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Palestinian political violence

January 01, 1970

Palestinian political violence refers to actions carried out by Palestinians with the intent to achieve political objectives that can involve the use of force, some of which are considered acts of terror,[1][2][3][4][5] and often carried out in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the Israeli occupation. Common objectives of political violence by Palestinian groups[6] include self-determination in and sovereignty over Palestine,[7][8] or the "liberation of Palestine" and recognition of a Palestinian state, either in place of both Israel and the Palestinian territories, or solely in the Palestinian territories. This includes the objective of ending the Israeli occupation. Some of the factions have called for the destruction of the state of Israel. More limited goals include the release of Palestinian prisoners or the Palestinian right of return.[9][10][11][12][13]

Arab military volunteers in 1947
Hamas' military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, on parade

Palestinian groups that have been involved in politically motivated violence include the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Fatah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Abu Nidal Organization, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas.[14] Several of these groups are considered terrorist organizations by the governments of the United States,[15] Canada,[16] the United Kingdom,[17] Japan,[18] New Zealand[19] and the European Union.[20][21]

Palestinian political violence has targeted Israelis, Palestinians, Lebanese, Jordanians,[22] Egyptians,[23] Americans[24] and citizens of other countries.[25] Attacks have taken place both within Israel and the Palestinian territories as well as internationally and have been directed at both military and civilian targets. Tactics have included hostage taking, plane hijacking, boat hijacking, stone and improvised weapon throwing, improvised explosive device (IED), knife attacks, shooting sprees, vehicle-ramming attacks, car bombs, suicide attacks, and assassinations.

Israeli statistics state that 3,500 Israelis have been killed as a result of Palestinian political violence since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.[26][25] Suicide bombings constituted 0.5% of Palestinian attacks against Israelis in the first two years of the Al Aqsa Intifada; though this percentage accounted for half of the Israelis killed in that period.[27] As of 2022, a majority of Palestinians, 59%, believe armed attacks against Israelis inside Israel are an effective measure to end the occupation, with 56% supporting them.[28]

History

Overview and context

 
A Jewish bus equipped with wire screens to protect against rock, glass, and grenade throwing, late 1930s
 
A demolished farmhouse in Tel Mond, Israel, after a fedayun attack

In protest against the Balfour Declaration, which proposed Palestine as a homeland for the Jewish people, and its implementation under a League of Nations Mandate for Great Britain, Palestinians, both Muslim and Christian, from November 1918 onwards, began to organize in opposition to Zionism. By the end of Ottoman rule, the Jewish population of Palestine was 56,000[29] or one-sixth of the population.[30] Hostility to Jewish immigration led to numerous incidents such as the 1920 Nebi Musa riots, the Jaffa riots of 1921, the 1929 Palestine riots and the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine (which was suppressed by British security forces and led to the deaths of approximately 5,000 Palestinians). After the passing of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947 which called for the establishment of independent Arab and Jewish States, a Palestinian Civil War broke out. On the declaration of the state of Israel, May 15, 1948, a full-scale war, involving also the intervention of neighbouring Arab states, took place, with casualties of 6,000 Israelis and, according to the 1958 survey by Arif al-Arif, 13,000 Palestinians[31] and the exodus, through expulsion, or panicked flight, of approximately 700,000 Arab Palestinians who subsequently became refugees.[32] In the Six-Day War, a further 280,000–360,000 Palestinians became refugees, and the remaining Palestinian territories were also occupied from Jordan and from Egypt, and later began to be settled by Jewish and Israeli settlers, while the Palestinians were placed under military administration. While historically, Palestinian militancy was fragmented into several groups, the PLO led, and eventually united, most factions, while conducting military campaigns that varied from airplane hijackings, militant operations and civil protest. In 1987, a mass revolt of predominantly civil resistance, called the First Intifada, exploded, leading to the Madrid Conference of 1991, and subsequently to the Oslo I Accord, which produced an interim understanding allowing a new Palestinian authority, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to exercise limited autonomy in 3% (later 17%) of the West Bank, and parts of the Gaza Strip not used or earmarked for Israeli settlement. Frustration over the perceived failure of the peace talks to yield a Palestinian state[33] led to the outbreak of the Al Aqsa Intifada in September 2000, which ended in 2005, coincident with the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. The rise of Hamas, the use of Palestinian rocketry and Israel's control of Gaza's borders, has led to further chronic violence, culminating in a further two conflicts, the Gaza War of 2008–09 and Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012. It is estimated that since 1920, when the first riots against Jews broke out, 90,785 Arabs including Palestinians have died, and some 67,602 been wounded in all wars and conflicts between Israel and its neighbors. On the other hand, 24,841 Jews and Israelis have died and 35,356 have been wounded during the same period.[34] Since 1967, some reports estimate that some 40% of the male population of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been arrested or detained in Israeli prisons for political or military reasons.[35]

British-mandated Palestine (1917–1947)

Violence against the Jews in Palestine followed the Balfour Declaration in November 1917 which stimulated Jewish migrants to settle in Palestine. At this time the Arabs were both geographically and demographically dominant compared to the Jewish population, where the majority of Arabs were distributed throughout the highlands of Judea, Samaria and Galilee and the Jewish population was scattered in small towns and rural communities. The Arabs realized that the Jewish community, due to their lower numbers, was vulnerable to attrition and less able to take casualties. Therefore, they adopted a "war of attrition" tactic which was advantageous to the more numerous Arab community.[36]

Many of the deaths were inflicted during short time spans and in a few locations. For instance, in April 1920 about 216 Jews became casualties (killed or wounded) in a single day in Jerusalem. By May 1921, the casualty rate for Jews was approaching 40 per day and in August 1929 it had risen to 80 per day. During the 1929 riots, one percent of the Jewish population of Jerusalem became casualties, in Safed 2 percent and in Hebron 12 percent.[36] During the 1920–1929 attacks on Jews were organized by local groups and encouraged by local religious leaders. As the Jewish community did not count on the British authorities to protect them, they formed the Haganah which were predominantly defensive in the 1920s.[36] During the Arab Revolt in the 1936–1939 period, violence was coordinated and organized by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and was directed against both Jews and the British. Due to the rising level of Arab violence, the Haganah started to pursue an offensive strategy.[36]

UN Partition Plan to establishment of PLO (1947–1964)

See also: List of attacks against Israeli civilians before 1967

Around 400 Palestinian "infiltrators" were killed by Israeli Security Forces each year in 1951, 1952 and 1953; a similar number and probably far more were killed in 1950. 1,000 or more were killed in 1949. At least 100 were killed during 1954–1956. In total upward of 2,700 and possibly as many as 5,000 'infiltrators' were killed by the IDF, police, and civilians along Israel's borders between 1949 and 1956. Most of the people in question were refugees attempting to return to their homes, take back possessions that had been left behind during the war and to gather crops from their former fields and orchards inside the new Israeli state.[37] Meron Benivasti states that the fact that the "infiltrators" were for the most part former inhabitants of the land returning for personal, economic and sentimental reasons was suppressed in Israel as it was feared that this may lead to an understanding of their motives and to the justification of their actions.[37]

Throughout the period 1949–56 the Egyptian government opposed the movement of refugees from the Gaza strip into Israel, but following the IDF's Gaza Raid on February 28, 1955, the Egyptian authorities facilitated militant infiltration but still continued to oppose civilian infiltration.[38] At first, Palestinians were trying to go back to their houses or to retrieve property [citation needed] but after 1950 these acts became much more violent and included killings of civilians in nearby cities.[citation needed]

After Israel's Operation Black Arrow in 1955 which came as a result of a series of massacres in the city of Rehovot, the Palestinian fedayeen were incorporated into an Egyptian unit.[39] John Bagot Glubb, a British general who commanded the Arab Legion, claimed in his 1957 autobiography A Soldier with the Arabs that he convinced the Legion to arm and train the fedayeen for free.[40] Between 1951 and 1956, 400 Israelis were killed and 900 wounded by fedayeen attacks.;[41][42] according to the Anti-Defamation League "[i]n 1955 alone, 260 Israeli citizens were killed or wounded by fedayeen".[43]

The Palestine Liberation Organization was founded in 1964. At its first convention in Cairo, hundreds of Palestinians met to "call for the right of self-determination and the upholding of the rights of the Palestinian nation".[44] To achieve these goals, a Palestinian army of liberation was thought to be essential; thus, the Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) was established with the support of the Arab states.[44] Fatah, a Palestinian group founded in the late 1950s to organize the armed resistance against Israel, and headed by Yasser Arafat, soon rose to prominence within the PLO. The PLO charter called for "an end to the State of Israel, a return of Palestinians to their homeland, and the establishment of a single democratic state throughout Palestine".[45]

Six-Day War and aftermath

Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the consequences of the June War. The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.

— Yasser Arafat, 1970[46]

Due to Israel's defeat of Arab armies in the Six-Day War, the Palestinian leadership came to the conclusion that the Arab world was unable to challenge Israel militarily in open warfare. Simultaneously, the Palestinians drew lessons from movements and uprisings in Latin America, North Africa and Southeast Asia which led them to move away from guerilla warfare in rural areas towards terrorist attacks in urban environments with an international reach. This led to a series of aircraft hijackings, bombings and kidnappings which culminated in the killings of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. The military superiority of Israel led Palestinian fighters to employ guerrilla tactics from bases in Jordan and Lebanon.[45]

 
George Habash, founder of the PFLP, masterminded the hijackings of four Western airliners to Jordan, which led to the Black September conflict.[47]

In the wake of the Six-Day War, confrontations between Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan and government forces became a major problem within the kingdom. By early 1970, at least seven Palestinian guerrilla organizations were active in Jordan, one of the most important being the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) led by George Habash. Based in the Jordanian refugee camps, the fedayeen developed a virtual state within a state, receiving funds and arms from both the Arab states and Eastern Europe and openly flouting the law of the country. The guerrillas initially focused on attacking Israel, but by late 1968, the main fedayeen activities in Jordan appeared to shift to attempts to overthrow the Jordanian monarchy.[22]

Black September

Main article: Black September in Jordan

Various clashes between the fedayeen and the army occurred between the years 1968–1970. The situation climaxed in September 1970, when several attempts to assassinate king Hussein failed. On September 7, 1970, in the series of Dawson's Field hijackings, three planes were hijacked by PFLP: a SwissAir and a TWA that were landed in Azraq area and a Pan Am that was landed in Cairo. Then on September 9, a BOAC flight from Bahrain was also hijacked to Zarqa. The PFLP announced that the hijackings were intended "to pay special attention to the Palestinian problem". After all hostages were removed, the planes were dramatically blown up in front of TV cameras.

A bitterly fought 10-day civil war known as Black September ensued, drawing involvement by Syria and Iraq, and sparking troop movements by Israel and the United States Navy. The number of people killed on all sides were estimated as high as 3,500,[22] other sources claiming it to be as high as 20,000.

