Terrorist Attacks Against Israel
(2000 - 2006)
14 Aug 2006 - The United
Nations recently
brokered a cease-fire that went into effect at 8 a.m.
The UN cease-fire resolution specifically demands
the demilitarization of the area south of the Litani
river. According to Ha'aretz: “Since July
12, Hezbollah fired 3,790 rockets across the border
into Israel. Of these, 901 landed in communities,
and 42 civilians were killed as a result. The Health
Ministry said 4,262 civilians were treated in hospitals
for injuries. Of these, 33 were seriously wounded,
68 moderately, and 1,388 lightly.Another 2,773 civilians
were treated for shock.”
13 Aug 2006 - Throughout the day,
more than 230 rockets slammed
into northern Israel, killing one injuring as many
as 75 people. An elderly Christian man was killed when
a rocket struck his home in the town of Shlomi. Rockets
landed also landed in Kiryat
Shmona, Haifa, Ma'alot and Safed.
12 Aug 2006 - Following a relatively
quiet morning, Hezbollah fired
at least 68 rockets at
northern Israel. Rockets landed in Krayot, Acco,
and Carmiel. Six people were injured from flying shrapnel,
and several other suffered shock. Later in the afternoon,
a rocket directly hit a house in Safed,
wounding two and causing shock in three others.
11 Aug 2006 - Hezbollah renewed
its rocket attacks
on the North, with multiple hitting Safed, Nahariya, Acco, Kiryat
Shmona, Haifa,
and Krayot. At least 16 rockets fell in Haifa alone.
Fires broke out in the Galilee, while a massive fire
squad attempted to extinguish them before they spread
in the direction of a nearby artillery battery. A barrage
of rockets hit two smaller communities near Kiryat
Shmona, killing and wounding several cows; at least
50 cows have been killed from the rocket attacks so
far.
10 Aug 2006 - A Hezbollah rocket scored
a direct hit on a house in Dir el-Asad, a village near
Carmiel, killing a Mariam Assadi, 26, and her five-year-old
son Fathi Assadi. Rockets also landed in Haifa, Nahariya, Safed, Acco, and
the Golan
Heights. Over 165 rockets hit Israel throughout
the day. There was also heavy fighting between the IDF and Hezbollah,
which killed Israeli soldier and wounded at least 16
other. The day before, 15 reserve soldiers were killed and
34 others were injured in different incidents
across southern Lebanon.
9 Aug 2006 - Hezbollah shot
a 302-mm Khaibar 1 rocket toward Hadera,
but the missile landed in Haifa.
At least four long-range rockets were fired at the
Beit Shean Valley region, but no injuries have been
reported thus far. Rockets aimed at Afula landed in
a Palestinian village
in the West
Bank near Jenin.
One person was treated for shock after a rocket barrage
on Safed. As
a result of the rockets, fires have broken out all
across the north, destroying hundreds of acres of land.
Yesterday, Israel’s death toll since fighting
began on July 12 reached 100 people.
8 Aug 2006 - Rockets scored
direct hits on houses and buildings in Safed, Metulla, and Kiryat
Shmona. Magen
David Adom treated 14 people for shock, and two
others for moderate and light injuries. Several rockets
struck Ma'alot and Acco as
well, bringing the day’s total rocket attacks
to 160. Since fighting broke out 28 days ago, 3,050
have landed inside Israel,
with 750 of those landing on Israeli cities.
7 Aug 2006 - At least 160 rockets have
fallen in Israel today,
with at least 50 hitting in the Kiryat
Shmona area. Rockets also landed in Tiberias, Safed, Nahariya,
and towns in the upper Galilee. Five people have been
reported injured by the attacks, and have been treated
in local hospitals.
6 Aug 2006 - Twelve IDF reservists
in Kfar Giladi and 3 civilians in Haifa were killed
after Hezbollah launched
a dusk rocket barrage
on northern Israel.
One rocket was loaded with ball bearings and directly
hit parked cars in Kfar Giladi where the 12 soldiers
were apparently resting. Hours later, several rockets
hit Haifa,
killing 3 civilians and wounding as many as 189 people.
The attack on Haifa was designated a high-casualty
event, which marks the first attack given this definition
since Hezbollah began
firing rockets on July 12. At least 160 rockets hit
Israel throughout the day, in what has been the deadliest
attack on Israel during the fighting.
5 Aug 2006 - Three residents of the
village of Arab al-Aramshe, 60-year-old Fadia Jumaa
and her two daughters Samira, 31, and Sultana, 33,
were killed Saturday afternoon after they were directly
hit by a rocket.
