Timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

[edit] August 20, 1993

Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin sign the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government in Oslo. This event is also seen by many people as the definitive end to the First Intifada^[6] (although some argue it had effectively ended by 1991-1992). By 1993, the violence of the Intifada had claimed the lives of 1162 Palestinians and 160 Israelis. The IDF criticizes these numbers from not distinguishing combatants and non-combatants.

[edit] February 25, 1994

Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, Baruch Goldstein opens fire on a group of Palestinian Muslims worshipping at a Mosque, killing 29 and injuring 125. He is subsequently overpowered and beaten to death by survivors.

[edit] April 6, 1994

Hamas carries out their second suicide bombing, in Afula, Israel, killing 8 people. The first suicide bombing was on April 1, 1993 near Bet El killing 2 people.

[edit] May 18, 1994

Israeli forces withdraw from Jericho and Gaza City in compliance with the Oslo accords.

[edit] October 19, 1994

22 Israelis are killed after a suicide attack on a bus in Tel Aviv. This was the first major suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

[edit] October 26, 1994

Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty

[edit] December 10, 1994

Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

[edit] January 22, 1995

A double suicide bombing by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaves 21 killed in one of the biggest attacks which further divides the Israeli public over the peace process.

[edit] September 28, 1995

Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, also known as Oslo II, signed in Washington, DC.

[edit] November 4, 1995

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated in Tel Aviv by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir. Shimon Peres assumes the position of acting Prime Minister.

[edit] February 25 - March 4, 1996

A series of suicide attacks in Jerusalem (Jerusalem bus 18 massacres and in the French Hill), Tel Aviv and Ashkelon leave more than 60 Israeli dead. These events are said to have had a major impact on the Israeli elections in May.

[edit] May 1996

Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party is elected Prime Minister.

[edit] July 30, 1997

16 Israelis are killed in a double suicide attack in the major market of Jerusalem. This was the worst killing during Netanyahu's time which is regarded as a relatively quiet period, attributed by Netanyahu to his tit-for-tat policy and his objection to the Palestinian revolving door policy. A nearby attack on September 4, 1997 killed four Israelis and led to Chicago's Persian heritage crisis.

[edit] October 23, 1998

Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat sign the Wye River Memorandum at a summit in Maryland hosted by Bill Clinton.

[edit] May 17, 1999

Ehud Barak of the Labour Party is elected Prime Minister.

[edit] May 24, 2000

The Israeli Army withdraws from southern Lebanon, in compliance with U.N. Resolution 425. Syria and Lebanon insist that the withdrawal is incomplete, claiming the Shebaa Farms as Lebanese and still under occupation. The UN certifies full Israeli withdrawal.

[edit] July 2000

The Camp David Summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat aimed at reaching a "final status" agreement collapses after Yasser Arafat would not accept a proposal drafted by American and Israeli negotiators. Barak was prepared to offer the entire Gaza Strip, a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem, 94% of the West Bank (excluding eastern Jerusalem) and financial reparations for Palestinian refugees for peace. Arafat turns down the offer without making a counter-offer.^[7][8]

[edit] Second Intifada begins

[edit] September 28, 2000

Right wing Israeli Opposition Leader Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount which is administered by a Waqf (Under Israeli law, each religious group is granted administration of their holy sites). The day after the visit, violent confrontations erupt between Muslims and Israeli Police. Arafat names the second intifada the Al-Aqsa Intifada after Sharon's visit, for the Al-Aqsa Mosque contained within the Temple Mount (holy also to Jews and Christians). This event is considered by some to be one of the possible catalysts of the second intifada, however, it is commonly accepted in most circles that there had been numerous underlying causes. The Mitchell Commission determines PA leadership had planned the wave of violence.

[edit] September 29, 2000

Violent confrontations erupt between Muslims outside a mosque and Israeli Police.

[edit] November 22, 2000

Two Israeli women killed and 60 civilians were wounded in a car bomb attack in Hadera.

