Terrorism against Israel before 2000

Template:Message boxTerrorism against Israel: Pre-2000 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004

This page is a partial list of Palestinian terrorist acts committed before September 2000.

Note: This compilation includes only casualties of the violence. Attacks which did not result in death or injury are not included.

Contents

1 1999 2 1998 3 1997 4 1996 5 1995 6 1994 7 1993 8 1986 9 1979 10 1974 11 1972 12 1936 13 1929

1999

• August 3: Baruch Ben-Yaakov and Ephraim Rosenstein were wounded by terrorists near Hevron.
• August 7: Edward Berdinchinsky was found burned to death in his car. Police announced on February 29, 2000 that the attack was a terrorist incident and not a criminal homicide.
• August 10: Eitan Vaknin, of Dotan, was wounded in an ambush while driving home and hospitalized in Afula. The terrorists escaped into the area controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
• August 15: A Hamas bomb attack in an office building in Netanya injured about 20.
• August 29: Yehiel Pinpetter and Sharon Steinmetz were murdered in the Megiddo Forest by an Arab.
• September 5: One terrorist was the only person killed when his car bomb exploded prematurely in Haifa.
• September 5: Two civilians were wounded when a car bomb exploded in Tiberias.
• October 30: Five Israelis were wounded by terrorist gunfire directed at a bus three kilometers from the Tarkumiya Checkpoint in the Hevron Hills area. [1] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=71239)
• November 7: 30 Israelis (28 civilians and 2 soldiers) were wounded when three bombs placed in garbage receptacles at the intersection of Herzl and Shar Haggai Streets in Natanya. [2] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=71622)

1998

• April 19: Dov Driben, an American-Israeli farmer, 28, was murdered by Arab terrorists near the Israeli town of Maon in the Hevron Hills.
• May 6: Haim Kerman, a student at the Atert Cohanim Yeshiva, was stabbed to death in Jerusalem's Old City.
• August 5: Harel Bin-Nun, 18, and Shlomo Leibman, 24, were shot dead near Yitzhar while driving along the community's fence.
• August 20: Rabbi Shlomo Raanan was stabbed to death in a Hamas terrorist who broke into his home. The terrorist escaped after detonating a fire bomb inside the home.
• August 27: Twelve people were wounded by a bomb detonated in front of the Tel Aviv Great Synagogue.
• September 24: One Israeli was wounded by bomb explosion at a public bus stop near the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. [3] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69379)
• September 30: During Yom Kippur, fourteen IDF soldiers and eleven Arabs were wounded by two grenades thrown in Hebron. [4] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69696)
• October 13: An Israeli was kiled and another wounded in a terrorist attack while the two were swimming in a spring near Moshav Ora. [5] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=70303)
• October 19: 59 people are wounded when a Hamas terrorist hurled two grenades into a crowd at the Central bus station before running from the scene. [6] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=70617)
• November 6: Two terrorists died in suicide bombing attack in Mahane Yehuda marketplace in Jerusalem. There were no other casualties. [7] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=71614)

1997

• April 25: The bodies of two young women, killed by a Bedouin, were found in the Wadi Kelt nature reserve northeast of Jerusalem.
• July 20: An Arab attacked two Israelis with an iron rod in Rishon L'Tzion. One of the Israelis later died of his wounds.
• July 22: An Israeli Arab tried to run down a group of tourists from England and Canada in Jaffa and then attacked them with a knife. Eleven tourists were wounded.
• September 4: Three people were killed and 166 wounded when three suicide bombers detonated at Jerusalem's Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall.

1996

• March 4: A suicide bomber exploded outside the Dizengoff Center, a Tel Aviv shopping mall, murdering 20 and injuring 75 others, including United States citizens.
• May 13: David Reuven Boim, 17, was shot to death at the entrance to Bet El in a drive-by terror attack.
• June 9: Yaron and Efrat Unger, aged 26 and 25, were murdered in a terrorist drive-by shooting while driving near Beit Shemesh. Their 9-month-old baby son in the back seat escaped injury.

1995

• April 9: American citizen and student Alisa Flatow was killed in a terror attack in southern Gush Katif near the community of Kfar Darom. Seven Israelis also perished in the attack and over 30 others were injured. In a second attack nearby, a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb in the midst of a convoy of cars, injuring 12 people. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attacks.
• April 13: A Hamas suicide bomber blew himself up at the Hadera Central Bus Station, killing 5 and injuring 30.
• July 25: A Hamas suicide bomber attacked a bus, murdering 6 and wounding 31.
• August 21: Four Israelis and one American were killed and over 100 were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up on a city bus in Jerusalem.

1994

• April 9: A Hamas operative drives a car bomb into a bus in Afula. 8 people are killed. This was the first suicide bombing inside Israel.
• July 23: Two Palestinian terrorists stabbed an American woman in the Old City of Jerusalem.
• July 26: A car bomb exploded at the Israel Embassy in London, wounding 14 people.
• October 19: 22 people killed and more than 50 wounded when a Hamas suicide bomber blew himself up Tel Aviv city bus. [8] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=70617)
• November 11: 3 killed and 6 wounded when a suicide bomber from Islamic Jihad detonated near an IDF checkpoint at the Netzarim Junction. [9] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=71882)

1993

• August 3: Yaron Chen, a Tsahal soldier, was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists while hitch-hiking back home. His body was later found in the burnt truck. [10] (http://mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0i120)
• November 7: Ephraim Ayoubi of Kfar Darom was shot to death by Hamas terrorists near Hevron. [11] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=71622)
• November 9: Salman Id al-Hawashla, 38, an Israeli Bedouin, was killed when his vehicle, marked by Israeli license plates, was rammed by a stolen truck driven by terrorists. [12] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=71763)

1986

• April 17: Nizar al-Hindawi fails in his attempt to smuggle a semtex bomb, carried by his five month pregnant fiancee Ann-Marie Doreen Murphy, onto a passenger airliner traveling from London to Tel Aviv. [13] (http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1064)

1979

• April 22: Four Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists infiltrated Israel from Lebanon and killed Dani Haran, his two daughters, and policeman Eliyahu Shahar.

1974

• May 15: 22 children and several adults were killed (66 children were wounded) in the Maalot Massacre, perpetrated by Palestinian terrorists of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

1972

• September 5: Munich massacre: Palestinian terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes and one German policeman in a dormitory of the Munich Olympic Games.

1936

• April 19: Arab rioters attacked Jaffa and killed 16 Jews.

1929

• August 23: Hebron Massacre: Arab rioters killed 67 Jews in Hebron. Many of the dead were dismembered. Many incidents of rape were reported. Numerous homes were burned. The remaining Jewish community of Hebron fled to Jerusalem.

See also: Palestinian terrorism, Violence against Israelis, Israeli terrorism