Over 120 rockets struck Ma'alot, Tiberias, Nahariya,
Shlomi and Kiryat
Shmona between 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. – and over
170 hit Israel throughout
the day. In Shlomi, the rockets ignited a number of brush
fires similar to those currently burning in other
northern towns, destroying several acres of land.
4 Aug 2006 - Three Israelis were killed
and at least 86 others wounded after the day’s rocket attacks.
Manal Azzam, a 27-year-old mother of two was killed
by a Hezbollah rocket
in the village of Mughar after a rocket directly struck
her home. Mughar is a Druze-Muslim-Christian village
in northern Israel.
A man from Kiryat
Shmona also died from his wounds at a hospital
after suffering critical injuries. Rockets also struck
Kibbutz Sha'ar Yishuv, Carmiel, Safed, Acco,
and Nahariya.
At least 22 people were treated for shock from the
rockets. Hezbollah fired
more than 200 rockets into Israel,
and at one point fired more than 70 in an hour.
3 Aug 2006 - Eight Israelis were killed
and several dozens wounded after Hezbollah sprayed
over 180 rockets into
northern Israel.
Four people were killed in Acco and
another three in Ma'alot.
Casualties were also reported in Kiryat
Shmona, Tiberias,
Carmiel and Nahariya.
Nearly 50 people were taken to hospitals for treatment
to injuries, and over 30 were treated for shock.
2 Aug 2006 - Breaking the record for
the number of Katyusha
rockets fired on July 30, Hezbollah launched
over 220 rockets into Israel.
A rocket hit Kibbutz Sa'ar, north of Nahariya,
instantly killing a man who was outside riding his
bike. Hezbollah again
fired an Iranian-made Khaibar-1 rocket, this time landing
in Bet Shean,
which at 42 miles south of the Lebanese border is the
farthest town to date to come under rocket fire. Seven
people were wounded in the Bet Shean attack, and 15
more were treated for shock. Rockets also landed in Acco, Tiberias, Haifa, Hatzor, Kiryat
Shmona, Safed,
Rosh Pina, and Ma'alot.
A rocket also strayed into the West
Bank for the first
time, hitting near Jenin,
but causing no casualties. According to Fatah spokesman
Fahmi Zarer, “We know that they did not intend
to strike Palestinian territory. They intended to strike
Israel.”
1 Aug 2006 - The IDF sustained
several casualties in a battle against Hezbollah gunmen
in the Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab. At least
three soldiers were killed when dozens of gunmen surprised
an IDF unit and fired anti-tank missiles. The IDF
however was successful in killing at least 15 Hezbollah terrorists.
Meanwhile, the IDF reported that only 8 Katyusha
rockets and 4 mortars fell into Israel, with no
casualties reported.
31 Jul 2006 - According to Israeli
military and media sources, much of Hezbollah’s long
range rocket capabilities
have been destroyed. On this day, 4 rockets were fired
into Israel, only a day after Hezbollah launched
nearly 150 rockets. The rockets landed in an open area
near Nahariya,
and no reports of casualties have been reported. Prime
Minister Ehud
Olmert said that Israel will
not agree to a cease-fire until the threat of Hezbollah is
removed. In the past several days, the IDF has
killed over 20 Hezbollah operatives,
and Israeli soldiers have been successful in discovering
several caches of rockets and anti-tank missiles.
30 Jul 2006 - A record 148 Katyusha
rockets fell on Israel, with more than 100 rockets
landing in the Kiryat
Shmona area. Hezbollah rockets
also landed in Haifa,
the Krayot area, Safed,
and Acco.
In Acco, one rocket directly hit a house and
another landed near a kindergarten. At least 4 people
were moderately to seriously injured in the rocket barrages. Magen
David Adom reported that it had treated 69 victims
during the day’s attacks.
29 Jul 2006 - Hezbollah fired
over 90 rockets into Israel, lightly injuring five
people, but no heavy casualties were reported.
28 Jul 2006 - Hezbollah launched
its deadliest rocket yet at Israel.
The Khaibar-1 rocket — named for a battle between Muhammad and
his followers against the Jewish of the Arabian Peninsula
in which the Jews were defeated and forced into servitude — landed
near the northern town of Afula.
Israel says that the rockets were renamed Iranian-made
Fajr-5 rockets, which have four times more power than Katyusha
rockets and can travel a range of nearly 60 miles.
