Terrorism against Israel in 2003
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Template:Message boxTerrorism against Israel: Pre-2000 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004
This page is a partial list of incidents of terrorism against Israel in 2003.
Note: This compilation includes only casualties of the violence. Attacks which did not result in death or injury are not included.
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Total Civilian Death Toll in 2003: 177
MDT stands for Monthly Civilian Death Toll and the number after denotes how many persons were killed by attacks this month.
January (MDT: 26)
- January 2: The body of a 72-year-old Israeli was found in the northern Jordan Valley in his burned out car. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder.
- January 5: 23 people, including eight foreigners, are murdered in two nearly simultaneous suicide bombings in central Tel Aviv. More than 100 others were reported seriously injured. Islamic Jihad and Yasser Arafat's Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility. Another arm of Yassar Arafat's movement denied responsibility.
- January 12: A 48-year-old man was killed and four people wounded when terrorists infiltrated Moshav Gadish and opened fire. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
- January 17: A 34-year-old Israeli was killed when terrorists entered his home near Kiryat Arba, and opened fire. His 5-year-old daughter and two others were wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
February (MDT: 0)
March (MDT: 21)
- March 5: 17 killed, about 53 injured in explosion on bus in Haifa.
- March 7: A couple from Kiryat Arba, were killed and five wounded by armed terrorists disguised as Jewish worshippers who infiltrated Kiryat Arba, entered their home and murdered them while they were celebrating the Sabbath. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
- March 13: David Mordehai, 57, and his one Nahum, 25, were shot while sitting in their car Jerusalem. The father died of his wounds less than a year later. The son remains paralyzed.
- March 19: A 51-year-old Israeli was shot dead while driving in his car between Mevo Dotan and Shaked in northern Samaria (in the West Bank). The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
April (MDT: 6)
- April 15: Gavriel Pedhazur, 50, a resident of Kohav Yair, was beaten to death with rocks by two Arabs in the Ben-Shemen Forest. A woman who was with him was moderately injured in the attack.
- April 15: An Israeli was killed and four Israelis were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire at the Karni industrial zone crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
- April 19: An Islamic Jihad member opened fire at the Shaked industrial zone in the Shomron. Three Israelis were wounded, one seriously.
- April 24: A 23-year-old Israeli security guard was killed and 13 were wounded in a suicide bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
- April 30: Three Israelis were killed and about 60 injured when two British Muslim suicide bombers blew themselves up at Mike's Place bar on the Tel Aviv coast. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility. The International Solidarity Movement was implicated by association with the suicide bomber.
May (MDT: 14)
- May 5: Gideon Lichterman, 27, a resident of Ahiya, was killed; his 6-year-old daughter and another were seriously wounded when terrorists fired shots at their vehicle near Shvut Rachel, in Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
- May 11: A 53-year-old Israeli man was shot in the head and killed by Palestinians in a roadside ambush north of Jerusalem. Both Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.
- May 17: Dina Levy, 37, and Gadi Levy, 31, were murdered in a suicide bombing.
- May 18: A Palestinian suicide bomber killed seven and wounded 20 on a bus in Jerusalem's French Hill district. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
- May 19: A suicide bomber blew herself up at the entrance to a mall in the northern Israeli town of Afula. Three people were killed and about 75 wounded. Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.
- May 19: A suicide bomber detonated while riding a bicycle near a vehicle close to Kfar Darom. Three people were injured.
- May 23: Nine persons were wounded in a bomb attack against a passenger bus traveling near the community of Netzarim.
- May 25: A shooting attack in the Jordan Valley, north of Beka'ot, leaves one wounded.
- May 28: Two Israelis were wounded when a bus traveling from Jerusalem to Kiryat Arba was hit with gunfire from both sides of the road.
June (MDT: 26)
- June 5: The bodies of two Israelis were found near Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem, beaten and stabbed to death.
- June 11: 17 people killed and 112 wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself on board a #14A bus in downtown Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility.
- June 12: A 51-year-old Israeli was found shot to death in his car in the West Bank. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
- June 12: Avner Maimon, 49, of Netanya, was shot to death. Hamas claimed responsibility.
- June 13: Two women were shot while traveling between Nahliel and N'vei Tzuf.
- June 17: An Israeli 7-year old girl was killed and three of her family members (including her younger sister) were wounded when Palestinians, armed with assault rifles, attacked their car on road no. 6, some few hundreds meters far from Qalqiliya. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
- June 19: An Israeli shopkeeper was killed in Sdei-Trumot (a village in northern Israel), when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up inside the shop. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
- June 20: Tzvi Goldstein, a 47-year-old Israeli, was killed when his car was fired upon in an ambush by Palestinian terrorists. His parents and his wife were wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
- June 26: An Israeli phone company employee was killed in a shooting attack by a 15 year old Palestinian in the Israeli Arab town of Baka al-Garbiyeh. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
- June 26: A motorist was wounded by gunfire on the Hussan Bypass Road between el-Hader and Beitar Illit in the Gush Etzion area.
