Novikov Kukoi, 25, were killed in a terrorist shooting attack on the Lahav-Ashkelon road, along the Green Line. The PFLP and the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 14, 2004 - Ten people were killed and 16 wounded in a double terrorist detonation at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 19, 2004 - George Khoury, 20, a Christian Arab and the son of well-known veteran attorney Elias Khoury of Beit Hanina, was shot to death from a vehicle while jogging in the north Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which claimed responsibility for the attack, later published an apology.

Apr 03, 2004 - Yaakov (Kobi) Zagha, 40, of Avnei Hefetz was shot dead by a terrorist outside his home, after his daughter Hani, 14, was shot and wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Apr 17, 2004 - Border Policeman Cpl. Kfir Ohayon, 20, of Eilat was killed, three others wounded when a Palestinian terrorist blew himself up at the Erez Crossing. Hamas and Fatah claimed joint responsibility for the attack. Apr 25, 2004 - 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 02, 2004 - Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters - Hila, 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7, and Merav, 2 - of Katif in the Gaza Strip were killed and another civilian and two soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists fired on an Israeli car at the entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc of Gush Katif. Fatah and Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the attack. May 11, 2004 - Six IDF soldiers were killed during an IDF operation to target Qassam 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, 2004 - 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, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Rotem Adam, 21, Rishon Lezion and Sgt. Alexei Hayat, 21, of Beer Sheva were killed and two soldiers moderately wounded by Palestinian terrorist sniper fire in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. May 29, 2004 - Maj. Shachar Ben-Yishai, 25, of Menahemia was killed by Palestinian terrorist gunfire following a search in the Balata camp near Nablus. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 21, 2004 - A foreign worker, 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 Palestinian terrorists trying to divert attention from an attempt to infiltrate the settlement. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 27, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Roi Nissim, 20, of Rishon Lezion, was killed and five other soldiers were wounded when their outpost in the Gaza Strip was blown up by Hamas terrorists who tunneled under the position and detonated a massive explosive charge. Jun 28, 2004 - Mordechai Yosepov, 49, and Afik Zahavi, four, were killed when a Kassam rocket fired by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip struck near a nursery school in the northern Negev town of Sderot. Jun 29, 2004 - Moshe Yohai, 63, of Ashdod, was found shot to death in Beit Rima, a Palestinian terrorist Authority-controlled village near Ramallah, where he had apparently gone on business. The Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

Jul 04, 2004 - Victor Kreiderman, 49, of Mevo Dotan, was ambushed and shot to death by Aksa Martyrs Brigades terrorists as he and his wife were driving near the village of Yabad. His wife, Emma, was lightly wounded. Jul 06, 2004 - Capt. Moran Vardi, 25, of Binyamina, of the Navy Seals commando unit Shayetet 13, was killed, and three others were wounded in an exchange of fire between IDF forces and Palestinian terrorists while attempting to arrest terrorists in Nablus. Jul 11, 2004 - Sgt. Ma’ayan Na’im, 19, of Bat Yam, was killed and 33 wounded when a bomb exploded at a bus stop in downtown Tel Aviv at about 7 a.m. One person was critically wounded, four were moderately wounded, and the rest were lightly hurt. Aug 13, 2004 - Shlomo Miller, 50, of Itamar in Samaria was killed by a Palestinian terrorist who opened fire outside the settlement gate. The The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility. Aug 31, 2004 - Sixteen people were killed and 100 wounded in two terrorist bombings within minutes of each other on two Beersheba city buses, on route nos. 6 and 12. The buses were traveling along Beersheba’s main street, Rager Blvd, near the city hall. Hamas in Hebron claimed responsibility for the attack. 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. Sep 22, 2004 - Two Border Policemen - Lance Cpl. Menashe Komemi, 19, of Moshav Aminadav and Lance Cpl. Mamoya Tahio, 20, of Rehovot - were killed and 17 Israelis wounded in a terrorist bombing carried out by a female terrorist at the French Hill junction hitchhiking post in northern Jerusalem. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Sep 23, 2004 - Capt. Tal Bardugo, 21, of Jerusalem, St.-Sgt. Nir Sami, 21, of Jerusalem, and St.-Sgt. Israel Lutati, 20, of Neve Dekalim were killed by several Palestinian terrorists, armed with AK-47 assault riffles and hand grenades, who infiltrated the military post near the community of Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Another soldier and a journalist were also wounded in the exchange of fire in which the terrorists were killed. Two Fatah-related terror groups and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Sep 24, 2004 - Tiferet Tratner, 24, of Jerusalem was killed in her home in Neve Dekalim by a mortar strike on the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip. Sep 29, 2004 - Dorit Aniso, 02, and Yuval Abebeh, 04, both of Sderot, were killed by a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza while playing in the street. Some 20 people were wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Sep 30, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Gilad Fisher, 22, of Mitzpeh Hoshaya, was killed before dawn when Hamas terrorists, under cover of heavy fog, attacked an IDF lookout post east of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip. Two other soldiers were wounded. The terrorists were killed. Sep 30, 2004 - Shlomit Batito, 36, of Nissanit, was shot and killed by Hamas terrorists while jogging on the road. Sgt. Victor Ariel, 20, of Kadima, a medic, was killed by a grenade thrown by one of the terrorists as he ran to aid Batito. The terrorists were killed by soldiers.

