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ARIEL BOLUDOVSKY
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"Meneceo" <epicurroBORRa@yahoo.es> dixit:
> Blablabla la culpa de las victimas, seran idiotas. Pero sigues sin
> explicar 679 homicidios.
Estos, en cambio, estan perfectamente explicados incluso para canallas
como tu:
,073 people have been killed by Palestinian violence and terrorism since
September 2000.
Between September 29, 2000 and August 1, 2005, Magen David Adom treated a
total of 7,445 casualties as amows:
967 killed, 611 severely injured, 892 moderately and 4,975 lightly
injured, among them 11 MDA staff members.
(IDF casualties treated by IDF medical personnel are not included in
these figures.)
Note: This list also includes 18 Israelis killed abroad in terror attacks
directed specifically against Israeli targets, and 3 American diplomatic
personnel killed in Gaza.
List of victims by date:
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 Norzhich,
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 blast.
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 - 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
amowing 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 amowing 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 amowing 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 17, 2001 - Zion Ohana, 45, of Adam was brutally murdered by three
residents of Jaba in Samaria.
Dec 25, 2001 - Sgt. Michael Sitbon, 23, of Beit Shemesh, an IDF reserve
soldier, was killed, and four other soldiers were injured, in a shooting
attack Tuesday morning near the Jordanian border north of Beit She'an.
Jan 9, 2002 - Maj. Ashraf Hawash, 28, of Beit Zarzir; Sgt.-Maj. Ibrahim
Hamadieh, 23, of Rehaniya; Sgt.-Maj. Hana (Eli) Abu-Ghanem, 25, of Haifa;
and St.-Sgt. Mofid Sawaid, 25, of Abu Snan, four IDF soldiers of the
Bedouin desert patrol unit, were killed and two injured when two armed
Palestinian terrorists from the southern Gaza Strip, carrying explosive
belts, assault rifles, grenades, and dressed in Palestinian 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, amowing 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 21, 2002 - Minhal Dragma, 22, of Baka al-Garbiya, was killed when a
terrorist opened fire at IDF soldiers at the entrance to Baka al-
Sharkiya.
Feb 22, 2002 - Valery Ahmir, 59, of Beit Shemesh was killed by terrorists
in a drive-by shooting on the Atarot-Givat Ze'ev road north of Jerusalem
as he returned home from work. Fatah claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Feb 25, 2002 - Avraham Fish, 65, and Aharon Gorov, 46, both of Nokdim,
were killed in a terrorist shooting attack between Tekoa and Nokdim,
south of Bethlehem. Fish's daughter, 9 months pregnant, was seriously
injured but delivered a baby girl. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Feb 25, 2002 - Police officer 1st Sgt. Galit Arbiv, 21, of Nesher, died
after being fatally shot, when a terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in
the Neve Ya'akov residential 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 Birmov, 33, of
Ariel; Vadim Balagula, 32, of Ariel; and Didi Yitzhak, 66, of Eli. The
Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 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 while inside his tank and evacuating infantry personnel.
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, 2002.
Sarah Levy-Hoffman, 89, of Tel-Aviv died of her injuries on April 7,
2002.
Anna Yakobovitch, 78, of Holon died of her injuries on April 11, 2002.
Eliezer Korman, 74, of Ramat Hasharon died of his wounds on May 5, 2002.
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 Menchel, 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. Gedaliah Mellick, 21, of Jerusalem was killed and
12 soldiers were wounded 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 earlier in the week during IDF operations in Dura (Operation
Defensive Shield).
Apr 12, 2002 - Border policeman St.-Sgt. David Smirnoff, 22, of Ashdod
was killed when a Palestinian 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 Kimchy, 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 amowing 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 Kehrmann, 17, of
Haifa; St.-Sgt. Eliyahu Laham, 22, of Haifa; Abigail Litle, 14, of Haifa;
Yuval Mendellevich, 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 Jovenlandeses 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 Rivka Shichrur, 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 - Nine IDF soldiers were killed and 30 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. Sgt. Liron Siboni, 19, of Ramat Gan died of her wounds on
November 19.
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 dar de baja de la suscripción de la vida, 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 dar de baja de la suscripción de la vida, 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
pililack, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin, and Sgt. Roy Yacov Solomon, 21, of Tel
Aviv, were killed and another soldier was seriously wounded while on
patrol in Ein Yabrud, north of Ramallah, when terrorists fired on them
from behind. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Oct 24, 2003 - Three IDF soldiers - St.-Sgt. Alon Avrahami, 21, of Or
Yehuda, Sgt. Adi Osman, 19, of Kfar Sava, and Sgt. Sarit Schneor-Senior,
19, of Shoham - were killed and two others wounded when a Palestinian
terrorist infiltrated the army base in the Gaza Strip settlement of
Netzarim and opened fire on the soldiers' barracks. Hamas and the Islamic
Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
Nov 18, 2003 - Two IDF soldiers, Sgt.-Maj. Shlomi Belsky, 23, of Haifa,
and St.-Sgt. Shaul Lahav, 20, of Kibbutz Shomrat, were killed by a
Palestinian terrorist who opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle, hidden
in a prayer rug, at a checkpoint on the tunnel bypass road, linking
Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion bloc. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 19, 2003 - Patricia Ter´n Navarrete, 33, of Ecuador was killed and
four other tourists, pilgrims from Ecuador, were wounded when a terrorist
entered the Israel-Jordan border crossing terminal north of Eilat from
the Jordanian side and opened fire. The terrorist was killed by Israeli
security guards.
Nov 22, 2003 - Two Israeli security guards, Ilya Reiger, 58, of
Jerusalem, and Samer Fathi Afan, 25, of the Bedouin village Uzeir near
Nazareth, were shot dead at a construction site along the route of the
security fence near Abu Dis in East Jerusalem. The Jenin Martyrs'
Brigades, affiliated with Fatah, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 22, 2003 - Capt. Hagai Bibi, 24, of Maaleh Adumim, and Capt. Leonardo
(Alex) Weissman, 23, of Afula were killed when a Palestinian terrorist
opened fire and threw hand grenades as they emerged from their jeep on
the Kissufim-Gush Katif road in the Gaza Strip. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 25, 2003 - Adva Fisher, 20, of Kfar Sava; St.-Sgt. Noam Leibowitz,
22, of Elkana; Cpl. Angelina Shcherov, 19, of Kfar Sava; and Cpl. Rotem
Weinberger, 19, of Kfar Sava were killed and over 20 people were wounded
in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Geha Junction, east of Tel
Aviv, near Petah Tikva. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 13, 2004 - Ro'i Arbel, 29, of Talmon, was killed in a terror shooting
ambush near his home in Samaria. Three other passengers of the vehicle
were wounded. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Jan 14, 2004 - Cpl. Andrei Kegeles, 19, of Nahariya; St.-Sgt. Tzur Or,
20, of Rishon Lezion; security guard Gal Shapira, 29, of Ashkelon; and
Border Policeman St.-Sgt. Vladimir Trostinsky, 22, of Rehovot were killed
and 10 wounded when a female suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the Erez
Crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
Jan 29, 2004 - Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded, 13 of them
seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of
Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. Both the Fatah-related Al Aqsa
Martyrs' Brigades and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, naming
the bomber as Ali Yusuf Jaara, a 24-year-old Palestinian policeman from
Bethlehem.