[edit] October 12, 2000

The lynching in Ramallah.

[edit] December 10, 2000

Prime Minister Ehud Barak resigns.

[edit] January 21-27, 2001

Taba Summit. Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority aimed to reach the "final status" of negotiations. Ehud Barak temporarily withdraws from negotiations during the Israeli elections, subsequently Ariel Sharon refused to continue negotiating in the face of the newly erupted violence.

[edit] February 6, 2001

Ariel Sharon of the Likud Party is elected Prime Minister and refuses to continue negotiations with Yasser Arafat at the Taba Summit.

[edit] June 1, 2001

Dolphinarium massacre. A Hamas suicide bomber exploded himself at the entrance of a club. 21 Israelis killed, over 100 injured, all youth.

Five months prior to the bombing, there was a failed terrorist attempt at the same spot.

[edit] August 9, 2001

Sbarro restaurant massacre. A suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt weighing 5 to 10 kilograms, containing explosives, nails, nuts and bolts, detonated his bomb. In the blast 15 people (including 7 children) were killed, and 130 wounded. Both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad initially claimed responsibility.

[edit] August 27, 2001

Abu Ali Mustafa, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is assassinated by an Israeli missile shot by an Apache helicopter through his office window in Ramallah.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] October 17, 2001

Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi is assassinated in Jerusalem by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

[edit] March 13, 2002

The U.S. pushes through the passage of U.N. Resolution 1397 by the Security Council, demanding an "immediate cessation of all acts of violence" and "affirming a vision of a region where two states, Israel and Palestine, live side by side within secure and recognized borders".

[edit] March 14, 2002

Israeli forces continue the raid on Ramallah and other West Bank towns. A helicopter attack near Tulkarm kills Mutasen Hammad and two bystanders. A bomb in Gaza City destroys an Israeli tank which was escorting settlers, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 2. A taxi in Tulkarm explodes, killing 4 Palestinians. Palestinians execute two accused collaborators in Bethlehem, planning to hang one of the corpses near the Church of the Nativity until Palestinian police stop them.

[edit] March 27, 2002

Passover massacre. The Park Hotel in Netanya held a big Passover dinner for its 250 guests. A Palestinian suicide bomber enters the hotel's dining room and detonates an explosive device. Thirty people are killed and about 140 injured, all civilians. Hamas claims responsibility.

[edit] March 29, 2002

Israeli forces begin Operation Defensive Shield, Israel's largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.

[edit] March 30, 2002

A suicide bomber explodes in a Tel Aviv café at around 9:30 PM local time, wounding 32 people. President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell (USA) call on Yasir Arafat to condemn the wave of suicide bombings in Arabic, to his own people. Israeli spokespeople make similar demands. Arafat goes on television and swears in Arabic that he will "die a martyr, a martyr, a martyr". Members of Arafat's personal Al-Aqsa brigade state that they will refuse any form of cease-fire, and that they will continue suicide bombings of civilians in Israel.

[edit] March 31, 2002

Matza restaurant massacre. A Palestinian Hamas bomber blows himself up in an Arab-owned restaurant in Haifa, killing 15 (including 2 whole families) and injuring over 40 people.

Israeli troops exchange gunfire with guards of Yasir Arafat in Ramallah. In the past 18 months, according to the Associated Press, 1262 people have been killed on the Palestinian side and on 401 on the Israeli side; in March, 259 Palestinians and 130 Israelis were killed. The stats do not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants.

[edit] April 2, 2002

Israeli troops occupy Bethlehem. Dozens of armed Palestinian gunmen, many of whom Israel has identified as terrorists, occupy the Church of the Nativity and hold the church and its clergy.

[edit] April 12, 2002

The Battle of Jenin, as part of Operation Defensive Shield, Israeli forces enter a Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin where about a quarter of suicide bombings since 2000 had been launched from. The battle cost the lives of 23 Israeli soldiers and 52 Palestinians, mostly militants but 22 were civilians. This particular event sparked a great deal of controversy, mostly because Palestinian sources falsely reported a massacre had taken place.