Oct 06, 2004 - 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. Oct 7, 2004 - A total of 32 people were killed in terror bombings at two Sinai holiday resorts frequented by Israelis: 29 at the Taba Hilton and three at Ras a-Satan. Among the dead were 12 Israelis; over 120 were wounded. The Israeli victims at Taba: Assaf Greenwald, 27, of Ramat Gan; Hafez al-Hafi, 39, of Lod; Rotem Moriah, 27, of Tel Aviv; Tzila Niv, 43, and her two sons, Gilad, 11, and Lior, 03, of Rakefet; Oleg Paizakov, 32, and his wife Ludmilla, 30, of Bat Yam; and Khalil Zeitounya, 10, of Jaffa. The Israeli victims at Ras a-Satan: Michal Alexander, 27, of Ganei Tikva; Roy Avisaf, 28, of Kfar Sava; and Einat Naor, 27, of Kibbutz Zikim. Oct 19, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Yair Nisim Turgemann, 22, of Kiryat Arba, was killed at an IDF base near Mevo Dotan in Samaria when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire from Palestinian terrorist territory west of the community. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Oct 21, 2004 - Sgt.-Maj. Moshe Almaliach, 35, of Dimona, a career NCO in the IDF engineering corps, was killed by a bomb explosion While conducting construction work on the Philadelphi road in the Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Oct 28, 2004 - Sgt. Michael Chizhik, 21, of Tiberias was killed and six other soldiers wounded in a mortar shell attack on an IDF outpost at Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Nov 01, 2004 - Three people were killed and over 30 wounded when a terrorist detonated himself at the Carmel Market in central Tel Aviv. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Nablus claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out by Amar Alfar, 18, from Askar refugee camp in Nablus. The victims: Tatiana Ackerman, 32, of Tel Aviv; Leah Levine, 64, of Givatayim; and Shmuel Levy, 65, of Jaffa. Dec 7, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Nadav Kudinski, 20, of Kiryat Gat of the Oketz canine unit was killed by a bomb, along with his dog, when a booby-trapped chicken coup exploded northwest of the Karni Corssing in the Gaza Strip. Four soldiers were wounded in the exchange of fire while evacuating him. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Dec 12, 2004 - Five IDF soldiers were killed and five wounded when a tunnel filled with 1.5 tons of explosives were detonated under an IDF post at the Rafah crossing, followed by the infiltration of the post by two terrorists who opened fire and activated another explosive device. Hamas and the Fatah Hawks claimed responsibility for the attack. The soldiers killed: Sgt. Araf Azbarga, 19, of Kseifeh; Sgt. Sa’id Jahaja, 19, of Arara; Sgt. Hussein Abu Leil, 23, of Ein Mahal; Corp. Adham Shehada, 19, of Turan; and Sgt. Tarek al-Ziadne, 20, of Rahat. Dec 14, 2004 - Jitladda Tap-arsa, 19, a female agricultural worker from Udon Thani’s Nong Han district in northeastern Thailand, was killed and two other foreign workers from Thailand and Nepal were wounded by mortar shells fired at Ganei Tal in the Gush Katif settlement bloc from the Gaza Strip. Dec 21, 2004 - Ariella Fahima, 39, of Moshav Nehusha, south of Beit Shemesh, was stabbed to death at the door to her house, apparently by a terrorist who infiltrated the perimeter fence. Dec 22, 2004 - Salem (Sami) al-Kimlat, 28, a Bedouin from the town of Rahat employed as a security guard at the construction site of the security fence west of Hebron, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 2, 2005 - Nissim Arbiv, 25, of Nissanit in the Gaza Strip was mortally wounded in a mortar shell attack while working in the Erez Industrial Zone. He died of his wounds on January 11. Two others were wounded in the attack, for which Hamas claimed responsibility. Jan 7, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Yosef (Yossi) Atia, 21, of Petah Tikva, was killed and three fellow off-duty soldiers were wounded when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on their car on the Trans-Samaria Highway. The Fatah al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Jan 9, 2005 - An Israeli officer is killed, and three others injured, in a Hezbollah rocket attack along the Lebanese border (Shebba Farms). Jan 12, 2005 - Gideon Rivlin, 50, of Ganei Tal was killed and three IDF soldiers were wounded when a bomb was detonated as a military vehicle patroled the route near Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Two terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The area was booby-trapped with explosive devices, in addition to the bomb that exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Jan 13, 2005 - On Thursday night, shortly before the closing of the Karni Crossing, terrorists activated an explosive device on the Palestinian side, blowing a hole in the door through which Palestinian terrorists infiltrated the Israeli side of the crossing and opened fire at Israeli civilians. As a result of the explosion and exchanges of fire, six Israeli civilians and three Palestinian terrorists were killed, and five Israeli civilians were wounded. Hamas and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed joint responsiblity for the attack. The victims: Dror Gizri, 30, of Sderot; Ibrahim Kahili, 46, of Umm al-Ghanem; Munam Abu Sabia, 33, of Daburiyeh; Ivan Shmilov, 53, of Sderot; Herzl Shlomo, 51, of Sderot; and Ofer Tiri, 23, of Ashkelon. Jan 15, 2005 - Ayala-Haya (Ella) Abukasis, 17, of Sderot was mortally wounded when a Qassam rocket landed near her and shrapnel penetrated her cerebellum, leaving her brain dead. She was struck while protecting her younger brother, who was lightly wounded. Kept on life support throughout the week, her parents agreed to stop treatment when doctors told them there was no chance of recovery. She died on January 21. Jan 18, 2005 - Oded Sharon, 36, from Gan Yavne, an ISA officer, was killed, an IDF officer seriously wounded, and four IDF soldiers and three members of the ISA were lightly wounded in a suicide bombing attack at the Gush Katif junction in the central Gaza Strip. While search procedures were being implemented at a post at the junction, the suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body detonated himself. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Jan 18, 2005 - 17-year-old Israeli girl dies trying to protect her 10-year-old brother from a Hamas rocket attack (on 1-15 in Sderot). Feb 25, 2005 - Five people were killed and 50 wounded Friday night, when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Stage club on the Tel Aviv promenade at around 11:20 P.M., on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Yitzhak Buzaglo, 40, of Mishmar Hayarden; Aryeh Nagar, 37, of Kfar Sava; Yael Orbach, 28, of Rehovot; Ronen Reuvenov, 30, of Tel Aviv. Odelia Hubara, 26, of Jerusalem, died of her wounds on February 28.

