Terrorism against Israel in 2002
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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 2002.
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 2002: 390
MDT stands for Monthly Civilian Death Toll and the number after denotes how many Israeli were killed by terrorist attack that month.
January (MDT: 13)
- January 15: An Israeli woman was shot dead in Jerusalem; a man (a United States citizen living in Israel) kidnapped into Nablus and shot dead there.
- January 16: An Arab resident of East Jerusalem was killed while driving in a car with Israeli license plates near Jenin.
- January 17: Six men and women were killed at a Bat-Mitzvah ceremony in Hadera by a Fatah gunman.
- January 22: Two women were killed by a Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades gunman in Jerusalem
- January 25: 20 people were injured in a suicide bombing in the Old Bus Station of Tel Aviv.
- January 27: An elderly Israeli was killed and 172 were wounded by a Fatah suicide bombing in Jerusalem. The attack marked the first time a female suicide bomber was used.
February (MDT: 19)
- February 6: An Israeli woman and her 11 year-old daughter were killed in a gun attack in the Israeli village of Hamra. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility.
- February 8: An Israeli woman was stabbed to death by several Palestinian young men while walking in a park in Jerusalem.
- February 9: 78-year-old Atla Lipovsky, of Maale Ephraim, was murdered in a terrorist shooting attack near Marda, in the northern West Bank. One of her sons was wounded in the attack.
- February 16: Two young girls, Nechemia Amar, 15, and Keren Shatzki, 15, were killed in a suicide bombing at a pizzeria in the northern West Bank. A third girl, Rachel Tayler, 16, wounded in the attack, died several days later. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility.
- February 18: An Israeli Arab policeman was killed by a suicide bomber. Fatah claimed responsibility. A settler woman was killed in a combined shooting and bombing in Gaza, for which Fatah (Al-Aqsa) claimed responsibility.
- February 18: A terrorist opened fire and threw bombs at a convoy near Kissufim, killing 3 and wounding 3. The attacker detonated a bomb and killed himself when IDF troops arrived on the scene.
- February 22: Valery Ahmir, 59, of Beit Shemesh, was killed by terrorists in a drive-by shooting on the Atarot-Givat Ze'ev road north of Jerusalem, on his way home from his workplace.
- February 25: Two Israelis were killed in a shooting attack between Tekoa and Nokdim, south of Bethlehem. One of the victims' pregnant daughter was injured. An Israeli policewoman was killed when a terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in the Neve Ya'akov residential neighborhood in northern Jerusalem.
- February 27: An Israeli was shot and killed by one of his Palestinian employees in a factory in the Atarot industrial area, north of Jerusalem.
March (MDT: 121)
- March 2: The bullet-ridden body of a Jerusalem police detective was discovered next to his trail motorcycle, near the Mar Saba Monastery in the Judean Desert. 11 people were killed in a suicide bombing near a yeshiva in the Haredi Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem.
- March 3: Ten Israelis, soldiers and civilians , were killed by a Palestinian sniper in an IDF road block near Ofra, in Samaria (northern West Bank).
- March 5: Three people were killed in Tel Aviv when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on two adjacent restaurants. An Israeli woman was killed in shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass "tunnel" road, south of Jerusalem, on her way to work. Her husband was injured. An 85-year-old Israeli was killed when a suicide bomber exploded in an Egged No. 823 bus as it entered the Afula central bus station.
- March 7: Five Israeli teenagers were killed and 23 were injured when a Palestinian gunman penetrated the pre-military training academy in the Gush Katif settlement of Atzmona. Hamas terrorists entered the southern Gush Katif community, opening fire and throwing hand grenades at the school and nearby houses.
- March 9: A 9-month-old baby and a man were killed when two Palestinians opened fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya, close to the city's boardwalk and hotels. 11 people were killed and 54 others were wounded when a suicide bomber exploded in the crowded Cafe Moment in the center of Jerusalem.
- March 12: One Israeli was killed and another wounded in a shooting attack at the Kiryat Sefer checkpoint, east of Modi'in. Six people (three men and three women, including a teenager) were killed when two terrorists opened fire from an ambush on Israeli vehicles traveling between Shlomi and Kibbutz Metzuba near the northern border with Lebanon.