The victims: Avraham (Albert) Balhasan, 28, of Jerusalem; Rose Boneh, 39,
of Jerusalem; Hava Hannah (Anya) Bonder, 38, of Jerusalem; Anat Darom,
23, of Netanya; Viorel Octavian Florescu, 42, of Jerusalem; Natalia
Gamril, 53, of Jerusalem; Yechezkel Isser Goldberg, 41, of Betar Illit;
Baruch (Roman) Hondiashvili, 38, of Jerusalem; Dana Itach, 24, of
Jerusalem; Mehbere Kifile, 35, of Ethiopia; and Eli Zfira, 48, of
Jerusalem.
Feb 22, 2004 - Eight people were killed and over 60 wounded, 11 of them
school pupils, in a suicide bombing on Jerusalem bus no. 14A near the
Liberty Bell Park. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by Mohammed Za'ul,
from the Bethlehem area.
The victims: Israel Ilan Avisidris, 41, of Jerusalem; Lior Azulai, 18, of
Jerusalem; Yaffa Ben-Shimol, 57, of Jerusalem; Rahamim Doga, 38, of
Mevasseret Zion; Yehuda Haim, 48, of Givat Ze'ev; St.-Sgt. Netanel
Havshush, 20, of Jerusalem; Yuval Ozana, 32, of Jerusalem; and Benaya
Yehonatan Zuckerman, 18, of Jerusalem.
Feb 26, 2004 - Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Amir Zimmerman, 25, of Kfar Monash was
killed and two other soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists
opened fire near the Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The
terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 27, 2004 - Eitan Kukoi, 30, and his wife, Rima Novikov Kukoi, 25,
were killed in a terrorist shooting attack on the Lahav-Ashkelon road,
along the Green Line. The PFLP and the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
both claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 14, 2004 - Ten people were killed and 16 wounded in a double suicide
bombing at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the
attack. The victims: Gil Abutbul, 38, of Ashdod; Danny Assulin, 51, of
Ashdod; Avraham Avraham, 34, of Ashdod; Zion Dahan, 30, of Ashdod; Ophir
Damari, 31, of Rehovot; Moshe Hendler, 29, of Rehovot; Mazal Marciano,
30, of Ashdod; Avi Suissa, 56, of Kiryat Malakhi; Maurice Tubul, 30, of
Ashdod; and Pinhas Avraham Zilberman, 45, of Tel Aviv.
Mar 19, 2004 - George Khoury, 20, a Christian Arab and the son of well-
known veteran attorney Elias Khoury of Beit Hanina, was shot to death
from a vehicle while jogging in the north Jerusalem neighborhood of
French Hill. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which claimed
responsibility for the attack, later published an apology.
Apr 3, 2004 - Yaakov (Kobi) Zagha, 40, of Avnei Hefetz was shot dead by a
terrorist outside his home, after his daughter Hani, 14, was shot and
wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 17, 2004 - Border Policeman Cpl. Kfir Ohayon, 20, of Eilat was
killed, three others wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew
himself up at the Erez Crossing. Hamas and Fatah claimed joint
responsibility for the attack.
Apr 25, 2004 - Border Policeman Cpl. Yaniv Mashiah, 20, of Jaffa, was
killed and three others lightly wounded just an hour after the beginning
of Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers when shots were fired at
their vehicle near Hebron. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
May 2, 2004 - Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters - Hila, 11, Hadar, 9,
Roni, 7, and Merav, 2 - of Katif in the Gaza Strip were killed and
another civilian and two soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists
fired on an Israeli car at the entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc
of Gush Katif. Fatah and Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for
the attack.
May 11, 2004 - Six IDF soldiers were killed during an IDF operation to
target Qassam workshops in Gaza City, when an Armored Personnel Carrier
was struck by an explosive device planted by Palestinian terrorists.
Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The soldiers killed: Sgt. Adaron Amar, 20, of Eilat; Sgt. Aviad Deri,
21, of Maale Adumim; Staff-Sgt. Ofer Jerbi, 21, of Moshav Ben-Zakai;
Staff-Sgt. Ya'akov (Zelco) Marviza, 25, of Kibbutz Hama'apil; Sgt. Kobi
Mizrahi, 20, of Moshav Mata; and Staff-Sgt. Eitan Newman, 21, of
Jerusalem.
May 12, 2004 - An IDF officer and four soldiers were killed, and three
IDF soldiers were lightly injured, while preparing to detonate a weapon-
smuggling tunnel on the Philadelphi Route near the Israeli-Egyptian
border near Rafah. Their armored personnel carrier exploded, apparently
after being hit by an RPG anti-tank rocket. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility for the attack.
The soldiers killed: Cpl. Elad Cohen, 20, of Jerusalem; Sgt.-Maj. Aiman
Ghadir, 24, of Bir Makhsur; Capt. Aviv Hakani, 23, of Ashdod; Sgt. Za'ur
(Zohar) Smelev, 19, of Ofakim; and Sgt. Lior Vishinski, 20, of Ramat Gan.
May 14, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Rotem Adam, 21, Rishon Lezion and Sgt. Alexei
Hayat, 21, of Beer Sheva were killed and two soldiers moderately wounded
by Palestinian sniper fire in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza
Strip.
May 29, 2004 - Maj. Shachar Ben-Yishai, 25, of Menahemia was killed by
Palestinian gunfire amowing a search in the Balata camp near Nablus.
The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 21, 2004 - A foreign worker, Weerachai Wongput, 37, from the Nong
Han District of the northeastern province of Udon Thani in Thailand, died
after being hit by shrapnel from a mortar fired into greenhouses in Kfar
Darom in the Gaza Strip. The mortar was fired by Palestinians trying to
divert attention from an attempt to infiltrate the settlement. Hamas
claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 27, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Roi Nissim, 20, of Rishon Lezion, was killed and
five other soldiers were wounded when their outpost in the Gaza Strip was
blown up by Hamas terrorists who tunneled under the position and
detonated a massive explosive charge.