[edit] May 9, 2002

Muhammad al-Madani, governor of Bethlehem, leaves the Church of the Nativity.

Israel calls up additional reserve forces and moves tanks into position for an expected incursion into the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the most recent suicide bombing.

[edit] May 18, 2002

Israeli Shin Bet officials announce they have arrested six Israelis for conspiring to bomb Palestinian schools in April, including Noam Federman, a leader of the Kach movement of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, and Menashe Levinger, son of Rabbi Moshe Levinger. Membership to the Kach group is illegal in Israel and punishable by law.

[edit] June 2002

Israel begins construction of the West Bank Fence. Palestinian terror attacks on Israelis subsequently drop by 90%.^[9]

[edit] June 18, 2002

Patt junction massacre. A Hamas Palestinian Islamic law student explodes himself with a belt filled with metal balls for shrapnel. 19 Israelis killed, and over 74 wounded.

[edit] July 23, 2002

An Israeli warplane fires a missile at an apartment in Gaza City, killing the top of their most wanted list, Salah Shehadeh, top commander of Hamas' military wing, the Izzadine el-Qassam. The apartment building is flattened and 14 civilians are killed (nine children).[50]

[edit] July 31, 2002

A Hamas member leaves a bag containing a bomb in the cafeteria of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing 9 Jewish students (four Israeli, five foreign), and injuring 85 others (different nationalities, some Arab). Palestinians rally in Gaza waving Hamas flags to celebrate the attack. On August 17, Israeli Security Forces expose a terrorist cell of Hamas operatives in East Jerusalem that had been responsible for the attack. The members had been planning another attack until arrested by Israel.[51][52][53]

[edit] November 21, 2002

Jerusalem bus 20 massacre. Hamas Palestinian suicide bomber explodes himself on a crowded bus, killing 11 people, and wounding over 50.

[edit] August 19, 2003

Jerusalem bus 2 massacre. A Hamas Palestinian disguised as a Haredi Jew detonates himself with a bomb spiked with ball-bearings on a bus crowded with children. 23 Israelis killed, over 130 wounded, all civilians.

[edit] October 4, 2003

Maxim restaurant suicide bombing. A 28-year-old Palestinian female suicide bomber, Hanadi Jaradat, explodes herself inside the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs were killed, and 51 others were wounded. The restaurant is co-owned by Jewish and Christian Arab Israelis, and was a symbol of co-existence.

[edit] February 25, 2005

Young Israelis arrive for a surprise birthday party at the Stage Club in Tel Aviv. A teenage suicide bomber detonates himself at the entrance to the club. 5 Israelis killed, and about 50 wounded. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.^[10]

[edit] July 9, 2004

The International Court of Justice rules in a non-binding advisory opinion that the West Bank wall is illegal under international law,^[11] the United Nations has also condemned the construction of the wall as "an unlawful act of annexation". The United States and Australia defend the security fence saying the wall is a counter-terrorism protective measure and that the onus is on the Palestinian Authority to fight terrorism. The U.S., Canada, Israel and some 30 other democratic states objected to the ICJ consideration of the UN General Assembly request, finding the request loaded and prejudicial, and expressing concern of the ICJ's credibility.^[12][13][14]

[edit] July 12, 2005

Five people were killed and over 100 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself on a pedestrian crossing near the entrance to Hasharon Mall in Netanya shortly after 6:30 p.m. The bomber was identified as Ahmed Abu Khalil, 18, from the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.^[15]

[edit] 2000-2006

The death toll both military and civilians of the entire conflict in 2000-2006 is estimated to be 3,844 Palestinians and 1,011 Israelis.^[16] Note that these numbers do not differentiate between combatants and civilians. Of the Palestinian victims, at least 118 were killed by fellow Palestinians. Of the Israeli victims killed during the riots of October 2000, 12 were Arabs.