May 2, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Dan Talasnikov, 21, of Nir Galim was killed and another soldier lightly wounded in an exchange of fire during an operation to arrest wanted terrorists from the Islamic Jihad in the village of Saida, north of Tulkarem. One of the terrorists, responsible for the February 25 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, was killed. The second terrorist was apprehended. Mar 7, 2005 - Two Israelis are wounded by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron. Jun 7, 2005 - Three workers were killed and five wounded when a Qassam rocket hit a packing shed in Ganei Tal, in the Gaza Strip, penetrating the building’s roof and exploding indoors. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The Chinese worker killed has been identified as Bi Shude, 46, from Jilin province in northeastern China. The Palestinian workers killed were Salah Ayash Imran, 57, of Khan Yunis, married and the father of 8, and Muhammed Mahmoud Jaroun, of Khan Yunis. Jun 19, 2005 - IDF NCO Sgt.-Maj. Avi Karouchi, 25, of Beersheba was killed and two soldiers were wounded in a coordinated Palestinian attack in which RPG missiles and gunfire were fired at an IDF engineering force conducting construction work on the Philadelphi route along the Israeli-Egyptian border. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 20, 2005 - Yevgeny Reider, 28 of Hermesh was killed and a 16-year old teenager was wounded in a terrorist shooting attack in the village of Baka A-Sharkiya in the northern West Bank. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 24, 2005 - Avihai Levy, 17, of Beit Hagai was killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop about 200 meters from the entrance to Beit Hagai, south of Hebron. Aviad Mansour, 16, of Otniel, fatally wounded in the attack, died on June 26. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Jun 29, 2005 - Hezbollah attacks an Israeli position at Mt. Dov from across the Lebanese border, killing one and injuring three.

