Sept 27, 2000 - Sgt. David Biri, 19, of Jerusalem, was fatally wounded in a
bombing near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.
Sept 29, 2000 - Border Police Supt. Yosef Tabeja, 27, of Ramle was shot to
death by his Palestinian counterpart on a joint patrol near Kalkilya.
Oct 1, 2000 - Border Police Cpl. Madhat Yusuf, 19, of Beit Jann, died of
gunshot wounds sustained in a gun battle with Palestinians at Joseph's Tomb
in Nablus.
Oct 2, 2000 - Wichlav Zalsevsky, 24, of Ashdod, was shot in the head in the
village of Masha on the trans-Samaria highway.
Sgt. Max Hazan, 20, of Dimona, died of gunshot injuries sustained near Beit
Sahur.
Oct 8, 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 mob at the police
building in Ramallah.
Oct 19, 2000 - Rabbi Binyamin Herling, 64, of Kedumim, was killed when Fatah
members and Palestinian 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.
Amos Machlouf, 30, of the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem, was found murdered
in a ravine near Beit Jala.
Nov 1, 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 1, 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 2, 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 in the blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Nov 8, 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 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 travelling near Ofra, north of Ramallah.
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 Preventive Security Service officer who
infiltrated the Kfar Darom greenhouses in the Gaza Strip.
St.-Sgt. Sharon Shitoubi, 21, of Ramle, wounded in the Palestinan shooting
attack in Kfar Darom, died of his wounds on Nov 20.
Nov 20, 2000 - Miriam Amitai, 35, and Gavriel Biton, 34, both of Kfar Darom,
were killed when a roadside bomb exploded alongside a bus carrying children
from Kfar Darom to school in Gush Katif. Nine others, including 5 children,
were injured.
Nov 21, 2000 - Itamar Yefet, 18, of Netzer Hazani died from a gunshot wound
to the head by Palestinian sniper fire at the Gush Katif junction.
Nov 22, 2000 - Shoshana Reis, 21, of Hadera, and Meir Bahrame, 35, of Givat
Olga, were killed, and 60 wounded when a powerful car bomb was denotated
alongside a passing bus on Hadera's main street, when the area was packed
with shoppers and people driving home from work. 60 were wounded in the blas
t.
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-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 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
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 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 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 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 5, 2001 - Jan 5, 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 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
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 1, 2001 - Dr. Shmuel Gillis, 42, of Carmei Tzur, was killed by
Palestinian gunmen who fired at his car near the Aroub refugee camp on the
Jerusalem-Hebron highway.
Feb 1, 2001 - Lior Attiah, 23, of Afula was shot to death by terrorists
while traveling near Jenin.
Feb 5, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Rujayah Salameh, 23, was killed by sniper fire near
Rafah.
Feb 11, 2001 - Tzachi Sasson, 35, of Kibbutz Rosh Tzurim in Gush Etzion, was
shot and killed by Palestinian gunmen as he drove home from Jerusalem.
Feb 14, 2001 - Simcha Shitrit, 30, of Rishon Lezion; Staff-Sgt. Ofir
Magidish, 20, of Kiryat Malachi; Sgt. David Iluz, 21, of Kiryat Malachi;
Sgt. Julie Weiner, 21, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Rachel Levi, 19, of Ashkelon; Sgt.
Kochava Polanski, 19, of Ashkelon; Cpl. Alexander Manevich, 18, of Ashkelon;
and Cpl. Yasmin Karisi, 18, of Ashkelon were killed 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. In addition, 25 people were
injured in the attack.
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 1, 2001 - Claude Knap, 29, of Tiberias was killed and 9 people injured
when a terrorist detonated a bomb in a Tel Aviv to Tiberias service taxi at
the Mei Ami junction in Wadi Ara.
Mar 4, 2001 - Naftali Dean, 85, of Tel Mond; his niece, Shlomit Ziv, 58, of
Netanya; and Yevgenya Malchin, 70, of Netanya were killed in a suicide
bombing in downtown Netanya; 60 people were injured. The Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack.
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 28, 2001 - Eliran Rosenberg-Zayat, 15, of Givat Shmuel and Naftali
Lanzkorn, 13, of Petah Tikva were killed in a suicide 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. Four people were
injured. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 1, 2001 - Staff Sgt. Ya'akov Krenschel, 23, of Nahariya, an IDF reserve
soldier, was killed in a firefight between army and Palestinian forces
southeast of Nablus.
Apr 1, 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 July.
Apr 2, 2001 - Sgt. Danny Darai, 20, of Arad, was killed by a Palestinian
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 - Dr. Mario Goldin, 53, of Kfar Sava, was killed when 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.
About 60 people were injured in the blast. Hamas claimed responsibility.
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 July.
May 1, 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 8, 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 9, 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 - Tirza Polonsky, 66, of Moshav Kfar Haim; Miriam Waxman, 51,
of Hadera; David Yarkoni, 53, of Netanya; Yulia Tratiakova, 21, of Netanya;
and Vladislav Sorokin, 34, of Netanya were killed in a suicide bombing at
Hasharon Mall in the seaside city of Netanya, in which over 100 were
wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 18, 2001 - Lt. Yair Nebenzahl, 22, of Neve Tzuf (Halamish), was killed
and his mother seriously wounded, in a Palestinian roadside ambush north of
Jerusalem.
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 gunmen opened fire
in an ambush.