[edit] Recent developments

[edit] June 24, 2002

US President George W. Bush calls for an independent Palestinian state living in peace with Israel.

In a major speech, Bush states that Palestinian leaders must take steps to produce democratic reforms, and fiscal accountability, in order to improve the negotiations with Israel. He also states that as Palestinians show control over terrorism, Israel must end operations in the West Bank, and in areas which it entered under Operation Defensive Shield. ^[17]

[edit] July 22, 2002

IDF kills the top of their "most wanted" list, Salah Shahade, the leader of Hamas's "military wing", the Izz ad-Din el-Qasam Brigades. The missile strike flattens the apartment building killing 14 civilians (including nine children).^[18]

[edit] August 14, 2002

Marwan Barghouti, captured April 15, was indicted by a civilian Israeli court for murdering civilians and membership in a terrorist organisation. Mr Candy man on the scene SGMC

[edit] March 16, 2003

Rachel Corrie, an American member of the International Solidarity Movement is crushed by an Israel Defence Forces bulldozer, becoming the first ISM member to die in the conflict. Members of the group who witnessed her death allege murder, while Israel calls it a "regrettable accident".

[edit] March 19, 2003

Mahmoud Abbas appointed Prime Minister.

[edit] March 24, 2003

Hilltop 26, an illegal Israeli settlement near the city of Hebron, is peacefully dismantled by the Israel Defence Force.

[edit] April 30, 2003

The details of the Road map for peace are released.

[edit] May 27, 2003

Ariel Sharon states that the "occupation" of Palestinian territories "can't continue endlessly."

[edit] June 2, 2003

A two-day summit is held in Egypt. Arab leaders announce their support for the road map and promised to work on cutting off funding to terrorist groups.

[edit] June 29, 2003

Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah agree to a three-month cease-fire.

[edit] August 19, 2003

Islamic Jihad and Hamas claim joint responsibility for a suicide bombing that kills twenty Israelis. Mahmoud Abbas pledges a crackdown on militants.

[edit] September 6, 2003

Mahmoud Abbas resigns from the post of Prime Minister.

[edit] October 16, 2004

Israel officially ended a 17-day military operation, named Operation Days of Penitence, in the northern Gaza Strip. The operation was launched in response to a Qassam rocket that killed two children in Sderot. About 108-133 Palestinians were killed during the operation, of whom one third were civilians.

[edit] November 11, 2004

Yasser Arafat dies at the age of 75 in a hospital near Paris, after undergoing urgent medical treatment (since October 29, 2004).

[edit] February 25, 2005

On Friday evening, young Israelis arrive for a birthday party at the Stage Club in Tel Aviv. A teenage suicide bomber detonates himself at the entrance to the club. 5 Israelis killed, and about 50 wounded. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.^[19]

[edit] September 12, 2005

Completion of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan. Israel removes all Jewish settlements, many Bedouin communities, and military equipment from the Gaza Strip. Although there is no permanent Israeli presence or jurisdiction in Gaza anymore, Israel retains control of certain elements (such as airspace, borders and ports), leading to a ongoing dispute as to whether or not Gaza is "occupied" or not. Since the disengagement, Palestinian militant groups have used the territory as a staging ground from which to launch rocket attacks and build underground tunnels into Israel. With the approval of PA officials and police, Palestinians torch, desecrate, and vandalize remaining synagogues.^[20][21][22]

[edit] October 14, 2005

Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora announces Lebanon will be the last Arab country to have any peace with Israel.

[edit] January 25, 2006

Hamas wins by landslide the majority of seats after the Palestinian legislative election, 2006. Israel, the United States, European Union, and several European and Western countries cut off their aid to the Palestinians; as they view the Islamist political party who rejects Israel's right to exist as a terrorist organization.