- March 17: An 18-year-old girl was killed and 16 people were injured when a terrorist opened fire on passersby in the center of Kfar Sava.
- March 20: Seven Israelis were killed in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus No. 823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth, near Afula.
- March 21: Three people were killed and 86 injured when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd of shoppers on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem.
- March 24: A 23-year-old Israeli woman was killed in a shooting attack northwest of Ramallah, while traveling to work in a reinforced Egged bus. A 24-year-old Israeli man was killed in a terrorist shooting south of Hebron, as he was returning home from shopping for Passover in Jerusalem.
- March 26 Temporary International Presence in Hebron observers Major Cengiz Soytunc of Turkey and Catherine Berruex, of Switzerland, were shot dead by terrorist gunfire west of the Halhoul Bridge. The attacker was a Palestinian Authority policeman in uniform.
- March 27: The Passover Massacre: 30 Israelis were killed and over 140 wounded when a suicide bomber exploded in the crowded dining room of the Park Hotel in Netanya.
- March 28: Four family members were killed in Elon Moreh, when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the hilltop community near Nablus, burst into their home, and shot them.
- March 29: Two elderly men were stabbed to death while on their way to the synagogue for morning prayers, when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the Neztarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.
- March 30: Two people killed when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. Some 30 people were injured in a suicide bombing in a cafe in southern Tel-Aviv. One of the victims, a 36-year-old woman, died of her wounds five days later.
- March 31: 15 people killed in a suicide bombing in Haifa, in the Matza restaurant massacre.
April (MDT: 20)
- April 1: A 19-year-old police volunteer was killed in Jerusalem when a Palestinian suicide bomber driving toward the city center blew himself up after being stopped at a roadblock. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
- April 10: Eight people were killed and 22 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #960, en route from Haifa to Jerusalem, which exploded near Kibbutz Yagur, east of Haifa.
- April 12: Seven people were killed by a woman suicide bomber who detonated a powerful charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road next to the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market. Another 104 people were injured in the blast, among them nine Arabs. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
- April 27: Four people, including a 5-year-old girl, were killed when terrorists dressed in IDF uniforms and combat gear cut through the settlement's defensive perimeter fence and entered Adora, west of Hebron. The terrorists entered several homes, firing on people in their bedrooms.
May (MDT: 28)
- May 7: 15 people were killed and 55 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge in a game club on the 3rd floor of a building in Rishon LeZion, causing part of the building to collapse. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
- May 8: A suicide bomber exploded prematurely at Megiddo Junction in the I'ron Valley. The terrorist was the only casualty.
- May 12: Nissan Dolinger, 43, of Pe'at Sadeh, was shot and killed by an Arab laborer Nissan employed in the Rafiah Yam hothouses.
- May 19: Three Israelis were killed and more than 55 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded section of Netanya's open-air market.
- May 21: An Israeli was injured when a bomb exploded on Kehilat Katzuvitch Street in northern Tel Aviv.
- May 22: Two people (one of them a teenager) were killed in a suicide bombing in the heart of Rishon LeZion.
- May 24: Two people were wounded by the premature detonation of a car bomb when an security guard fired at a car heading towards crowded a Tel Aviv club.
- May 27: A woman and her infant granddaughter, aged 14 months, of Petah Tikva were killed and 53 others were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall.
- May 28: Two Israelis were killed when shots were fired at the car in which they was traveling south on the Ramallah bypass road.
- May 28: Three yeshiva high school students were killed and several others wounded in Itamar when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the community and opened fire on the teenagers.
June (MDT: 54)
- June 5: 17 people were killed when a car packed with a large quantity of explosives struck Egged bus No. 830 traveling from Tel-Aviv to Tiberias at the Megiddo junction near Afula. The car exploded near the gasoline tank of the bus, causing it to burst into flames. Most of the casualties were soldiers who were on their way to their bases. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
- June 6: An 18-year-old Israeli student died of gunshot wounds to the chest sustained in a shooting attack near Ofra, north of Ramallah, when Palestinian terrorists opened fire from an ambush.
- June 8: Three Israelis, including a pregnant woman, were shot dead when terrorists infiltrated the community of Carmei Tzur south of Bethlehem.
