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Gaza Strip Oct. 24, 2003 - Palestinian gunmen infiltrate the isolated Jewish settlement of Netzarim, killing three Israeli soldiers and wounding two others. The militant Islamic Jihad claims one of its members carried out the shooting, along with a gunman from Hamas. Oct. 20, 2003 - In the space of four hours, Israeli helicopters and warplanes launch three air strikes at Gaza City neighborhoods, killing two Hamas members and a bystander and wounding 23 other Palestinians on the street, including at least four children. The missiles destroyed what the military called a Hamas rocket factory. Oct. 15, 2003 - In an unprecedented attack on an official U.S. target, a remote-controlled bomb explodes under a U.S. diplomatic convoy traveling on Gaza's main road, killing three American security officers. There is no claim of responsibility. The U.S. Embassy advises U.S. citizens to leave the Gaza Strip after the attack. Sept. 10, 2003 - Israeli warplanes drop a bomb on the home of a senior Hamas leader in Gaza City's Rimal neighborhood. The leader, Mahmoud Zahar, is wounded and his son and a bodyguard are killed. In all, about 25 people are hurt, including Zahar's wife and daughter. Sept. 1, 2003 - Israel kills a Hamas militant in Gaza City and wounds 26 people in its sixth missile strike in two weeks, while the Palestinian government renews truce talks with the Islamic militants. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz promises a war "to the bitter end" against Hamas. The following day, an 11-year-old Palestinian girl dies of injuries sustained in one of the missile strikes. Aug. 26, 2003 - An Israeli helicopter fires three missiles at the car of a Hamas fugitive, killing a bystander and wounding at least 26, doctors and witnesses say. The target of the attack manages to flee unharmed. Aug. 21, 2003 - An Israeli helicopter fires five missiles at the car of a senior Hamas official in Gaza City, killing him and two bodyguards. Hamas says it is no longer bound by a June 29 cease-fire, and threatens retaliation. Two days earlier, Hamas had carried out a suicide bombing that killed 20 in Jerusalem, but insisted at the time it was still observing the truce. June 13, 2003 - Israeli helicopters fire three missiles at a car in Gaza City, killing two people and wounding more than a dozen, doctors say. Israeli news reports say the missiles were fired at a car carrying Palestinian militants who had fired homemade rockets toward Israel earlier in the day. June 12, 2003 - Seven people are killed and 29 others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a car carrying Hamas activists. Meanwhile, the Islamic militant group has issued a new threat, saying "all military cells" have been ordered to carry out more attacks on Israelis. Also, an early morning strike kills two low-level Hamas activists from a unit that guards city streets. The Israeli military says the target was a cell of Palestinians who were about to fire a mortar shell at the nearby Netzarim settlement. June 11, 2003 - In the second targeted assassination attempt in two days, an Israeli Apache helicopter fires two missiles at a car stuck in a traffic jam in a crowded Gaza City neighborhood of Shijaiyah, killing two members of Hamas' military wing. Five others are also killed, and witnesses say the Israelis continued to fire after a group of people gathered around the vehicle. June 10, 2003 - Three Israeli Apache helicopter gunships fire seven missiles at the car of a senior Hamas leader in Gaza City, wounding him and killing two bystanders. More than two dozen others are hurt, including the leader's son and three of his bodyguards. Later in the day, Israeli tanks and helicopters fire toward a Palestinian residential area in the northern Gaza Strip, killing three Palestinians and wounding 30, doctors say. At about the same time, Palestinians fire six homemade rockets from northern Gaza, four of which land in Israel. June 8, 2003 - Three Palestinians, each representing a different militant group, sneak into an army post near the Erez crossing and kill four soldiers before being shot dead by troops. May 23, 2003 - A pipe bomb explodes near an armored bus traveling from the Jewish settlement of Netzarim with 15 people on board. There are no fatalities. Hamas claims responsibility. It's the fifth bombing by the militant group in a week, coming just a day after Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas met with Hamas leaders to try to persuade them to halt their attacks. May 19, 2003 - A Palestinian