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''Note: This compilation includes only those attacks that resulted in casualties. Numerous other attacks which failed to Murder , Maim , or Wound are not included.''

- 2001 - 2002 2003 2004


TOTAL DEATH TOLL IN 2001: 201


MDT stands for Monthly Death Toll and the number after denotes how many Israeli nationals were killed by attacks this month.


January (MDT: 6)

  • January 14 : a settler murdered.

  • i youth is seduced by a Palestinian woman and murdered by her accomplices.

  • January 23 : Mordehai Dayan, 27, & Etgar Zeitouny, 34, both of Tel Aviv, were abducted from a restaurant where they had been peacefully eating and shot to death in Tul Karem.

  • (a suburb of Jerusalem ).

  • January 29 : an Israeli killed in a drive-by shooting north of Jerusalem.



February (MDT: 13)

  • while driving in their cars.

  • fire.

  • February 11 : an Israeli settler killed by gunfire while driving.

  • February 14 : 8 Israeli soldiers run down by a Palestinian driving a bus.

  • and investigation revealed it was most likely he was murdered by militant Palestinians.



March (MDT: 8)

  • March 1 : an Israeli killed in a suicide bombing in a service taxi.

  • . Hamas claimed responsibility.

  • March 19 : a settler killed in a gunfire attack while driving.

  • , killed by deliberate sniper fire in Hebron.

  • claimed responsibility.



April (MDT: 7)

  • . An Israeli woman stabbed to death on a Haifa street.

  • ish religious shrine in Nablus.

  • April 3 : eight people are lightly injureed due to a bomb late at night on Yisod HaMaaleh Street in Hod HaSharon.

  • April 3 : 15-month-old Ariel Yered, a resident of the southern Gaza community of Atzmona was critically injured in a mortar attack. His mother was moderately wounded. They were in their back yard when rockets landed during the afternoon hours.

  • , militants suspected.

  • doctor of American origin killed by a suicide bomber. 60 people are wounded, Hamas claimed responsibility.

  • . An Israeli woman stabbed to death in Karmiel , Galilee.



May (MDT: 19)

  • May 1 : a settler is killed by gunfire while driving.

  • May 8 : a guard of an Israeli settlement killed.

  • May 9 : two 14-year settler boys stoned to death.

  • workmen are killed in a bomb attack in Gaza.

  • .

  • into the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo wounding four Israelis.

  • May 15 : an Israeli young woman is killed by gunfire while driving.

  • . Over 100 are wounded, Hamas claimed responsibility. An Israeli soldier off-duty is killed by gunfire while driving.

  • May 23 : an Israeli is killed while driving from a road-side ambush.

  • May 25 : a burnt body of an Israeli is found near Tulkarem.

  • claiming responsibility. Two other Israelis were killed north of Jerusalem.

  • May 31 : an Israeli settler shot and killed in a drive-by shooting.



June (MDT: 30)

  • Terrorist Suicide Bombing near at the Dolphinarium Disco club in Tel-Aviv .

  • June 5 : Infant Yehuda Shoham was critically injured in an Arab stone-throwing attack near his home in Shilo. The baby died of his injuries.

  • a 5 month-old baby is mortally wounded by a Palestinian stone.

  • churchman is murdered in an Arab drive-by shooting on the Maaleh Adumim road.

  • June 14 : an Israeli intelligence official is murdered by one of his informants.

  • June 18 : two Israelis were murdered in various locations by Fatah gunfire.

  • June 20 : an Israeli is ambushed and murderded.

  • June 22 : two soldiers killed in a suicide explosion of a jeep that signalled for help.

  • June 28 : a woman murdered and another injured in a drive-by shooting.



July (MDT: 10)

  • July 2 : an Israeli citizen killed while shopping in an Israeli-Arab market.

  • .

  • July 9 : two Israeli soldiers killed by an explosive device.

  • July 12 : an Israeli settler is mortally wounded in a shooting attack.

  • July 13 : an Israeli settler shot and killed.

  • July 19 : two Israeli soldiers were killed and about 30, mostly civilians, injured in a suicide bombing on a civilian train station. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

  • July 24 : an Israeli young man is found brutally murdered in Ramallah.

  • July 26 : an Israeli youth is killed while driving with his father near Jerusalem.



August (MDT: 30)

  • August 5 : a pregnant Israeli settler woman is murdered in a gunfire ambush.

  • , Jordan .

  • August 7 : an Israeli Arab killed because of suspected collaboration with Israel. An Israeli is killed while driving.

  • pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility. An Israeli student killed in a shooting attack north of the West Bank.

  • claimed responsibility. 3 Israeli civilians killed by gunfire while driving near Jerusalem.

  • August 26 : an Israeli settler is invited to an Arab village and then killed.

  • August 27 : an Israeli settler is killed in a roadside ambush.

  • August 29 : an Israeli fuel truck driver is killed near Nablus.

  • friends.



September (MDT: 13)

  • September 6 : an Israeli officer shot and killed in an ambush while driving off-duty to a wedding. Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility.

  • September 9 : 3 people die in a suicide bombing in Nahariya. A teacher and a school janitor killed in a shooting attack while driving in a van to school in Jordan Valley.

  • September 11 : an Israeli soldier and an Israeli border police serviceman killed in an attack on a border police base.

  • September 12 : an Israli woman killed while driving.

  • September 15 : a Jerusalem resident killed in a drive-by shooting.

  • September 16 : an Israeli soldier killed while arresting Palestinian militant leaders.

  • September 20 : a settler woman is killed, and her husband injured while driving. Their three children were also riding in the car, but were not hurt. Fatah claimed responsibility.

  • .



October (MDT: 14)

  • settlement.

  • October 4 : 3 people killed when a gunman opens fire in the central bus station in Afula. 13 people are injured, Fatah claimed responsibility.

  • October 5 : an Israeli settler killed in a machine gun ambush.

  • October 7 : an Israeli farmer killed in a suicide bombing north of Jordan Valley.

  • is assassinated by the PFLP .

  • October 18 : an Israeli tourist is killed while driving in a jeep in the Judean desert.

  • claimed responsibility.



November (MDT: 14)

  • ) claimed responsibility.

  • November 4 : two Israeli teenagers killed when fire opened by a Palestinian gunman in Jerusalem. 45 people are injured.

  • November 6 : an Israeli officer is shot in an ambush.

  • November 9 : an Israeli settler woman is killed while driving in West Bank.

  • November 11 : an Israeli man, the security coordinator of a Sharon-plain settlement killed.

  • November 24 : an Israeli soldier killed in a mortar attack in Gaza, the Hamas claiming responsibility.

  • November 27 : two Israeli young women killed when the central bus station in Afula is attacked. 50 people are injured. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility. An Israeli settler killed in a grenade attack in Gaza. Hamas claimed responsibility.

  • . Both Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility. A soldier is killed and another wounded in a shooting incident on the Green Line .



December (MDT: 37)

  • December 1 : 11 young people killed by a suicide bombing in an entertainment area in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility.

  • . Hamas claimed responsibility.

  • . 10 killed, more than 30 wounded. Both Hamas and Fatah accepted responsibility.

  • December 25 : a soldier was killed by gunfire over the Jordanian border. No group claimed responsibility.

  • , an arms-smuggling ship manned mostly by Palestinian is seized by Israeli forces