Battles between Palestinian guerrilla forces and the Jordanian army continued during the closing months of 1970 and the first six months of 1971. In November 1971, members of the Palestinian Black September group, who took their name from the civil war, assassinated Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal in Cairo. In December the group made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Jordanian ambassador in Britain.[22]

Relocation to Lebanon and Lebanese Civil War

In the aftermath of Black September in Jordan, many Palestinians arrived in Lebanon, among them Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). In the early 1970s their presence exacerbated an already tense situation in Lebanon, and in 1975 the Lebanese Civil War broke out. Beginning with street fighting in Beirut between Christian Phalangists and Palestinian militiamen, the war quickly deteriorated into a conflict between two loosely defined factions: the side wishing to preserve the status quo, consisting primarily of Maronite militias, and the side seeking change, which included a variety of militias from leftist organizations and guerrillas from rejectionist Palestinian (nonmainstream PLO) organizations. The Lebanese civil war lasted until 1990 and resulted in an estimated 130,000 to 250,000 civilian fatalities and one million wounded.[citation needed]

 
Charred remains of the bus hijacked and burnt by Palestinian militants in 1978 in the Coastal Road massacre

After Black September, the PLO and its offshoots waged an international campaign against Israelis. Notable events were the Munich Olympics massacre (1972), the hijacking of several civilian airliners (some were thwarted, see for example: Entebbe Operation), the Savoy Hotel attack, the Zion Square explosive refrigerator and the Coastal Road massacre. During the 1970s and the early 1980s, Israel suffered attacks from PLO bases in Lebanon, such as the Avivim school bus massacre in 1970, the Maalot massacre in 1974 (where Palestinian militants massacred 21 school children) and the Nahariya attack led by Samir Kuntar in 1979, as well as a terrorist bombing by Ziad Abu Ein that killed two Israeli 16-year-olds and left 36 other youths wounded during the Lag BaOmer celebration in Tiberias.[48][49] Following the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, called "Operation Peace for Galilee" by the IDF, and the exile of the PLO to Tunis, Israel had a relatively quiet decade.[citation needed]

First Intifada (1987–1993)

 
Palestinians in Qalandiya throw rocks from behind an ambulance during a riot as part of the Nakba protests.

The First Intifada was characterized more by grassroots and non-violent political actions from among the population in the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories.[50] A total of 160 Israelis and 2,162 Palestinians were killed, including 1,000 Palestinians killed by other Palestinians under the accusation of being collaborators.[51] The Intifada lasted five years and ended with the signing of the Oslo Accords.[52] The strategy of non-violence, though widespread among Palestinians, was not always adhered to, and there were youth who threw molotov cocktails and stones, with such violence generally directed against Israeli soldiers and settlers.[53]

There were two attacks that represented new developments in terms of political violence inside Israel in this period. The first Palestinian suicide attack took place on July 6, 1989, when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad boarded the Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus 405. He walked up to the driver and pulled the wheel to the right, driving the vehicle into a ravine, killing 16 people.[54] The end of the intifada also saw the first use of suicide bombing as a tactic by Palestinian militants. On April 16, 1993, Hamas carried out the Mehola Junction bombing, in which operative Saher Tamam al-Nabulsi detonated his explosives-laden car between two buses. One person, a Palestinian, other than the attacker was killed, and 21 were wounded.[55]

During this period, the Abu Nidal Organization became subsumed by infighting and mass executed hundreds of its members and their families during 1987–1988. The number of executed is estimated at 600 people, mostly Palestinians, across several separate locations in Syria, Lebanon and Libya.[56]

Oslo Accords to Camp David Summit (1993–2000)

 
Bus after 1996 terror bombing in Jerusalem

The years between the intifadas were marked by intense diplomatic activity between Israel and Palestinians as well as the creation of the Palestinian National Authority. In this period, suicide bombings of Israeli buses and crowded spaces as a regular tactic, particularly by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. [citation needed] Attacks during this period include the Beit Lid massacre, a double-suicide bombing at a crowded junction that killed 21 people and the Dizengoff Center massacre, a suicide bombing outside a Tel Aviv shopping mall that killed 13 people.

Second Intifada (2000–2005)

Main article: Second Intifada
 
Bus after 2003 terror bombing in Haifa

According to B'Tselem, as of July 10, 2005, over 400 members of the Israeli Security forces, and 821 Israeli civilians have been killed by Palestinians since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, 553 of whom were killed within the 1949 Armistice lines, mainly by suicide bombings. Targets of attacks included buses, Israeli checkpoint, restaurants, discothèques, shopping malls, a university, and civilian homes.[25][57][58]

Main article: 2000 Ramallah lynching

In October 2000 a Palestinian mob lynched two non-combatant Israel Defense Forces reservists, Vadim Nurzhitz (sometimes spelled as Norzhich) and Yossi Avrahami (or Yosef Avrahami),[59] who had accidentally entered the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Ramallah in the West Bank. The brutality of the event, captured in a photo of a Palestinian rioter proudly waving his blood-stained hands to the crowd below, sparked international outrage and further intensified the ongoing conflict between Israeli and Palestinian forces.[60][61][62]

Suicide bombings and attacks on civilians

A spate of suicide bombings and attacks, aimed mostly at civilians (such as the Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing), was launched against Israel and elicited a military response. A suicide bombing dubbed the Passover Massacre (30 Israeli civilians were killed at Park hotel, Netanya) climaxed a bloody month of March 2002, in which more than 130 Israelis, mostly civilians, were killed in attacks. Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield. The operation led to the apprehension of many members of militant groups, as well as their weaponry and equipment. 497 Palestinians and 30 Israelis were killed during Operation Defensive Shield.[63]

Main article: 2004 Sinai bombings

In 2004, 31 people were killed and 159 others were wounded in a simultaneous attack against multiple tourist destinations in Egypt.[64] Of the dead, 15 were Egyptians, 12 were from Israel, two from Italy, one from Russia, and one was an Israeli-American. According to the Egyptian government, the bombers were Palestinians led by Iyad Saleh, who had tried to enter Israel to carry out attacks there but were unsuccessful.[65]

2005–2013

See also: List of Palestinian suicide attacks and Palestinian domestic weapons production
 
A kindergarten classroom in the Israeli city of Beer Sheva after being hit by a Grad rocket fired from the Gaza Strip

In the mid-2000s Hamas started putting greater emphasis on its political characteristics and strengthened its popularity amongst Palestinians. In 2006 Palestinian legislative elections Hamas won a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council, prompting the United States and many European countries to cut off all funds to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority,[66] insisting that Hamas must recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept previous peace pacts.[67]

After the Israel's unilateral disengagement plan in 2005 and the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections Hamas took control over all the Gaza Strip in June 2007 in a bloody coup. Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza strip increased the firing of Qassam rockets, mortars and Grad missiles on southern Israel. Attacks continued outside the Gaza Strip perimeter, including the attack that resulted in the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit being captured and held in the Gaza Strip for over five years.

Hamas has made use of guerrilla tactics in the Gaza Strip and to a lesser degree the West Bank.[68] Hamas has adapted these techniques over the years since its inception. According to a 2006 report by rival Fatah party, Hamas had smuggled "between several hundred and 1,300 tons" of advanced rockets, along with other weaponry, into Gaza. Some Israelis and some Gazans both noted similarities in Hamas's military buildup to that of Hezbollah in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.[68]

Hamas has used IEDs and anti-tank rockets against the IDF in Gaza. The latter include standard RPG-7 warheads and home-made rockets such as the Al-Bana, Al-Batar and Al-Yasin. The IDF has a difficult, if not impossible time trying to find hidden weapons caches in Palestinian areas – this is due to the high local support base Hamas enjoys.[69]

During the Gaza War (2008–09), Palestinian militant groups fired rockets aimed at civilian targets which struck the cities of Ashdod, Beersheba and Gedera. The military wing of Hamas said that after a week from the start, it had managed to fire 302 rockets, at an average of 44 rockets daily. 102 rockets and 35 mortars were fired by Fatah at Israel. Over 750 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza into Israel during the conflict wounded 182 civilians, killing 3 people, and causing minor suffering to another 584 people suffering from shock and anxiety. Several rockets landed in schools and one fell close to a kindergarten, all located in residential areas. The UN fact finding mission stated that this constituted a deliberate attack against the civilian population and was unjustifiable in international law.[70][71][72]

In 2012, terror attacks against Israelis in the West Bank increased compared to 2011. The number of terror attacks in the West Bank increased from 320 in 2011 to 578 in 2012.[73] The attacks mainly involved rock throwing, Molotov cocktails, firearms and explosives.[73]

In 2013, Hamas stated that the "kidnapping of IDF soldiers to trade for Palestinian prisoners is at the heart of Palestinian culture".[74]

2023 Israel-Hamas war

Main article: 2023 Israel–Hamas war
 
A blood-stained home floor in the aftermath of the Nahal Oz massacre

On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched an invasion, breaching the Gaza–Israel barrier. For months prior to the attack, Hamas had been leading Israeli intelligence to believe that they were not seeking conflict.[75] Hamas fighters proceeded to massacre hundreds of civilians at a music festival and in kibbutz Be'eri and take hostages in Southern Israel back to the Gaza Strip. In total, 1,139 civilians, IDF soldiers and foreign nationals were killed in Israel, making this the deadliest attack by Hamas militants since the foundation of Israel in 1948.[76] International human rights groups, medical personnel, and journalists have chronicled the militants' actions, detailing the killing of women, children, and the elderly, alongside young men and soldiers.[76][77][78]

On 13 October 2023, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called on Palestinians to evacuate northern Gaza, including Gaza City, saying: "The camouflage of the terrorists is the civil population. Therefore, we need to separate them. So those who want to save their life, please go south. We are going to destroy Hamas infrastructures, Hamas headquarters, Hamas military establishment, and take these phenomena out of Gaza and out of the Earth."[79]

Government involvement

In 2011, Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu stated that the incitement promulgated by the Palestinian Authority was destroying Israel's confidence, and he condemned what he regarded as the glorification of the murderers of the Fogel family in Itamar on PA television. The perpetrator of the murders had been described as a "hero" and a "legend" by members of his family, during a weekly program.[80][81]

Isi Leibler wrote in the Jerusalem Post that Mahmoud Abbas and his chief negotiator Saeb Erekat deny Israel's right to exist and promote vicious hatred against Jews, in statements made in Arabic. He claimed that the state-controlled Palestinian media praised the murders committed by Palestinians. Abbas al-Sayed who perpetrated the Passover suicide attack at the Park Hotel in Netanya which killed 30 civilians was described by Abbas as a "hero" and "symbol of the Palestinian Authority".[82]

Following the Itamar massacre and a bombing in Jerusalem, 27 US senators sent a letter requesting the US Secretary of State to identify the administration's steps to end Palestinian incitement to violence against Jews and Israel that they said was occurring within the "Palestinian media, mosques and schools, and even by individuals or institutions affiliated with the Palestinian Authority".[83]

The United Nations body UNESCO stopped funding a children's magazine sponsored by the Palestinian Authority that commended Hitler's killing of Jews. It deplored this publication as contrary to its principles of building tolerance and respect for human rights and human dignity.[84]

Palestinian Media Watch reported that the Palestinian Authority spent more than $5 million a month paying salaries to Palestinians and Israeli Arabs imprisoned in Israel for terror crimes. They also stated that groups in a summer camp for children sponsored by PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad were named after militants: Dalal Mughrabi, who led the Coastal Road Massacre; Salah Khalaf, head of Black September that carried out the Munich massacre; and Abu Ali Mustafa, the general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who perpetrated many attacks. Saddam Hussein, the leader of Iraq, donated $25,000 to the families of suicide bombers, and $10,000 to the families of Palestinian civilians killed by the Israeli military.[85][86]

After Israel agreed to hand over the bodies of dead Palestinian suicide bombers and other militants as part of what the Israeli Government described as 'a humanitarian gesture' to PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas to help the peace process, the Palestinian Authority planned a national rally to honour them and to provide full military funerals. The bodies included the suicide bombers that perpetrated the bus bombing in Jerusalem's Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood which killed twenty-three people, many of them children, and the attacker in the Cafe Hillel bombing. Israel will also return the remains of the bombers that committed the bombings on two buses in Beersheba in 2004 killing 16 people, the Stage night club bombing, the attack on the open-air Hadera market as well as the attackers of the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv who killed eight hostages. The Palestinian Authority and Hamas both planned official ceremonies and PA president Abbas attended a ceremony at his Muqataa compound. Prisoners Affairs Minister Qaraqi called on Palestinians for a day of celebration. The rally in honor of the dead will be attended by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, PLO leaders, and families of the dead militants. The dead are considered martyrs by Palestinians, but viewed as terrorists by Israelis.[87][88][89]

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been accused of incitement to violence, on the basis of a statement he made concerning youths injured in defending the Haram al Sharif/Temple Mount from what Palestinians have seen as attempts to alter the status quo. He declared in September 2015: "Every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem is pure, every shahid will reach paradise, and every injured person will be rewarded by God."[90][91]

