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West Bank Oct. 9, 2003 - A suicide bomber detonates explosives at an Israeli army base in Tulkarem, killing himself and injuring three others. The Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claims responsibility. Sept. 5, 2003 - Israeli troops fight Palestinian militants with gunfire and rockets in the West Bank town of Nablus, killing one and arresting three before blowing up the seven-story apartment building where they were hiding. An Israeli soldier is killed and four others are wounded in the battle. Aug. 12, 2003 - Two suicide bombings less than an hour apart kill at least two Israelis and injured about a dozen people in a central Israel town and a West Bank Jewish settlement. The first suicide bomber detonated outside a supermarket in the Tel Aviv suburb of Rosh Haayin, killing himself and at least one Israeli. A short time later, an attacker blew himself up at a bus stop near the entrance to Ariel, killing an Israeli and seriously injuring two others. The Hamas Web site claimed responsibility for the Ariel bombing and identified the bomber as a 21 year old from Nablus. June 19, 2003 - A suicide bomber set off explosives in a grocery in the Israeli village of Sde Trumot in the Jordan Valley, just outside the West Bank, in the early morning hours. The blast killed the bomber and the store's owner, police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. June 17, 2003 - A 7-year-old Israeli girl is killed and another girl and an adult wounded in a shooting attack in central Israel, near the West Bank town of Qalqiliya. Police say they assume the shooting came from the West Bank. June 8, 2003 - Israeli soldiers looking for Palestinians who shot and wounded a policeman exchange fire with Palestinian gunmen in Hebron, killing two. An Israeli soldier is also killed. May 17, 2003 - Just before Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas were to hold the first summit between the two sides in nearly three years, a suicide bomber approached a group of Israelis in the West Bank city of Hebron and detonated explosives, killing an Israeli settler and his pregnant wife. Later in the meeting, Abbas told Sharon that he wants to persuade the militants to stop attacks, rather than disarm them by force. May 14, 2003 - Israeli troops kill a suspected militant in Nablus, the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade says in a statement. Also, Palestinian doctors say 10 Palestinians are injured when Israeli troops fire on stone-throwing youths here. The army says gunmen fired on the troops and the soldiers shot back. Jan. 23, 2003 - Palestinians open fire on a vehicle near a settlement in the Hebron hills, killing three people. Jan. 12, 2003 - Israeli civilian security guards kill a Hamas activist who fires on their gas tanker in Hebron. Nov. 15, 2002 - Palestinian gunmen ambush a group of worshippers walking toward the disputed Tomb of the Patriarchs, killing at least 10 Israelis and wounding 15 others. Hilltop snipers fire on soldiers attempting to rescue the injured in continued clashes. Nov. 4, 2002 - Two Palestinians - one of them a wanted Hamas militant - are killed when their car explodes in the middle of the street in Nablus. Palestinians said the car was booby-trapped by Israel. Oct. 27, 2002 - A Palestinian attacker kills three Israeli soldiers and himself when his bomb detonates amid a struggle with soldiers at a gas station, just outside the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel. Sept. 19, 2002 - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat comes under siege for a fourth time in 2002 by Israeli troops and tanks at his headquarters. The Israeli army destroys at least 10 buildings in his Ramallah compound, with the Israeli Cabinet demanding the surrender of 20 wanted men Israel says had taken refuge inside. Aug. 6, 2002 - Two members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades are tracked and killed by Israeli forces in Jabba. Aug. 2, 2002 - Israeli troops backed by 150 armored vehicles roll into Nablus under heavy gunfire to search for militants and bomb factories. Three Palestinians are killed and at least 50 are arrested. July 16, 2002 - Militants stage a carefully planned bus ambush near the ultra-Orthodox Jewish settlement of Emmanuel. Seven Israelis are killed in the attack, during which passengers were sprayed with automatic weapons fire for 15 minutes. Later, troops shoot dead one of the attackers, and a soldier dies. June 10, 2002 - Israeli forces enter Ramallah and surround Arafat's headquarters for the third time in recent months. May 5, 2002 - Israeli troops enter Arafat's compound. A Palestinian intelligence officer is killed when tanks roll into the compound and destroy much of Arafat's sleeping quarters. The assault is retaliation for the suicide bombing that claimed 17 lives the day before in Megiddo. Arafat is not hurt in the raid and Israeli political sources say the army had no intention of harming him. March 29 - April 21, 2002 - Israel launches "Operation Defensive Shield," a wide-scale military operation against the Palestinians, following a string of Palestinian attacks that killed 30 people over three days, starting on the Jewish holy day of Passover. Israel formally declares Arafat an enemy and his Ramallah headquarters comes under heavy Israeli tank fire as he is confined there for more than a month. According to a U.N. report 497 Palestinians were killed during Israel's reoccupation of West Bank cities from March 1 to May 7. The report says 