June 28, 2004 - Mordechai Yosepov, 49, and Afik Zahavi, four, were killed
when a Kassam rocket fired by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip struck
near a nursery school in the northern Negev town of Sderot.
June 29, 2004 - Moshe Yohai, 63, of Ashdod, was found shot to death in
Beit Rima, a Palestinian Authority-controlled village near Ramallah,
where he had apparently gone on business. The Aksa Martyrs Brigades
claimed responsibility.
July 4, 2004 - Victor Kreiderman, 49, of Mevo Dotan, was ambushed and
shot to death by Aksa Martyrs Brigades terrorists as he and his wife were
driving near the village of Yabad. His wife, Emma, was lightly wounded.
July 6, 2004 - Capt. Moran Vardi, 25, of Binyamina, of the Navy Seals
commando unit Shayetet 13, was killed, and three others were wounded in
an exchange of fire between IDF forces and Palestinian terrorists while
attempting to arrest terrorists in Nablus.
July 11, 2004 - Sgt. Ma'ayan Na'im, 19, of Bat Yam, was killed and 33
wounded when a bomb exploded at a bus stop in downtown Tel Aviv at about
7 a.m. One person was critically wounded, four were moderately wounded,
and the rest were lightly hurt.
Aug 13, 2004 - Shlomo Miller, 50, of Itamar in Samaria was killed by a
Palestinian terrorist who opened fire outside the settlement gate. The
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.
Aug 31, 2004 - Sixteen people were killed and 100 wounded in two suicide
bombings within minutes of each other on two Beersheba city buses, on
route nos. 6 and 12. The buses were traveling along Beersheba's main
street, Rager Blvd, near the city hall. Hamas in Hebron claimed
responsibility for the attack.
The victims, all residents of Beersheba: Shoshana Amos, 64; Aviel Atash,
3; Vitaly Brodsky, 52; Tamara Dibrashvilli, 70; Raisa Forer, 55; Larisa
Gomanenko, 48; Denise Hadad, 50; Tatiana Kortchenko, 49; Rosita Lehman,
45; Karine Malka, 23; Nargiz Ostrovsky, 54; Maria Sokolov, 57; Roman
Sokolovsky, 53; Tiroayent Takala, 33; Eliyahu Uzan, 58; Emmanuel Yosef
(Yosefov), 28.
Sept 22, 2004 - Two Border Policemen - Lance Cpl. Menashe Komemi, 19, of
Moshav Aminadav and Lance Cpl. Mamoya Tahio, 20, of Rehovot - were
killed and 17 Israelis wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a
female terrorist at the French Hill junction hitchhiking post in northern
Jerusalem. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Sept 23, 2004 - Capt. Tal Bardugo, 21, of Jerusalem, St.-Sgt. Nir Sami,
21, of Jerusalem, and St.-Sgt. Israel Lutati, 20, of Neve Dekalim were
killed by several Palestinian terrorists, armed with AK-47 assault
riffles and hand grenades, who infiltrated the military post near the
community of Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Another soldier and a
journalist were also wounded in the exchange of fire in which the
terrorists were killed. Two Fatah-related terror groups and the Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 24, 2004 - Tiferet Tratner, 24, of Jerusalem was killed in her home
in Neveh Dekalim by a mortar strike on the Gush Katif settlement bloc in
the Gaza Strip.
Sept 29, 2004 - Dorit Aniso, 2, and Yuval Abebeh, 4, both of Sderot, were
killed by a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza while playing in the street.
Some 20 people were wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 30, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Gilad Fisher, 22, of Mitzpeh Hoshaya, was killed
before dawn when Hamas terrorists, under cover of heavy fog, attacked an
IDF lookout post east of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip. Two other
soldiers were wounded. The terrorists were killed.
Sept 30, 2004 - Shlomit Batito, 36, of Nissanit, was shot and killed by
Hamas terrorists while jogging on the road. Sgt. Victor Ariel, 20, of
Kadima, a medic, was killed by a grenade thrown by one of the terrorists
as he ran to aid Batito. The terrorists were killed by soldiers.
Oct 6, 2004 - Pratheep Nanongkham, 24, a greenhouse worker from Maha
Sarakham province in Thailand, was killed when armed terrorists
infiltrated the hothouse area of Kfar Darom in the central Gaza Strip.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 7, 2004 - A total of 32 people were killed in terror bombings at two
Sinai holiday resorts frequented by Israelis: 29 at the Taba Hilton and
three at Ras a-Satan. Among the dead were 12 Israelis; over 120 were
wounded.
The Israeli victims at Taba: Assaf Greenwald, 27, of Ramat Gan; Hafez al-
Hafi, 39, of Lod; Rotem Moriah, 27, of Tel Aviv; Tzila Niv, 43, and her
two sons, Gilad, 11, and Lior, 3, of Rakefet; Oleg Paizakov, 32, and his
wife Ludmilla, 30, of Bat Yam; and Khalil Zeitounya, 10, of Jaffa.
The Israeli victims at Ras a-Satan: Michal Alexander, 27, of Ganei Tikva;
Roy Avisaf, 28, of Kfar Sava; and Einat Naor, 27, of Kibbutz Zikim.
Oct 19, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Yair Nisim Turgemann, 22, of Kiryat Arba, was
killed at an IDF base near Mevo Dotan in Samaria when Palestinian gunmen
opened fire from Palestinian territory west of the community. The Fatah
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 21, 2004 - Sgt.-Maj. Moshe Almaliach, 35, of Dimona, a career NCO in
the IDF engineering corps, was killed by a bomb explosion While
conducting construction work on the Philadelphi road in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 28, 2004 - Sgt. Michael Chizhik, 21, of Tiberias was killed and six
other soldiers wounded in a mortar shell attack on an IDF outpost at
Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Nov 1, 2004 - Three people were killed and over 30 wounded in a suicide
bombing at the Carmel Market in central Tel Aviv. The Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine in Nablus claimed responsibility for the
attack, carried out by Amar Alfar, 18, from Askar refugee camp in Nablus.
The victims: Tatiana Ackerman, 32, of Tel Aviv; Leah Levine, 64, of
Givatayim; and Shmuel Levy, 65, of Jaffa.
Dec 7, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Nadav Kudinski, 20, of Kiryat Gat of the Oketz
canine unit was killed by a bomb, along with his dog, when a booby-
trapped chicken coup exploded northwest of the Karni Corssing in the Gaza
Strip. Four soldiers were wounded in the exchange of fire while
evacuating him. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 12, 2004 - Five IDF soldiers were killed and five wounded when a
tunnel filled with 1.5 tons of explosives were detonated under an IDF
post at the Rafah crossing, amowed by the infiltration of the post by
two terrorists who opened fire and activated another explosive device.
Hamas and the Fatah Hawks claimed responsibility for the attack.
The soldiers killed: Sgt. Araf Azbarga, 19, of Kseifeh; Sgt. Sa'id
Jahaja, 19, of Arara; Sgt. Hussein Abu Leil, 23, of Ein Mahal; Corp.
Adham Shehada, 19, of Turan; and Sgt. Tarek al-Ziadne, 20, of Rahat.
Dec 14, 2004 - Jitladda Tap-arsa, 19, a female agricultural worker from
Udon Thani’s Nong Han district in northereastern Thailand, was killed and
two other foreign workers from Thailand and Nepal were wounded by mortar
shells fired at Ganei Tal in the Gush Katif settlement bloc from the Gaza
Strip.
Dec 21, 2004 - Ariella Fahima, 39, of Moshav Nehusha, south of Beit
Shemesh, was stabbed to death at the door to her house, apparently by a
terrorist who infiltrated the perimeter fence.
Dec 22, 2004 - Salem (Sami) al-Kimlat, 28, a Bedouin from the town of
Rahat employed as a security guard at the construction site of the
security fence west of Hebron, was shot and killed by Palestinian
terrorists. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Jan 2, 2005 - Nissim Arbiv, 25, of Nissanit in the Gaza Strip was
mortally wounded in a mortar shell attack while working in the Erez
Industrial Zone. He died of his wounds on January 11. Two others were
wounded in the attack, for which Hamas claimed responsibility.
Jan 7, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Yosef (Yossi) Atia, 21, of Petah Tikva, was killed
and three fellow off-duty soldiers were wounded when Palestinian gunmen
opened fire on their car on the Trans-Samaria Highway. The Fatah al-Aksa
Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 12, 2005 - Gideon Rivlin, 50, of Ganei Tal was killed and three IDF
soldiers were wounded when a bomb was detonated as a military vehicle
patroled the route near Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Two terrorists
were killed by IDF forces. The area was booby-trapped with explosive
devices, in addition to the bomb that exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Jan 13, 2005 - On Thursday night, shortly before the closing of the Karni
Crossing, terrorists activated an explosive device on the Palestinian
side, blowing a hole in the door through which Palestinian terrorists
infiltrated the Israeli side of the crossing and opened fire at Israeli
civilians. As a result of the explosion and exchanges of fire, six
Israeli civilians and three Palestinian terrorists were killed, and five
Israeli civilians were wounded. Hamas and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs'
Brigades claimed joint responsiblity for the attack.
The victims: Dror Gizri, 30, of Sderot; Ibrahim Kahili, 46, of Umm al-
Ghanem; Munam Abu Sabia, 33, of Daburiyeh; Ivan Shmilov, 53, of Sderot;
Herzl Shlomo, 51, of Sderot; and Ofer Tiri, 23, of Ashkelon.
Jan 15, 2005 - Ayala-Haya (Ella) Abukasis, 17, of Sderot was mortally
wounded when a Qassam rocket landed near her and shrapnel penetrated her
cerebellum, leaving her brain dead. She was struck while protecting her
younger brother, who was lightly wounded. Kept on life support throughout
the week, her parents agreed to stop treatment when doctors told them
there was no chance of recovery. She died on January 21.
Jan 18, 2005 - Oded Sharon, 36, from Gan Yavne, an ISA officer, was
killed, an IDF officer seriously wounded, and four IDF soldiers and three
members of the ISA were lightly wounded in a suicide bombing attack at
the Gush Katif junction in the central Gaza Strip. While search
procedures were being implemented at a post at the junction, the suicide
bomber with explosives strapped to his body detonated himself. Hamas
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 25, 2005 - Five people were killed and 50 wounded Friday night, when
a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Stage club on the Tel Aviv
promenade at around 11:20 P.M., on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah
Hanavi streets. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Yitzhak Buzaglo, 40, of Mishmar Hayarden; Aryeh Nagar, 37,
of Kfar Sava; Yael Orbach, 28, of Rehovot; Ronen Reuvenov, 30, of Tel
Aviv. Odelia Hubara, 26, of Jerusalem, died of her wounds on February 28.
May 2, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Dan Talasnikov, 21, of Nir Galim was killed and
another soldier lightly wounded in an exchange of fire during an
operation to arrest wanted terrorists from the Islamic Jihad in the
village of Saida, north of Tulkarem. One of the terrorists, responsible
for the February 25 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, was killed. The second
terrorist was apprehended.
June 7, 2005 - Three workers were killed and five wounded when a Qassam
rocket hit a packing shed in Ganei Tal, in the Gaza Strip, penetrating
the building's roof and exploding indoors. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility for the attack.
The Chinese worker killed has been identified as Bi Shude, 46, from Jilin
province in northeastern China. The Palestinian workers killed were Salah
Ayash Imran, 57, of Khan Yunis, married and the father of 8, and Muhammed
Mahmoud Jaroun, of Khan Yunis.
June 19, 2005 - IDF NCO Sgt.-Maj. Avi Karouchi, 25, of Beersheba was
killed and two soldiers were wounded in a coordinated Palestinian attack
in which RPG missiles and gunfire were fired at an IDF engineering force
conducting construction work on the Philadelphi route along the Israeli-
Egyptian border. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 20, 2005 - Yevgeny Reider, 28 of Hermesh was killed and a 16-year
old teenager was wounded in a terrorist shooting attack in the village of
Baka A-Sharkiya in the northern West Bank. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility for the attack.
June 24, 2005 - Avihai Levy, 17, of Beit Hagai was killed in a drive-by
terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop about 200 meters from the
entrance to Beit Hagai, south of Hebron. Aviad Mansour, 16, of Otniel,
fatally wounded in the attack, died on June 26. Three others were
wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
July 12, 2005 - Rachel Ben Abu, 16, of Tel Aviv; Nofar Horowitz, 16, of
Tel Aviv; and Julia Voloshin, 31, of Netanya were killed and about 90
people were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside
Hasharon Mall in Netanya. Anya Lifshitz, 50, of Netanya, who was mortally
wounded, succumbed to her wounds on July 13. Cpl. Moshe Maor Jan, 21, of
Netanya died of his wounds on July 14. The bomber was identified as Ahmed
Abu Khalil, 18, from the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 14, 2005 - Dana Galkowicz, 22, of Kibbutz Bror Hayil, was killed by
a Kassam rocket fired at Netiv Ha'asara north of the Gaza Strip. Hamas,
Islamic Jihad, and Fatah all claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 23, 2005 - Dov, 58, and Rachel Kol, 53, of Jerusalem were killed
late Saturday night near the Kissufim crossing in the southern Gaza Strip
while returning home from visiting family in Gush Katif. Three others
were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
claimed responsibility for the attack.
BOLU
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Friends of Gush Katif:
http://www.katifund.org
> Blablabla la culpa de las victimas, seran idiotas. Pero sigues sin
> explicar 679 homicidios.
Estos, en cambio, estan perfectamente explicados incluso para canallas
como tu:
,073 people have been killed by Palestinian violence and terrorism since
September 2000.
Between September 29, 2000 and August 1, 2005, Magen David Adom treated a
total of 7,445 casualties as amows:
967 killed, 611 severely injured, 892 moderately and 4,975 lightly
injured, among them 11 MDA staff members.
(IDF casualties treated by IDF medical personnel are not included in
these figures.)
Note: This list also includes 18 Israelis killed abroad in terror attacks
directed specifically against Israeli targets, and 3 American diplomatic
personnel killed in Gaza.
List of victims by date:
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 Norzhich,
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 blast.
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 - 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
amowing 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 amowing 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 amowing 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 17, 2001 - Zion Ohana, 45, of Adam was brutally murdered by three
residents of Jaba in Samaria.
Dec 25, 2001 - Sgt. Michael Sitbon, 23, of Beit Shemesh, an IDF reserve
soldier, was killed, and four other soldiers were injured, in a shooting
attack Tuesday morning near the Jordanian border north of Beit She'an.
Jan 9, 2002 - Maj. Ashraf Hawash, 28, of Beit Zarzir; Sgt.-Maj. Ibrahim
Hamadieh, 23, of Rehaniya; Sgt.-Maj. Hana (Eli) Abu-Ghanem, 25, of Haifa;
and St.-Sgt. Mofid Sawaid, 25, of Abu Snan, four IDF soldiers of the
Bedouin desert patrol unit, were killed and two injured when two armed
Palestinian terrorists from the southern Gaza Strip, carrying explosive
belts, assault rifles, grenades, and dressed in Palestinian 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, amowing 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 21, 2002 - Minhal Dragma, 22, of Baka al-Garbiya, was killed when a
terrorist opened fire at IDF soldiers at the entrance to Baka al-
Sharkiya.
Feb 22, 2002 - Valery Ahmir, 59, of Beit Shemesh was killed by terrorists
in a drive-by shooting on the Atarot-Givat Ze'ev road north of Jerusalem
as he returned home from work. Fatah claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Feb 25, 2002 - Avraham Fish, 65, and Aharon Gorov, 46, both of Nokdim,
were killed in a terrorist shooting attack between Tekoa and Nokdim,
south of Bethlehem. Fish's daughter, 9 months pregnant, was seriously
injured but delivered a baby girl. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Feb 25, 2002 - Police officer 1st Sgt. Galit Arbiv, 21, of Nesher, died
after being fatally shot, when a terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in
the Neve Ya'akov residential 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 Birmov, 33, of
Ariel; Vadim Balagula, 32, of Ariel; and Didi Yitzhak, 66, of Eli. The
Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 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 while inside his tank and evacuating infantry personnel.
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, 2002.
Sarah Levy-Hoffman, 89, of Tel-Aviv died of her injuries on April 7,
2002.
Anna Yakobovitch, 78, of Holon died of her injuries on April 11, 2002.
Eliezer Korman, 74, of Ramat Hasharon died of his wounds on May 5, 2002.
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 Menchel, 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. Gedaliah Mellick, 21, of Jerusalem was killed and
12 soldiers were wounded 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 earlier in the week during IDF operations in Dura (Operation
Defensive Shield).
Apr 12, 2002 - Border policeman St.-Sgt. David Smirnoff, 22, of Ashdod
was killed when a Palestinian 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 Kimchy, 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 amowing 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 Kehrmann, 17, of
Haifa; St.-Sgt. Eliyahu Laham, 22, of Haifa; Abigail Litle, 14, of Haifa;
Yuval Mendellevich, 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 Jovenlandeses 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 Rivka Shichrur, 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 - Nine IDF soldiers were killed and 30 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. Sgt. Liron Siboni, 19, of Ramat Gan died of her wounds on
November 19.
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 dar de baja de la suscripción de la vida, 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 dar de baja de la suscripción de la vida, 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
pililack, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin, and Sgt. Roy Yacov Solomon, 21, of Tel
Aviv, were killed and another soldier was seriously wounded while on
patrol in Ein Yabrud, north of Ramallah, when terrorists fired on them
from behind. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Oct 24, 2003 - Three IDF soldiers - St.-Sgt. Alon Avrahami, 21, of Or
Yehuda, Sgt. Adi Osman, 19, of Kfar Sava, and Sgt. Sarit Schneor-Senior,
19, of Shoham - were killed and two others wounded when a Palestinian
terrorist infiltrated the army base in the Gaza Strip settlement of
Netzarim and opened fire on the soldiers' barracks. Hamas and the Islamic
Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
Nov 18, 2003 - Two IDF soldiers, Sgt.-Maj. Shlomi Belsky, 23, of Haifa,
and St.-Sgt. Shaul Lahav, 20, of Kibbutz Shomrat, were killed by a
Palestinian terrorist who opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle, hidden
in a prayer rug, at a checkpoint on the tunnel bypass road, linking
Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion bloc. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 19, 2003 - Patricia Ter´n Navarrete, 33, of Ecuador was killed and
four other tourists, pilgrims from Ecuador, were wounded when a terrorist
entered the Israel-Jordan border crossing terminal north of Eilat from
the Jordanian side and opened fire. The terrorist was killed by Israeli
security guards.
Nov 22, 2003 - Two Israeli security guards, Ilya Reiger, 58, of
Jerusalem, and Samer Fathi Afan, 25, of the Bedouin village Uzeir near
Nazareth, were shot dead at a construction site along the route of the
security fence near Abu Dis in East Jerusalem. The Jenin Martyrs'
Brigades, affiliated with Fatah, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 22, 2003 - Capt. Hagai Bibi, 24, of Maaleh Adumim, and Capt. Leonardo
(Alex) Weissman, 23, of Afula were killed when a Palestinian terrorist
opened fire and threw hand grenades as they emerged from their jeep on
the Kissufim-Gush Katif road in the Gaza Strip. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 25, 2003 - Adva Fisher, 20, of Kfar Sava; St.-Sgt. Noam Leibowitz,
22, of Elkana; Cpl. Angelina Shcherov, 19, of Kfar Sava; and Cpl. Rotem
Weinberger, 19, of Kfar Sava were killed and over 20 people were wounded
in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Geha Junction, east of Tel
Aviv, near Petah Tikva. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 13, 2004 - Ro'i Arbel, 29, of Talmon, was killed in a terror shooting
ambush near his home in Samaria. Three other passengers of the vehicle
were wounded. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Jan 14, 2004 - Cpl. Andrei Kegeles, 19, of Nahariya; St.-Sgt. Tzur Or,
20, of Rishon Lezion; security guard Gal Shapira, 29, of Ashkelon; and
Border Policeman St.-Sgt. Vladimir Trostinsky, 22, of Rehovot were killed
and 10 wounded when a female suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the Erez
Crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
Jan 29, 2004 - Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded, 13 of them
seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of
Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. Both the Fatah-related Al Aqsa
Martyrs' Brigades and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, naming
the bomber as Ali Yusuf Jaara, a 24-year-old Palestinian policeman from
Bethlehem.