[edit] June 9, 2006

Following the Gaza beach blast, in which seven members of one family and one other Palestinian were killed on a Gaza beach, the armed wing of Hamas calls off its 16-month-old truce. Israel claims it was shelling 250m away from the family's location; Palestinians claimed that the explosion was Israeli responsibility.^{[23] [24]} Reports have concluded Israel had not been responsible for the blast.^{[25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30]} An Israeli internal investigation report claims the blast was most likely caused by an unexploded Israeli munition buried in the sand and not by shelling.

[edit] June 13, 2006

Israel kills 11 Palestinians in a missile strike on a van carrying Palestinian militants and rockets driving through a densely civilian populated area in Gaza.^[31] Nine among those killed are civilian bystanders.

[edit] July 5, 2006

First Qassam rocket of increased strength is fired into the school yard in the Southern Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon. This has been the first instance of an increased distance Qassam rockets can reach and the first time a significantly large city has been attacked. No one was injured in this attack.^[32]

[edit] July 26, 2006

Israel launches a counter-offensive to deprive cover to militants firing rockets into Israel from Gaza. 23 Palestinians killed, at least 16 are identified militants, 76 wounded.

[edit] June 25, 2006

After crossing the border from the Gaza Strip into Israel, Palestinian militants attack an Israeli army post. The militants kidnapped Gilad Shalit, killed two IDF soldiers and wounded four others. Israel launches Operation Summer Rains.

[edit] July 12, 2006

Hezbollah infiltrates Israel in a cross-border raid, kidnaps two soldiers and kills three others. Israel attempts to rescue the kidnapped, and five more soldiers are killed. Israel's military responds, and the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict begins.

[edit] August 14, 2006

2006 Fox journalists kidnapping. Palestinian militants kidnap Fox journalists Olaf Wiig and Steve Centanni, demanding the U.S. to release all Muslims in prison. The two are eventually released on August 27, after stating they have converted to Islam.

[edit] September 2006

Violence and rivalry erupts between Fatah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Abbas tries to prevent civil war.^[33][34] President Mahmoud Abbas and his moderate party advocate a Palestinian state alongside Israel, while Prime Minister Ismail Haniya and his Islamist party (that most Palestinians support) reject Israel's right to exist. Although recent polls show that the majority of Palestinians desire a two state settlement,^[35] 59% of Palestinians desire Hamas and Islamic Jihad to continue an "armed struggle" against Israel even after achieving Palestinian statehood.^[36]

[edit] September 26, 2006

A UN study declares the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip "intolerable", with 75% of the population dependent on food aid,^[37] and an estimated 80% of the population living below the poverty line.^[38] The Palestinian economy had largely relied on Western aid, which has been frozen since Hamas's victory. Some blame Israel for their boder control, as well as the strikes as a part of Operation Summer Rains and its effects on electricity and other sources. Others blame the Israeli closures and European Union strict monitoring of Karni and Rafah, key border crossings, which Israel and the EU cite security concerns, specifically smuggling, possible weapons transfers and uninhibited return of exiled extremist leaders and terrorists.^{[39][40][41][42]} Some blame Palestinian organizations, such as Hamas, for not disarming and preventing funds; or the PLO, for withholding billions of dollars in assets away from the Palestinian people.^[43]

[edit] October 11-14, 2006

In the midst of an increase of rocket attacks against Israel, the Israeli Air Force fires into the Gaza Strip over a three-day period. 21 Palestinians are killed (17 Hamas militants, 1 al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades militant, and 3 civilians). The two dozen wounded include gunmen and passersby.^[44][45][46] Israel says the offensive is designed to track down the kidnapped soldier and to stop militants firing rockets into Israel. Spokesman Abu Ubaida for Hamas's military wing issued a statement vowing "we will bombard and strike everywhere" in response to the attacks. Make-shift rockets are immediately shot into Israel.

