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2002 Sep 23 |
A Palestinian gunman opened fire on visitors attending Jewish holiday celebrations In Hebron, killing a man and wounding three of his sons. Links: Israel, Palestine 
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2002 Sep 24 |
Israel defied a U.N. Security Council demand to end its six-day siege of Yasser Arafat's devastated West Bank headquarters. 9 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike against alleged munitions factories and other targets in Gaza City. Israeli troops demolished three houses of Palestinian terror suspects, while Jewish settler leaders inaugurated a new Jewish settlement near the Palestinian city of Nablus. Links: UN, Israel, Palestine
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2002 Sep 26 |
Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles into Gaza City, killing two Palestinians in an escalation of violence. The attack was bid to kill Hamas bomb maker Mohammed Deif. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Sep 26 |
Zerah Warhaftig (96), a signer of Israel's declaration of independence and a rescuer of Jewish refugees during World War II, died. Links: Israel
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2002 Sep 29 |
Israel withdrew forces from Yasser Arafat's headquarters compound Responding to U.S. pressure, but said the hunt for men inside whom it accuses of terrorism would continue. Some 250 Palestinian militiamen were granted conditional freedom. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Oct 5 |
Israeli soldiers enforcing a curfew shot Amer Hashem, a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in Nablus, during clashes with stone-throwing protesters. It was the eve of an international round of peace diplomacy. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Oct 7 |
Israeli forces killed 16 Palestinians in Gaza that included a missile strike that killed 11. Hamas vowed revenge attacks. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Oct 8 |
Israeli forces entered Hebron following a sniper attack that wounded 4 Israelis. Israeli tankfire killed a Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Oct 10 |
A Palestinian suicide bomber killed a woman and wounded 12 other people by blowing himself up near a bus in Israel, but the driver and passengers prevented a higher death toll by stopping him boarding. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Oct 13 |
In Israel about 140,000 public workers went on strike to protest government plans to tax contributions to pension funds. Links: Israel, Taxes
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2002 Oct 13 |
Israeli troops backed by tanks and a helicopter entered the Rafah refugee camp hunting for tunnels used to smuggle weapons and drugs into the Gaza Strip. Two Palestinians were killed and 28 wounded. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Oct 13 |
A Palestinian militant, whose clan has been targeted previously by Israeli security forces, was killed when a public telephone exploded in his hand. He was one of six Palestinians to die in a day of violence. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Oct 14 |
Israeli troops killed 2 Islamic Jihad militants outside Jenin. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Oct 15 |
Yaacov "Zeev" Farkas (b.1923), called the founder of the political cartoonist's art in Israel, died. He was born in Hungary and survived the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. Links: Israel, Cartoons
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2002 Oct 17 |
Israeli tanks fired artillery shells and machine guns after coming under attack by anti-tank missiles, killing at least 6 Palestinians and wounding more than 40 in the southern Gaza town of Rafah. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Oct 21 |
A bus bombing near Hadera killed 14 Israelis, along with two attackers. Israel held off on immediate retaliation, but troops next day destroyed the homes of a suicide bomber and a suspected militant. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Oct 27 |
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew up as Israeli soldiers were shooting him, killing three people and himself at a gas station just outside Ariel, one of the largest Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The 18 people injured included several soldiers. Hours later, Israeli troops shot and killed two armed Palestinian militants in the nearby Palestinian city of Nablus. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Oct 30 |
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's broad-based coalition collapsed when Cabinet ministers from the moderate Labor Party resigned in a dispute over funding for Jewish settlements. Links: Israel
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2002 Oct 30 |
A Palestinian gunman killed two teenage girls and a woman in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank before being shot dead in a firefight with soldiers and residents. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 1 |
Israel Amir (99), the first commander of the Israeli air force (1948), died in a Tel Aviv hospital. Links: Israel
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2002 Nov 4 |
Two Palestinians, including a Hamas militant wanted by Israel, were killed when their car exploded in the middle of the street in the West Bank city of Nablus. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 5 |
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dissolved Parliament and called early elections for February, after he failed to rebuild his crumbling government. Ex-premier, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced that he accepts PM Ariel Sharon's offer to serve as foreign minister until early elections are held. Links: Israel
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2002 Nov 5 |
Israeli soldiers came under fire and responded by killing a Palestinian and injuring 16 others in the southern Gaza Strip. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 6 |
Benjamin Netanyahu was approved as Israel's foreign minister, bringing him into the Cabinet of the man he seeks to succeed, Ariel Sharon. Links: Israel
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2002 Nov 6 |
A Palestinian laborer opened fire in a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip where he worked, killing his employer and another Israeli before being shot dead. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 9 |
Iyad Sawalha, a senior member of the militant Islamic Jihad group, was killed in an overnight army operation in the West Bank. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 10 |
A car carrying two Palestinians exploded as Israeli police moved to stop the vehicle near Israel's border with the West Bank. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 10 |
A Palestinian gunman crawled under a security fence at the Kibbutz Metzer communal farm, burst into a home and shot dead a mother and her two children as she was reading them a bedtime story. The gunman then killed two more Israelis before escaping in the dark. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 13 |
Irv Rubin (57), Jewish Defense League leader, died nine days after what federal authorities said was a suicide attempt in jail. Links: Israel
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2002 Nov 14 |
Israeli troops captured the alleged mastermind of a shooting attack on an Israeli kibbutz in his West Bank hideout, and seized suspected weapons makers in the deepest raid into Gaza City in two years. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 15 |
Palestinian militants raked Israeli troops and settlers with gunfire in an ambush, killing 12 Israelis in Hebron. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 16 |
Israeli troops retook control of Hebron blindfolding Palestinian suspects and herding them into army buses, after militant gunmen ambushed a procession of Jewish worshippers, killing 12 Israelis, mostly security forces. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 17 |
Tawfiq Fukra (23), an Israeli Arab accused of trying to hijack an El Al Airlines flight, wanted to copy the September 11 suicide attacks on the United States and fly the aircraft into a public building in Tel Aviv. Links: Israel, Aviation
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2002 Nov 17 |
Israeli statesman Abba Eban (87) died. He helped persuade the world to approve creation of the Jewish state and dominated Israeli diplomacy for decades. Links: Israel
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2002 Nov 19 |
Five Palestinians died when Israeli soldiers swept through the West Bank town of Tulkarem, one a leading militant and another a teenager who had climbed on top of an Israeli armored vehicle. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 20 |
Israel's Labor Party chose Amram Mitzna, ex-general and Haifa mayor, as its leader in the Jan 28 elections. Links: Israel
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2002 Nov 20 |
Israeli troops shot and killed Amr Qudsi (15), a Palestinian teenager in a confrontation in Tulkarem. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 21 |
A Palestinian man wearing a bomb belt blew himself up on a Jerusalem city bus packed with high school students and soldiers, killing 11 passengers and wounding dozens in a morning rush hour attack. Four of the victims were aged 8 to 16. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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2002 Nov 22 |
A senior U.N. official from Britain was shot and killed during an exchange of fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin. Links: Britain, UN, Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 23 |
Two Palestinian suicide bombers blew up an explosives-laden fishing boat close to an Israeli patrol craft, wounding four sailors, in the first such attack since the start of the Palestinian uprising. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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2002 Nov 25 |
Israeli troops shot and killed an 8-year-old Palestinian boy in Nablus as hundreds of youths ignored a curfew and threw stones at soldiers on their way home from school. Israeli troops and armored vehicles pulled out of Bethlehem. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 26 |
Israeli aircraft attacked a building in Jenin's refugee camp and killed 2 Palestinian militants. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 28 |
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon easily won re-election as the Likud Party leader, defeating his hawkish foreign minister by positioning himself as a centrist in a tactic that could help him in January elections against the Labor Party's dovish Amram Mitzna. Links: Israel
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2002 Nov 28 |
A shooting attack in northern Israel killed 6 Israelis. Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a Likud Party office crowded with voters casting ballots in a leadership race and also attacked passengers at a nearby bus terminal in northern Israel. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 29 |
Israeli troops blew up the homes of two Palestinian gunmen who attacked an office of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud Party during a primary vote, killing six Israelis and wounding more than 20. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 30 |
A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed on his way home from school east of Gaza city, and another was wounded. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Nov 30 |
Israeli troops shot dead one Palestinian and a second Palestinian man died under the rubble of one of the three homes the soldiers demolished in an overnight operation in the Gaza Strip. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Dec 2 |
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian gunman trying to enter a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, and a Palestinian teenager was killed when a mob of stone throwers clashed with troops in the West Bank town of Jenin. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Dec 3 |
An Israeli soldier in Ramallah shot and killed a 95-year-old Palestinian woman as her taxi tried a back road to go around an Israeli checkpoint. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Dec 4 |
Israeli soldiers killed two suspected Islamic militants in a gun battle in a West Bank village, and Israeli helicopters fired missiles on a Palestinian government complex in the Gaza Strip, killing a security guard and injuring five people. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Dec 6 |
Ten Palestinians, including two U.N. employees, were killed in chaotic battles that erupted when Israeli troops, tanks and helicopter gunships poured into a Gaza Strip refugee camp, searching for a fugitive militant allegedly involved in a fatal bombing. Links: UN, Israel, Palestine
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2002 Dec 8 |
Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian woman and wounded her 3 children at the Tel Sultan refugee camp near the settlement of Rafiah Yam. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Dec 9 |
Israeli soldiers killed Basem Kou (28), a mentally handicapped Palestinian near Beit Lid. At Nablus Israeli soldiers fired on a taxi and killed Rehaneh Hesham Kilani (25) and injured 2 other passengers. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Dec 11 |
Israeli troops killed a suspected Palestinian militant in a West Bank refugee camp as he tried to escape. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Dec 11 |
Israeli troops in Gaza shot and killed 5 unarmed Palestinians trying to penetrate a security fence. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Dec 12 |
Israeli troops near Hebron shot and killed 2 armed Palestinians in separate incidents. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Dec 13 |
Hamas marked its 15th anniversary with a rally that drew some 30,000 supporters in southern Gaza. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Dec 15 |
Israel barred Palestinian Pres. Yasser Arafat from visiting Bethlehem for Christmas and decided to keep its army in the West Bank city over the holiday. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Dec 16 |
Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians, including two armed Hamas fighters, and troops also destroyed 16 shacks, leaving more than 200 people homeless in confrontations in the Gaza Strip. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2002 Dec 21 |
An 11-year-old Palestinian girl died of a gunshot wound in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli troops reinforced a blockade. Links: Israel, Palestine
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