The victims: Avraham (Albert) Balhasan, 28, of Jerusalem; Rose Boneh, 39,
of Jerusalem; Hava Hannah (Anya) Bonder, 38, of Jerusalem; Anat Darom,
23, of Netanya; Viorel Octavian Florescu, 42, of Jerusalem; Natalia
Gamril, 53, of Jerusalem; Yechezkel Isser Goldberg, 41, of Betar Illit;
Baruch (Roman) Hondiashvili, 38, of Jerusalem; Dana Itach, 24, of
Jerusalem; Mehbere Kifile, 35, of Ethiopia; and Eli Zfira, 48, of
Jerusalem.
Feb 22, 2004 - Eight people were killed and over 60 wounded, 11 of them
school pupils, in a suicide bombing on Jerusalem bus no. 14A near the
Liberty Bell Park. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by Mohammed Za'ul,
from the Bethlehem area.
The victims: Israel Ilan Avisidris, 41, of Jerusalem; Lior Azulai, 18, of
Jerusalem; Yaffa Ben-Shimol, 57, of Jerusalem; Rahamim Doga, 38, of
Mevasseret Zion; Yehuda Haim, 48, of Givat Ze'ev; St.-Sgt. Netanel
Havshush, 20, of Jerusalem; Yuval Ozana, 32, of Jerusalem; and Benaya
Yehonatan Zuckerman, 18, of Jerusalem.
Feb 26, 2004 - Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Amir Zimmerman, 25, of Kfar Monash was
killed and two other soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists
opened fire near the Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The
terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 27, 2004 - Eitan Kukoi, 30, and his wife, Rima Novikov Kukoi, 25,
were killed in a terrorist shooting attack on the Lahav-Ashkelon road,
along the Green Line. The PFLP and the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
both claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 14, 2004 - Ten people were killed and 16 wounded in a double suicide
bombing at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the
attack. The victims: Gil Abutbul, 38, of Ashdod; Danny Assulin, 51, of
Ashdod; Avraham Avraham, 34, of Ashdod; Zion Dahan, 30, of Ashdod; Ophir
Damari, 31, of Rehovot; Moshe Hendler, 29, of Rehovot; Mazal Marciano,
30, of Ashdod; Avi Suissa, 56, of Kiryat Malakhi; Maurice Tubul, 30, of
Ashdod; and Pinhas Avraham Zilberman, 45, of Tel Aviv.
Mar 19, 2004 - George Khoury, 20, a Christian Arab and the son of well-
known veteran attorney Elias Khoury of Beit Hanina, was shot to death
from a vehicle while jogging in the north Jerusalem neighborhood of
French Hill. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which claimed
responsibility for the attack, later published an apology.
Apr 3, 2004 - Yaakov (Kobi) Zagha, 40, of Avnei Hefetz was shot dead by a
terrorist outside his home, after his daughter Hani, 14, was shot and
wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 17, 2004 - Border Policeman Cpl. Kfir Ohayon, 20, of Eilat was
killed, three others wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew
himself up at the Erez Crossing. Hamas and Fatah claimed joint
responsibility for the attack.
Apr 25, 2004 - Border Policeman Cpl. Yaniv Mashiah, 20, of Jaffa, was
killed and three others lightly wounded just an hour after the beginning
of Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers when shots were fired at
their vehicle near Hebron. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
May 2, 2004 - Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters - Hila, 11, Hadar, 9,
Roni, 7, and Merav, 2 - of Katif in the Gaza Strip were killed and
another civilian and two soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists
fired on an Israeli car at the entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc
of Gush Katif. Fatah and Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for
the attack.
May 11, 2004 - Six IDF soldiers were killed during an IDF operation to
target Qassam workshops in Gaza City, when an Armored Personnel Carrier
was struck by an explosive device planted by Palestinian terrorists.
Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The soldiers killed: Sgt. Adaron Amar, 20, of Eilat; Sgt. Aviad Deri,
21, of Maale Adumim; Staff-Sgt. Ofer Jerbi, 21, of Moshav Ben-Zakai;
Staff-Sgt. Ya'akov (Zelco) Marviza, 25, of Kibbutz Hama'apil; Sgt. Kobi
Mizrahi, 20, of Moshav Mata; and Staff-Sgt. Eitan Newman, 21, of
Jerusalem.
May 12, 2004 - An IDF officer and four soldiers were killed, and three
IDF soldiers were lightly injured, while preparing to detonate a weapon-
smuggling tunnel on the Philadelphi Route near the Israeli-Egyptian
border near Rafah. Their armored personnel carrier exploded, apparently
after being hit by an RPG anti-tank rocket. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility for the attack.
The soldiers killed: Cpl. Elad Cohen, 20, of Jerusalem; Sgt.-Maj. Aiman
Ghadir, 24, of Bir Makhsur; Capt. Aviv Hakani, 23, of Ashdod; Sgt. Za'ur
(Zohar) Smelev, 19, of Ofakim; and Sgt. Lior Vishinski, 20, of Ramat Gan.
May 14, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Rotem Adam, 21, Rishon Lezion and Sgt. Alexei
Hayat, 21, of Beer Sheva were killed and two soldiers moderately wounded
by Palestinian sniper fire in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza
Strip.
May 29, 2004 - Maj. Shachar Ben-Yishai, 25, of Menahemia was killed by
Palestinian gunfire amowing a search in the Balata camp near Nablus.
The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 21, 2004 - A foreign worker, Weerachai Wongput, 37, from the Nong
Han District of the northeastern province of Udon Thani in Thailand, died
after being hit by shrapnel from a mortar fired into greenhouses in Kfar
Darom in the Gaza Strip. The mortar was fired by Palestinians trying to
divert attention from an attempt to infiltrate the settlement. Hamas
claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 27, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Roi Nissim, 20, of Rishon Lezion, was killed and
five other soldiers were wounded when their outpost in the Gaza Strip was
blown up by Hamas terrorists who tunneled under the position and
detonated a massive explosive charge.
June 28, 2004 - Mordechai Yosepov, 49, and Afik Zahavi, four, were killed
when a Kassam rocket fired by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip struck
near a nursery school in the northern Negev town of Sderot.