Involvement of women and children

 
Bloody child's shoe after Palestinian attack on an Israeli shopping mall

In the 1930s, the emergence of organized youth cadres was rooted in the desire to form a youth paramilitary. It was believed that armed youth might bring an end to British hegemony in the Middle East. Youth were cajoled into violence by Palestinian political figures and newspapers that glorified violence and death. The Palestinian Arab Party sponsored the development of storm troops consisting solely of children and youth. A British report from the period stated that "the growing youth and scout movements must be regarded as the most probable factors for the disturbance of the peace".[92]

As a youngster, Yasir Arafat led neighborhood children in marching and drills, beating those who did not obey. In the 1940s, Arafat's father organized a group of militants in Gaza which included Yasir Arafat and his brothers. The leader, Abu Khalid, a mathematics teacher in Gaza, gave Arafat the name Yasir in honor of the militant Yasir al-Bireh.[93]

Child suicide bombers

Main article: Child suicide bombers in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

As part of the Arab–Israeli conflict, especially during the Second Intifada from 2000 to 2005, Palestinian militant groups used children for suicide bombings. Minors were recruited to attack Israeli targets, both military and civilian. This deliberate involvement of children in armed conflict was condemned by international human rights organizations.[94][95]

According to Amnesty International: "Palestinian armed groups have repeatedly shown total disregard for the most fundamental human rights, notably the right to life, by deliberately targeting Israeli civilians and by using Palestinian children in armed attacks. Children are susceptible to recruitment by manipulation or may be driven to join armed groups for a variety of reasons, including a desire to avenge relatives or friends killed by the Israeli army."[96]

Human shields

Main articles: Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel § United Nations, and Human shield § Israeli–Palestinian conflict

According to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2015,[97] Hamas launched rockets from inside schools to use the retaliatory child deaths for propaganda and deter Israel from attacking Gaza.[98] This tactic is called the human shield.

Involvement of women

Women in particular have increasingly associated political violence with expanded citizenship rights due to the perceived failure of nonmilitaristic tactics to achieve political goals, primary amongst these, the achievement of Palestinian autonomy.[99]

The profile of the female Palestinian suicide bombers has been the subject of study by Katherine VanderKaay, who presented her profiling of the subjects at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting. While the first suicide bombing undertaken by a Palestinian took place in 1994, the first female suicide bomber from among Palestinian society did not emerge until January 2002. The bomber was Wafa Idris, a 28-year-old paramedic and a supporter of secularist parties.[100][101]

Violence against civilians

 
Qassam rockets fired at Sderot

According to B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, 500 Israeli civilians were killed by Palestinians from September 29, 2000, to March 31, 2012, in Israel, and another 254 Israeli civilians were killed in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.[102]

B'tselem reported that the main argument used to justify violence against civilians is that "all means are legitimate in fighting for independence against a foreign occupation". B'Tselem criticized this argument, saying it is completely baseless, and contradicts the fundamental principle of international humanitarian law.

"According to this principle, civilians are to be protected from the consequences of warfare, and any attack must discriminate between civilians and military targets. This principle is part of international customary law; as such, it applies to every state, organization, and person, even those who are not party to any relevant convention."[103]

B'Tselem further noted that Palestinian spokespersons distinguish between attacks inside Israel proper and attacks directed at settlers in the Occupied Territories, stating that since the settlements are illegal and many settlers belong to Israel's security forces, settlers are not entitled to the international law protections granted to civilians. Human rights group B'tselem rejected this argument, and stated:

"The illegality of the settlements has no effect at all on the status of their civilian residents. The settlers constitute a distinctly civilian population, which is entitled to all the protections granted civilians by international law. The Israeli security forces' use of land in the settlements or the membership of some settlers in the Israeli security forces does not affect the status of the other residents living among them, and certainly does not make them proper targets of attack. B'Tselem strongly opposes the attempts to justify attacks against Israeli civilians by using distorted interpretations of international law. Furthermore, B'Tselem demands that the Palestinian Authority do everything within its power to prevent future attacks and to prosecute the individuals involved in past attacks."[103]

Rocket attacks on Israel

See also: Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel
 
Rocket attacks fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip, 2001-2021[104]

Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip have occurred since 2001. Between 2001 and January 2009, over 8,600 rockets had been launched, leading to 28 deaths and several hundred injuries,[105][106] as well as widespread psychological trauma and disruption of daily life.[107]

The weapons, often generically referred to as Qassams, were initially crude and short-range, mainly affecting the Israeli city of Sderot and other communities bordering the Gaza Strip. In 2006, more sophisticated rockets began to be deployed, reaching the larger coastal city of Ashkelon, and by early 2009 major cities Ashdod and Beersheba had been hit by Katyusha and Grad rockets.

Attacks have been carried out by all Palestinian armed groups,[108] and, prior to the 2008–2009 Gaza War, were consistently supported by most Palestinians,[109][110][111][112] although the stated goals have been mixed. The attacks, widely condemned for targeting civilians, have been described as terrorism by United Nations, European Union and Israeli officials, and are defined as war crimes by human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

 
Osher Twito, An Israeli boy crippled by Palestinian rocket fire.

Defenses constructed specifically to deal with the weapons include fortifications for schools and bus stops as well as an alarm system named Red Color. Iron Dome, a system to intercept short-range rockets, was developed by Israel and first deployed in the spring of 2011 to protect Beersheba and Ashkelon, but officials and experts warned that it would not be completely effective. Shortly thereafter, it intercepted a Palestinian Grad rocket for the first time.[113]

The attacks were a stated cause of the Gaza blockade, the Gaza War (December 27, 2008 – January 21, 2009) and other Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, including Operation Rainbow (May 2004), Operation Days of Penitence (2004), the 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict, Operation Autumn Clouds (2006), and Operation Hot Winter (2008). Attacks began in 2001. Since then, nearly 4,800 rockets have hit southern Israel, just over 4,000 of them since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in August 2005. The range of the rockets has increased over time. The original Qassam rocket has a range of about 10 km (6.2 mi) but more advanced rockets, including versions of the old Soviet Grad or Katyusha have hit Israeli targets 40 km (25 mi) from Gaza.[105]

Some analysts see the attacks as a shift away from reliance on suicide bombing, which was previously Hamas's main method of attacking Israel, and an adoption of the rocket tactics used by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.[114]

Denial of service attacks on the emergency services

There have been a number of reports in the Israeli press about denial of service attacks by Palestinians on the Magen David Adom and other emergency call lines.[115][116][117][118][119][120][121] A spokesman said that they had received up to 2400 harassing calls per day to the Beersheba MDA office[117] deputy Mayor of Sderot said that after investigation that Palestinians were blocking the ability[116] of citizens to seek for help after mortar and missile attacks. According to the MDA director in the Negev some callers identified themselves as Palestinians and said that they had been paid to make the calls.[117] The director said the calls were intended to block the MDA's ability to provide emergency services particularly during major events such as mortar[118] attacks.[117] As of 2006[117][119] filtering systems had been developed and deployed to handle with this type of calls, according to MDA 2008 report one filtering system recognized more than 129,000 phone calls as abusive calls.[122]

Threats of chemical and biological weapons

In a testimony given to the congress, it had been reported that Hamas was seeking to acquire chemical and biological weapons during 1990–1993.[123]

In a statement by Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on The Worldwide Threat in 2000: Global Realities of Our National Security, it was stated that Hamas was pursuing a capability to conduct attacks with toxic chemicals.[124]

The plot for Passover massacre included four kilograms of cyanide, bought and prepared for a chemical attack.[125][citation needed]

In 2003, one report by the CSIS stated The Palestinian terrorist group that allegedly recruited a Canadian to carry out attacks in North America may be developing chemical weapons.[126]

On June 26, 2006, Yedioth Ahronot published a report stating that Fatah's armed wing said it had developed biological, chemical weapons, which would be used if Israel invaded Gaza. 'We say to Olmert, Peretz: Your threats of invasion do not frighten us. We will surprise you with new weapons you have not faced until now,' Al-Aqsa Brigades says.[127][128]

On June 29, 2006, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, claimed to have launched a single rocket with a chemical warhead against the southern part of Israel. An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army had not detected that any such rocket was fired, nor was there any report of such a weapon hitting Israel.[129][130]

Israeli news reports have stated that chemical weapons, and missiles with chemical warheads from Libya have been transferred to Palestinians in Gaza, [citation needed] with some allegedly transferred via Sudan, although Sudanese officials have denied the accusations.[131]

Stone-throwing

Main article: Palestinian stone-throwing

Palestinian stone-throwing is a violent political statement celebrated in the literature of the Palestinian national liberation movement. Stone throwing was the primary tactic of the First Intifada (1987 – 1993.) It encompasses the practice of throwing stones by hand and using powerful slings variously aimed at Israel security personnel, Israeli civilians, and at both civilian and military vehicles. It has resulted in the death of both Israelis and Arabs unknowingly targeted by stone-throwers.[citation needed]

Internal violence

See also: Hamas violence against Palestinians

B'Tselem reports that from September 29, 2000, to March 31, 2012, there were 669 Palestinians killed by Palestinians. Of those, 134 were killed for suspected collaboration with Israel.[25][132]

Concerning the killing of Palestinians by other Palestinians, a January 2003 Humanist magazine article reports:[133]

For over a decade the PA has violated Palestinian human rights and civil liberties by routinely killing civilians—including collaborators, demonstrators, journalists, and others—without charge or fair trial. Of the total number of Palestinian civilians killed during this period by both Israeli and Palestinian security forces, 16 percent were the victims of Palestinian security forces.

... According to Freedom House's annual survey of political rights and civil liberties, Freedom in the World 2001–2002, the chaotic nature of the Intifada along with strong Israeli reprisals has resulted in a deterioration of living conditions for Palestinians in Israeli-administered areas. The survey states:

"Civil liberties declined due to: shooting deaths of Palestinian civilians by Palestinian security personnel; the summary trial and executions of alleged collaborators by the Palestinian Authority (PA); extrajudicial killings of suspected collaborators by militias; and the apparent official encouragement of Palestinian youth to confront Israeli soldiers, thus placing them directly in harm's way."

