List of terrorist incidents in the Palestinian territories
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This is a list encompasses the most prominent terrorist incidents against innocent civilian populations within the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza, including both far-right terrorism, Jewish extremist terrorism, Israeli settler violence and Palestinian political violence.
For a list of prominent terrorist incidents against innocent civilian populations within Israel and the Israeli settlements see List of terrorist incidents in Israel in 2020, List of terrorist incidents in Israel in 2021, List of terrorist incidents in Israel in 2022, List of terrorist incidents in Israel in 2023, List of terrorist incidents in Israel in 2024.
Attacks[edit]
1950s[edit]
1960s[edit]
1970s[edit]
1980s[edit]
- 2 June 1980 - the radical right-wing Jewish fundamentalist organization Jewish Underground carried out a series of terror attacks, including car bomb attacks against Palestinian officials in the West Bank. As a result of these attacks, two senior Palestinian figures were maimed for life: Bassam Shakaa, the mayor of Nablus, lost both of his legs, and Karim Khalaf, the mayor of Ramallah, lost one of his legs.[1][2] A third victim targeted, El Bireh mayor Ibrahim Tawil, was saved when the device planted in his car was discovered.
- July 26, 1983 - the radical right-wing Jewish fundamentalist organization Jewish Underground carried out a shooting attack at the Islamic College in Hebron. Three Palestinian students were killed, and 33 wounded.[3][4][5]
- On March 4, 1984 members of the radical Jewish militant organization Terror Against Terror opened fire with an M16 on a bus full of Arab workers near Mazra'a e-Sharqiya. Six of the bus passengers were injured.[6][7]
- On March 27, 1984, Israeli police arrested four youths from the Ein Kerem neighborhood in West Jerusalem for 14 hand-grenade attacks against Christian and Muslim holy sites. The attacks took place over a series of months in Jerusalem and Palestinian Territories and been claimed by the radical Jewish militant organization Terror Against Terror.[8]
- 27 April 1984 - Early in the morning three members of the radical Jewish militant organization Terror Against Terror went into East Jerusalem and fixed five powerful explosive devices to the bottoms of five Arab buses. The bombs were timed to explode that afternoon, during Friday, one of the busiest days of the week,[9] when the buses would have been packed with Palestinian worshipers returned home from celebrating Isra and Mi'raj. The Shin Bet arrested them at 4:30, just after they had completed the installation of the bombs.[9]
1990s[edit]
- 25 February 1994 – Cave of the Patriarchs massacre: The American-Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein, associated with the far-right ultra-Zionist Kach movement, carried out a shooting massacre at the Cave of the Cave of the Patriarchs against Palestinian Muslims. The attack resulted in the deaths of 29 people, including children, and the injury of 125 people.[10]
2000s[edit]
- In 2002 four Jewish people from Bat Ayin and Hebron were arrested outside of Abu Tor School, a Palestinian girls' school in East Jerusalem, with a trailer filled with explosives. Three of the men were convicted for the attempted bombing.[11][12][13][14][15][16]
2010s[edit]
- 2 July 2014 - Kidnapping and murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir: Three Israelis kidnapped 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir from East Jerusalem. Abu Khdeir's family immediately reported the fact to Israeli Police whom located his charred body a few hours later at Givat Shaul in the Jerusalem Forest. Preliminary results from the autopsy suggested that he was beaten and burnt while still alive.[17][18][19][20] The perpetrators subsequently claimed that the attack was a response to the abduction and murder of three Israeli teens on 12 June.[21][22]
- 31 July 2015 - Duma arson attack: Israeli settlers firebombed a Palestinian family home in the village of Duma, resulting in the death of three individuals, including 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh whom was burned alive in the fire.
2020s[edit]
- 26 February 2023 - Huwara rampage: a violent rampage carried out by hundreds of Israeli settlers in the West Bank Palestinian town of Huwara and other Palestinian villages resulted in one civilian death and injuries to 100 Palestinians, with four in critical condition. [23][24] The attack followed the deadly shooting of two Israeli settlers the same day.
References[edit]
- ↑ Associated Press,"3 Israeli Terrorists Are Released In 4th Reduction of Their Terms," New York Times, 27 December 1990
- ↑ James Kelly,'What's Next For Israel?,' Time Magazine, July 9, 1984,
- ↑ Gershom Gorenberg, The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount. Oxford University Press, 2000 128–137, p. 136
- ↑ Motti Imbari, Messianic Religious Zionism Confronts Israeli Territorial Compromises, Cambridge University Press 2012, p. 147
- ↑ Jerold S. Auerbach, Hebron Jews: Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel, Rowman & Littlefield 2009, pp. 114-116.
- ↑ Hirschhorn, Sara Yael (May 22, 2017). City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement. Harvard University Press. PT169. ISBN 9780674975057. Retrieved 2022-07-17. Search this book on
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Mickolus, Edward. The terrorist list: A-K. Archived from the original on 2014-01-03. Search this book on
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Zeev Maoz, Defending the Holy Land, University of Michigan Press, 2009, p. 257.
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ "Supreme Court rejects appeal of the 'Bat Ayin Underground': Yuval Yoaz". Haaretz.
- ↑ "Jewish terrorist group (Bat Ayin) attempts to blow up girls school in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Tur: Palestine: Information with Provenance". Cosmos. Archived from the original on 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2011-08-07. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Lis, Jonathan (7 August 2011). "Bat Ayin terror cell members get 12 to 15 years in prison". Haaretz.
- ↑ "Israel's Next War: CHAPTER TWO: A Plot That Shocked All of Israel: Members of a terror cell in the settlement of Bat Ayin are caught trying to bomb a girls' school in East Jerusalem at the busiest time in the morning". PBS.
- ↑ "Acts of Jewish terrorism since 1949: Matthew Gutman". Jerusalem Post. 11 November 2005.
- ↑ Munayyer, Yousef (11 January 2010). "Jewish Terrorism in Israel written by Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger. Palestine Center Book Review No. 1". Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- ↑ Kershner, Isabel (6 July 2014). "Suspects Arrested in Death of Palestinian Youth, Israeli Police Say". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
- ↑ "Official: Autopsy shows Palestinian youth burnt alive". Ma'an News Agency. 5 July 2014. Archived from the original on 8 July 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2014. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Palestinian teen abducted, killed in suspected revenge attack". Ma'an News Agency. 2 July 2014. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2014. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Ben Zion, Ilan; Berman, Lazar (2 July 2014). "Arab teen killed in capital; revenge attack suspected". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 2014-07-06. Retrieved 2014-07-04. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Itamar Sharon, 'Abu Khdeir murder suspect gives chilling account of killing,' The Times of Israel 12 August 2014.
- ↑ Hoff, Mallory (3 July 2014). "Family of slain Palestinian teen lives in Sacramento". KCRA Television Sacramento. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ↑ Kingsley, Patrick; Kershner, Isabel (27 February 2023). "Revenge Attacks After Killing of Israeli Settlers Leave West Bank in Turmoil". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ↑ Breiner, Josh (28 February 2023). "The Chaos in Hawara Didn't End on the Night of the Riots, nor Did the Israeli Army's Incompetence". Haaretz. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
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