June 29, 2004 - Moshe Yohai, 63, of Ashdod, was found shot to death in
Beit Rima, a Palestinian Authority-controlled village near Ramallah,
where he had apparently gone on business. The Aksa Martyrs Brigades
claimed responsibility.
July 4, 2004 - Victor Kreiderman, 49, of Mevo Dotan, was ambushed and
shot to death by Aksa Martyrs Brigades terrorists as he and his wife were
driving near the village of Yabad. His wife, Emma, was lightly wounded.
July 6, 2004 - Capt. Moran Vardi, 25, of Binyamina, of the Navy Seals
commando unit Shayetet 13, was killed, and three others were wounded in
an exchange of fire between IDF forces and Palestinian terrorists while
attempting to arrest terrorists in Nablus.
July 11, 2004 - Sgt. Ma'ayan Na'im, 19, of Bat Yam, was killed and 33
wounded when a bomb exploded at a bus stop in downtown Tel Aviv at about
7 a.m. One person was critically wounded, four were moderately wounded,
and the rest were lightly hurt.
Aug 13, 2004 - Shlomo Miller, 50, of Itamar in Samaria was killed by a
Palestinian terrorist who opened fire outside the settlement gate. The
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.
Aug 31, 2004 - Sixteen people were killed and 100 wounded in two suicide
bombings within minutes of each other on two Beersheba city buses, on
route nos. 6 and 12. The buses were traveling along Beersheba's main
street, Rager Blvd, near the city hall. Hamas in Hebron claimed
responsibility for the attack.
The victims, all residents of Beersheba: Shoshana Amos, 64; Aviel Atash,
3; Vitaly Brodsky, 52; Tamara Dibrashvilli, 70; Raisa Forer, 55; Larisa
Gomanenko, 48; Denise Hadad, 50; Tatiana Kortchenko, 49; Rosita Lehman,
45; Karine Malka, 23; Nargiz Ostrovsky, 54; Maria Sokolov, 57; Roman
Sokolovsky, 53; Tiroayent Takala, 33; Eliyahu Uzan, 58; Emmanuel Yosef
(Yosefov), 28.
Sept 22, 2004 - Two Border Policemen - Lance Cpl. Menashe Komemi, 19, of
Moshav Aminadav and Lance Cpl. Mamoya Tahio, 20, of Rehovot - were
killed and 17 Israelis wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a
female terrorist at the French Hill junction hitchhiking post in northern
Jerusalem. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Sept 23, 2004 - Capt. Tal Bardugo, 21, of Jerusalem, St.-Sgt. Nir Sami,
21, of Jerusalem, and St.-Sgt. Israel Lutati, 20, of Neve Dekalim were
killed by several Palestinian terrorists, armed with AK-47 assault
riffles and hand grenades, who infiltrated the military post near the
community of Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Another soldier and a
journalist were also wounded in the exchange of fire in which the
terrorists were killed. Two Fatah-related terror groups and the Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 24, 2004 - Tiferet Tratner, 24, of Jerusalem was killed in her home
in Neveh Dekalim by a mortar strike on the Gush Katif settlement bloc in
the Gaza Strip.
Sept 29, 2004 - Dorit Aniso, 2, and Yuval Abebeh, 4, both of Sderot, were
killed by a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza while playing in the street.
Some 20 people were wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 30, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Gilad Fisher, 22, of Mitzpeh Hoshaya, was killed
before dawn when Hamas terrorists, under cover of heavy fog, attacked an
IDF lookout post east of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip. Two other
soldiers were wounded. The terrorists were killed.
Sept 30, 2004 - Shlomit Batito, 36, of Nissanit, was shot and killed by
Hamas terrorists while jogging on the road. Sgt. Victor Ariel, 20, of
Kadima, a medic, was killed by a grenade thrown by one of the terrorists
as he ran to aid Batito. The terrorists were killed by soldiers.
Oct 6, 2004 - Pratheep Nanongkham, 24, a greenhouse worker from Maha
Sarakham province in Thailand, was killed when armed terrorists
infiltrated the hothouse area of Kfar Darom in the central Gaza Strip.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 7, 2004 - A total of 32 people were killed in terror bombings at two
Sinai holiday resorts frequented by Israelis: 29 at the Taba Hilton and
three at Ras a-Satan. Among the dead were 12 Israelis; over 120 were
wounded.
The Israeli victims at Taba: Assaf Greenwald, 27, of Ramat Gan; Hafez al-
Hafi, 39, of Lod; Rotem Moriah, 27, of Tel Aviv; Tzila Niv, 43, and her
two sons, Gilad, 11, and Lior, 3, of Rakefet; Oleg Paizakov, 32, and his
wife Ludmilla, 30, of Bat Yam; and Khalil Zeitounya, 10, of Jaffa.
The Israeli victims at Ras a-Satan: Michal Alexander, 27, of Ganei Tikva;
Roy Avisaf, 28, of Kfar Sava; and Einat Naor, 27, of Kibbutz Zikim.
Oct 19, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Yair Nisim Turgemann, 22, of Kiryat Arba, was
killed at an IDF base near Mevo Dotan in Samaria when Palestinian gunmen
opened fire from Palestinian territory west of the community. The Fatah
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 21, 2004 - Sgt.-Maj. Moshe Almaliach, 35, of Dimona, a career NCO in
the IDF engineering corps, was killed by a bomb explosion While
conducting construction work on the Philadelphi road in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 28, 2004 - Sgt. Michael Chizhik, 21, of Tiberias was killed and six
other soldiers wounded in a mortar shell attack on an IDF outpost at
Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Nov 1, 2004 - Three people were killed and over 30 wounded in a suicide
bombing at the Carmel Market in central Tel Aviv. The Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine in Nablus claimed responsibility for the
attack, carried out by Amar Alfar, 18, from Askar refugee camp in Nablus.
The victims: Tatiana Ackerman, 32, of Tel Aviv; Leah Levine, 64, of
Givatayim; and Shmuel Levy, 65, of Jaffa.
Dec 7, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Nadav Kudinski, 20, of Kiryat Gat of the Oketz
canine unit was killed by a bomb, along with his dog, when a booby-
trapped chicken coup exploded northwest of the Karni Corssing in the Gaza
Strip. Four soldiers were wounded in the exchange of fire while
evacuating him. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 12, 2004 - Five IDF soldiers were killed and five wounded when a
tunnel filled with 1.5 tons of explosives were detonated under an IDF
post at the Rafah crossing, amowed by the infiltration of the post by
two terrorists who opened fire and activated another explosive device.
Hamas and the Fatah Hawks claimed responsibility for the attack.