As many as 110 rockets were fired at Israel over the
course of the day. There were few civilian casualties,
but one rocket struck the Western Galilee hospital
of Nahariya.
27 Jul 2006 - About 80 Hezbollah rockets were
fired into northern Israel,
several of which landed Tiberias.
Around 7:20 p.m., Kiryat
Shmona suffered a rocket barrage, directly injuring
three people, and hospitalizing 16 others from shock.
Between Thursday morning and around 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, approximately 80 rockets fell – 22
in Kiryat Shmona, 16 in Maalot,
14 in Rosh Pina and the surrounding areas, 12 in Nahariya,
eight in Carmiel and eight in Safed.
As early as 7:45 a.m. Hezbollah fired
two rocket barrages which landed in an open area near
Maalot and Shlomi. At 11:00 a.m., rockets
landed in the Rosh Pina area, but no one was reported
wounded.
26 Jul 2006 - At least 119 rockets were
fired by Hezbollah on
the towns of Tiberias, Safed,
Rosh Pina, and Kiryat
Shmona. Ma'alot was
hit by rockets a two hours after a heavy barrage hit
the Haifa area,
Carmiel, and Acco,
wounding 16 people, one seriously. At least 55 Israeli
civilians were injured during the day’s rocket
attacks, several of them critically. In addition,
eight soldiers from the Golani
Brigade were killed
in fierce house-to-house fighting in the Hezbollah
stronghold of Bint Jbail, Lebanon.
At least 30 other IDF soldiers
were wounded during the battles. As the soldiers entered
the village, they were met with rocket and mortar fire
by Hezbollah terrorists, in what the IDF calls a “planned
ambush” of
its soldiers.
25 Jul 2006 - In the Galilee village of Kfar Mrar,
Dou’a
Abbas, 15, was killed when a Katyusha
rocket fired
by Hezbollah hit
her house. The village of Kfar Mrar is home to predominately Christian, Muslim,
and Druze citizens
of Israel. An elderly Haifa man
also died of a heart attack on his way to a bomb shelter
after hearing a warning siren. Rockets hit the cities
of Kiryat
Shmona, Acco, Tiberias, Ma’alot, Safed, Shfaram, Nahariya,
and Haifa;
sixteen rockets landed in Haifa alone during the barrage.
In southern Israel,
a foreign worker was injured when shrapnel from a Kassam rocket
hit her house in the Negev.
In total, 2 people were killed and 48 people were wounded
by day’s attacks.
24 Jul 2006 - Hezbollah fired more than 70 Katyusha rockets into Israel, several of which landed in Nahariya, Safed, and Kiryat
Shmona. Medics treated at least 49
people who were lightly to moderately wounded. More
than 2200 rockets have been fired at Israeli cities
since July 12, killing 17 Israelis, all of them civilians.
20 Israeli soldiers were killed in other incidents.
23 Jul 2006 - Shimon Glickblich, 60, of Haifa was
killed Sunday morning (11:00) while driving his car
in Haifa. Habib Isa Awad, 48, of Iblin, was killed
while working in the carpentry shop in Kiryat Ata.
Another 12 were wounded in the morning barrage in Haifa,
and more later in the day as over 90 rockets were fired
at Haifa, Acco,
Kiryat Shmona, and elsewhere in northern Israel. .
20 Jul 2006 - Five IDF soldiers
were killed and five wounded in continuing exchanges
of fire in the Lebanese village of Maroun al-Ras,
near Avivim, where two soldiers were killed on Wednesday.
The body of the fifth soldier, St.-Sgt. Yonatan (Sergei)
Vlasyuk, 21, of Kibbutz Lahav was retrieved on
July 22. At 16, Yonatan immigrated alone to Israel
through the Jewish
Agency's "Na'aleh" program.
He was adopted by Dalia Gal, a member of Kibbutz Lahav
in the Negev. An IDF officer was killed and
three soldiers were wounded as two Apache (Cobra) combat
helicopters on their way to Lebanon to assist IDF forces
operating against Hezbollah terrorists near Avivim
collided and then crashed south of Kiryat Shmona.
19 Jul 2006 - St.-Sgt. Yonatan
Hadasi, 21, of Kibbutz Merhavia and St.-Sgt.
Yotam Gilboa, 21, of Kibbutz Maoz Haim were
killed and nine soldiers were wounded in
exchanges of fire between IDF and Hezbollah
in south Lebanon, near Moshav Avivim. The
Israeli force had crossed the border to destroy
the Hezbollah rocket-launching position at
the former IDF outpost of Shaked. Rabia Abed
Taluzi (3) and his brother Mahmoud (7) who
were playing soccer outside their house were
killed and dozens were wounded in two Katyusha
rocket attacks on the Israeli
Arab city of Nazareth.