Internal Palestinian violence has been called an Intrafada.[134]

Palestinian attitudes

The PLO officially "declared its rejection and condemnation of terrorism in all its forms" in 1988.[135]

1995–2000

A study conducted by Mkhaimer Abusada of Al-Azhar University explored attitudes towards the use of political violence. Four questions were posed on the subject of political violence to over a thousand respondents randomly selected from localities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The first question was: "Do you support the continuing resort of some Palestinian factions to armed operations against Israeli targets in Gaza and Jericho?" Overall, 56% of respondents responded negatively. Those affiliated with leftist groups showed the highest levels of support for armed attacks against Israelis (74%), while those affiliated with parties supporting the peace process showed the lowest levels (24%). The Islamic opposition was split, with slightly over half in favor, and slightly less than half opposed.[136]

In September 1995, survey participants were asked whether they supported, opposed or had no opinion with regard to "armed attacks against Israeli army targets", "armed attacks against Israeli settlers", and "armed attacks against Israeli civilian targets". The majority supported the use of armed attacks against Israeli military targets and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Support crossed all party lines and groups, and was highest among the Islamic opposition (91% and 84%) and the leftists (90% and 89%), though a significant majority of those who supported the peace process also supported armed attacks on military targets and settlers (69% and 73%). To explain the apparent paradox in the latter position, Abusada quotes Shikaki (1996) who "contends that Palestinian support for the use of armed attacks against Israeli military targets and settlers does not indicate 'opposition to the peace process but Palestinian insistence that the process entails an end to occupation and settlements.'"[136] Palestinian support for armed attacks against Israeli civilian targets in Israel was 20% overall, with support being highest among those affiliated with the Islamic opposition (42%) and the leftists (32%), and lowest among supporters of the peace process (12%) and the National Independents (10%).[136]

2000–04

A July 2001 poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research (PSR) found that 58 percent of Palestinians supported armed attacks against Israeli civilians inside Israel and 92 percent supported armed confrontations against the Israeli army in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.[137] A May 2002 poll by the center found that support for bombings of civilians inside Israel dropped to 52%, but support for armed attacks against Israeli settlers remained "very high" at 89 percent. Support for armed attacks against soldiers stood at 92 percent.[138] A poll after the 2003 Maxim restaurant suicide bombing, in which 20 Israelis were killed, concluded that 75 percent of Palestinians supported the attack, with support higher "in the Gaza Strip (82%) compared to the West Bank (70%), in refugee camps (84%) compared to towns and villages (69%), among women (79%) compared to men (71%), among the young (78%) compared to the old (66%), among students (81%) compared to professionals (33%), and among supporters of Hamas (92%) compared to supporters of Fateh (69%)".[139]

The firing of rockets from Beit Hanoun into Israel was acceptable to about three-quarters of the Palestinian public in the occupied territories, and was higher in the West Bank (78%) compared to the Gaza Strip (71%), among students (83%) compared to merchants (63%), and among supporters of Hamas (86%) compared to supporters of Fatah (73%). While firing rockets from Beit Hanoun was supported by a majority of Palestinians (75%), 59% of the residents of Beit Hanoun rejected this practice. 83% of Palestinians favored a mutual cessation of violence.[140]

A report by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center, a Palestinian organization, showing trends based on polls conducted since 1997, indicated that Palestinian support for military operations against Israeli targets stood at 34–40 percent in 1997–1999, climbed to 65–85 percent in 2000–2004, and dropped back to 41 percent at the end of 2004. "Military operations" were defined as including shootings, car bombs and mortar rocket attacks, but not suicide bombings.[141] A 2005 poll by the center indicated that 53 percent of Palestinians supported "the continuation of [the] Al-Aqsa Intifada, 50 percent supported "suicide bombings against Israeli civilians", and 36 percent supported "the resumption of military operations against Israeli targets".[142]

A 2004 study by Victoroff et al. was conducted on a group of 52 boys, all 14 years old, from the al-Shati camp in Gaza. Forty-three percent of the boys reported that a family member had been wounded or killed by the IDF, and half lived in households where the father's employment was lost following the outbreak of the Second Intifada. "Sympathy for terrorism" was found to be correlated with depression and anxiety scores, as well as with the level of "perceived oppression", and "emotional distress". Of those who felt subject to unjust treatment, 77 percent expressed sympathy for political violence.[143]

2005–2012

 
Jerusalem, July 2, 2008. A Palestinian man drives a front-end loader into several vehicles in Jerusalem, killing three before being shot dead.

A March 2008 report by Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research (PSR) noted that the level of support for armed attack against Israeli civilians inside Israel increased significantly with 67% supporting and 31% opposed, compared to support by 40% in 2005 and 55% in 2006. A February 2008 suicide bombing that killed one Israeli woman in Dimona was supported by 77% and opposed by 19%. An overwhelming majority of 84 percent supported the March 2008 Mercaz HaRav massacre, in which a Palestinian gunman killed eight students and wounded eleven in a Jerusalem school. Support for the attack was 91 percent in the Gaza Strip compared to 79 percent in the West Bank. Similar suicide attacks in 2005 had been less widely supported, with 29% support for a suicide attack that took place in Tel Aviv, and 37% support for another one in Beersheba.[144]

The 2009 Hamas political violence took place in the Gaza Strip during and after the 2009 Gaza War. A series of violent acts, ranging from physical assaults, torture, and executions of Palestinians suspected of collaboration with the Israel Defense Forces, as well as members of the Fatah political party, occurred. According to Human Rights Watch, at least 32 people were killed by these attacks: 18 during the conflict and 14 afterward, and several dozen more were maimed, many by shots to the legs.[145][146]

In 2012, the number of militant attacks in the West Bank rose from 320 in 2011 to 578 in 2012, including 282 in Jerusalem alone compared to 191 in 2011. According to an annual Shin Bet report, the increase was due in part to a 68% rise of attacks using molotov cocktails. The number of attacks involving firearms and explosives grew by 42%, from 26 to 37.[147]

Casualties

Palestinian deaths by other Palestinians since 1982.

Groups

PLO

Fatah associates

  • Tanzim (founded 1995)
    • Means "organization" in Arabic
    • Loosely organized Fatah militia
    • Led by Marwan Barghouti until his arrest in 2002.
  • Force 17 (early 1970s–2007)
    • Elite unit of the PLO once under Yasser Arafat's direct guidance.
    • Acts as a versatile unit for combat and intelligence-gathering.
    • Dismantled in 2007 and incorporated into the Palestinian Presidential Guard.
  • Fatah Special Operations Group (Fatah-SOG)
    • Founded in the early 1970s by Col. Abdullah Abd al-Hamid Labib
    • Also known as the Martyrs of Tel Al Za'atar, Hawari, and Amn Araissi.
    • Recently inactive (as of 2004)
  • Ahmed Abu Reish Brigade
    • Extremist offshoot of Fatah.
    • Was involved in the July 17, 2004, kidnappings in the Gaza Strip.
    • Possibly linked to the Popular Resistance Committees
    • Led by Ahmed Abu Reish
  • Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
    • Responsible for many suicide bombings and shootings of Israeli civilians
    • Responsible for executing suspected conspirators and leaders of opposition against Arafat
    • Funded by Fatah and the Palestinian Authority[citation needed]
    • Offshoot of this group, Fatah Hawks, has carried out guerrilla attacks against Israeli military personnel in the Gaza Strip.
  • Black September Organization (1970–1973)
    • Began as a small cell of Fatah men determined to take revenge upon King Hussein and the Jordanian army for Black September in Jordan. Recruits from the PFLP, as-Sa'iqa, and other groups also joined.
    • Carried out Munich massacre.
    • Carried out Attack on the Saudi embassy in Khartoum
    • In 1973 two members of the Black September attacked, with sub-machine guns and grenades, at the passenger lounge at Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece. Three civilians have been killed and 55 have been wounded. After the attack the gunmen took hostages, for more than two hours, before surrendering to the Greek police. Most of the casualties and injured were Greeks and Americans.[158]

Splinter

Al-Qaeda associates

  • Army of Islam (Jaysh al-Islam)
    • Also known as the Tawhid and Jihad Brigades and al-Qaeda in Palestine
    • The group are an armed Gaza clan named Doghmush who are affiliated with al-Qaeda and Abu Qatada
  • Abdullah Azzam Brigades
  • Jund Ansar Allah (2008–)
    • al-Qaeda-affiliated group in the Gaza Strip, founded in November 2008 by Abdel Latif Moussa
    • In August 2009, the group proclaimed the creation of an Islamic emirate in Gaza and led an armed rebellion against Hamas.
    • The group's leader Abdel Latif Moussa was killed during that rebellion.
  • Fatah al-Islam (2006–)
    • al-Qaeda-affiliated group involved in a conflict with the Lebanese army in 2007 over control of Palestinian refugee camps, which caused the death of nearly 500 people.
    • The group was established in 2006 by Shaker al-Abssi who led the group until killed by Lebanese forces in 2007.
    • Abu Mohamad Awad succeeded al-Abbsi as the group's leader.
  • Jund al-Sham (1999–2008)
    • Radical Islamist group set up by Palestinians and Syrians which operated in different areas of the Middle East.
    • The group's leader Abu Youssef Sharqieh was captured by Lebanese forces during the 2007 conflict in Palestinian refugee camps.
    • The group was disbanded in 2008 as its members joined Lebanese al-Qaeda affiliated group Osbat al-Ansar.
  • Jaljalat (2006–)
    • A Hamas-splinter organisation founded in 2006 by Mahmoud Taleb, a former al-Qassam Brigades commander, after he opposed Hamas joining the 2006 elections
    • The group is affiliated with both Jund Ansar Allah and al-Qaeda
  • Jahafil Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad fi Filastin (2008–)

Sabireen Movement

The Sabireen Movement's leadership converted to Shia Islam in 2014. It is at odds with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and supports Hezbollah, Iran and Syria.

Notable attacks

Main article: List of massacres in Israel

International attacks

Year Country attack
1968   Greece El Al Flight 253 attack
1968   USA Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
1970    Switzerland Swissair Flight 330
1970   Germany 1970 Munich bus attack
1972   Germany Munich massacre
1972   Yemen Lufthansa Flight 649
1972   Thailand Bangkok Israeli embassy hostage crisis
1973   Greece Hellinikon Airport attack
1973   USA NYC bomb plot
1973   Japan Hijacking of Japan Air Lines Flight 404
1973   Italy,   Greece,   Syria,   Kuwait Rome airport attacks and Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 303
1973   Sudan Attack on the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
1974 Mediterranean Sea TWA Flight 841 crashing
1974   Kuwait Japanese Embassy attack
1975   France 1975 Orly Airport attacks
1976   Greece,   Uganda Hijacking of Air France Flight 139
1976   Turkey Yeşilköy airport attack
1977   France,   Italy,   Cyprus,   Bahrain,   UAE,   Yemen,   Somalia Lufthansa Flight 181
1978   France 1978 Orly Airport attack
1978   UK London bus attack
1980   France Paris synagogue bombing
1981   France Antwerp bombing
1985   Italy,   Austria Rome and Vienna airport attacks
1985   Egypt Achille Lauro hijacking
1985   Cyprus Larnaca yacht killings
1985   Malta EgyptAir Flight 648
1990   Egypt 1990 Cairo bus attack
2002   Kenya 2002 Mombasa attacks
2004   Egypt 2004 Sinai bombings
2012   France Toulouse and Montauban shootings