riding a bicycle close to an Israeli army jeep detonates a 66-pound bomb strapped to his body, killing himself and lightly injuring three soldiers in an attack near the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom. A bus is also damaged, the army says. It is the fourth Hamas suicide attack in three days. May 14, 2003 - Palestinian witnesses say an Israeli helicopter fired a missile at a crowd of people at the Khan Younis refugee camp, as tanks and bulldozers tore down buildings nearby. A Khan Younis hospital spokesman says 30 people are wounded. An Israeli commander says Palestinians shooting rifles and anti-tank grenades at Israeli forces were fired upon. Palestinian rescue workers say unprovoked Israeli soldiers fired shots at a Palestinian police post near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim, killing three and wounding two. The army says the troops saw four armed men in civilian clothes heading toward the settlement and opened fire. Two rockets were fired at the Israeli town of Sderot, the army says. There are no injuries. May 13, 2003 - Ten soldiers are wounded, one seriously, in a mortar attack on a Gaza base, and three Israelis are slightly wounded when a homemade rocket fired from Gaza hits a nearby Israeli town, the military says. May 1, 2003 - Israeli troops and tanks raided a Gaza City apartment complex owned by the family of a top Hamas fugitive. The Israeli military said that the troops went to make an arrest and came under heavy fire. Seven soldiers were wounded, the army said. Doctors said seven Palestinians, including a toddler and a 13-year-old boy, were killed. The incursion came a day after Hamas claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in a Tel Aviv pub that killed several bystanders. April 8, 2003 - An Israeli warplane fires a missile at a car in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood, killing at least five people and injuring at least 30 others, according to hospital and witness reports. Israeli media reports one of the dead was a Hamas commander. It's the first Israeli airstrike in Palestinian territory since the war in Iraq began. March 17, 2003 - Seven Palestinians, including a 4-year-old girl, are killed in intense fighting at the Nusseirat Refugee Camp. Israeli troops battle dozens of Palestinian gunmen in the four-hour raid. March 16, 2003 - An Israeli army bulldozer kills U.S. citizen Rachel Corrie - the first international peace protester killed in 29 months of violence - while demolishing a building at the Rafah refugee camp near the Gaza-Egypt border. March 6, 2003 - An Israeli tank shell killed at least 11 Palestinians while they watched firefighters put out a fire in the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza, witnesses and hospital officials said. More than 100 people were wounded. March 3, 2003 - Israeli troops invade the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, arresting a founder of the militant group Hamas and killing eight Palestinians. Five of the dead are gunmen and three are civilians - two boys, ages 14 and 16, and a 33-year-old woman in her ninth month of pregnancy. Hamas has killed hundreds of Israelis in shootings and bombings since the outbreak of fighting in 2000, and Israel has killed or rounded up hundreds of its members in response. This is the first time, however, the Israelis have targeted the group's political leadership. Jan. 12, 2003 - Israeli helicopters fire missiles at two vehicles between the towns of Khan Younis and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, aiming for Hamas activists. Instead, the missile explosions kill two Palestinian teenagers walking nearby, and a third is seriously wounded. Also, Israeli soldiers kill a Palestinian gunmen during a fierce gun battle that erupts when forces raid the Khan Younis refugee camp. In another Gaza operation, troops kill a Palestinian who they say fired on them but who Palestinians say was an unarmed bystander. Jan. 5, 2003 - Following the largest Palestinian attack in nine months, Israeli attack helicopters fire four missiles at metal workshops in Gaza City. The military says the workshops were producing rockets and mortars. Eight people are lightly injured. Nov. 30, 2002 - Two Palestinians are killed as Israeli tanks and troops enter the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya and demolish three homes. Oct. 7, 2002 - Israel launches a deadly military strike in Khan Younis, aimed at rattling the relative security enjoyed by members of the Islamic militant group Hamas within Gaza's crowded