18 Jul 2006 - Andrei Zelinksy,
36, was killed Tuesday evening in Nahariya
outside a bomb shelter. Though he managed
to save his family by rushing them into the
shelter, he returned home to get a blanket
for his daughter and was killed. Some 130
rockets were fired at the north on Tuesday,
100 of them within one hour and a half - also landing
in the Haifa area, Carmiel, Tiberias, Safed, Maalot and Rosh Pina. About 60 people injured were evacuated
to hospitals in Safed and Nahariya.
17 Jul 2006 - Over 50 rockets were fired towards
the eastern and upper Galilee on Monday night. A Katyusha
rocket hit the external wall of the Rebecca
Sieff Hospital in Safed, causing damage to infrastructure;
five patients, two doctors and two other hospital employees
were injured. Earlier, 11 people were wounded in Haifa
when a 3-story apartment building was hit by missile.
The Israel
Air Force destroyed at least ten long-range
Iranian-made missiles capable of hitting Tel
Aviv,
by targeting a Hezbollah truck carrying the missiles
before they could be launched. To date, missiles
have been fired up to 40 kilometers into Israel.
16 Jul 2006 - Eight killed,
50 wounded in Hezbollah rocket attack on Haifa - Rockets
began falling on the Haifa area shortly after 9:00
a.m. Eight employees of Israel
Railways at
the Haifa train depot were killed in a direct hit by
a Fajar missile made in Syria. A total of over 50 people
were wounded in Haifa and the Haifa Bay area.
15 Jul 2006 - Katyusha rockets landed for the first
time in Tiberias, located 35 kilometers from the Lebanese
border on the Sea
of Galilee, as well as in nearby
communities.
14 Jul 2006 - Shortly after 8:30 p.m. Friday night
an Israeli navy ship was severely damaged by an Iran-manufactured missile fired by Hezbollah. Four IDF
soldiers were killed: Staff Sgt. Tal Amgar,
21, of Ashdod; Yaniv Hershkovitz, 21, of Haifa; Shai
Atias, 19, of Rishon
Lezion; and Dov Steinshuss,
37, of Carmiel. Omer
Pesachov, 7, of Nahariya, and
his grandmother Yehudit Itzkovitch,
58, of Moshav Meron were killed by a Katyusha rocket
in Meron early Friday evening. Roni, Omer's older sister,
was badly wounded, and the grandfather, Naftali, was
lightly hurt. The family had fled the Katyushas in Nahariya
to spend a quiet weekend with their grandparents.
13 Jul 2006 - Monica Seidman (Lehrer),
40, of Nahariya was killed in her home by a Katyusha
rocket Thursday morning. In the evening, Nitzan
Roseban, 33, was killed in Safed by a direct rocket
hit. On Thursday evening Katyushas landed in Haifa.
12 Jul 2006 - Hezbollah terrorists infiltrated
into Israeli territory and attacked two IDF armored
jeeps patrolling the border with Lebanon, killing three
soldiers and kidnapping two. Ground
forces entered Lebanon in the area of the attack. A
large explosive device was detonated underneath an
Israeli tank, killing all four of the tank crew. An
eighth soldier was killed when IDF troops
entered Lebanon to try to retrieve the bodies
of the tank crew. Throughout the day, Hezbollah
terror organization fired Katyusha rockets
and mortar shells at Israel's northern borders' communities and IDF posts.
27 May 2006 - An IDF soldier was wounded when
Katyushas were fired at an army base at Mt. Meron in
the upper Galilee.
27 Dec 2005 - A branch of a Palestinian organization
connected to Al-Qaida fired 6 Katyushas, damaging a
house in Kiryat Shmona and a house in Metulla. In response,
the IAF attacked a training base of the Popular Front,
south of Beirut.
21 Nov 2005 - An attempt
to kidnap an IDF soldier was foiled. Afterward,
Hezbollah launched a barrage of mortars and
Katyusha rockets that injured nine soldiers
and two civilians.
29 Jun 2005 - More than
20 mortars were fired from across the border.
Cpl. Uzi Peretz of the Golani
Brigade was killed and four
soldiers were wounded.
24 Apr 2005 - Several explosive
devices exploded near the Lebanese-Israeli
border in the Mount Dov area. Officials believe
the devices were planted by Hezbollah, but
this was not confirmed. No injuries were
reported in the explosions.