See also

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Palestinian political violence refers to actions carried out by Palestinians with the intent to achieve political objectives that can involve the use of force some of which are considered acts of terror 1 2 3 4 5 and often carried out in the context of the Israeli Palestinian conflict and the Israeli occupation Common objectives of political violence by Palestinian groups 6 include self determination in and sovereignty over Palestine 7 8 or the liberation of Palestine and recognition of a Palestinian state either in place of both Israel and the Palestinian territories or solely in the Palestinian territories This includes the objective of ending the Israeli occupation Some of the factions have called for the destruction of the state of Israel More limited goals include the release of Palestinian prisoners or the Palestinian right of return 9 10 11 12 13 Arab military volunteers in 1947 Hamas military wing Izz ad Din al Qassam Brigades on parade Palestinian groups that have been involved in politically motivated violence include the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO Fatah the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PFLP the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command PFLP GC the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine the Abu Nidal Organization the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas 14 Several of these groups are considered terrorist organizations by the governments of the United States 15 Canada 16 the United Kingdom 17 Japan 18 New Zealand 19 and the European Union 20 21 Palestinian political violence has targeted Israelis Palestinians Lebanese Jordanians 22 Egyptians 23 Americans 24 and citizens of other countries 25 Attacks have taken place both within Israel and the Palestinian territories as well as internationally and have been directed at both military and civilian targets Tactics have included hostage taking plane hijacking boat hijacking stone and improvised weapon throwing improvised explosive device IED knife attacks shooting sprees vehicle ramming attacks car bombs suicide attacks and assassinations Israeli statistics state that 3 500 Israelis have been killed as a result of Palestinian political violence since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 26 25 Suicide bombings constituted 0 5 of Palestinian attacks against Israelis in the first two years of the Al Aqsa Intifada though this percentage accounted for half of the Israelis killed in that period 27 As of 2022 update a majority of Palestinians 59 believe armed attacks against Israelis inside Israel are an effective measure to end the occupation with 56 supporting them 28 Contents 1 History 1 1 Overview and context 1 2 British mandated Palestine 1917 1947 1 3 UN Partition Plan to establishment of PLO 1947 1964 1 4 Six Day War and aftermath 1 5 Black September 1 6 Relocation to Lebanon and Lebanese Civil War 1 7 First Intifada 1987 1993 1 8 Oslo Accords to Camp David Summit 1993 2000 1 9 Second Intifada 2000 2005 1 9 1 Suicide bombings and attacks on civilians 1 10 2005 2013 1 11 2023 Israel Hamas war 2 Government involvement 3 Involvement of women and children 3 1 Child suicide bombers 3 2 Human shields 3 3 Involvement of women 4 Violence against civilians 4 1 Rocket attacks on Israel 4 2 Denial of service attacks on the emergency services 4 3 Threats of chemical and biological weapons 4 4 Stone throwing 5 Internal violence 6 Palestinian attitudes 6 1 1995 2000 6 2 2000 04 6 3 2005 2012 6 4 Casualties 7 Groups 7 1 PLO 7 1 1 Fatah associates 7 1 2 Splinter 7 2 Al Qaeda associates 7 3 Sabireen Movement 8 Notable attacks 8 1 International attacks 9 See also 10 References 10 1 Bibliography 11 External linksHistoryThis section needs to be updated The reason given is The history ends about a decade ago there have been substantial events since then Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information October 2023 Overview and context nbsp A Jewish bus equipped with wire screens to protect against rock glass and grenade throwing late 1930s nbsp A demolished farmhouse in Tel Mond Israel after a fedayun attack In protest against the Balfour Declaration which proposed Palestine as a homeland for the Jewish people and its implementation under a League of Nations Mandate for Great Britain Palestinians both Muslim and Christian from November 1918 onwards began to organize in opposition to Zionism By the end of Ottoman rule the Jewish population of Palestine was 56 000 29 or one sixth of the population 30 Hostility to Jewish immigration led to numerous incidents such as the 1920 Nebi Musa riots the Jaffa riots of 1921 the 1929 Palestine riots and the 1936 39 Arab revolt in Palestine which was suppressed by British security forces and led to the deaths of approximately 5 000 Palestinians After the passing of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947 which called for the establishment of independent Arab and Jewish States a Palestinian Civil War broke out On the declaration of the state of Israel May 15 1948 a full scale war involving also the intervention of neighbouring Arab states took place with casualties of 6 000 Israelis and according to the 1958 survey by Arif al Arif 13 000 Palestinians 31 and the exodus through expulsion or panicked flight of approximately 700 000 Arab Palestinians who subsequently became refugees 32 In the Six Day War a further 280 000 360 000 Palestinians became refugees and the remaining Palestinian territories were also occupied from Jordan and from Egypt and later began to be settled by Jewish and Israeli settlers while the Palestinians were placed under military administration While historically Palestinian militancy was fragmented into several groups the PLO led and eventually united most factions while conducting military campaigns that varied from airplane hijackings militant operations and civil protest In 1987 a mass revolt of predominantly civil resistance called the First Intifada exploded leading to the Madrid Conference of 1991 and subsequently to the Oslo I Accord which produced an interim understanding allowing a new Palestinian authority the Palestinian National Authority PNA to exercise limited autonomy in 3 later 17 of the West Bank and parts of the Gaza Strip not used or earmarked for Israeli settlement Frustration over the perceived failure of the peace talks to yield a Palestinian state 33 led to the outbreak of the Al Aqsa Intifada in September 2000 which ended in 2005 coincident with the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza The rise of Hamas the use of Palestinian rocketry and Israel s control of Gaza s borders has led to further chronic violence culminating in a further two conflicts the Gaza War of 2008 09 and Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012 It is estimated that since 1920 when the first riots against Jews broke out 90 785 Arabs including Palestinians have died and some 67 602 been wounded in all wars and conflicts between Israel and its neighbors On the other hand 24 841 Jews and Israelis have died and 35 356 have been wounded during the same period 34 Since 1967 some reports estimate that some 40 of the male population of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been arrested or detained in Israeli prisons for political or military reasons 35 British mandated Palestine 1917 1947 Violence against the Jews in Palestine followed the Balfour Declaration in November 1917 which stimulated Jewish migrants to settle in Palestine At this time the Arabs were both geographically and demographically dominant compared to the Jewish population where the majority of Arabs were distributed throughout the highlands of Judea Samaria and Galilee and the Jewish population was scattered in small towns and rural communities The Arabs realized that the Jewish community due to their lower numbers was vulnerable to attrition and less able to take casualties Therefore they adopted a war of attrition tactic which was advantageous to the more numerous Arab community 36 Many of the deaths were inflicted during short time spans and in a few locations For instance in April 1920 about 216 Jews became casualties killed or wounded in a single day in Jerusalem By May 1921 the casualty rate for Jews was approaching 40 per day and in August 1929 it had risen to 80 per day During the 1929 riots one percent of the Jewish population of Jerusalem became casualties in Safed 2 percent and in Hebron 12 percent 36 During the 1920 1929 attacks on Jews were organized by local groups and encouraged by local religious leaders As the Jewish community did not count on the British authorities to protect them they formed the Haganah which were predominantly defensive in the 1920s 36 During the Arab Revolt in the 1936 1939 period violence was coordinated and organized by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and was directed against both Jews and the British Due to the rising level of Arab violence the Haganah started to pursue an offensive strategy 36 UN Partition Plan to establishment of PLO 1947 1964 See also List of attacks against Israeli civilians before 1967 Around 400 Palestinian infiltrators were killed by Israeli Security Forces each year in 1951 1952 and 1953 a similar number and probably far more were killed in 1950 1 000 or more were killed in 1949 At least 100 were killed during 1954 1956 In total upward of 2 700 and possibly as many as 5 000 infiltrators were killed by the IDF police and civilians along Israel s borders between 1949 and 1956 Most of the people in question were refugees attempting to return to their homes take back possessions that had been left behind during the war and to gather crops from their former fields and orchards inside the new Israeli state 37 Meron Benivasti states that the fact that the infiltrators were for the most part former inhabitants of the land returning for personal economic and sentimental reasons was suppressed in Israel as it was feared that this may lead to an understanding of their motives and to the justification of their actions 37 Throughout the period 1949 56 the Egyptian government opposed the movement of refugees from the Gaza strip into Israel but following the IDF s Gaza Raid on February 28 1955 the Egyptian authorities facilitated militant infiltration but still continued to oppose civilian infiltration 38 At first Palestinians were trying to go back to their houses or to retrieve property citation needed but after 1950 these acts became much more violent and included killings of civilians in nearby cities citation needed After Israel s Operation Black Arrow in 1955 which came as a result of a series of massacres in the city of Rehovot the Palestinian fedayeen were incorporated into an Egyptian unit 39 John Bagot Glubb a British general who commanded the Arab Legion claimed in his 1957 autobiography A Soldier with the Arabs that he convinced the Legion to arm and train the fedayeen for free 40 Between 1951 and 1956 400 Israelis were killed and 900 wounded by fedayeen attacks 41 42 according to the Anti Defamation League i n 1955 alone 260 Israeli citizens were killed or wounded by fedayeen 43 The Palestine Liberation Organization was founded in 1964 At its first convention in Cairo hundreds of Palestinians met to call for the right of self determination and the upholding of the rights of the Palestinian nation 44 To achieve these goals a Palestinian army of liberation was thought to be essential thus the Palestinian Liberation Army PLA was established with the support of the Arab states 44 Fatah a Palestinian group founded in the late 1950s to organize the armed resistance against Israel and headed by Yasser Arafat soon rose to prominence within the PLO The PLO charter called for an end to the State of Israel a return of Palestinians to their homeland and the establishment of a single democratic state throughout Palestine 45 Six Day War and aftermath Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the consequences of the June War The Palestinian revolution s basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it Yasser Arafat 1970 46 Due to Israel s defeat of Arab armies in the Six Day War the Palestinian leadership came to the conclusion that the Arab world was unable to challenge Israel militarily in open warfare Simultaneously the Palestinians drew lessons from movements and uprisings in Latin America North Africa and Southeast Asia which led them to move away from guerilla warfare in rural areas towards terrorist attacks in urban environments with an international reach This led to a series of aircraft hijackings bombings and kidnappings which culminated in the killings of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games The military superiority of Israel led Palestinian fighters to employ guerrilla tactics from bases in Jordan and Lebanon 45 nbsp George Habash founder of the PFLP masterminded the hijackings of four Western airliners to Jordan which led to the Black September conflict 47 In the wake of the Six Day War confrontations between Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan and government forces became a major problem within the kingdom By early 1970 at least seven Palestinian guerrilla organizations were active in Jordan one of the most important being the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PFLP led by George Habash Based in the Jordanian refugee camps the fedayeen developed a virtual state within a state receiving funds and arms from both the Arab states and Eastern Europe and openly flouting the law of the country The guerrillas initially focused on attacking Israel but by late 1968 the main fedayeen activities in Jordan appeared to shift to attempts to overthrow the Jordanian monarchy 22 Black September Main article Black September in Jordan Various clashes between the fedayeen and the army occurred between the years 1968 1970 The situation climaxed in September 1970 when several attempts to assassinate king Hussein failed On September 7 1970 in the series of Dawson s Field hijackings three planes were hijacked by PFLP a SwissAir and a TWA that were landed in Azraq area and a Pan Am that was landed in Cairo Then on September 9 a BOAC flight from Bahrain was also hijacked to Zarqa The PFLP announced that the hijackings were intended to pay special attention to the Palestinian problem After all hostages were removed the planes were dramatically blown up in front of TV cameras A bitterly fought 10 day civil war known as Black September ensued drawing involvement by Syria and Iraq and sparking troop movements by Israel and the United States Navy The number of people killed on all sides were estimated as high as 3 500 22 other sources claiming it to be as high as 20 000 Battles between Palestinian guerrilla forces and the Jordanian army continued during the closing months of 1970 and the first six months of 1971 In November 1971 members of the Palestinian Black September group who took their name from the civil war assassinated Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi al Tal in Cairo In December the group made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Jordanian ambassador in Britain 22 Relocation to Lebanon and Lebanese Civil War In the aftermath of Black September in Jordan many Palestinians arrived in Lebanon among them Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO In the early 1970s their presence exacerbated an already tense situation in Lebanon and in 1975 the Lebanese Civil War broke out Beginning with street fighting in Beirut between Christian Phalangists and Palestinian militiamen the war quickly deteriorated into a conflict between two loosely defined factions the side wishing to preserve the status quo consisting primarily of Maronite militias and the side seeking change which included a variety of militias from leftist organizations and guerrillas from rejectionist Palestinian nonmainstream PLO organizations The Lebanese civil war lasted until 1990 and resulted in an estimated 130 000 to 250 000 civilian fatalities and one million wounded citation needed nbsp Charred remains of the bus hijacked and burnt by Palestinian militants in 1978 in the Coastal Road massacre After Black September the PLO and its offshoots waged an international campaign against Israelis Notable events were the Munich Olympics massacre 1972 the hijacking of several civilian airliners some were thwarted see for example Entebbe Operation the Savoy Hotel attack the Zion Square explosive refrigerator and the Coastal Road massacre During the 1970s and the early 1980s Israel suffered attacks from PLO bases in Lebanon such as the Avivim school bus massacre in 1970 the Maalot massacre in 1974 where Palestinian militants massacred 21 school children and the Nahariya attack led by Samir Kuntar in 1979 as well as a terrorist bombing by Ziad Abu Ein that killed two Israeli 16 year olds and left 36 other youths wounded during the Lag BaOmer celebration in Tiberias 48 49 Following the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon called Operation Peace for Galilee by the IDF and the exile of the PLO to Tunis Israel had a relatively quiet decade citation needed First Intifada 1987 1993 nbsp Palestinians in Qalandiya throw rocks from behind an ambulance during a riot as part of the Nakba protests The First Intifada was characterized more by grassroots and non violent political actions from among the population in the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories 50 A total of 160 Israelis and 2 162 Palestinians were killed including 1 000 Palestinians killed by other Palestinians under the accusation of being collaborators 51 The Intifada lasted five years and ended with the signing of the Oslo Accords 52 The strategy of non violence though widespread among Palestinians was not always adhered to and there were youth who threw molotov cocktails and stones with such violence generally directed against Israeli soldiers and settlers 53 There were two attacks that represented new developments in terms of political violence inside Israel in this period The first Palestinian suicide attack took place on July 6 1989 when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad boarded the Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus 405 He walked up to the driver and pulled the wheel to the right driving the vehicle into a ravine killing 16 people 54 The end of the intifada also saw the first use of suicide bombing as a tactic by Palestinian militants On April 16 1993 Hamas carried out the Mehola Junction bombing in which operative Saher Tamam al Nabulsi detonated his explosives laden car between two buses One person a Palestinian other than the attacker was killed and 21 were wounded 55 During this period the Abu Nidal Organization became subsumed by infighting and mass executed hundreds of its members and their families during 1987 1988 The number of executed is estimated at 600 people mostly Palestinians across several separate locations in Syria Lebanon and Libya 56 Oslo Accords to Camp David Summit 1993 2000 nbsp Bus after 1996 terror bombing in Jerusalem The years between the intifadas were marked by intense diplomatic activity between Israel and Palestinians as well as the creation of the Palestinian National Authority In this period suicide bombings of Israeli buses and crowded spaces as a regular tactic particularly by Hamas and Islamic Jihad citation needed Attacks during this period include the Beit Lid massacre a double suicide bombing at a crowded junction that killed 21 people and the Dizengoff Center massacre a suicide bombing outside a Tel Aviv shopping mall that killed 13 people Second Intifada 2000 2005 Main article Second Intifada nbsp Bus after 2003 terror bombing in Haifa According to B Tselem as of July 10 2005 over 400 members of the Israeli Security forces and 821 Israeli civilians have been killed by Palestinians since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 553 of whom were killed within the 1949 Armistice lines mainly by suicide bombings Targets of attacks included buses Israeli checkpoint restaurants discotheques shopping malls a university and civilian homes 25 57 58 Main article 2000 Ramallah lynching In October 2000 a Palestinian mob lynched two non combatant Israel Defense Forces reservists Vadim Nurzhitz sometimes spelled as Norzhich and Yossi Avrahami or Yosef Avrahami 59 who had accidentally entered the Palestinian Authority controlled city of Ramallah in the West Bank The brutality of the event captured in a photo of a Palestinian rioter proudly waving his blood stained hands to the crowd below sparked international outrage and further intensified the ongoing conflict between Israeli and Palestinian forces 60 61 62 Suicide bombings and attacks on civilians A spate of suicide bombings and attacks aimed mostly at civilians such as the Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing was launched against Israel and elicited a military response A suicide bombing dubbed the Passover Massacre 30 Israeli civilians were killed at Park hotel Netanya climaxed a bloody month of March 2002 in which more than 130 Israelis mostly civilians were killed in attacks Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield The operation led to the apprehension of many members of militant groups as well as their weaponry and equipment 497 Palestinians and 30 Israelis were killed during Operation Defensive Shield 63 Main article 2004 Sinai bombings In 2004 31 people were killed and 159 others were wounded in a simultaneous attack against multiple tourist destinations in Egypt 64 Of the dead 15 were Egyptians 12 were from Israel two from Italy one from Russia and one was an Israeli American According to the Egyptian government the bombers were Palestinians led by Iyad Saleh who had tried to enter Israel to carry out attacks there but were unsuccessful 65 2005 2013 See also List of Palestinian suicide attacks and Palestinian domestic weapons production nbsp A kindergarten classroom in the Israeli city of Beer Sheva after being hit by a Grad rocket fired from the Gaza Strip In the mid 2000s Hamas started putting greater emphasis on its political characteristics and strengthened its popularity amongst Palestinians In 2006 Palestinian legislative elections Hamas won a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council prompting the United States and many European countries to cut off all funds to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority 66 insisting that Hamas must recognize Israel renounce violence and accept previous peace pacts 67 After the Israel s unilateral disengagement plan in 2005 and the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections Hamas took control over all the Gaza Strip in June 2007 in a bloody coup Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza strip increased the firing of Qassam rockets mortars and Grad missiles on southern Israel Attacks continued outside the Gaza Strip perimeter including the attack that resulted in the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit being captured and held in the Gaza Strip for over five years Hamas has made use of guerrilla tactics in the Gaza Strip and to a lesser degree the West Bank 68 Hamas has adapted these techniques over the years since its inception According to a 2006 report by rival Fatah party Hamas had smuggled between several hundred and 1 300 tons of advanced rockets along with other weaponry into Gaza Some Israelis and some Gazans both noted similarities in Hamas s military buildup to that of Hezbollah in the 2006 Israel Hezbollah war 68 Hamas has used IEDs and anti tank rockets against the IDF in Gaza The latter include standard RPG 7 warheads and home made rockets such as the Al Bana Al Batar and Al Yasin The IDF has a difficult if not impossible time trying to find hidden weapons caches in Palestinian areas this is due to the high local support base Hamas enjoys 69 During the Gaza War 2008 09 Palestinian militant groups fired rockets aimed at civilian targets which struck the cities of Ashdod Beersheba and Gedera The military wing of Hamas said that after a week from the start it had managed to fire 302 rockets at an average of 44 rockets daily 102 rockets and 35 mortars were fired by Fatah at Israel Over 750 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza into Israel during the conflict wounded 182 civilians killing 3 people and causing minor suffering to another 584 people suffering from shock and anxiety Several rockets landed in schools and one fell close to a kindergarten all located in residential areas The UN fact finding mission stated that this constituted a deliberate attack against the civilian population and was unjustifiable in international law 70 71 72 In 2012 terror attacks against Israelis in the West Bank increased compared to 2011 The number of terror attacks in the West Bank increased from 320 in 2011 to 578 in 2012 73 The attacks mainly involved rock throwing Molotov cocktails firearms and explosives 73 In 2013 Hamas stated that the kidnapping of IDF soldiers to trade for Palestinian prisoners is at the heart of Palestinian culture 74 2023 Israel Hamas war Main article 2023 Israel Hamas war nbsp A blood stained home floor in the aftermath of the Nahal Oz massacre On October 7 2023 Hamas launched an invasion breaching the Gaza Israel barrier For months prior to the attack Hamas had been leading Israeli intelligence to believe that they were not seeking conflict 75 Hamas fighters proceeded to massacre hundreds of civilians at a music festival and in kibbutz Be eri and take hostages in Southern Israel back to the Gaza Strip In total 1 139 civilians IDF soldiers and foreign nationals were killed in Israel making this the deadliest attack by Hamas militants since the foundation of Israel in 1948 76 International human rights groups medical personnel and journalists have chronicled the militants actions detailing the killing of women children and the elderly alongside young men and soldiers 76 77 78 On 13 October 2023 Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called on Palestinians to evacuate northern Gaza including Gaza City saying The camouflage of the terrorists is the civil population Therefore we need to separate them So those who want to save their life please go south We are going to destroy Hamas infrastructures Hamas headquarters Hamas military establishment and take these phenomena out of Gaza and out of the Earth 79 Government involvementIn 2011 Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu stated that the incitement promulgated by the Palestinian Authority was destroying Israel s confidence and he condemned what he regarded as the glorification of the murderers of the Fogel family in Itamar on PA television The perpetrator of the murders had been described as a hero and a legend by members of his family during a weekly program 80 81 Isi Leibler wrote in the Jerusalem Post that Mahmoud Abbas and his chief negotiator Saeb Erekat deny Israel s right to exist and promote vicious hatred against Jews in statements made in Arabic He claimed that the state controlled Palestinian media praised the murders committed by Palestinians Abbas al Sayed who perpetrated the Passover suicide attack at the Park Hotel in Netanya which killed 30 civilians was described by Abbas as a hero and symbol of the Palestinian Authority 82 Following the Itamar massacre and a bombing in Jerusalem 27 US senators sent a letter requesting the US Secretary of State to identify the administration s steps to end Palestinian incitement to violence against Jews and Israel that they said was occurring within the Palestinian media mosques and schools and even by individuals or institutions affiliated with the Palestinian Authority 83 The United Nations body UNESCO stopped funding a children s magazine sponsored by the Palestinian Authority that commended Hitler s killing of Jews It deplored this publication as contrary to its principles of building tolerance and respect for human rights and human dignity 84 Palestinian Media Watch reported that the Palestinian Authority spent more than 5 million a month paying salaries to Palestinians and Israeli Arabs imprisoned in Israel for terror crimes They also stated that groups in a summer camp for children sponsored by PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad were named after militants Dalal Mughrabi who led the Coastal Road Massacre Salah Khalaf head of Black September that carried out the Munich massacre and Abu Ali Mustafa the general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who perpetrated many attacks Saddam Hussein the leader of Iraq donated 25 000 to the families of suicide bombers and 10 000 to the families of Palestinian civilians killed by the Israeli military 85 86 After Israel agreed to hand over the bodies of dead Palestinian suicide bombers and other militants as part of what the Israeli Government described as a humanitarian gesture to PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas to help the peace process the Palestinian Authority planned a national rally to honour them and to provide full military funerals The bodies included the suicide bombers that perpetrated the bus bombing in Jerusalem s Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood which killed twenty three people many of them children and the attacker in the Cafe Hillel bombing Israel will also return the remains of the bombers that committed the bombings on two buses in Beersheba in 2004 killing 16 people the Stage night club bombing the attack on the open air Hadera market as well as the attackers of the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv who killed eight hostages The Palestinian Authority and Hamas both planned official ceremonies and PA president Abbas attended a ceremony at his Muqataa compound Prisoners Affairs Minister Qaraqi called on Palestinians for a day of celebration The rally in honor of the dead will be attended by PA President Mahmoud Abbas PLO leaders and families of the dead militants The dead are considered martyrs by Palestinians but viewed as terrorists by Israelis 87 88 89 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been accused of incitement to violence on the basis of a statement he made concerning youths injured in defending the Haram al Sharif Temple Mount from what Palestinians have seen as attempts to alter the status quo He declared in September 2015 Every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem is pure every shahid will reach paradise and every injured person will be rewarded by God 90 91 Involvement of women and children nbsp Bloody child s shoe after Palestinian attack on an Israeli shopping mall In the 1930s