The soldiers killed: Sgt. Araf Azbarga, 19, of Kseifeh; Sgt. Sa'id
Jahaja, 19, of Arara; Sgt. Hussein Abu Leil, 23, of Ein Mahal; Corp.
Adham Shehada, 19, of Turan; and Sgt. Tarek al-Ziadne, 20, of Rahat.
Dec 14, 2004 - Jitladda Tap-arsa, 19, a female agricultural worker from
Udon Thani’s Nong Han district in northereastern Thailand, was killed and
two other foreign workers from Thailand and Nepal were wounded by mortar
shells fired at Ganei Tal in the Gush Katif settlement bloc from the Gaza
Strip.
Dec 21, 2004 - Ariella Fahima, 39, of Moshav Nehusha, south of Beit
Shemesh, was stabbed to death at the door to her house, apparently by a
terrorist who infiltrated the perimeter fence.
Dec 22, 2004 - Salem (Sami) al-Kimlat, 28, a Bedouin from the town of
Rahat employed as a security guard at the construction site of the
security fence west of Hebron, was shot and killed by Palestinian
terrorists. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for
the attack.
Jan 2, 2005 - Nissim Arbiv, 25, of Nissanit in the Gaza Strip was
mortally wounded in a mortar shell attack while working in the Erez
Industrial Zone. He died of his wounds on January 11. Two others were
wounded in the attack, for which Hamas claimed responsibility.
Jan 7, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Yosef (Yossi) Atia, 21, of Petah Tikva, was killed
and three fellow off-duty soldiers were wounded when Palestinian gunmen
opened fire on their car on the Trans-Samaria Highway. The Fatah al-Aksa
Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 12, 2005 - Gideon Rivlin, 50, of Ganei Tal was killed and three IDF
soldiers were wounded when a bomb was detonated as a military vehicle
patroled the route near Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Two terrorists
were killed by IDF forces. The area was booby-trapped with explosive
devices, in addition to the bomb that exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Jan 13, 2005 - On Thursday night, shortly before the closing of the Karni
Crossing, terrorists activated an explosive device on the Palestinian
side, blowing a hole in the door through which Palestinian terrorists
infiltrated the Israeli side of the crossing and opened fire at Israeli
civilians. As a result of the explosion and exchanges of fire, six
Israeli civilians and three Palestinian terrorists were killed, and five
Israeli civilians were wounded. Hamas and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs'
Brigades claimed joint responsiblity for the attack.
The victims: Dror Gizri, 30, of Sderot; Ibrahim Kahili, 46, of Umm al-
Ghanem; Munam Abu Sabia, 33, of Daburiyeh; Ivan Shmilov, 53, of Sderot;
Herzl Shlomo, 51, of Sderot; and Ofer Tiri, 23, of Ashkelon.
Jan 15, 2005 - Ayala-Haya (Ella) Abukasis, 17, of Sderot was mortally
wounded when a Qassam rocket landed near her and shrapnel penetrated her
cerebellum, leaving her brain dead. She was struck while protecting her
younger brother, who was lightly wounded. Kept on life support throughout
the week, her parents agreed to stop treatment when doctors told them
there was no chance of recovery. She died on January 21.
Jan 18, 2005 - Oded Sharon, 36, from Gan Yavne, an ISA officer, was
killed, an IDF officer seriously wounded, and four IDF soldiers and three
members of the ISA were lightly wounded in a suicide bombing attack at
the Gush Katif junction in the central Gaza Strip. While search
procedures were being implemented at a post at the junction, the suicide
bomber with explosives strapped to his body detonated himself. Hamas
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 25, 2005 - Five people were killed and 50 wounded Friday night, when
a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Stage club on the Tel Aviv
promenade at around 11:20 P.M., on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah
Hanavi streets. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Yitzhak Buzaglo, 40, of Mishmar Hayarden; Aryeh Nagar, 37,
of Kfar Sava; Yael Orbach, 28, of Rehovot; Ronen Reuvenov, 30, of Tel
Aviv. Odelia Hubara, 26, of Jerusalem, died of her wounds on February 28.
May 2, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Dan Talasnikov, 21, of Nir Galim was killed and
another soldier lightly wounded in an exchange of fire during an
operation to arrest wanted terrorists from the Islamic Jihad in the
village of Saida, north of Tulkarem. One of the terrorists, responsible
for the February 25 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, was killed. The second
terrorist was apprehended.
June 7, 2005 - Three workers were killed and five wounded when a Qassam
rocket hit a packing shed in Ganei Tal, in the Gaza Strip, penetrating
the building's roof and exploding indoors. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility for the attack.
The Chinese worker killed has been identified as Bi Shude, 46, from Jilin
province in northeastern China. The Palestinian workers killed were Salah
Ayash Imran, 57, of Khan Yunis, married and the father of 8, and Muhammed
Mahmoud Jaroun, of Khan Yunis.
June 19, 2005 - IDF NCO Sgt.-Maj. Avi Karouchi, 25, of Beersheba was
killed and two soldiers were wounded in a coordinated Palestinian attack
in which RPG missiles and gunfire were fired at an IDF engineering force
conducting construction work on the Philadelphi route along the Israeli-
Egyptian border. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 20, 2005 - Yevgeny Reider, 28 of Hermesh was killed and a 16-year
old teenager was wounded in a terrorist shooting attack in the village of
Baka A-Sharkiya in the northern West Bank. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility for the attack.
June 24, 2005 - Avihai Levy, 17, of Beit Hagai was killed in a drive-by
terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop about 200 meters from the
entrance to Beit Hagai, south of Hebron. Aviad Mansour, 16, of Otniel,
fatally wounded in the attack, died on June 26. Three others were
wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
July 12, 2005 - Rachel Ben Abu, 16, of Tel Aviv; Nofar Horowitz, 16, of
Tel Aviv; and Julia Voloshin, 31, of Netanya were killed and about 90
people were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside
Hasharon Mall in Netanya. Anya Lifshitz, 50, of Netanya, who was mortally
wounded, succumbed to her wounds on July 13. Cpl. Moshe Maor Jan, 21, of
Netanya died of his wounds on July 14. The bomber was identified as Ahmed
Abu Khalil, 18, from the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 14, 2005 - Dana Galkowicz, 22, of Kibbutz Bror Hayil, was killed by
a Kassam rocket fired at Netiv Ha'asara north of the Gaza Strip. Hamas,
Islamic Jihad, and Fatah all claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 23, 2005 - Dov, 58, and Rachel Kol, 53, of Jerusalem were killed
late Saturday night near the Kissufim crossing in the southern Gaza Strip
while returning home from visiting family in Gush Katif. Three others
were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
claimed responsibility for the attack.
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