7 Apr 2005 - Two Israeli-Arabs from the village
of Rajar near the Israel-Lebanon border were kidnapped
by Hezbollah operatives and held in captivity for four
days. The men, identified as Muki Ben-Jamal and Nuef
Maharj Ben-Ali, said they were interrogated by their
captors who wanted information on Israel. They were
later released. Israeli officials did not believe that
any security information had been compromised.
9 Jan 2005 - An explosive
device was detonated against an IDF patrol
that killed one Israeli soldier and a UN
officer.
20 Jul 2004 - Hezbollah
sniper fire at an IDF border post killed
two soldiers.
7 May 2004 - Fire in the
Mt. Dov sector killed Dennis Leminov and
wounded two other soldiers.
19 Jan 2004 - An anti-tank
missile killed Yan Rotzenski and wounded
another soldier.
6 Oct 2003 - Staff Sgt. David Solomonov was killed
when Hezbollah fired at an IDF force south of the Fatma
Gate in the eastern sector. In addition, the Hezbollah
fired missiles and rockets at an IDF post in the Reches
Ramim area.
10 Aug 2003 - Haviv Dadon, 16, of Shlomi, was
struck in the chest and killed by shrapnel from an
anti-aircraft shell fired by Hezbollah terrorists in
Lebanon. Four others were wounded.
20 Jul 2003 - Hezbollah
snipers fired on an Israeli outpost near
Chetula, killing two Israeli soldiers.
7 May 2003 - Hezbollah attacked
IDF positions in the Shebaa farms with heavy
rocket, mortar, and small arms fire. One
Israeli soldier was killed and five others
were wounded in the attack.
5 May 2003 - A cycle of armed exchanges across the
Blue Line began. Israel carried out more than 20 air
sorties over the country. Subsequently, Hezbollah fired
several anti-aircraft rounds with shrapnel landing
inside Israel.
22 Mar 2003 - Hezbollah
fired rockets and mortars at Israeli army
positions in the Sheba farms and adjacent
areas. This attack followed eight incursions
into Lebanese airspace by Israeli aircraft.
6 Jan 2003 - Hezbollah fired anti aircraft shells
in the vicinity of Birait in the western sector of
the Lebanese border. No one was hurt and no damage
was caused.
29 Aug 2002 - Fire at an
IDF post in the Mt. Dov sector killed Ofer
Misali and wounded two other soldiers.
12 Mar 2002 – Infiltration: In a shooting
attack on the Shlomi- Metzuba route. Six Israelis civilians
were killed, among them IDF officer Lt. German Rojkov.
7 Aug 2001 - Two houses belonging to senior members
of the former Israeli-allied South Lebanon Army militia
were blown up using explosive devices. One of the houses
belonged to Robin Abboud; the other to Samir Raslan.
Hizbollah is suspected.
28 Apr 2001 - A 60 year-old Israeli man was found
stabbed to death in Kfar Ba'aneh, near Carmiel in Galilee.
The terrorists responsible for the attack were apprehended
in July. Six members of a Hezbollah-linked Palestinian
terrorist cell responsible for the murder were arrested
in July. The murder was the initiation rite of the
organization.
14 Apr 2001 - Fire at an IDF post in the Mt.
Dov sector. IDF soldier Elad Litvak was killed.
1 Apr 2001 - A 42 year-old Israeli woman was stabbed
to death in Haifa. Her murder was the initiation rite
of a terrorist cell, whose members were apprehended
in July. Six members of a Hezbollah-linked Palestinian
terrorist cell responsible for the murder, originally
thought to be criminally motivated, were arrested in
July. The murder was the initiation rite of one of
the terrorists into the organization.
16 Feb 2001- Fire at an
IDF convoy on Mt. Dov killed Elad Shneor
and wounded three other soldiers were wounded.
26 Nov 2000 - A charge was detonated near an IDF convoy.
IDF soldier Khalil Taher was killed and two other soldiers
were wounded.
7 Oct 2000 - Kidnapping: Three IDF soldiers:
Adi Avitan, Omer Soued and Binyamin Avraham were kidnapped
by the Hezbollah from the Mt. Dov sector.
Sources: Ministry
of Foreign Affairs; Ministry
of Foreign Affairs Summary of Events; RAND
Terrorism Database; The
Institute for Counter-Terrorism; U.S.
State Department Report on Human Rights Practices for
2004; The Jerusalem
Post; Ynetnews |