the emergence of organized youth cadres was rooted in the desire to form a youth paramilitary It was believed that armed youth might bring an end to British hegemony in the Middle East Youth were cajoled into violence by Palestinian political figures and newspapers that glorified violence and death The Palestinian Arab Party sponsored the development of storm troops consisting solely of children and youth A British report from the period stated that the growing youth and scout movements must be regarded as the most probable factors for the disturbance of the peace 92 As a youngster Yasir Arafat led neighborhood children in marching and drills beating those who did not obey In the 1940s Arafat s father organized a group of militants in Gaza which included Yasir Arafat and his brothers The leader Abu Khalid a mathematics teacher in Gaza gave Arafat the name Yasir in honor of the militant Yasir al Bireh 93 Child suicide bombers Main article Child suicide bombers in the Israeli Palestinian conflict As part of the Arab Israeli conflict especially during the Second Intifada from 2000 to 2005 Palestinian militant groups used children for suicide bombings Minors were recruited to attack Israeli targets both military and civilian This deliberate involvement of children in armed conflict was condemned by international human rights organizations 94 95 According to Amnesty International Palestinian armed groups have repeatedly shown total disregard for the most fundamental human rights notably the right to life by deliberately targeting Israeli civilians and by using Palestinian children in armed attacks Children are susceptible to recruitment by manipulation or may be driven to join armed groups for a variety of reasons including a desire to avenge relatives or friends killed by the Israeli army 96 Human shields Main articles Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel United Nations and Human shield Israeli Palestinian conflict According to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki moon in 2015 97 Hamas launched rockets from inside schools to use the retaliatory child deaths for propaganda and deter Israel from attacking Gaza 98 This tactic is called the human shield Involvement of women Women in particular have increasingly associated political violence with expanded citizenship rights due to the perceived failure of nonmilitaristic tactics to achieve political goals primary amongst these the achievement of Palestinian autonomy 99 The profile of the female Palestinian suicide bombers has been the subject of study by Katherine VanderKaay who presented her profiling of the subjects at the American Psychological Association s annual meeting While the first suicide bombing undertaken by a Palestinian took place in 1994 the first female suicide bomber from among Palestinian society did not emerge until January 2002 The bomber was Wafa Idris a 28 year old paramedic and a supporter of secularist parties 100 101 Violence against civilians nbsp Qassam rockets fired at Sderot According to B Tselem the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories 500 Israeli civilians were killed by Palestinians from September 29 2000 to March 31 2012 in Israel and another 254 Israeli civilians were killed in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank 102 B tselem reported that the main argument used to justify violence against civilians is that all means are legitimate in fighting for independence against a foreign occupation B Tselem criticized this argument saying it is completely baseless and contradicts the fundamental principle of international humanitarian law According to this principle civilians are to be protected from the consequences of warfare and any attack must discriminate between civilians and military targets This principle is part of international customary law as such it applies to every state organization and person even those who are not party to any relevant convention 103 B Tselem further noted that Palestinian spokespersons distinguish between attacks inside Israel proper and attacks directed at settlers in the Occupied Territories stating that since the settlements are illegal and many settlers belong to Israel s security forces settlers are not entitled to the international law protections granted to civilians Human rights group B tselem rejected this argument and stated The illegality of the settlements has no effect at all on the status of their civilian residents The settlers constitute a distinctly civilian population which is entitled to all the protections granted civilians by international law The Israeli security forces use of land in the settlements or the membership of some settlers in the Israeli security forces does not affect the status of the other residents living among them and certainly does not make them proper targets of attack B Tselem strongly opposes the attempts to justify attacks against Israeli civilians by using distorted interpretations of international law Furthermore B Tselem demands that the Palestinian Authority do everything within its power to prevent future attacks and to prosecute the individuals involved in past attacks 103 Rocket attacks on Israel See also Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel nbsp Rocket attacks fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip 2001 2021 104 Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip have occurred since 2001 Between 2001 and January 2009 over 8 600 rockets had been launched leading to 28 deaths and several hundred injuries 105 106 as well as widespread psychological trauma and disruption of daily life 107 The weapons often generically referred to as Qassams were initially crude and short range mainly affecting the Israeli city of Sderot and other communities bordering the Gaza Strip In 2006 more sophisticated rockets began to be deployed reaching the larger coastal city of Ashkelon and by early 2009 major cities Ashdod and Beersheba had been hit by Katyusha and Grad rockets Attacks have been carried out by all Palestinian armed groups 108 and prior to the 2008 2009 Gaza War were consistently supported by most Palestinians 109 110 111 112 although the stated goals have been mixed The attacks widely condemned for targeting civilians have been described as terrorism by United Nations European Union and Israeli officials and are defined as war crimes by human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch nbsp Osher Twito An Israeli boy crippled by Palestinian rocket fire Defenses constructed specifically to deal with the weapons include fortifications for schools and bus stops as well as an alarm system named Red Color Iron Dome a system to intercept short range rockets was developed by Israel and first deployed in the spring of 2011 to protect Beersheba and Ashkelon but officials and experts warned that it would not be completely effective Shortly thereafter it intercepted a Palestinian Grad rocket for the first time 113 The attacks were a stated cause of the Gaza blockade the Gaza War December 27 2008 January 21 2009 and other Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip including Operation Rainbow May 2004 Operation Days of Penitence 2004 the 2006 Israel Gaza conflict Operation Autumn Clouds 2006 and Operation Hot Winter 2008 Attacks began in 2001 Since then nearly 4 800 rockets have hit southern Israel just over 4 000 of them since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in August 2005 The range of the rockets has increased over time The original Qassam rocket has a range of about 10 km 6 2 mi but more advanced rockets including versions of the old Soviet Grad or Katyusha have hit Israeli targets 40 km 25 mi from Gaza 105 Some analysts see the attacks as a shift away from reliance on suicide bombing which was previously Hamas s main method of attacking Israel and an adoption of the rocket tactics used by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah 114 Denial of service attacks on the emergency services There have been a number of reports in the Israeli press about denial of service attacks by Palestinians on the Magen David Adom and other emergency call lines 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 A spokesman said that they had received up to 2400 harassing calls per day to the Beersheba MDA office 117 deputy Mayor of Sderot said that after investigation that Palestinians were blocking the ability 116 of citizens to seek for help after mortar and missile attacks According to the MDA director in the Negev some callers identified themselves as Palestinians and said that they had been paid to make the calls 117 The director said the calls were intended to block the MDA s ability to provide emergency services particularly during major events such as mortar 118 attacks 117 As of 2006 117 119 filtering systems had been developed and deployed to handle with this type of calls according to MDA 2008 report one filtering system recognized more than 129 000 phone calls as abusive calls 122 Threats of chemical and biological weapons In a testimony given to the congress it had been reported that Hamas was seeking to acquire chemical and biological weapons during 1990 1993 123 In a statement by Director of Central Intelligence George J Tenet before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on The Worldwide Threat in 2000 Global Realities of Our National Security it was stated that Hamas was pursuing a capability to conduct attacks with toxic chemicals 124 The plot for Passover massacre included four kilograms of cyanide bought and prepared for a chemical attack 125 citation needed In 2003 one report by the CSIS stated The Palestinian terrorist group that allegedly recruited a Canadian to carry out attacks in North America may be developing chemical weapons 126 On June 26 2006 Yedioth Ahronot published a report stating that Fatah s armed wing said it had developed biological chemical weapons which would be used if Israel invaded Gaza We say to Olmert Peretz Your threats of invasion do not frighten us We will surprise you with new weapons you have not faced until now Al Aqsa Brigades says 127 128 On June 29 2006 the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed to have launched a single rocket with a chemical warhead against the southern part of Israel An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army had not detected that any such rocket was fired nor was there any report of such a weapon hitting Israel 129 130 Israeli news reports have stated that chemical weapons and missiles with chemical warheads from Libya have been transferred to Palestinians in Gaza citation needed with some allegedly transferred via Sudan although Sudanese officials have denied the accusations 131 Stone throwing Main article Palestinian stone throwing Palestinian stone throwing is a violent political statement celebrated in the literature of the Palestinian national liberation movement Stone throwing was the primary tactic of the First Intifada 1987 1993 It encompasses the practice of throwing stones by hand and using powerful slings variously aimed at Israel security personnel Israeli civilians and at both civilian and military vehicles It has resulted in the death of both Israelis and Arabs unknowingly targeted by stone throwers citation needed Internal violenceSee also Hamas violence against Palestinians B Tselem reports that from September 29 2000 to March 31 2012 there were 669 Palestinians killed by Palestinians Of those 134 were killed for suspected collaboration with Israel 25 132 Concerning the killing of Palestinians by other Palestinians a January 2003 Humanist magazine article reports 133 For over a decade the PA has violated Palestinian human rights and civil liberties by routinely killing civilians including collaborators demonstrators journalists and others without charge or fair trial Of the total number of Palestinian civilians killed during this period by both Israeli and Palestinian security forces 16 percent were the victims of Palestinian security forces According to Freedom House s annual survey of political rights and civil liberties Freedom in the World 2001 2002 the chaotic nature of the Intifada along with strong Israeli reprisals has resulted in a deterioration of living conditions for Palestinians in Israeli administered areas The survey states Civil liberties declined due to shooting deaths of Palestinian civilians by Palestinian security personnel the summary trial and executions of alleged collaborators by the Palestinian Authority PA extrajudicial killings of suspected collaborators by militias and the apparent official encouragement of Palestinian youth to confront Israeli soldiers thus placing them directly in harm s way Internal Palestinian violence has been called an Intrafada 134 Palestinian attitudesThe PLO officially declared its rejection and condemnation of terrorism in all its forms in 1988 135 1995 2000 A study conducted by Mkhaimer Abusada of Al Azhar University explored attitudes towards the use of political violence Four questions were posed on the subject of political violence to over a thousand respondents randomly selected from localities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip The first question was Do you support the continuing resort of some Palestinian factions to armed operations against Israeli targets in Gaza and Jericho Overall 56 of respondents responded negatively Those affiliated with leftist groups showed the highest levels of support for armed attacks against Israelis 74 while those affiliated with parties supporting the peace process showed the lowest levels 24 The Islamic opposition was split with slightly over half in favor and slightly less than half opposed 136 In September 1995 survey participants were asked whether they supported opposed or had no opinion with regard to armed attacks against Israeli army targets armed attacks against Israeli settlers and armed attacks against Israeli civilian targets The majority supported the use of armed attacks against Israeli military targets and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Support crossed all party lines and groups and was highest among the Islamic opposition 91 and 84 and the leftists 90 and 89 though a significant majority of those who supported the peace process also supported armed attacks on military targets and settlers 69 and 73 To explain the apparent paradox in the latter position Abusada quotes Shikaki 1996 who contends that Palestinian support for the use of armed attacks against Israeli military targets and settlers does not indicate opposition to the peace process but Palestinian insistence that the process entails an end to occupation and settlements 136 Palestinian support for armed attacks against Israeli civilian targets in Israel was 20 overall with support being highest among those affiliated with the Islamic opposition 42 and the leftists 32 and lowest among supporters of the peace process 12 and the National Independents 10 136 2000 04 A July 2001 poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy amp Survey Research PSR found that 58 percent of Palestinians supported armed attacks against Israeli civilians inside Israel and 92 percent supported armed confrontations against the Israeli army in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip 137 A May 2002 poll by the center found that support for bombings of civilians