Jul 12, 2005 - Rachel Ben Abu, 16, of Tel Aviv; Nofar Horowitz, 16, of Tel Aviv; and Julia Voloshin, 31, of Netanya were killed and about 90 people were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside Hasharon Mall in Netanya. Anya Lifshitz, 50, of Netanya, who was mortally wounded, succumbed to her wounds on July 13. Cpl. Moshe Maor Jan, 21, of Netanya died of his wounds on July 14. The bomber was identified as Ahmed Abu Khalil, 18, from the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Jul 14, 2005 - Dana Gelkovitch, 22, of Kibbutz Bror Hayil, was killed by a Qassam rocket fired at Netiv Ha’asara in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah all claimed responsibility for the attack. Jul 23, 2005 - Dov, 58, and Rachel Kol, 53, of Jerusalem were killed shortly after midnight on Saturday night near the Kissufim crossing in the southern Gaza Strip while returning home from visiting family in Gush Katif. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Aug 3, 2005 - Palestinian terrorists fire a rocket at a group of Israeli demonstrators in Sderot. The missile hits their own group instead, killing a 3-year-old boy and injuring nine others, including five children. Aug 24, 2005 - Shmuel Mett, 21, of Britain, a Mir Yeshiva student, was returning from the Western Wall to the yeshiva in Jerusalem’s Beit Yisrael neighborhood when he was fatally stabbed near Jaffa Gate in the Old City. Two other students were wounded. Aug 28, 2005 - A Fatah terrorist detonated a suicide bomb in Beersheba, eight Israelis are hospitalized, including two guards that were seriously wounded. Sept 21, 2005 - Sasson Nuriel, 55, of Jerusalem was kidnapped and slain by Palestinian terrorists. His body was found on Sept 26 in a garbage dump in the industrial zone of Bitunya, west of Ramallah. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 16, 2005 - Matat (Rosenfeld) Adler, 21, and her cousin, Kineret Mandel, 23, both of Carmel, and Oz Ben-Meir, 15, of Maon were killed and three were wounded when Palestinians opened fire at the Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem. Another teenager was shot and seriously wounded near Eli, in Samaria. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for both attacks. Oct 26, 2005 - Six people were killed and 55 wounded, six seriously, in a suicide bombing at the Hadera open-air market. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Michael Kaufman, 68, of Hadera; Pirhiya Machlouf, 53, of Hadera; Sabiha Nissim, 66, of Moshav Ahituv; Jamil Qa’adan, 48, of Baka al-Gharbiya; and Ya’acov Rahmani, 68, of Hadera. A sixth victim, Genia Poleis, 66, of Hadera, died of her wounds 11 days later, on November 5. Nov 2, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Yonatan Evron, 20, of Rishon Lezion, was mortally wounded in a gun battle with terrorists near Jenin. He died en route to hospital. Nov 21, 2005 - Eleven Israeli soldiers and one civilian are injured by a Hezbollah attack in Metulla, Northern Israel.. Dec 5, 2005 - Five people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Sharon shopping mall in Netanya. The terrorist detonated the bomb when he was stopped by security guards, one of whom was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Haim Amram, 26, of Netanya, a security guard at the mall; Alexandra Garmitzky, 65, of Netanya; Daniel Golani, 45, of Nahariya; Elia Rosen, 38, of Bat Hefer; and Keinan Tsuami, 20, of Petah Tikva. Dec 8, 2005 - Sgt. Nir Kahane, 20, of Kiryat Tivon, was stabbed to death at the Kalandiya checkpoint, south of Ramallah. The assailant was apprehended. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Dec 16, 2005 - Yosef (Yossi) Shok, 35, of Beit Hagai was killed in a shooting attack while driving home in the southern Hebron hills. Two passengers were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack. Dec 29, 2005 - Lt. Ori Binamo, 21, of Nesher was killed when a terrorist en route to carry out an attack in Israel detonated himself at roadblock set up near Tulkarm following an intelligence tip. Two Palestinians were also killed, one the taxi driver who was carrying the bomber. Three soldiers and seven Palestinians were wounded.