- June 30: A 46-year-old construction worker from Bulgaria was killed in a shooting attack on a road west of Jenin, while driving a truck. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, in opposition to the declared ceasefire.
July (MDT: 3)
- July 2: A security guard was lightly wounded by gunfire along the Israeli West Bank barrier near Kalkilya.
- July 7: A 65-year-old Israeli woman was killed in her home in Moshav Kfar Yavetz and three of her grandchildren wounded in a terrorist suicide bombing. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
- July 15 A 24-year-old Israeli was stabbed to death while protecting his girlfriend against a Palestinian terrorist armed with a long-bladed knife on Tel Aviv's beach-front promenade. The terrorist, who was shot and apprehended, was a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, which claimed responsibility for the attack.
- July 20: A 67-year-old resident of the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev was wounded in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Yemin Moshe area.
- June 21: Oleg Shaichat was abucted and killed by Israeli Arabs from a terror cell calling itself "Galilee Liberators" composed of seven Israeli Arabs, from Kfar Kana and Kfar Manda. All members of the terror cell have been killed or captured.
August (MDT: 27)
- August 1: 18-year-old Dona Bennet disappeared while traveling to Tiberias. Police indicated that they believed her disappearance to be a terror related act.
- August 3: A 39-year-woman and three of her children where wounded by Palestinian terrorist gunfire.
- August 12: A 43-year-old Israeli was murdered and eight others were wounded by a teenaged Palestinian suicide bomber who detonated himself in a Rosh Ha'ayin supermarket.
- August 12: One person was killed and three wounded by a teenaged Palestinian suicide bomber who detonated himself at a bus stop outside Ariel.
- August 19: 23 were killed and 136 wounded by a suicide bombing on board a bus in Jerusalem. Among the victims were numerous children. Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Hebron, and Hamas, both claimed responsibility for the attack.
- August 23: Rachel Weiss, age 70, of Jerusalem, dies of wounds suffered in the August 19 terrorist attack.
- August 29: Shalom Ha-Melech, 25, was killed in a shooting attack while driving northeast of Ramallah. His wife, who was seven months pregnant, sustained moderate injuries, and gave birth to a baby girl by Caesarean section. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
- August 31: A person was shot in the greenhouses of Pe'at Sadeh. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
- August 31: A foreign worker was shot in Qalqilyah.
September (MDT: 18)
- September 9: Nine non-combat soldiers were killed and over 30 wounded when a suicide bomber exploded in a bus stop near Asaf-Ha-Rofeh hospital and the military base of Tzrifin. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
- September 9: Seven people were killed, including Dr. David Applebaum and his 20-year-old daughter Nava, and over 50 wounded when a suicide bomber exploded at the Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
- September 26: A 7-month-old baby girl and a 29-year-old man were killed, and both of the baby's parents were wounded, when a Palestinian terrorist entered their home in Negohot (in the West Bank) and opened fire, during the family's celebration of the Jewish New Year. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
October (MDT: 28)
- October 4: The Maxim restaurant massacre. 21 people were killed and 64 wounded when the female suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat explodes in the Jewish-Arab Maxim restaurant in Haifa. Four of the victims were children, including a 2-month-old. The Islamic Jihad group claimed responsibility for the attack. The terrorist attack came just a day before Yom Kippur.
- October 15: George Matar, 59, dies of wounds suffered in the October 4th suicide bombing of the Maxim Restaurant. [1] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=70436)
- October 15: Three member of a United States diplomatic convoy are killed and additional members of the convoy wounded three kilometers south of the Erez Crossing into the Gaza Strip by a terrorist bomb. [2] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=70436)
- October 22: Eyal Noked and Gabi ben-Yitzhak, of Hevron, were wounded in terrorist shooting attack near the entrance to Hevron’s Admat Yishai neighborhood. [3] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=70810)
November (MDT: 5)
- November 19: Four people were injured and one women was killed when an Arab terrorist, Ahmed Jahid, opened fire on a group of tourist in Rabin border crossing between the Arava (Israel) and Aqaba (Jordan). The terrorist was killed by Israeli security guards.
- November 22: Two Israeli civilian security guards were killed in a construction site near Nahal Kidron at the outskirts of Jerusalem. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
December (MDT: 4)
- December 25: 4 Israelis were killed when a 17-years-old suicide bomber blew himself up in a bus station on a main road between Tel Aviv and Petah Tikva. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility.
External links
- Casualties of War (http://info.jpost.com/C002/Supplements/CasualtiesOfWar/)
- Palestinian terrorism since September 2000 (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Palestinian%20violence%20and%20terrorism%20since%20September) (from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- List of victims (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc) (from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs)