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2003 Jun 29 |
The militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups agreed to suspend attacks against Israel for three months. Links: Israel, Palestine 
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2003 Jun 30 |
Israeli and Palestinian commanders shook hands, bulldozers dismantled checkpoints and Palestinian traffic flowed freely in the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian shooting killed a Romanian truck driver in the West Bank. Links: Romania, Israel, Palestine
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2003 Jul 1 |
At a summit, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian PM Mahmoud Abbas rededicated themselves to peace efforts and spoke of a shared future for their peoples. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Jul 2 |
Palestinian police moved into the West Bank town of Bethlehem, the second area handed over by Israel under a U.S.-backed Mideast peace plan. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Jul 11 |
India and Pakistan resumed bus service, a transportation link that was disrupted 18 months earlier due to threats of war. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Jul 20 |
The Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers held a two-hour meeting, kicking off 10 days of international diplomacy aimed at solidifying a fragile Mideast cease-fire. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Jul 25 |
An Israeli soldier fired a tank-mounted machine gun at a pickup truck carrying a Palestinian family, killing a 4-year-old Palestinian boy and wounding two other children. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Jul 27 |
The Israeli Cabinet voted to release up to 540 jailed Palestinians. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Jul 31 |
The Israeli parliament voted to block Palestinians who marry Israelis from becoming Israeli citizens of residents. The legislation was enacted for one year. In 2006 the Supreme Court rejected petitions to overturn the law. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Aug 1 |
In Israel Yehiya Farhan and a 16-year-old girlfriend lured Dana Bennett (18) into their vehicle. Farhan beat her to death and concealed the body in the northern hills. Months earlier the couple had picked up Czech hitch hiker Sylvia Molrova (27), killed her and dumped her body in a remote spot. In 2009 Israeli detectives arrested Farhan. He was already in custody on suspicion of raping an Australian tourist when a tip led homicide detectives to him. In 2010 Farhan (34) was sentenced to 102 years in prison. Farhan's female accomplice helped police with their investigation and was sentenced to a shorter prison term in a plea bargain. Links: USA, Israel, Murder, Czech Rep.
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2003 Aug 6 |
Israel freed 334 Palestinian prisoners in a bid to jump-start peace efforts, but the gesture fell flat among Palestinians. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Aug 8 |
A West Bank raid on a bomb lab by Israeli troops killed 2 members of the Islamic militant group Hamas. An Israeli soldier also was killed. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Aug 8 |
Hezbollah guerrillas shelled Israeli positions in a disputed Lebanese border region for the first time in eight months, drawing Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2003 Aug 10 |
Israeli warplanes bombed suspected Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon, hours after the militant group shelled northern Israel, killing a teenage boy. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2003 Aug 12 |
Two teenage Palestinian suicide bombings less than an hour apart killed at least 2 Israelis at a shopping plaza in Israel and a bus stop in the West Bank. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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2003 Aug 14 |
Israeli troops killed Mohammed Sidr, a top Islamic Jihad commander, in a gun battle at his hideout in Hebron. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Aug 18 |
Israel delayed plans to hand over Jericho and Qalqiliya, two West Bank towns to Palestinian control. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Aug 19 |
A Hamas bus bombing in Jerusalem killed 22 people, including as many as six children. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Aug 21 |
Israel killed Ismail Abu Shanab, a senior Hamas political leader, in a missile strike, retaliating for a suicide bombing of a bus in which 20 people died including six children. Abu Shanab was widely regarded as a moderate in the group, and served as a liaison with Abbas during the prime minister's efforts to persuade Hamas to halt attacks. Palestinian militants abandoned a two-month-old truce after Israel killed the Hamas leader. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Aug 22 |
Israeli troops killed a Palestinian militant and wounded two others in a shootout Friday at a West Bank hospital. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Aug 24 |
Palestinian militants carried out their deepest rocket strike against Israel. A Qassam-2 rocket, a makeshift weapon produced by the militant Islamic group Hamas, landed near a lifeguard station on Zikim beach with no damages or casualties. Israeli missile fire killed 4 Palestinian militants in Gaza City. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Aug 29 |
A Jewish settler was killed and his pregnant wife wounded in a Palestinian shooting attack. In Jenin Palestinian gunmen fired on Israeli soldiers manning a lookout in a four-story office building. The violence came just hours after an Israeli helicopter in southern Gaza fired missiles to kill a Hamas fugitive as he drove a donkey cart. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Aug 30 |
An Israeli helicopter gunship fired several missiles at a Palestinian car driving through a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing two Hamas militants. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Sep 1 |
Israeli helicopters fired four missiles at a car carrying Hamas militants, killing at least one of them and wounding 26 on a crowded Gaza City. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Sep 5 |
Israeli commandos killed a Hamas bombmaker in a firefight and pulverized the West Bank apartment building in which he had been hiding. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Sep 6 |
The European Union said it will declare all wings of the militant Palestinian group Hamas a terrorist organization and freeze its assets after dozens of deadly attacks in Israel. Links: EU, Israel, Palestine
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2003 Sep 6 |
An Israeli missile strike on Gaza City lightly wounded Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the highest-ranking member of the militant group to be targeted by Israel in recent weeks. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Sep 7 |
The Russian drama "The Return" won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion for best picture. Vladimir Girin (15), star of the film, drowned shortly after the film was shot. Randa Chahal Sabbag, Lebanese filmmaker, won the Silver Lion prize for her film “Le cerf-volant” (The Kite), a love story between a Lebanese girl and an Israeli border guard. Links: Russia, Israel, Lebanon, Film
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2003 Sep 8 |
Ariel Sharon flew to New Delhi for the first-ever visit to India by an Israeli prime minister, hoping to cement blossoming defense and trade ties. Links: India, Israel
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2003 Sep 8 |
Palestinian parliament speaker Ahmed Qureia said he will accept the prime minister's job only if Washington guarantees Israeli compliance with a US-backed peace plan, including a halt to military strikes. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine
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2003 Sep 9 |
Israeli troops killed three Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, in an arrest raid in the West Bank city of Hebron, as Israel signaled both reluctant acquiescence and disapproval of the Palestinians' candidate for prime minister. In Jerusalem twin suicide bombings, 5 hours apart, killed 16 Israelis. One suicide bomber chose a nightspot packed with young Israelis, the other a bus stop where soldiers were waiting for their ride homes. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide, Kids
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2003 Sep 10 |
Israeli warplanes flattened the home of senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar with a half-ton bomb, wounding him and killing his eldest son and a bodyguard, in retaliation for twin suicide bombings that killed 15 Israelis a day earlier. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Sep 11 |
The Israeli security Cabinet decided in principle to authorize the expulsion of Yasser Arafat. The Cabinet also decided that the construction of the security fence between Israel and the West Bank will be accelerated. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Sep 12 |
The Palestinians urged the UN Security Council to demand that Israel not expel Yasser Arafat and halt any threats to his safety. Links: UN, Israel, Palestine
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2003 Sep 16 |
The US vetoed a UN resolution demanding that Israel not harm or expel Arafat. Links: USA, UN, Israel, Palestine
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2003 Sep 24 |
In Israel 27 reserve pilots refused to take part in targeted killings. Links: Israel
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2003 Sep 25 |
Israeli troops killed 4 Islamic militants, including a senior fugitive, in gun battles in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. One soldier was killed and six were wounded in the fighting. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Sep 26 |
A Palestinian gunman killed 2 people including a baby girl in an Israeli settlement outside Hebron. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Sep 27 |
A Palestinian militant was killed when a bomb he was making blew up on as Israel maintained a high alert over a New Year holiday weekend. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Sep 28 |
Israeli and Palestinian fatalities over the last 3 years totaled some 3,277 with 860 on the Israeli side and 2,417 Palestinian dead. An additional 60 Palestinians were killed by militants for informing to Israel. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Oct 4 |
In Haifa, Israel, Hanadi Taysser Darajat (29), a female Palestinian lawyer, blew herself up in a crowded Mediterranean beach restaurant, killing 21 people including 4 children. A brother and cousin, Jihad terrorists, had been killed in June. Her suicide inspired a piece of installation art in 2004 at the Stockholm Museum titled "Snow White and the Madness of Truth." Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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2003 Oct 5 |
Israeli warplanes bombed the Ein Saheb base northwest of Damascus, Syria, in retaliation for a suicide bombing at a Haifa restaurant. Israeli military called it an Islamic Jihad training base. Residents later told the Associated Press the camp was abandoned years ago. Links: Israel, Syria
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2003 Oct 10 |
Israel sent dozens of tanks into a Gaza refugee camp to destroy tunnels allegedly used by Palestinians to smuggle weapons. Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians, including an eight-year-old boy, in the Gaza Strip. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Oct 11 |
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian and razed dozens of homes in a Gaza Strip refugee camp as Israeli opposition politicians and Palestinian officials sought to revive peace talks. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Oct 15 |
In the Gaza Strip a remote-controlled bomb exploded under a US diplomatic convoy, ripping apart an armored van and killing three Americans. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine
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2003 Oct 18 |
In southern Gaza Israeli forces looking for smuggling tunnels killed 3 Palestinians, including a senior member of the violent Islamic Hamas group, and wounded 10. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Oct 19 |
Palestinian gunmen attacked an Israeli army foot patrol near a West Bank village, killing three soldiers and wounding a fourth. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Oct 20 |
Israeli helicopters and warplanes unleashed a string of missile strikes in Gaza City. At least 11 people were killed and over 90 wounded. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Oct 21 |
The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution demanding that Israel tear down a barrier jutting into the West Bank. Links: UN, Israel, Palestine
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2003 Oct 22 |
Israeli troops shot and killed 2 suspected Palestinian militants in the West Bank. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Oct 23 |
Masked Palestinian gunmen killed two men suspected of being informers for Israel, then displayed their bodies in the central square of the Tulkarem refugee camp. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Oct 24 |
Palestinian militants cut through a fence and crept up on the army base inside the Netzarim settlement in Gaza. The militants entered the barracks and shot soldiers as they slept, killing three including two women, and wounding two others. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Oct 26 |
In the largest demolition of Palestinian Authority buildings in Gaza in 3 years, the Israeli army blew up 3 apartment towers in retaliation for a deadly settlement attack. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Oct 27 |
Hezbollah guerrillas shelled Israeli positions in southern Lebanon for the first time in two months, wounding an Israeli soldier and triggering Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire. The Israeli positions were in Chebaa Farms, which Lebanon and Syria say belongs to Lebanon. The UN says the area is Syrian and that Syria and Israel should negotiate its fate. Israel captured the Chebaa Farms area from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war Links: UN, Israel, Syria, Lebanon
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2003 Oct 29 |
Lenslet, an Israeli start-up, has developed a processor that uses optics instead of silicon, enabling it to compute at the speed of light. Links: Israel, Technology, Physics
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2003 Oct |
Israel approved a plan to spend at least $56 million to expand settlements on the occupied Golan Heights. Links: Israel
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2003 Nov 1 |
Yehiel Shemi (81), an Israeli sculptor renowned for his abstract works in metal, died. Links: Artist, Israel
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2003 Nov 2 |
More than 6,000 Palestinian laborers crossed into Israel from the Gaza Strip on as Israel slightly eased restrictions that had prevented them from reaching their workplaces for more than a month. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2003 Nov 3 |
The EU condemned lingering anti-Jewish bias it said was reflected in a new survey, which found that many Europeans see Israel as a threat to world peace. Links: EU, Israel
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2003 Nov 3 |
Israel's Minister of the Environment said the Dead Sea is dying, and only a major engineering effort can save it. Links: Environment, Israel
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