Feb 5, 2006 - Kinneret Ben Shalom Hajbi, 58, of Petah Tikva was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist while traveling on a number 51 service taxi to Tel Aviv. Five other passengers were wounded. Mar 1, 2006 - Eldar Abir, 48, of Migdalim was killed when two Palestinian shot him at point blank range at the gas station near Migdalim in the West Bank. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 30, 2006 - Rafi Halevy, 63, and his wife Helena, 58, of Kedumim, Re’ut Feldman, 20, of Herzliya, and Shaked Lasker, 16, of Kedumim were killed when a suicide bomber hitchhiker disguised as an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student detonated his explosive device in a private vehicle near the entrance to Kedumim.

Apr 17, 2006 - Eleven people were killed and over 60 wounded in a suicide bombing during the Passover holiday at the Rosh Ha’ir shawarma restaurant, near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Philip Balhasan, 45, of Ashdod; Rozalia Beseneyi, 48, and Piroşca Boda 50, of Romania; Marcel Cohen, 73, of Nice, France; Ariel Darhi, 31, of Bat Yam; Victor Erez, 60, of Givatayim; Binyamin Haputa, 47, of Lod; David Shaulov, 29, of Holon; Lily Yunes, 42, of Oranit. Lior Anidzar, 26, of Tel Aviv died of his wounds on May 13. Daniel Wultz, 16, of Weston, Florida (USA) died on May 14. June 11, 2006 - Marwan Abed Shweika, 35, of the Abu Tor neighborhood in Jerusalem was killed and two other Arab Israelis were wounded in a shooting attack while driving late at night West Bank highway north of Jerusalem. June 25, 2006 - Lt. Hanan Barak, 20, of Arad and Staff-Sgt. Pavel Slutzker, 20, of Dimona were killed when terrorists from the Hamas and Popular Resistance Committees terror organizations infiltrated Israeli territory between the Kerem Shalom and Sufa crossings, by means of a tunnel dug from the Rafah area. Another soldier was abducted, and four others were wounded. June 25, 2006 - Eliyahu Pinhas Asheri, 18, of Itamar was kidnapped by terrorists from the Popular Resistance Committees while hitchhiking from Betar Illit, southwest of Bethlehem, to Neveh Tzuf, where he was studying. His body was found on June 29 in Ramallah. It is believed that he was murdered shortly after his kidnapping. July 17, 2006 - St.-Sgt. Osher Damari, 20, of Netanya was killed and six IDF soldiers wounded by an explosive device in Nablus as troops from the Haruv Battalion were engaged in anti-terrorist activity. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. July 27, 2006 - The burnt body of Dr. Daniel Yaakobi, 59, a doctor from Yakir in the West Bank, was found in the trunk of his car near Qalqilya. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Aug 10, 2006 - Angelo Frammartino, 24, of Monte Rotondo, Italy was stabbed to death by an Arab knifeman while walking with friends on Sultan Suleiman street in east Jerusalem. It is believed that the attack was a nationalistically motivated terror attack, and not an attempted robbery. Aug 19, 2006 - St.-Sgt. Ro’i Farjoun, 21, of Yehud was killed when a terrorist opened fire at the Bekaot chekpoint in the Jordan Valley. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Sept 12, 2006 - An IDF reserve Bedouin tracker, 44, was killed by sniper fire in the course of an army operation to uncover terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, near the Kissufim Crossing. The armed wing of Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility for the shooting.