- June 11: Hadar Hirschkovitz, a 15 year old girl, was killed and eleven other Israelis wounded when a Palestinian female suicide bomber set off a relatively small pipe bomb at a shwarma restaurant in Herzliya.
- June 11: D'vir Musai, an eighth grader, and two other children were wounded when terrorists detonated a bomb against an Israeli schoolbus.
- June 18: 19 people were killed and 74 wounded in a suicide bombing at the Patt junction in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem. The terrorist boarded the bus at the stop in Beit Safafa, an Arab neighborhood opposite Gilo, and almost immediately detonated the large bomb which he carried in a bag stuffed with ball bearings. The blast destroyed the front half of the bus, packed with people on their way to work and schoolchildren.
- June 19: Seven people, including a 5 year old girl and her grandmother, were killed and 20 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem.
- June 19: Avraham Eliyahu Nechmad, 17, from Rishon L'Tzion, died as a result of wounds suffered in the suicide bombing of 2 March 2002, becoming the 12th victim.
- June 20: Five people, including a mother and three of her sons of the Shabo family, were murdered and four others wounded when a terrorist entered the community of Itamar and opened fire.
July (MDT: 32)
- July 4: A terrorist gunman opened fire at the El Al desk in the Los Angeles Airport murdering 46-year-old Yaakov Aminov of Los Angeles and a El Al clerk, in her 20s. A number of people were wounded.
- July 16: Nine people (two men, six women, and an infant child) were killed and over 20 wounded in a Palestinian terrorist attack on Dan bus no. 189 traveling from Bnei Brak to Emmanuel in Samaria. Two 20 kg bombs were set off about 200 meters from the town's entrance, damaging the bus's front tires and forcing it off the road. The explosion damaged the bus doors, trapping the passengers inside. The terrorists then started to shoot at the bus, firing through the unprotected roof and throwing grenades through the narrow upper windows, which are not armored.
- July 17: Five people were murdered and about 40 injured in a double suicide bombing on Neve Sha'anan Street near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv.
- July 21: Palestinian terrorists detonated a bomb near Yavne against a train traveling Binyamina to Ashdod. The conductor was wounded.
- July 25: Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, 43, was murdered and another civilian wounded in a terrorist shooting attack near the West Bank community of Alei Zahav, west of Ariel.
- July 26: Yosef Dickstein, his wife Chana, and their 9 year old son Shuvel Zion were murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack. Two of their other children were wounded in the same attack.
- July 30: Two brothers were shot and killed when their truck came under fire in the West Bank village of Jama'in, near Ariel, apparently while selling diesel oil to a cement factory in the village.
- July 31: Nine people (including four Americans) were killed and 86 were wounded when a bomb exploded in the Frank Sinatra cafeteria on the Hebrew University Mt. Scopus campus in Jerusalem.
August (MDT: 15)
- August 1: Shani Ladani, 27 years old, was tied up and shot in the head at point-blank range by Arabs, west of Tulkarem, near the Green Line.
- August 4: Nine people were killed in the suicide bombing of Egged bus No. 361 traveling from Haifa to Safed at the Meron junction in northern Israel. The blast blew off the roof of the bus, which then burst into flames, killing or wounding nearly everyone inside.
- August 4: A 34-year-old Israeli and a 52-year-old Palestinian were killed and 14 others were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a pistol near the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City.
- August 5: Avi (29) and Avital (27) Volansky were killed when terrorists opened fire on their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus road near Luban el-Sharqiya. Two of their children were wounded in the attack.
- August 7: An Israeli was stabbed at the Cave of Eliyahu in Haifa.
- August 7: A gasoline tanker truck containing 15,000 liters of fuel exploded in Rishon L'Tzion due to a terrorist bomb. Only the driver was wounded.
- August 10: A 30 year old woman was killed and her husband seriously wounded when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated Moshav Mechora in the Jordan Valley and opened fire outside their home.
- August 10: The eighth victim of the July 31 bombing attack at Hebrew University died of injuries suffered in that attack.
September (MDT: 11)
- September 18: The charred body of a 67-year-old Israeli construction contractor was found near el-Azzariya, a Palestinian village near Ma'ale Adummim, east of Jerusalem. He was the victim of a terrorist killing.