May 25, 2001 - The burnt body of Yosef Alfasi, 50, of Rishon Letzion, was
discovered near the West Bank city of Tulkarem.
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 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.
June 1, 2001 - Marina Berkovizki, 17, of Tel Aviv; Roman Dezanshvili, 21, of
Bat Yam; Ilya Gutman, 19, of Bat Yam; Anya Kazachkov, 16, of Holon;
Katherine Kastaniyada-Talkir, 15, of Ramat Gan; Aleksei Lupalu, 16, of the
Ukraine; Mariana Medvedenko, 16, of Tel Aviv; Irina Nepomneschi, 16, of Bat
Yam; Yelena Nelimov, 18, of Tel Aviv; Yulia Nelimov, 16, of Tel Aviv; Raisa
Nimrovsky, 15, of Netanya; Pvt. Diez (Dani) Normanov, 21, of Tel Aviv;
Simona Rodin, 18, of Holon; Ori Shahar, 32, of Ramat Gan; Liana Sakiyan, 16,
of Tel Aviv; Maria Tagilchev, 14, of Netanya; and Irena Usdachi, 18, of
Holon were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself outside a disco near
Tel Aviv's Dolphinarium along the seafront promenade just before midnight on
Friday. Sergei Pancheskov, 20, of the Ukraine; Yael-Yulia Sklianik, 15, of
Holon; Jan Bloom, 25, of Ramat Gan; and Yevgenia Dorfman, 15, of Bat Yam
died subsequently from their injuries. 120 people were wounded in the
bombing.
June 11, 2001 - Yehuda Shoham, aged 5 months, of Shilo, died of injuries
incurred in a fatal stoning on June 5. He was critically injured by a rock
thrown at the family's car near Shilo in Samaria.
June 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.
June 14, 2001 - Lt.Col. Yehuda Edri, 45, of Ma'ale Adumim was killed by a
Palestinian 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.
June 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.
June 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.
June 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 town of Silat a-Dahar.
June 22, 2001 - Sgt. Aviv Iszak, 19, of Kfar Saba, and Sgt. Ofir Kit, 19, of
Jerusalem, were killed in a suicide bombing near Dugit in the Gaza Strip as
a jeep with yellow Israeli license plates, supposedly stuck in the sand,
blew up as they approached.
June 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.
July 2, 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.
July 2, 2001 - The body of Yair Har Sinai, 51, of Susiya in the Hebron
hills, missing since Monday (July 2) was found early Tuesday morning shot in
the head and chest.
July 4, 2001 - Eliahu Na'aman, 32, of Petah Tikva, was shot at point-blank
range just inside the Green Line at Sueika, near Tulkarem.
July 9, 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.
July 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.
July 14, 2001 - David Cohen, 28, of Betar Illit, died of injuries sustained
in a drive-by shooting in Kiryat Arba on July 12.
July 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 suicide 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.
July 24, 2001 - The body of Yuri Gushchin, 18, of Jerusalem, brutally
murdered, bearing stab and gunfire wounds, was found in Ramallah.
July 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 5, 2001 - Tehiya Bloomberg, 40, of Karnei Shomron, mother of five and 5
months pregnant, was killed when Palestinian 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 6, 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 7, 2001 - Wael Ghanem, 32, an Arab Israeli resident of Taibeh, was shot
and killed by Palestinian 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 9, 2001 - Giora Balash, 60, of Brazil; Zvika Golombek, 26, of Carmiel;
Shoshana Yehudit Greenbaum, 31, of the U.S.; Tehila Maoz, 18, of Jerusalem;
Frieda Mendelsohn, 62, of Jerusalem; Michal Raziel, 16, of Jerusalem; Malka
Roth, 15, of Jerusalem; Mordechai Schijveschuurder, 43, of Neria; Tzira
Schijveschuurder, 41, of Neria; Ra'aya Schijveschuurder, 14, of Neria;
Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder, 4, of Neria; Hemda Schijveschuurder, 2, of
Neria; Lily Shimashvili, 33, of Jerusalem; Tamara Shimashvili, 8, of
Jerusalem; and Yocheved Shoshan, 10, of Jerusalem were killed and about 130
injured in a suicide 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 9, 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 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 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 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
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.
Sept 6, 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.
Sept 9, 2001 - Ya'akov Hatzav, 42, of Hamra in the Jordan Valley, the
driver, and Sima Franko, 24, of Beit She'an, a kindergarten teacher, were
killed in a shooting attack 300 meters south of the Adam Junction in the
Jordan Valley. A minibus transporting teachers to the regional school was
attacked by Palestinian terrorists.
Sept 9, 2001 - Dr. Yigal Goldstein, 47, of Jerusalem; Morel Derfler, 45, of
Mevasseret Zion; and Sgt. Daniel Yifrah, 19, of Jerusalem were killed and
some 90 injured, most lightly, in a suicide bombing near the Nahariya train
station in northern Israel.
Sept 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 gunmen opened fire on the Ivtan Border Police base near
Kibbutz Bachan in central Israel. A Fatah group claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Sept 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.
Sept 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.
Sept 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 positions and a Force 17 camp were attacked.
Sept 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.
Sept 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.
Sept 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 2, 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 4, 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 5, 2001 - Hananya Ben-Avraham, 46, of Elad was killed by Palestinian
terrorists in a machine gun ambush near Avnei Hefetz in central Israel.
Oct 7, 2001 - Yair Mordechai, 43, of Kibbutz Sheluhot was killed when a
Palestinian suicide terrorist 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 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 responsiblity for
the attack.
Nov 2, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Raz Mintz, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin was killed by
Palestinian 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 4, 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 6, 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 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 - Inbal Weiss, 22, of Zichron Ya'akov; Yehiav Elshad, 28, of
Tel-Aviv; and Samuel Milshevsky, 45, of Kfar Sava were killed and nine
wounded in a suicide 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 1, 2001 - Assaf Avitan, 15, of Jerusalem; Michael Moshe Dahan, 21, of
Jerusalem; Israel Ya'akov Danino, 17, of Jerusalem; Yosef El-Ezra, 18, of
Jerusalem; Sgt. Nir Haftzadi, 19, of Jerusalem; Yuri (Yoni) Korganov, 20, of
Ma'alei Adumim; Golan Turgeman, 15, of Jerusalem; Guy Vaknin, 19, of
Jerusalem; Adam Weinstein, 14, of Givon Hahadasha, and Moshe Yedid-Levy, 19,
of Jerusalem were killed and about 180 injured - 17 seriously - when
explosive devices were detonated by two suicide 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.
Ido Cohen, 17, of Jerusalem, fatally injured in the attack, died of his
wounds on December 8.
Dec 2, 2001 - Prof. Baruch Singer, 51, of Gedera was killed when Palestinian
gunmen opened fire on his car near the northern Gaza settlement of Elei
Sinai. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 2, 2001 - Tatiana Borovik, 23, of Haifa; Mara Fishman, 51, of Haifa; Ina
Frenkel, 60, of Haifa; Riki Hadad, 30, of Yokne'am; Ronen Kahalon, 30, of
Haifa; Samion Kalik, 64, of Haifa; Mark Khotimliansky, 75, of Haifa; Cecilia
Kozamin, 76, of Haifa; Yelena Lomakin, 62, of Haifa; Rosaria Reyes, 42, of
the Philippines; Yitzhak Ringel, 41, of Haifa; Rassim Safulin, 78, of Haifa;
Leah Strick, 73, of Haifa; Faina Zabiogailu, 64, of Haifa; Mikhail Zaraisky,
71, of Haifa were killed and 40 injured in a suicide bombing on an Egged bus
No. 16 in Haifa shortly after 12:00. Hamas claimed responsibility for the
attack.
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 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 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 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 27, 2002 - Pinhas Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem was killed and over 150
people were wounded, four seriously, in a suicide 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 6, 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 8, 2002 - Moranne Amit, 25, of Kibbutz Kfar Hanasi was stabbed to death
by four Palestinians, aged 14 to 16, while strolling on the Sherover
Promenade in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood Friday afternoon.
Feb 9, 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 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 - Nehemia Amar, 15, and Keren Shatsky, 15, both of Ginot
Shomron were killed and about 30 people were wounded, six seriously, when a
suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday night at a pizzeria in the
shopping mall in Karnei Shomron in Samaria. Rachel Thaler, 16, of Ginot
Shomron died of her wounds on February 27. 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 suicide 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 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 neighbhorhood 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 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 28, 2002 - IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Haim Bachar, 20, of Tel Aviv was killed
during clashes with Palestinians in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. IDF
forces entered the camp to search for wanted terrorists.
Mar 1, 2002 - IDF soldier Sgt. Ya'acov Avni, 20, of Kiryat Ata was killed by
Palestinian sniper fire in the Jenin refugee camp.
Mar 2, 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 2, 2002 - Eleven people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4
critically, in a suicide 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 victims:
Shlomo Nehmad (40), his wife Gafnit (32), and their daughters Shiraz (7) and
Liran (3), of Rishon Lezion; Shaul Nehmad (15), of Rishon Lezion; Lidor Ilan
(12) and his sister Oriah (18 months), of Rishon Lezion; Tzofia Ya'arit
Eliyahu (23) and her son Ya'akov Avraham (7 months), of Jerusalem. Avi
Hazan, 37, of Moshav Adora, died of his injuries on Monday morning (Mar 4).
Avraham Eliahu Nehmad, 7, of Rishon Lezion, died of his injuries on June 20.
The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the attack.
Mar 3, 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 Butarov, 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 3, 2002 - Sgt. Steven Kenigsberg, 19, of Hod Hasharon was killed and 4
soldiers injured when a Palestinian gunman opened fire near the Kissufim
crossing in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad and Tanzim claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Mar 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2002 - Maharatu Tagana, 85, of Upper Nazareth was killed and a large
number of people injured, most lightly, when a suicide 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 6, 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 gunmen crossed the border fence and ambushed an army jeep on the
patrol road near Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Mar 7, 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 gunman penetrated the pre-military training academy in the Gush
Katif settlement of Atzmona. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 8, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Edward Korol, 20, of Ashdod, was killed by a
Palestinian 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 Palestinians 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 9, 2002 - Limor Ben-Shoham, 27, of Jerusalem; Nir Borochov, 22, of Givat
Ze'ev; Danit Dagan, 25, of Tel-Aviv; Livnat Dvash, 28, of Jerusalem; Tali
Eliyahu, 26, of Jerusalem; Uri Felix, 25, of Givat Ze'ev; Dan Imani, 23, of
Jerusalem; Natanel Kochavi, 31, of Kiryat Ata; Baruch Lerner, 29, of Eli;
Orit Ozerov, 28, of Jerusalem; Avraham Haim Rahamim, 28, of Jerusalem were
killed and 54 injured, 10 of them seriously, when a suicide bomber exploded
at 22:30 PM Saturday night in a crowded 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 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
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 - 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 - Sgt. Michael Altfiro, 19, of Pardes Hanna; St.-Sgt. Shimon
Edri, 20, of Pardes Hanna; SWO Meir Fahima, 40, of Hadera; Cpl. Aharon
Revivo, 19, of Afula; Alon Goldenberg, 28, of Tel Aviv; Mogus Mahento, 75,
of Holon; and Bella Schneider, 53, of Hadera were killed and about 30 people
were wounded, several seriously, in a suicide 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 - Gadi (34) and Tzipi (29) Shemesh, of Jerusalem and Yitzhak
Cohen, 48, of Modi'in were killed and 86 people injured, 3 of them
seriously, in a suicide 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 gunman near Halhul.
Mar 27, 2002 - 30 people were killed and 140 injured - 20 seriously - in a
suicide 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 victims: Shula Abramovitch, 63, of Holon; David Anichovitch, 70, of
Netanya; Sgt.-Maj. Avraham Beckerman, 25, of Ashdod; Shimon Ben-Aroya, 42,
of Netanya; Andre Fried, 47, of Netanya; Idit Fried, 47, of Netanya; Miriam
Gutenzgan, 82, Ramat Gan; Ami Hamami, 44, of Netanya; Perla Hermele, 79, of
Sweden; Dvora Karim, 73, of Netanya; Michael Karim, 78, of Netanya; Yehudit
Korman, 70, of Ramat Hasharon; Marianne Myriam Lehmann Zaoui, 77, of
Netanya; Lola Levkovitch, 85, of Jerusalem; Furuk Na'imi, 62, of Netanya;
Eliahu Nakash, 85, of Tel-Aviv; Irit Rashel, 45, of Moshav Herev La'et;
Yulia Talmi, 87, of Tel-Aviv; St.-Sgt. Sivan Vider, 20, of Bekaot; Ernest
Weiss, 79, of Petah Tikva; Eva Weiss, 75, of Petah Tikva; Meir (George)
Yakobovitch, 76, of Holon.
Chanah Rogan, 92, of Netanya; Zee'v Vider, 50, of Moshav Bekaot; Alter
Britvich, 88, and his wife Frieda, 86, of Netanya died of their injuries on
April 2-3, 2003.
Sarah Levy-Hoffman, 89, of Tel-Aviv died of her injuries on April 7, 2003.
Anna Yakobovitch, 78, of Holon died of her injuries on April 11, 2003.
Eliezer Korman, 74, of Ramat Hasharon died of his wounds on May 5, 2003.
Clara Rosenberger, 77, of Jerusalem died of her wounds on June 25, 2003.
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 - 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 suicide bomber 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 Palestinians trying to cross into Israel to carry out a suicide
attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.
Mar 31, 2002 - 15 people were killed and over 40 injured in a suicide
bombing in Haifa, in the Matza restaurant of the gas station near the Grand
Canyon shopping mall. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Suheil Adawi, 32, of Turan; Dov Chernobroda, 67, of Haifa;
Shimon Koren, 55; his sons Ran, 18, and Gal, 15, of Haifa; Moshe Levin, 52,
of Haifa; Danielle Manchell, 22, of Haifa; Orly Ofir, 16, of Haifa; Aviel
Ron, 54; his son Ofer, 18, and daughter Anat, 21, of Haifa; Ya'akov Shani,
53, of Haifa; Adi Shiran, 17, of Haifa; Daniel Carlos Wegman, 50, of Haifa.
Carlos Yerushalmi, 52, of Karkur, died on April 1 of wounds sustained in the
attack.
Apr 1, 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 sniper firing from Beit Sahur, near Bethlehem.
Apr 1, 2002 - Tomer Mordechai, 19, of Tel-Aviv, a policeman, was killed in
Jerusalem, when a Palestinian suicide bomber driving toward the city center
blew himself after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 3, 2002 - IDF reservist Maj. Moshe Gerstner, 29, of Rishon Lezion was
killed in Jenin during anti-terrorist action (Operation Defensive Shield).
Apr 4, 2002 - Rachel Charhi, 36, of Bat-Yam, critically injured in a suicide
bombing 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 4, 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 4, 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 5, 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 gunmen in Jenin
(Operation Defensive Shield).
Apr 6, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Nisan Avraham, 26, of Lod was killed and five other
soldiers were lightly injured when two Palestinian gunmen opened fire and
threw grenades at the entrance to Rafiah Yam in the Gaza Strip. The
Palestinians, members of the Islamic Jihad, were killed.
Apr 8, 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
gunfire in the Jenin refugee camp (Operation Defensive Shield).
Apr 9, 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.
The soldiers killed: Maj.(res.) Oded Golomb, 22, of Kibbutz Nir David;
Capt.(res.) Ya'akov Azoulai, 30, of Migdal Ha'emek; Lt.(res.) Dror Bar, 28,
of Kibbutz Einat; Lt.(res.) Eyal Yoel, 28, of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel; 1st
Sgt.(res.) Tiran Arazi, 33, of Hadera; 1st Sgt.(res.) Yoram Levy, 33, of
Elad; 1st Sgt.(res.) Avner Yaskov, 34, of Be'er Sheva; Sgt. 1st Class (res.)
Ronen Alshochat, 27, of Ramle; gt. 1st Class (res.) Eyal Eliyahu Azouri, 27,
of Ramat Gan; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Amit Busidan, 22, of Bat Yam; Sgt. 1st
Class (res.) Menashe Hava, 23, of Kfar Sava; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Shmuel
Dani Mayzlish, 27, of Moshav Hemed; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Eyal Zimmerman,
22, of Ra'anana.
Apr 9, 2002 - Maj. Assaf Assoulin, 30, of Tel Aviv was killed in an exchange
of fire in Nablus.
Apr 9, 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
in a suicide bombing 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 earl er 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 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 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 suicide bomber detonated 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 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 3, 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 suicide attack in Israel.
May 7, 2002 - 15 people were killed and 55 wounded in a crowded game club in
Rishon Lezion, southeast of Tel-Aviv, when a suicide bomber detonated a
powerful charge in the 3rd floor club, causing part of the building to
collapse. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Esther Bablar, 54, of Bat Yam; Yitzhak Bablar, 57, of Bat Yam;
Avi Bayaz, 26, of Nes Ziona; Regina Malka Boslan, 62, of Jaffa; Edna Cohen,
61, of Holon; Rafael Haim, 64, of Tel-Aviv; Pnina Hikri, 60, of Tel-Aviv;
Nawa Hinawi, 51, of Tel-Aviv; Rahamim Kimhi, 58, of Rishon Lezion; Nir
Lovatin, 31, of Rishon Lezion; Shoshana Magmari, 51, of Tel-Aviv; Dalia
Masa, 56, of Nahalat Yehuda; Rassan Sharouk, 60, of Holon; Israel Shikar,
49, of Rishon Lezion; Anat Teremforush, 36, of Ashdod.
May 12, 2002 - Nisan Dolinger, 43, of Pe'at Sadeh in the southern Gaza Strip
was shot and killed by a Palestinian laborer. The assailant 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 suicide bomber, disguised as a soldier, blew himself up in the market
in Netanya. Both Hamas and the PFLP took responsibility for the attack.
May 22, 2002 - Elmar Dezhabrielov, 16, and Gary Tauzniaski, 65, both of
Rishon Lezion, were killed and about 40 people were wounded when a suicide
bomber detonated himself in the Rothschild Street downtown pedestrian mall
of Rishon Lezion.
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 suicide bomber 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 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.
June 5, 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, who drove the
car bomb, was killed in the blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack.
The victims: Cpl. Liron Avitan, 19, of Hadera; Cpl. Avraham Barzilai, 19, of
Netanya; Cpl. Dennis Blumin, 20, of Hadera; St.-Sgt. Eliran Buskila, 21, of
Hadera; St.-Sgt. Zvi Gelberd, 20 of Hadera; Sgt. Violetta Hizgayev, 20, of
Hadera; St.-Sgt. Ganadi Issakov, 21, of Hadera; Sgt. Sariel Katz, 21, of
Netanya; Cpl. Vladimir Morari, 19, of Hadera; Sgt. Yigal Nedipur, 21, of
Netanya; Sgt. Dotan Reisel, 22, of Hadera; St.-Sgt. David Stanislavksy, 23,
of Netanya; Sgt. Sivan Wiener, 19, of Holon; Zion Agmon, 50, of Hadera; Adi
Dahan, 17, of Afula; Shimon Timsit, 35, of Tel-Aviv.
* The 17th victim, Eliyahu Timsit, 32, of Sderot, was identified in December
2002.
June 6, 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.
June 8, 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.
June 11, 2002 - Hadar Hershkowitz, 14, of Herzliya was killed and 15 others
were wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber set off a relatively small
pipe bomb at a shwarma restaurant in Herzliya.
June 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 June 22.
June 18, 2002 - 19 people were killed and 74 were injured - six seriously -
in a suicide 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.
The victims: Boaz Aluf, 54, of Jerusalem; Shani Avi-Zedek, 15, of Jerusalem;
Leah Baruch, 59, of Jerusalem; Mendel Bereson, 72, of Jerusalem; Rafael
Berger, 28, of Jerusalem; Michal Biazi, 24, of Jerusalem; Tatiana
Braslavsky, 41, of Jerusalem; Galila Bugala, 11, of Jerusalem; Raisa
Dikstein, 67, of Jerusalem; Dr. Moshe Gottlieb, 70, of Jerusalem; Baruch
Gruani, 60, of Jerusalem; Orit Hayla, 21, of Jerusalem; Helena Ivan, 63, of
Jerusalem; Iman Kabha, 26, of Barta; Shiri Negari, 21, of Jerusalem; Gila
Nakav, 55, of Jerusalem; Yelena Plagov, 42, of Jerusalem; Liat Yagen, 24 of
Jerusalem; Rahamim Zidkiyahu, 51, of Jerusalem.
June 19, 2002 - Noa Alon, 60, of Ofra; Gal Eisenman, 5, of Ma'ale Adumim;
Michal Franklin, 22, of Jerusalem; Tatiana Igelski, 43, of Moldova; Hadassah
Jungreis, 20, of Migdal Haemek; Gila Sara Kessler, 19, of Eli; and Shmuel
Yerushalmi, 17, of Shilo were killed and 50 people were injured - three of
them in critical condition - when a suicide 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.
June 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 gunmen opened fire while the soldiers were in
pursuit of two terrorists inside a building.
June 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.
July 4, 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 conflict.
July 10, 2002 - IDF officer Capt. Hagai Lev, 24, of Jerusalem, deputy
commander of a Givati reconaissance unit, was killed by Palestinian 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.
July 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.
The victims: Galila Ades, 42, of Emmanuel; Yonatan Gamliel, 16, of Emmanuel;
Keren Kashani, 29, of Emmanuel; Sarah Tiferet Shilon, 8 months, of Emmanuel;
Gal Shilon (her father), 32, of Emmanuel; Zilpa Kashi (her grandmother), 65,
of Givatayim; Ilana Siton, 35, of Emmanuel. The premature infant delivered
after its mother, Yehudit Weinberg, was seriously injured, died of his
injuries overnight.
Yocheved Ben-Hanan, 21, of Emmanuel, who was critically wounded, died on
July 18.
July 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 July 16.
July 17, 2002 - Adrian Andres, 30, of Romania; Boris Shamis, 25, of
Tel-Aviv; and Xu Hengyong, 39, of China were killed and 40 were injured in a
double suicide bombing on Neve Shaanan Street near the old central bus
station in Tel Aviv. Two of those critically wounded subsequently died of
their injuries: Li Bin, 33, of China (July 24) and Dmitri Pundikov, 33, of
Bat-Yam (July 25). The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 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.
July 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.
July 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.
July 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.
The victims: David Diego Ladowski, 29, of Jerusalem; Levina Shapira, 53, of
Jerusalem; Marla Bennett, 24, of California (US); Benjamin Blutstein, 25, of
Pennsylvania (US); Dina Carter, 37, of Jerusalem (US); Janis Ruth Coulter,
36, of Massachusetts (US); David Gritz, 24, of Jerusalem (US-France). Daphna
Spruch, 61, of Jerusalem died of her wounds on August 10. Revital Barashi,
30, died of her wounds on August 13.
Aug 1, 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 4, 2002 - Nine people were killed and some 50 wounded in a suicide
bombing of Egged bus No. 361 traveling from Haifa to Safed at the Meron
junction in northern Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Mordechai Yehuda Friedman, 24, of Ramat Beit Shemesh; Sari
Goldstein, 21, of Karmiel; Maysoun Amin Hassan, 19, of Sajur; Marlene
Menahem, 22, of Moshav Safsufa; Sgt.-Maj. Roni Ghanem, 28, of Maghar; Sgt.
Yifat Gavrieli, 19, of Mitzpe Adi; Sgt. Omri Goldin, 20, of Mitzpe Aviv;
Adelina Kononen, 37, of the Philippines; Rebecca Roga, 40, of the
Philippines.
Aug 4, 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 5, 2002 - Avi Wolanski (29) and his wife Avital (27), of Eli, were
killed and one of their children, aged 3, 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 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 sniper near Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip.
Sept 5, 2002 - 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.
Sept 5, 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 factions claimed
responsibility.
Sept 18, 2002 - The charred body of David Buhbut, 67, of Ma'ale Adumim, shot
in the head, was found near el-Azzariya, a Palestinian village near Ma'ale
Adumim, east of Jerusalem, the victim of a terrorist killing.
Sept 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.
Sept 18, 2002 - Police Sgt. Moshe Hezkiyah, 21, of Elyachin was killed and
three people were wounded in a suicide 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.
Sept 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 responsbility for the attack.
Sept 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.
Sept 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.
Sept 30, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Ari Weiss, 21, of Ra'anana, was killed and another
soldier from the engineering battalion of the Nahal Brigade was wounded when
Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an army position in the Nablus casbah. The
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 8, 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 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 suicide bomber 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
suicide bomber, from Jenin, driving a jeep, approached from behind and
exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Osnat Abramov, 16, of Holon; Indelou Ashati, 54, of Hadera;
St.-Sgt. Liat Ben-Ami, 20, of Haifa; Ofra Burger, 56, of Hod Hasharon; Cpl.
Ilona Hanukayev, 20, of Hadera; Suad Jaber, 23, of Taibe; Iris Lavi, 68, of
Netanya; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Eliezer Moskovitch, 40, of Petah Tikva; St.-Sgt.
Nir Nahum, 20, of Carmiel; Sgt. Esther Pesachov, 19, of Givat Olga; St.-Sgt.
Aiman Sharuf, 20, of Ussfiyeh; Sergei Shavchuk, 35, of Afula; Anat Shimshon,
33, of Ra'anana; Cpl. Sharon Tubol, 19, of Arad.
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 suicide 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 4, 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 suicide bombing at a
shopping mall in Kfar Sava. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Nov 6, 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 9, 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, 5, and Noam, 4,
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 suicide
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 Asraf, 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 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 2, 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 5, 2003 - Twenty-three people - 15 Israelis and 8 foreign nationals -
were killed and about 120 wounded in a double suicide bombing 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 6, 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
Palestinian 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
Palestinian sniper opened fire at an army position in the southern Gaza
Strip. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 5, 2003 - Seventeen people were killed and 53 wounded in a suicide
bombing of 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; Elizabeth Katzman, 17, 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; Asaf Zur (Zollinger), 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 7, 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 Palestinian 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 Palestinians 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 suicide 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 suicide 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 suicide
bombing were dispatched to perpetrate the attack by the Hamas military
command in the Gaza Strip.