52 Palestinians died in Jenin, scene of the heaviest fighting, as many as half of them civilians, while Israel lost 23 soldiers over a 10-day period. Both Israeli and Palestinian observers agreed the Jenin camp by April had some 200 armed militants. April 8, 2002 - During a standoff at the Church of the Nativity, fire breaks out in the compound during a gunbattle between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians holed up inside. Two Palestinians are killed. The church deadlock drags on for a total of 39 days, ending when Israel and the Palestinians agree that 26 of the gunmen would be sent to Gaza and 13 others exiled to Europe. March 31, 2002 - In Haifa, a Palestinian bomber blows up a restaurant, killing himself and 14 Israelis. Another bomber sets off explosives at the Jewish settlement of Efrat, south of Jerusalem in the West Bank, killing himself and gravely wounding a paramedic. March 12, 2002 - Israel intensifies its largest military offensive since 1982, killing almost 30 Palestinians in raids of sprawling refugee camps, the West Bank's commercial center and other targets. March 11, 2002 - Israeli tanks and troops storm into the Jebaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and wage a fierce gun battle that kills at least 17 Palestinians and injures more than 75. The raid is one of several major Israeli army operations that leaves 23 Palestinians dead. Before dawn, Israeli troops and armored vehicles storm into Qalqilya and the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem. March 8, 2002 - 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. March 4, 2002 - Israel steps up reprisals for Palestinian shootings and bombings, killing 16 Palestinians. March 3, 2002 - A Palestinian gunman on a hill overlooking a military checkpoint near the Jewish settlement of Ofra shoots dead seven Israeli soldiers and three Jewish settlers. Feb. 28, 2002 - With helicopter gunships, tanks and paratroopers, Israel raids two Palestinian refugee camps - Balata and Jenin - in an attempt to break militant strongholds, killing 23 Palestinians in the fighting. Feb. 20, 2002 - Israelis fire missiles, tank shells and machine guns at Palestinian Authority positions in Ramallah, killing 15 Palestinians in reprisals for a Palestinian shooting ambush that killed six Israeli soldiers - one of the deadliest attacks on Israeli troops in 17 months of fighting. Feb. 19, 2002 - Israeli helicopter gunships fire three missiles at the office of the Islamic militant group Hamas in the crowded Jebalya refugee camp, killing two Palestinians and critically wounding four, including a 10-year-old girl. In other reprisals, Israeli warplanes pound Palestinian security installations in Ramallah and the refugee camp of Rafah. 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. A Palestinian gunman and a woman from the Balata refugee camp are killed in a firefight with Israelis, according to witness accounts. In all, eight Palestinians are killed and 25 are wounded in the fighting, including five children. On the same day 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. Feb. 18, 2002 - On the outskirts of Jerusalem near the Maale Adumim settlement, a Palestinian detonates explosives after being stopped by police, killing himself and an Israeli officer. Feb. 16, 2002 - A nighttime suicide bombing at a mall in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Karnei Shomron kills two Israeli teen-agers and is the first time a suicide bomber infiltrates the tight security of a Jewish settlement. 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. Dec. 3-4, 2001 - In response to three suicide bombings, air strikes hit targets 50 yards from Arafat's office as he works inside. Missiles destroy two of his helicopters in Gaza and hit West Bank security installations. Nov. 23, 2001 - Mahmud Abu Hannud, a senior leader in Hamas, is killed, along with two others, when Israeli gunships fired rockets at his car in the northern West Bank town of Nablus. Nov. 1, 2001 - Israeli forces target and kill four wanted militants in two days. Oct 18, 2001 - A rocket strike from Israeli gunships kills Ataf Abayat, a member of Fatah's armed wing, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, and two other Fatah members. Aug. 27, 2001 - Abu Ali Mustafa, general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is killed in an Israeli missile strike on his office in Ramallah. Aug. 10, 2001 - Israeli F-16 fighter jets shoot two missiles at a Palestinian police headquarters in Ramallah. July 30, 2001 - Israeli helicopter gunships fire missiles at a Hamas office in Nablus, killing two senior Hamas leaders - Jamal Mansour and Jamal Salim - and six others, including two children. July 17, 2001 - Israel kills four Palestinians in a helicopter raid in Bethlehem. May 18, 2001 - Israeli F-16 warplanes hit Palestinian police structures in Jenin and Tulkarm and Gaza, killing 10 Palestinians. April 5, 2001 - Iyyad Hardan, the military leader of Islamic Jihad in Jenin, is blown up while standing in a public telephone booth in the town, apparently by a booby-trapped telephone. Nov. 26, 2000 - Four Hamas militants are killed in an Israeli commando raid near the village of Habla. Nov. 9, 2000 - Israeli rockets kill local Palestinian leader Hussein Abayat as he drives near the West Bank town of Beit Sahour. Jan. 5, 1996 - A booby-trapped mobile phone blows up in the hands of master Hamas bombmaker Yehieh Ayyash. --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

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