- September 18: Yosef Ajmi, 36 years old, was killed when terrorists opened fire on his car near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank. [1] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69016)
- September 18: An Israeli policeman was killed and three people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Umm al Fahm junction. [2] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69016)
- September 19: Five people were killed and 69 wounded when a suicide bomber terrorist detonated a bomb in Dan bus No. 4 on Allenby Street, opposite the Great Synagogue in Tel-Aviv. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. [3] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69021)
- September 20: Yoni Jesner of wounds suffered in a suicide bombing attack the previous day. [4] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69086)
- September 23: Shlomo Yitzhak Shapira, 48 years old, resident of Jerusalem, was killed and three of his sons wounded, in a shooting attack near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron during the Sukkot festival. [5] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69308)
- September 26: Five persons were wounded in a terrorist shooting attack at K'vasim Junction in the Hevron Hills. All the victims, four adults and an infant were residents of nearby Beit Haggai. [6] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69427)
October (MDT: 22)
- October 3: An Israeli Arab was wounded terrorist gunfire between Tul Karem and Jenin while working on the road from Baka el-Sharqiya to Hermesh. [7] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69742)
- October 8: A 51 year-old Israeli was critically wounded in an ambush shooting south of Hebron. He died of his wounds the following day. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
- October 10: A 71 year-old woman was killed and about 30 people were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up while trying to board Dan bus No. 87 across from Bar-Ilan University on the Geha highway (Route 4) in central Israel.
- October 15: Seven people are wounded when an intercity bus traveling from Beit Shean to Afula was targeted by terrorist gunfire. [8] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=70436)
- October 21: 14 persons were killed and 65 wounded when an intracity bus traveling from Kiryat Shmona to Tel Aviv was blown up in a suicide bombing by a terrorist member of Islamic Jihad driving an explosives-laden jeep near the Alonit Junction. [9] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=70759)
- October 27: Three were killed and 21 wounded in a suicide bombing at the Eshel HaShomron gas station at the entrance to Ariel in Samaria. [10] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=71077)
- October 29: A woman and two 14-year-old girls were killed and one person was wounded by a terrorist who infiltrated the community of Hermesh, north of Tulkarm, in Samaria.
November (MDT: 51)
- November 4: Two persons were killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated at a Kfar Sava shopping mall.
- November 6: Two Israeli farmers were shot to death and one wounded by a Palestinian terrorist posing as a worker near Pe'at Sadeh in the southern Gaza Strip. [11] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=71614)
- November 10: Five people, including a mother and her 4- and 5-year-old children, were shot and killed by a Fatah terrorist who infiltrated Kibbutz Metzer, located east of Hadera near the Green Line. The terrorist shot the mother and children as they hugged one another. [12] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=71825)
- November 15: terrorists open fire with automatic weapons and hand grenades at Jewish worshippers walking homr from prayers at the Cave of the Patriarchs. 12 people are killed and twenty wounded. Among the dead are nine military personnel. [13] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=72061)
- November 21: 11 people were killed and about 50 wounded in a suicide bombing on a No. 20 Egged bus in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem. Most of the victims were high-school students on their way to school.
- November 28: Kenyan hotel bombing: Three Israelis, including two brothers, and 10 Kenyans killed when a car bomb exploded in the lobby of the Israeli-owned beachfront Paradise Hotel, frequented almost exclusively by Israeli tourists near Mombasa in Kenya. 21 Israelis and 60 Kenyans were wounded in the attack. Six Israelis were killed when two terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at the Likud polling station in Beit She'an, where party members were casting their votes in the Likud primary.
December (MDT: 5)
- December 20: Rabbi Yitzhak Arama, aged 40, of Netzer-Hazani, was shot and killed on the Kissufim corridor road (in the Gaza Strip) while driving with his wife and six children to attend a pre-wedding Sabbath celebration in Afula. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
- December 27: Four yeshiva students were killed in Otniel while working in the yeshiva kitchen, serving the Shabbat meal to some 100 students in the adjacent dining room. Two terrorists infiltrated the settlement, entered the yeshiva building through the kitchen service door, and shot dead the four unarmed students.
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)