inside Israel dropped to 52 but support for armed attacks against Israeli settlers remained very high at 89 percent Support for armed attacks against soldiers stood at 92 percent 138 A poll after the 2003 Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in which 20 Israelis were killed concluded that 75 percent of Palestinians supported the attack with support higher in the Gaza Strip 82 compared to the West Bank 70 in refugee camps 84 compared to towns and villages 69 among women 79 compared to men 71 among the young 78 compared to the old 66 among students 81 compared to professionals 33 and among supporters of Hamas 92 compared to supporters of Fateh 69 139 The firing of rockets from Beit Hanoun into Israel was acceptable to about three quarters of the Palestinian public in the occupied territories and was higher in the West Bank 78 compared to the Gaza Strip 71 among students 83 compared to merchants 63 and among supporters of Hamas 86 compared to supporters of Fatah 73 While firing rockets from Beit Hanoun was supported by a majority of Palestinians 75 59 of the residents of Beit Hanoun rejected this practice 83 of Palestinians favored a mutual cessation of violence 140 A report by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center a Palestinian organization showing trends based on polls conducted since 1997 indicated that Palestinian support for military operations against Israeli targets stood at 34 40 percent in 1997 1999 climbed to 65 85 percent in 2000 2004 and dropped back to 41 percent at the end of 2004 Military operations were defined as including shootings car bombs and mortar rocket attacks but not suicide bombings 141 A 2005 poll by the center indicated that 53 percent of Palestinians supported the continuation of the Al Aqsa Intifada 50 percent supported suicide bombings against Israeli civilians and 36 percent supported the resumption of military operations against Israeli targets 142 A 2004 study by Victoroff et al was conducted on a group of 52 boys all 14 years old from the al Shati camp in Gaza Forty three percent of the boys reported that a family member had been wounded or killed by the IDF and half lived in households where the father s employment was lost following the outbreak of the Second Intifada Sympathy for terrorism was found to be correlated with depression and anxiety scores as well as with the level of perceived oppression and emotional distress Of those who felt subject to unjust treatment 77 percent expressed sympathy for political violence 143 2005 2012 nbsp Jerusalem July 2 2008 A Palestinian man drives a front end loader into several vehicles in Jerusalem killing three before being shot dead A March 2008 report by Palestinian Center for Policy amp Survey Research PSR noted that the level of support for armed attack against Israeli civilians inside Israel increased significantly with 67 supporting and 31 opposed compared to support by 40 in 2005 and 55 in 2006 A February 2008 suicide bombing that killed one Israeli woman in Dimona was supported by 77 and opposed by 19 An overwhelming majority of 84 percent supported the March 2008 Mercaz HaRav massacre in which a Palestinian gunman killed eight students and wounded eleven in a Jerusalem school Support for the attack was 91 percent in the Gaza Strip compared to 79 percent in the West Bank Similar suicide attacks in 2005 had been less widely supported with 29 support for a suicide attack that took place in Tel Aviv and 37 support for another one in Beersheba 144 The 2009 Hamas political violence took place in the Gaza Strip during and after the 2009 Gaza War A series of violent acts ranging from physical assaults torture and executions of Palestinians suspected of collaboration with the Israel Defense Forces as well as members of the Fatah political party occurred According to Human Rights Watch at least 32 people were killed by these attacks 18 during the conflict and 14 afterward and several dozen more were maimed many by shots to the legs 145 146 In 2012 the number of militant attacks in the West Bank rose from 320 in 2011 to 578 in 2012 including 282 in Jerusalem alone compared to 191 in 2011 According to an annual Shin Bet report the increase was due in part to a 68 rise of attacks using molotov cocktails The number of attacks involving firearms and explosives grew by 42 from 26 to 37 147 Casualties Palestinian deaths by other Palestinians since 1982 Conflict Killed Operation Pillar of Defense 8 148 Gaza War 75 citation needed Internal violence 2007 present 600 149 Battle of Gaza 2007 130 citation needed Second Intifada 714 150 First Intifada 1 100 citation needed War of the CampsGroupsHamas Founded in 1987 by Ahmed Yassin and Mohammad Taha as an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood Hamas goal is the establishment of a Palestinian state 151 Armed wing is the Izz ad Din al Qassam Brigades the sole target of its suicide bombings and missile attacks is Israel 151 Took part in 2006 elections and won After the 2007 Battle of Gaza the Hamas government was disbanded by Mahmoud Abbas but remained de facto rulers of the Gaza Strip Currently led by Khaled Mashaal and Ismail Haniyeh Palestinian Islamic Jihad PIJ founded 1970s Formed by Fathi Shaqaqi as a branch of Egyptian Islamic Jihad Goal is the destruction of the state of Israel and replacement with an Islamist state 152 Armed wing is the Al Quds Brigades Jerusalem brigades Currently led by Ramadan Shallah the Secretary General and Abd Al Aziz Awda The Popular Resistance Committees Islamist Founded in 2000 by Jamal Abu Samhadana who led the group until he was killed in 2006 Hamas linked group based in the Gaza Strip Palestine Liberation Organization PLO founded June 1964 Formed as the political representation of the Palestinian people Currently led by Mahmoud Abbas PLO Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PFLP founded 1967 Left wing Joined the PLO in 1968 and became the second largest PLO faction after Arafat s al Fatah but withdrew in 1974 accusing the group of moving away from the goal of abolishing the State of Israel It was led by Abu Ali Mustapha until his assassination in 2001 153 154 155 Armed wing is the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades and Jihad Jibril Brigades 156 Currently led by Ahmad Sa adat Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine DFLP founded 1969 Marxist Leninist group that believes Palestinian national goals can be achieved only through revolution of the masses Split into two factions in 1991 Nayif Hawatmah leads the majority and more hard line faction which continue to dominate the group Joined with other rejectionist groups to form the Alliance of Palestinian Forces APF to oppose the Declaration of Principles signed in 1993 Broke from the APF along with the PFLP over ideological differences Has made limited moves towards merging with the PFLP since the mid 1990s Abu Nidal organization ANO also known as Fatah the Revolutionary Council FRC founded 1974 Split from PLO part of the so called rejectionist front the ANO is a secular nationalist group Was led by Abu Nidal widely regarded as the most ruthless of the Palestinian leaders until his death in August 2002 According to Kameel Nasr Arab and Israeli Terrorism The group was infiltrated and influenced by Israeli security Palestine Liberation Front PLF Minor Left wing faction Founded in 196 by Ahmed Jibril and Shafiq al Hout re established in 1977 by Abu Abbas Arab Liberation Front ALF Minor faction tied to the Iraqi Ba ath Party Founded in 1969 first leader was Zeid Heidar Currently led by Rakad Salem As Sa iqa VPLW Palestinian branch of the Syrian Ba ath Party Founded in 1966 as alternative to Fatah organisation boycotts Palestinian National Authority and is opposed to Oslo Accords Organisation was not active during the Second Intifada Currently led by Farhan Abu Al Hayja Palestinian Popular Struggle Front PPSF Minor Socialist faction formerly led by Samir Ghawshah Palestinian Arab Front PAF Minor Arab Nationalist faction Originally part of the ALF split from the ALF in 1993 Supports the Palestinian right of return and creation of Palestinian state within 1967 borders Currently led by Jameel Shihadeh Fatah founded early 1960s 157 Palestinian nationalist political party Reverse acronym for Harekat at Tahrir al Wataniyyeh al Falastiniyyeh Palestinian National Liberation Movement in Arabic Also known as the Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine Founded by Yasser Arafat in 1959 Took control of the PLO in 1968 with Arafat as chairman Currently led by Mahmoud Abbas Fatah associates Tanzim founded 1995 Means organization in Arabic Loosely organized Fatah militia Led by Marwan Barghouti until his arrest in 2002 Force 17 early 1970s 2007 Elite unit of the PLO once under Yasser Arafat s direct guidance Acts as a versatile unit for combat and intelligence gathering Dismantled in 2007 and incorporated into the Palestinian Presidential Guard Fatah Special Operations Group Fatah SOG Founded in the early 1970s by Col Abdullah Abd al Hamid Labib Also known as the Martyrs of Tel Al Za atar Hawari and Amn Araissi Recently inactive as of 2004 Ahmed Abu Reish Brigade Extremist offshoot of Fatah Was involved in the July 17 2004 kidnappings in the Gaza Strip Possibly linked to the Popular Resistance Committees Led by Ahmed Abu Reish Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Responsible for many suicide bombings and shootings of Israeli civilians Responsible for executing suspected conspirators and leaders of opposition against Arafat Funded by Fatah and the Palestinian Authority citation needed Offshoot of this group Fatah Hawks has carried out guerrilla attacks against Israeli military personnel in the Gaza Strip Black September Organization 1970 1973 Began as a small cell of Fatah men determined to take revenge upon King Hussein and the Jordanian army for Black September in Jordan Recruits from the PFLP as Sa iqa and other groups also joined Carried out Munich massacre Carried out Attack on the Saudi embassy in Khartoum In 1973 two members of the Black September attacked with sub machine guns and grenades at the passenger lounge at Ellinikon International Airport in Athens Greece Three civilians have been killed and 55 have been wounded After the attack the gunmen took hostages for more than two hours before surrendering to the Greek police Most of the casualties and injured were Greeks and Americans 158 Splinter Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command PFLP GC founded 1968 Splinter group from the PFLP founded by Ahmed Jibril Declared its focus would be military not political Was a member of the PLO but left in 1974 for the same reasons as PFLP Al Qaeda associates Army of Islam Jaysh al Islam Also known as the Tawhid and Jihad Brigades and al Qaeda in Palestine The group are an armed Gaza clan named Doghmush who are affiliated with al Qaeda and Abu Qatada Abdullah Azzam Brigades Jund Ansar Allah 2008 al Qaeda affiliated group in the Gaza Strip founded in November 2008 by Abdel Latif Moussa In August 2009 the group proclaimed the creation of an Islamic emirate in Gaza and led an armed rebellion against Hamas The group s leader Abdel Latif Moussa was killed during that rebellion Fatah al Islam 2006 al Qaeda affiliated group involved in a conflict with the Lebanese army in 2007 over control of Palestinian refugee camps which caused the death of nearly 500 people The group was established in 2006 by Shaker al Abssi who led the group until killed by Lebanese forces in 2007 Abu Mohamad Awad succeeded al Abbsi as the group s leader Jund al Sham 1999 2008 Radical Islamist group set up by Palestinians and Syrians which operated in different areas of the Middle East The group s leader Abu Youssef Sharqieh was captured by Lebanese forces during the 2007 conflict in Palestinian refugee camps The group was disbanded in 2008 as its members joined Lebanese al Qaeda affiliated group Osbat al Ansar Jaljalat 2006 A Hamas splinter organisation founded in 2006 by Mahmoud Taleb a former al Qassam Brigades commander after he opposed Hamas joining the 2006 elections The group is affiliated with both Jund Ansar Allah and al Qaeda Jahafil Al Tawhid Wal Jihad fi Filastin 2008 al Qaeda affiliated group in the Gaza Strip founded in November 2008 by Abu al Walid al Maqdisi Sabireen Movement The Sabireen Movement s leadership converted to Shia Islam in 2014 It is at odds with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and supports Hezbollah Iran and Syria Notable attacksThis article may contain unverified or indiscriminate information in embedded lists Please help clean up the lists by removing items or incorporating them into the text of the article November 2023 Main article List of massacres in Israel 1979 Nahariya attack 2000 Ramallah lynching 2008 Dimona suicide bombing 2011 Itamar attack Avivim school bus massacre Beit Lid massacre Coastal Road massacre Dizengoff Street bus bombing Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing Har Nof synagogue massacre Hebrew University massacre Jaffa Road bus bombings Jerusalem bus 19 suicide bombing Karkur junction suicide bombing Kiryat Menachem bus bombing Lod Airport massacre Ma ale Akrabim massacre Ma alot massacre Maxim restaurant suicide bombing Mercaz HaRav massacre Night of the Gliders Passover massacre Pi Glilot bombing Sabena Flight 571 Savoy Hotel Attack Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing Shawarma restaurant bombing International attacks This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items November 2023 Year Country attack 1968 nbsp Greece El Al Flight 253 attack 1968 nbsp USA Assassination of Robert F Kennedy 1970 nbsp Switzerland Swissair Flight 330 1970 nbsp Germany 1970 Munich bus attack 1972 nbsp Germany Munich massacre 1972 nbsp Yemen Lufthansa Flight 649 1972 nbsp Thailand Bangkok Israeli embassy hostage crisis 1973 nbsp Greece Hellinikon Airport attack 1973 nbsp USA NYC bomb plot 1973 nbsp Japan Hijacking of Japan Air Lines Flight 404 1973 nbsp Italy nbsp Greece nbsp Syria nbsp Kuwait Rome airport attacks and Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 303 1973 nbsp Sudan Attack on the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum 1974 Mediterranean Sea TWA Flight 841 crashing 1974 nbsp Kuwait Japanese Embassy attack 1975 nbsp France 1975 Orly Airport attacks 1976 nbsp Greece nbsp Uganda Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 1976 nbsp Turkey Yesilkoy airport attack 1977 nbsp France nbsp Italy nbsp Cyprus nbsp Bahrain nbsp UAE nbsp Yemen nbsp Somalia Lufthansa Flight 181 1978 nbsp France 1978 Orly Airport attack 1978 nbsp UK London bus attack 1980 nbsp France Paris synagogue bombing 1981 nbsp France Antwerp bombing 1985 nbsp Italy nbsp Austria Rome and Vienna airport attacks 1985 nbsp Egypt Achille Lauro hijacking 1985 nbsp Cyprus Larnaca yacht killings 1985 nbsp Malta EgyptAir Flight 648 1990 nbsp Egypt 1990 Cairo bus attack 2002 nbsp Kenya 2002 Mombasa attacks 2004 nbsp Egypt 2004 Sinai bombings 2012 nbsp France Toulouse and Montauban shootingsSee alsoCrime in Israel Death of Daniel Wultz Fatah Hamas conflict Islamic terrorism Israeli casualties of war Israeli settler violence List of killings and massacres in Mandatory Palestine Martyrdom in Palestinian society Outline of the 2023 Israel Hamas war 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