May 4, 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 June 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 5, 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 suicide bomber in Hebron. Hamas claimed responsibility for
the attack.
May 18, 2003 - Seven people were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide 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 suicide 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 suicide 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.
June 5, 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.
June 8, 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.
June 8, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Matan Gadri, 21, of Moshav Moledet was killed in
Hebron while pursuing two Palestinian gunmen who earlier had wounded a
Border Policeman on guard at the Tomb of the Patriarchs. The two terrorists
were killed.
June 11, 2003 - Seventeen people were killed and over 100 wounded in a
suicide 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 June 12.
Haile Abraha Hawki, 56, a foreign worker from Eritrea, was positively
identified on June 24.
June 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.
June 13, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Mordechai Sayada, 22, of Tirat Carmel, was shot to
death in Jenin by a Palestinian sniper as his jeep patrol passed by. The
Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 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.
June 19, 2003 - Avner Mordechai, 58, of Moshav Sde Trumot, was killed when a
suicide bomber blew up in his grocery on Sde Trumot, south of Beit Shean.
The suicide bomber was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for
the attack.
June 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.
June 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 teenager, who was apprehended by
police. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the
attack.
June 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.
June 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.
July 7, 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 suicide bombing. The remains of the bomber were also found in the
wreckage of the house. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the
attack.
July 15, 2003 - Amir Simhon, 24, of Bat Yam was killed when a Palestinian
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.
July 21, 2003 - The body of IDF soldier Cpl. Oleg Shaichat, 20, of Upper
Nazareth, abducted and murdered on July 21 while on his way home, was found
on July 28, buried in an olive grove near Kafr Kana, an Arab village in the
Lower Galilee.
Aug 8, 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.
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. Four others were wounded.
Aug 12, 2003 - Yehezkel (Hezi) Yekutieli, 43, of Rosh Ha'ayin, was killed by
a teenaged Palestinian suicide bomber who detonated himself at the local
supermarket.
Aug 12, 2003 - Erez Hershkovitz, 18, of Eilon Moreh, was killed and three
people wounded when a teenaged Palestinian suicide bomber 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 suicide bomber 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, 3, 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 September 5.
Tova Lev, 37, of Bnei-Brak died of her wounds on September 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.
Sept 4, 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.
Sept 5, 2003 - 2nd Petty Officer Ra'anan Komemi, 23, of Moshav Aminadav,
from the Naval Commandos was killed in a clash with armed Palestinians in
Nablus. A senior Hamas bomb-maker, believed to have orchestrated several
fatal suicide bombings, was also killed in the clash. Four soldiers were
wounded, one seriously.
Sept 9, 2003 - Eight IDF soldiers were killed and 32 people were wounded in
a suicide bombing 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.
Sept 9, 2003 - Seven people were killed and over 50 wounded when a suicide
bomber 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.
Sept 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.
Sept 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 4, 2003 - Twenty-one people were killed, including four children, and 60
wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist from Jenin in
the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for
the attack.
The victims: Admiral (res.) Ze'ev Almog, 71, of Haifa, and his wife Ruth
Almog, 70; their son Moshe Almog, 43, and grandsons Tomer Almog, 9, and
Assaf Staier, 11, all of Haifa; Zvi Bahat, 35, of Haifa; Mark Biano, 29, of
Haifa, and his wife Naomi Biano, 25; Hana Francis, 39, of Fassouta; Mutanus
Karkabi, 31, of Haifa; Sharbal Matar, 23, of Fassouta; Osama Najar, 28, of
Haifa, cook; Nir Regev, 25, of Nahariya; Irena Sofrin, 38, of Kiryat Bialik;
Bruria Zer-Aviv, 59, her son Bezalel Zer-Aviv, 30, and his wife Keren
Zer-Aviv, 29, with their children Liran, 4, and Noya, 1, all of Kibbutz
Yagur. Lydia Zilberstein, 56, of Haifa died of her wounds on Oct 9. George
Matar, 59, of Haifa died on Oct 15.
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.
Post by Heinrich Müller- 'Prisoner' is such a confusing term. It could refer to a murderer, a child
molester, or a drug dealer. But it's also used to refer to freedom fighters,
human rights advocates, zealous leaders with a cause, and men and woman who
stand defiant, refusing to beg for mercy before a ruthless oppressor.
But they are all 'prisoners.' Nelson Mandela was one. Marwan Barghouthi, the
leader of the Intifada is another. Ahmed Saadat, the head of the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a third. And thousands more.
Palestinians find themselves 'prisoners' very often these days. It often
happens when the Israeli army detains boys and men who happen to fall in the
age bracket of 15-50, sometimes up to 60. Those are not murderers, they were
merely watching TV or eating dinner when Israeli tanks rolled in, Apaches
came hovering and loud speakers ordered them to assemble or they'd be shot.
They often assemble, where they are handcuffed and dragged to known or
unknown destinations to be tortured and interrogated by malicious Israeli
army officers.
When Israeli 'special forces', disguise themselves in civilian clothing,
raid a sleeping village somewhere in the West Bank and kidnap a young man
from his mother's arms, that man is not a hostage, nor are the Israelis
kidnapers. He is merely a 'prisoner', although he does not have the rights
of a political prisoner or even the rights of a criminal.