[edit] October 17, 2006

In separate gunbattles in Nablus, Israeli troops kill 2 al-Aqsa Martyrs's Brigades militants, 2 rock-throwers, and 1 Islamic Jihad militant. Israeli forces discover 13 tunnels apparently used to smuggle weapons into Gaza in the last 3 months. ^[47]

[edit] October 20, 2006

Brokered by Egyptian mediators, Fatah reaches a deal to end fighting between the Hamas and Fatah factions, both groups agreeing to refrain from acts that raise tensions and committing themselves to dialogue to resolve differences. Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas brushes off comments by President Mahmoud Abbas, head of Fatah, who indicated he could dismiss the Hamas-led cabinet. Abbas unsuccessfully urges Hamas to accept international calls to renounce violence and recognize Israel's right to exist.

Palestinian gunmen (presumably of the Fatah faction) open fire at the convoy of Prime Minister Haniyeh as it passed through a refugee camp in central Gaza.^[48]

[edit] October 27, 2006

3 Palestinians in the West Bank are killed by Israeli troops. The relatives were not present but say at least one of the two men in Al Faraa may have been throwing rocks at army jeeps. Israeli soldiers say the two had approached them with a handgun and an axe. The gunman was killed, while the man with the axe was wounded in the leg and taken to an Israeli hospital. In Yamoun, a man was shot and killed on the roof of his home. Relatives say he had gone on the roof to watch the army raid and two other brothers were also wounded. The Israeli army says troops hit at least two armed Palestinians. Islamic Jihad later admitted the man killed on his rooftop was a member of the militant group who died in a gunbattle with Israelis.^[49]

[edit] November 8, 2006

Israel shells Beit Hanoun, killing 19 Palestinian civlians (seven children, four women) during the Gaza operations. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert apologises, saying the incident had been an accidental "technical failure" by the Israeli military. The U.N. Security Council votes on an Arab-backed resolution proposed by Qatar to condemn the Israeli actions. Nine vote for; Britain, Denmark, Japan and Slovakia abstained; the U.S. against, and the resolution is vetoed. U.S. Secretary Condoleeza Rice calls the resolution draft a "a one-sided political agenda", and ambassador to U.N. John Bolton (the voter) says it "does not display an evenhanded characterization of the recent events in Gaza, nor does it advance the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace."

[edit] See also

• Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2003
• Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2002
• Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2001
• Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2000
• Terrorism against Israel
• Zionist political violence
• Palestinian political violence
• List of massacres committed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
• List of massacres committed during the Al-Aqsa Intifada
• List of Hamas suicide attacks
• List of Palestinian Islamic Jihad suicide attacks
• List of Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades suicide attacks

[edit] Notes

1. ^ The Palestinian Refugees
2. ^ Arab Refugees from Israel
3. ^ Palestinian Refugees, invited to leave in 1948
4. ^ Timeline for Israel
5. ^ [1]
6. ^ http://scs.student.virginia.edu/~irouva/conferences/vics/guides/ArabLeague.pdf#search=%22timeline%20of%20first%20intifada%20end%20site%3A%3A.edu%22
7. ^ [2]
8. ^ [3]
9. ^ [4]
10. ^ Suicide bombing at Tel Aviv Stage Club
11. ^ http://domino.un.org/UNISPAl.NSF/85255e950050831085255e95004fa9c3/3740e39487a5428a85256ecc005e157a!OpenDocument
12. ^ [5]
13. ^ [6]
14. ^ [7]
15. ^ Suicide bombing at Netanya shopping mall
16. ^ "Intifada statistics", B'Tselem, 2006-7-29.
17. ^ http://www.mideastweb.org/bushspeech1.htm
18. ^ http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002-07-22-israel-strike2_x.htm
19. ^ Suicide bombing at Tel Aviv Stage Club
20. ^ [8]
21. ^ [9]
22. ^ [10]
23. ^ Hamas breaks truce with rockets, BBC Online, 10 June, 2006
24. ^ CHRONOLOGY-Key events in the Gaza Strip, Reuters, 4 July, 2006
25. ^ [11]
26. ^ [12]
27. ^ [13]
28. ^ Der Krieg der Bilder, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 16 June, 2006
29. ^ [14]
30. ^ Human Rights Watch switches stories
31. ^ [15]
32. ^ http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=106594
33. ^ In Gaza, the Rule by the Gun Draws Many Competitors
34. ^ [ http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=286253&area=/insight/insight__international/ Amid civil war fears, Hamas and Fatah stockpile arms]
35. ^ [16]
36. ^ Survey Israelis, Israeli-Arabs, & Palestinians
37. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5382976.stm
38. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5304328.stm
39. ^ [17]
40. ^ [18]
41. ^ [19]
42. ^ [20]
43. ^ [21]
44. ^ [22]
45. ^ [23]
46. ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061014/ts_nm/mideast_dc]
47. ^ [24]
48. ^ "Gunmen fire on Palestinian PM's convoy in Gaza", CBC News, 2006-10-20.
49. ^ "Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians", AP via Gulfnews, 2006-10-27.