neighborhoods. The operation leaves 14 Palestinians dead and over 100 others wounded. July 23, 2002 - Israel launches an overnight missile strike on a Gaza City apartment building where one of the most wanted leaders of Hamas sleeps, killing Salah Shehadeh and 14 others, including nine children. The strike reduces almost the entire city block to rubble, and injures at least 145 Palestinians. June 24, 2002 - Israeli helicopter gunships fire on a car outside the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza, killing six Palestinians, including four identified as Hamas activists. April 19, 2002 - Israeli troops move briefly into Palestinian-controlled territory near the border with Egypt, scene of frequent clashes and incursions. Palestinian doctors say three Palestinian civilians are killed and six wounded by Israeli gunfire, which Israel says was provoked. A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates explosives in his car at an Israeli military checkpoint near the Kissufim crossing, killing himself and lightly wounding two Israeli soldiers. April 12, 2002 - An armed Palestinian opens fire and throws a grenade at the Erez crossing point into Israel. An Israeli border police officer and a Palestinian worker die, and the gunman is shot dead. March 8, 2002 - Five teenagers are killed and 20 wounded at their high school in the Jewish settlement of Atzmona in the Gaza Strip, in an attack by a 19-year-old Palestinian. Israeli troops sweep through Palestinian-ruled Bethlehem and several other Palestinian neighborhoods, in which at least 40 Palestinians, including a general and a 9-year-old boy, are killed. The deadliest gun battle rages in the village of Khouza in southern Gaza, where 16 Palestinians, including a regional commander of the Palestinian security forces, Maj. Gen. Ahmed Mefraj, are killed and 55 people are wounded. March 6, 2002 -Ten Palestinians are killed and many more wounded when Israeli forces, using tanks, bulldozers and gunboats, strike overnight at six areas in Gaza. Feb. 19, 2002 - A Palestinian militant kills a Jewish settler and two other Israelis in an ambush, hurling grenades and opening fire at a convoy on a Gaza Strip settlement road near the Kissufim border crossing. At another location, six soldiers are killed at a West Bank checkpoint, shot at close range by three militiamen linked to Fatah. Israeli helicopter gunships fire three missiles at a Hamas office in the crowded Jebalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians and critically wounding four, including a 10-year-old girl. In other reprisals, Israeli warplanes pound Palestinian security installations in the West Bank town of Ramallah and the refugee camp of Rafah in Gaza. In the Gaza town of Khan Yunis, three Palestinian civilians, including a mother and her 14-year-old daughter, are killed when an Israeli tank shell hits their homes, Palestinian witnesses say. In the West Bank, Israeli undercover troops approach the Balata refugee camp, a stronghold of the Al Aqsa Brigades, a militia linked to Arafat's Fatah movement, members of the militia say. A Palestinian gunman and a woman from the camp are killed in the ensuing firefight, according to witness accounts. In all, eight Palestinians are killed and 25 are wounded in the fighting, including five children. Dec. 12, 2001 - Palestinians open fire on an Israeli bus in the West Bank near the Jewish settlement of Emmanuel, killing at least eight passengers and wounding at least 30 others. At virtually the same time, two suicide bombers blow themselves up near the Gush Katif settlement in the Gaza Strip. Several people are injured. Dec. 3-4, 2001 - In response to three suicide bombings, air strikes hit targets 50 yards from Yasser Arafat's office as he works inside. Missiles destroy two of his helicopters in Gaza and hit West Bank security installations. May 18, 2001 - Israeli F-16 warplanes hit Palestinian police structures in West Bank cities of Jenin and Tulkarm and Gaza, killing 10 Palestinians. Nov. 20, 2000 - Israeli helicopters launch massive attacks on Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for a bomb assault on a Jewish settlers' school bus. April 9, 1995 - Two Palestinians blow themselves up outside two Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, killing seven Israeli soldiers and an American. Jan. 14, 1994 - An Israeli army siege against a hideout of fugitive Islamic militants leaves four Palestinians dead in Hebron. --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

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