Israel is a country, it has an army and its soldiers wear uniforms with the
Star of David trademark. Under this pretext, many things are justified.
When the men of the Jenin refugee camp were kidnapped, following the April
massacre, and thrown into a bare, yet besieged piece of land in an area
called Salam, the Israeli army was not accused of kidnapping the men of an
entire refugee camp.
The Palestinians were simply 'detained by the army.'
I have communicated with some of these men, and I learned horror stories
about the way they were treated. A wounded man whose finger was blown off
was left to bleed for three days until his hand swelled and he almost died
from gangrene, while flies ripped him apart. An old man was beaten by the
handle of a shovel and tortured in 'prison' until he died. Thousands of men
were ordered to strip naked and were left for days while handcuffed, tied to
each other and blind folded; they were caged like animals in the Salam
military zone, denied food, drink and medical attention for days. They were
supplied with one small cooking pot so that they could all urinate. These
were just a few examples as their nightmare was just getting started.
But the savagery of the Israeli army can always be washed down with merely a
few technical terms.
According to the people of Jenin, the resistance shall continue until
the last drop of blood is spilled, because freedom and justice are dearer
than life
'Israel strongly denied Palestinian claims that the IDF ill-treated
prisoners during its sweep in the West Bank, searching for Palestinian
militants responsible for the killing of dozens of Israeli civilians.'
Isn't this a familiar statement that we could read at any newspaper stand in
the US?
The abuse and torture of thousands of people during long cold nights by a
vulgar army, can easily be dismissed by a lying 'IDF spokesman' as a
'Palestinian lie'. Who cares about the photos that were snuck out by a few
courageous journalists; Who cares about the hundreds of eyewitness accounts
that describe the same brutal episode over and over, with the exact same
details; Who cares about what international law states or the rules which
human decency dictate.
It's all justified as long as Israel knows how to present itself to the
media, as long as the Israeli army and government spokesmen are photogenic
and know when its timely to crack a joke or two before addressing some
unconcerned journalists, and as long as it all falls under 'Israel's right
to defend itself against terrorism.'
Israel can curfew millions of Palestinians in their homes, and
subsequently
Post by Heinrich Müllerhold them hostage, with little food or water, and no medical attention. But
the accurate assessment of the Israeli action is never addressed.
The Nazi brutality relates too well to that of the Israelis. The Israeli
army often steals the organs of its victims; it often prevents rescue
workers from reaching dead Palestinians lying in the streets with maggots
crawling over the bodies for weeks; it carelessly runs over dead Palestinian
civilians in Jenin with tanks and bulldozers.
'We couldn't identify the body because the tank ran over him repeatedly. The
only thing that was intact was his toes,' a Jenin survivor told me as he
testified to the Israeli massacre.
Israeli soldiers, no matter what crimes they commit, remain soldiers in an
organized army of a recognized state. Palestinians who resist and defend
their villages and families are 'militants', 'gunmen', and needless to say
'terrorists'.
If it happened, and it hardly does, and an Israeli solider was 'kidnapped'
by Arab fighters, he is a hostage. Three Israeli soldiers held by Hizbollah
in Lebanon are hostages, not prisoners. And their release is one of Kofi
Annan's top priorities. While the release of thousands of Palestinian
'prisoners' held by the Israeli army is only the priority of their helpless
families.
Marwan Barghouthi was kidnapped in his home, by the Israeli army, therefore
he can be indicted for 'murder and terrorism' at his enemy's courts. Even
those sympathetic to Barghouthi's plight are calling on Israel to conduct a
fair trial, when the Israeli kidnappers are technically the ones who should
stand trial for committing yet another war crime.
Three professional Israeli assassins who were caught while in their way to
carry out an assassination of Palestinian activists in Ramallah in the early
months of the Intifada were killed by an angry crowed. This event symbolized
the 'inhumanity' of the Palestinians and the 'victimization' of Israel to
the American media.
But How many Palestinians were assassinated? Scores of them, including the
44-year-old wheelchair bound Nasser Jarrar in Tubas last week, who was
crushed and decapitated by Israeli bulldozers. Yet this was one of many
'targeted killings of accused militants.'
If dozens of civilians are killed and wounded during those 'targeted
killings', the Palestinians are considered merely 'collateral damage.'
Nonetheless, assassinating the 'militant' remains 'a great success,'
according to Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
This is the bizarre reality of the Middle East, a reality that prevents many
people from seeing the simple facts that Israel is a rouge, apartheid state,
that the Israeli army is a brutal Nazi-like power, and the Palestinian
people are a nation that is fighting for its dignity and survival.
Under such realities, Israel can get away with murder, 1805 murders since
the beginning of the Intifada two years ago to be exact, in addition to a
long list of crimes that requires chapters to narrate.
But according to the United States, it's the lack of financial
transparency
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And according to Kofi Annan's report, it's the Palestinian 'militants' (who
had no other choice but to defend their tiny refugee camp from the invasion
of the fourth strongest army in the world) are who deserve the blame in the
'Jenin Massacre', I mean the... 'Jenin events'. And according to a leading
Israeli spiritual leader, Palestinians are 'vermin' and it is Israel's
responsibility to rid the world of them.
And according to the people of Jenin, the resistance shall continue until
the last drop of blood is spilled, because freedom and justice are dearer
than life.