• Perliger, Arie and Weinberg, Leonard (2003). Jewish Self-Defence and Terrorist Groups Prior to the Establishment of the State of Israel: Roots and Traditions. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, Volume 4, Number 3, pp. 91-118.

[edit] External Reference:

• Detailed Timeline (Chronology) of Israeli history and the Israeli-Arab Conflict
• Extensive Time-Line of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Palestine Facts
• Joint Israeli-Palestinian research
• Middle East conflict Flash presentations various languages
  • History in a Nutshell Flash
• Israel's story in maps
• If Americans Only Knew
• History of Israel & "Palestine"
• Photo.net - History Timeline for Israel

[edit] Notes

1. ^ The Palestinian Refugees
2. ^ Arab Refugees from Israel
3. ^ Palestinian Refugees, invited to leave in 1948
4. ^ Timeline for Israel
5. ^ [25]
6. ^ http://scs.student.virginia.edu/~irouva/conferences/vics/guides/ArabLeague.pdf#search=%22timeline%20of%20first%20intifada%20end%20site%3A%3A.edu%22
7. ^ [26]
8. ^ [27]
9. ^ [28]
10. ^ Suicide bombing at Tel Aviv Stage Club
11. ^ http://domino.un.org/UNISPAl.NSF/85255e950050831085255e95004fa9c3/3740e39487a5428a85256ecc005e157a!OpenDocument
12. ^ [29]
13. ^ [30]
14. ^ [31]
15. ^ Suicide bombing at Netanya shopping mall
16. ^ "Intifada statistics", B'Tselem, 2006-7-29.
17. ^ http://www.mideastweb.org/bushspeech1.htm
18. ^ http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002-07-22-israel-strike2_x.htm
19. ^ Suicide bombing at Tel Aviv Stage Club
20. ^ [32]
21. ^ [33]
22. ^ [34]
23. ^ Hamas breaks truce with rockets, BBC Online, 10 June, 2006
24. ^ CHRONOLOGY-Key events in the Gaza Strip, Reuters, 4 July, 2006
25. ^ [35]
26. ^ [36]
27. ^ [37]
28. ^ Der Krieg der Bilder, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 16 June, 2006
29. ^ [38]
30. ^ Human Rights Watch switches stories
31. ^ [39]
32. ^ http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=106594
33. ^ In Gaza, the Rule by the Gun Draws Many Competitors
34. ^ [ http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=286253&area=/insight/insight__international/ Amid civil war fears, Hamas and Fatah stockpile arms]
35. ^ [40]
36. ^ Survey Israelis, Israeli-Arabs, & Palestinians
37. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5382976.stm
38. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5304328.stm
39. ^ [41]
40. ^ [42]
41. ^ [43]
42. ^ [44]
43. ^ [45]
44. ^ [46]
45. ^ [47]
46. ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061014/ts_nm/mideast_dc]
47. ^ [48]
48. ^ "Gunmen fire on Palestinian PM's convoy in Gaza", CBC News, 2006-10-20.
49. ^ "Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians", AP via Gulfnews, 2006-10-27.