Nov 1, 2006 - Staff Sergeant Kiril Golenshein, 21, of Moshav Keshet, was killed by a sniper’s bullet as his unit entered the town of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip in pursuit of terrorists firing Kassam rockets at Israel. Nov 15, 2006 - Fatima Slutsker, 57, of Sderot, was killed by a Kassam rocket fired into the town by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip. A barrage of six rockets hit Sderot at about 7 a.m., also seriously wounding a security guard for Defense Minister Amir Peretz. Nov 21, 2006 - Yaakov Yaakobov, 43, of Sderot, died following a day-long struggle by doctors to save his life, after he was mortally wounded by a Kassam rocket fired in the morning by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip. Jan 29, 2007 - Three people were killed in a suicide bombing in a bakery in the southern city of Eilat: bakery employees and Eilat residents Emi Haim Elmaliah, 32, Michael Ben Sa’adon, 27, and Israel Zamalloa, 26. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 25, 2007 - The body of Erez Levanon, 42, of Bat Ayin in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, killed by multiple stab wounds, was found near Beit Omar, north of Halhul. Security officials believe that the murder was terror-related. May 21, 2007 - Shirel Friedman, 32, of Sderot was killed when a Kassam rocket scored a direct hit on a car near the town’s shopping center. May 27, 2007 - Oshri Oz, 36, of Hod Hasharon, was killed when a Kassam rocket landed near his car in Sderot. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. July 12, 2007 - Staff Sgt. Arbel Reich, 21, of Yuvalim was killed when Hamas terrorists ambushed IDF troops engaged in anti-terror activity in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The terrorists detonated previously planted explosive devices and then opened fire with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns.

Sept 18, 2007 - St. Sgt. Ben-Zion Haneman, 21, of Moshav Nov in the Golan Heights, was killed in an exchange of fire with terrorists during IDF activity against a terror attack being jointly planned by operatives of the Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organizations in the Ein Beit Ilmeh refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus. Oct. 17, 2007 - Sgt. Ben Kubani, 20, of Hadera, was killed in an exchange of fire with terrorists during IDF activity targeting the terror infrastructure near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Oct 29, 2007 - IDF reservist St.-Sgt. Maj. Ehud Efrati, 34, of Beit Yehoshua was killed in an exchange of fire with Palestinian terrorists in southern Gaza Strip, near the Sufa crossing. Nov 19, 2007 - Ido Zoldan, 29, of Shavei Shomron was killed in a shooting attack near Kedumim in the northern West Bank, when terrorists opened fire from a passing car at around 11:30 pm. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the terror attack as “an act of protest against the Annapolis conference.” Dec 28, 2007 - Cpl. Ahikam Amihai (20) and Sgt. David Rubin (21), both of Kiryat Arba, were killed by Palestinian terrorists while hiking in the Hebron area. The two Palestinian terrorists turned themselves in to Palestinian General Intelligence in Hebron the same day in order to avoid being apprehended by Israeli security forces.

Jan 15, 2008 - Carlos Andrés Mosquera Chávez, a 21-year-old volunteer from Quito, Ecuador, was killed by a Palestinian sniper from the Gaza Strip as he was working in the fields of Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha. The Hamas Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for the shooting. Jan 24, 2008 - Border Guard Lance Corporal Rami Zuari, 20, of Beersheva was shot and killed at a checkpoint at the northern entrance to Shuafat, north of Jerusalem. The Battalions of Struggle and Return, a previously anonymous offshoot of Fatah’s Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. Feb 4, 2008 - Lyubov Razdolskaya, 73, of Dimona was killed and 38 wounded - Razdolskaya’s husband critically - in a terror attack carried out by a suicide bomber at a shopping center in Dimona. A police officer shot and killed a second terrorist before he detonated his explosive belt. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack and praised it as an “heroic act”. Feb 27, 2008 - Roni Yihye, 47, of Moshav Bitcha in southern Israel, a student at Sapir College, was killed Wednesday afternoon when a Kassam rocket exploded in a parking lot near the Sderot campus. He died shortly after sustaining massive wounds to his chest. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Mar 1, 2008 - St. Sgt. Doron Asulin, 20, of Beersheba and St. Sgt. Eran Dan-Gur, 20, of Jerusalem were killed in an exchange of fire with Hamas terrorists during an IDF anti-terror operation in northern Gaza targeting rocket launchings. The gunmen reportedly fired mortar shells, antitank and RPG missiles at the soldiers. Mar 6, 2008 - An IDF soldier - a Bedouin tracker, 27 - was killed during a routine patrol along the security fence in the central Gaza Strip, near Kissufim, when Palestinian terrorists detonated an explosive device near the jeep in which he was driving. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. St.-Sgt. Liran Banai, 20, of Ashkelon, the critically wounded jeep driver, succumbed to his injuries on Sunday, March 9. Mar 6, 2008 - Eight students of the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem were killed when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle infiltrated the yeshiva and opened fire in the library where about 80 people were gathered, mostly teenagers. Eleven others were wounded, three critically. The terrorist, a resident of East Jerusalem, was killed by an IDF officer. The victims: Segev Peniel Avihail, 15, of Neve Daniel; Neria Cohen, 15, of Jerusalem; Yonatan Yitzhak Eldar, 16, of Shilo; Yehonadav Haim Hirschfeld, 19, of Kokhav Hashahar; Yohai Lifshitz, 18, of Jerusalem; Doron Meherete, 26, of Ashdod; Avraham David Moses, 16, of Efrat; and Ro’i Roth, 18, of Elkana.

Apr 9, 2008 - St.-Sgt. Sayef Bisan, 21, of the Druze village of Jat in the western Galilee was killed in an exchange of fire with Palestinian terrorists in an overnight IDF operation against terror infrastructure in the southern Gaza Strip. Two soldiers were wounded. Apr 9, 2008 - Oleg Lipson, 37, and Lev Cherniak, 53, both of Beersheba, were killed when Palestinian terrorists, after firing a salvo of mortars at the Nahal Oz area, penetrated the fuel terminal and opened fire on the civilian employees. Apr 16, 2008 - Three IDF soldiers - Sgt. Menhash al-Banyat, 20, of the Bedouin community of Kseife in the Negev; Sgt. Matan Ovdati, 19, of Moshav Patish in the western Negev; and Sgt. David Papian, 21, of Tel Aviv - were killed in a confrontation with armed Palestinian gunmen approaching the Gaza security fence south of the Nahal Oz fuel terminal. Three other soldiers were wounded. April 25, 2008 - Two Israeli security guards, Shimon Mizrahi, 53 of Bat Hefer and Eli Wasserman, 51, of Alfei Menashe were in a shooting attack in the Nitzanei Shalom industrial park in central Israel. A terrorist managed to infiltrate into the area, opened fire at the guards at close range and fled. The Al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad organization and Izzadin al-Qassam of Hamas claimed joint responsibility for the attack. May 9, 2008 – Jimmy Kadoshim, 48, a member of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, was killed by mortar fire from the Gaza Strip while tending his garden. May 12, 2008 – Shuli Katz, 70, a member of Kibbutz Gevaram, was killed while visiting relatives at the small settlement of Yesha, located some 15 kms (9 miles) from the Gaza Strip June 5, 2008 - Amnon Rosenberg, 51, of Kibbutz Nirim was killed and four other employees were wounded when a mortar bomb fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip exploded outside the Nirlat paint factory in Kibbutz Nir-Oz. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 2, 2008 - Elizabeth (Lili) Goren-Friedman, 54; Batsheva Unterman, 33; and Jean Relevy, 68 - all of Jerusalem - were killed and over 50 wounded in a terror attack in Jerusalem. Driving a bulldozer on Jaffa Road between the Central Bus Station and the Mahane Yehuda market, the terrorist plowed into cars and pedestrians as well as two public buses (Egged buslines 13 and 60) carrying some 50 passengers. Police shot and killed the terrorist.

Saknas någon så säg till.

Den israeliska armén, IDF, har alltid varit stolt över att göra “allt” för att ta hem sårade och döda soldater. Frågan är vilka gränser man ska sätta på “allt”. Dagens israeliska regering har helt tappat stinget från Entebbetiden, då de definitivt inte lämnade soldater, levande eller döda, i sticket i 2 år medan de DISKUTERAR om det med terrorister! När Shalit kidnappades av Hamas var det “vapenstillestånd” - vilket Israel tog så allvarligt att soldaterna inte fick förfölja kidnapparna förrän de hade ringt och väckt upp diverse överordnade typer. Vi minns också att Olmert under Libanonkriget dyrt och heligt lovade att inte avsluta detta förrän de hade fått tillbaka de två soldaterna.

Detta skicket att byta krigsfångar har alltid funnits, men det har drivits till sin spets i Mellanöstern. Om man tittar i Wikipedia ser man att ca 7000 araber har bytts ut mot 19 levande och 8 döda israeler. Ska man alltså vara grovkornig så är en jude värd 250 araber.

Hm, det tycks vara omvänt proportionellt mot antalet nobelpristagare. Muslimska och judiska.

Fångutväxlingar - hur många araber har Olmert släppt ut från fängelserna som “goodwill” utan att få något i gengäld? Inte ens goodwill! Varenda gång han har gjort det har Abbas grymtat “vi vill ha flera!”

10 juli 2006: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ruled out any possibility of a prisoner swap, or negotiations with the Hamas-led Palestinian government, to gain the release of an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian militants. Mr. Olmert also says the latest crisis in the Gaza Strip will not affect his plans to withdraw from large parts of the West Bank.

26 juni 2007 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/875210.html ” Olmert releases 250 security prisoners as a gesture.

20 juli 2007: OOps, där slank med 30 Hamasmördare bland de 255 som Olmert överlämnade till Abbas. Får han tillbaka Shalit nu?

19 november 2007: Olmert släpper 441 arabiska fångar. Abbas vart sur - han ville ha 2000!

11 dec 2007 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3470471,00.html “We will release hundreds of prisoners” without blood on their hands

13 juli 2008 http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/13/news/France-Israel-Palestinians.php “We will release Palestinian prisoners”

Samtidigt har Hamas, i och med Olmerts idioti gentemot Hizbollah, höjt kraven för att frige Shalit förstås. Han ska sitta där i 20 år om inte Olmert ger dem minst 25 mördare och 1000 andra fångar. Och jag som trodde att Olmerts goodwill-gester hade fått dem att sänka kraven…….

Och var har vid en långa listan över goodwill-gester som Israel har fått från araberna??????? Den har gått och gömt sej. Jag har inte heller hittat listan över den nytta Israels goodwill har gjort. Eller har de gjort Olmert mer älskad av araberna än Kuntar? Det är alltid spännande att läsa SvDexperten Bittes kommentarer: “en mänsklig slutpunkt på kriget” när andra skriver hur Hizbollah nu laddar upp. Debka talar om hur Hizbollah laddar upp nu, se här och här. Hon har rätt i att “Israel bara förstår styrka och våld” - Israel förstår det men inte Olmert, som började sin regim med att berätta hur trött han var.

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