Statistics on Palestinian Terrorism from the West Bank and Gaza

Qassam Rocket and Mortar Fire

      Detailed Information Pack on Palestinian Rockets - Size, Range, Organization

      Graph - No. of Rockets and Mortar Shells fired from Gaza, by Month, April 2007 - April 2008

      Graph - Palestinian Terrorist and Guerrilla Attacks by Type, 2008

      Graph - Injuries and Fatalities from Palestinian Rocket and Mortar Fire, 2001-2008

      Fatalities from Rocket and Mortar Attacks

      Trauma in Sderot - Findings of Natal, the Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War, Oct, 2007

General Terrorist Activity

      Recent Significant Terrorist Events

      Weapons and War Materiel Discovered and Confiscated by the IDF in the West Bank in 2007

      Slide-Show of Weapons and War Materiel Discovered and Confiscated by the IDF in the West Bank and Gaza

      Suicide Bombings, Carried-Out and Prevented, by Year, 2000-2008

      Israeli Deaths from Suicide Bombings, by year

      Total Israeli Deaths from Palestinian Terrorism, 2000-2008

      Israeli Civilian and Military Deaths from Palestinian Terrorism, by Type, 2000-2008

    Recent Significant Terrorist Events

May 16: Militants bombed the Christian Zahwa Rosary School in Gaza City. There were no injuries. [1]

May 12: Shuli Katz, 69, was killed by a Qassam rocket which landed in Moshav Yesha. [2]

May 9: Jimmy Kedoshim, aged 48, killed by a mortar fired from Gaza which landed in Kfar Aza. [3]

April 25: Two Israeli civilians, Shimon Mizrahi and Eli Wasserman, were killed in terror attack at Nitzanei Shalom industrial zone near Tulkarem. [4] Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades all claimed responsibility. Nitzanei Shalom Industrial Park is one of the nine industrial zones established after the Oslo Accords to provide work for Palestinians in the West Bank. [5]

April 21: A 4-year old boy from kibbutz Gevim was injured by shrapnel from a Qassam rocket and taken to Barzilai Hospital. [6]

April 19: Hamas carry out an attack at the Kerem Shalom goods crossing using a car bomb. Thirteen IDF soldiers were injured. [7] Hundreds of tons of goods are transferred from Israel to Gaza through Kerem Shalom everyday. The attack was carried out using a BRDM armoured personnel carrier which Hamas had captured from the Palestinian Authority forces after the group took control of Gaza in June 2007. [8]

April 17: A Grad-type Katyusha rocket was fired this morning from the Gaza strip hitting the western Negev region. [9]

April 16: Three IDF soldiers were killed in Gaza when they entered the Strip to prevent terrorists from planting a roadside-bomb by the Gaza security fence. [10]  

April 9: Palestinian terrorists from Gaza shot and killed two Israeli employees working at the Nahal Oz Fuel Terminal which provides fuel for the Gaza power station as well as for vehicles. As a result, Israel temporarily cut of fuel shipments. Palestinian Islamic Johad and the Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility for the attack. [11]

April 9: Sayaf Bisan, a Druze IDF soldier and member of the elite Egoz reconnaissance unit, was killed in the Gaza strip during a military operation against terrorist infrastructure. The unit came under machine-gun and anti-tank fire near the Kissufim crossing. [12]

April 8: IDF troops discover a tunnel in the northern Gaza strip which had been dug to carry out an attack in Israel. [13]

April 4: Hamas forces constructing a weapons storage facility under a school in Gaza severed a water main. Local residents complained about the incident. [14]

April 1: Two Israelis civilians from the Israeli community of Netiv Haasara were wounded by mortar fire from the Gaza Strip. [15]

March 31: A Palestinian attempted to stab two Israeli hitchhikers near Shiloh in the West Bank. One of the hitchhikers shot and killed the assailant. [16]

March 30: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak made a number of concessions on security arrangements in the West Bank. These included the removal of 50 roadblocks, the opening of a permanent checkpoint between the Ramallah and Jericho regions, the deployment of 700 Palestinian police officers in Jenin, the delivery of 25 armored personnel carriers to the Palestinian Authority and the approval of various other measures designed to give the Palestinian Authority greater responsibility for security operations in the West Bank. [17]

March 21: A 14-year-old boy suffered light to moderate wounds after an explosive device was detonated by terrorists near the vehicle he was traveling in through the West Bank. [18]

March 20: Terrorists fired at an Israeli bus traveling south of Nablus. No one was injured. [19]

March 18: A rabbi was stabbed by the Damascus gate of the Old City of Jerusalem. [20]

March 7: Terrorists threw an IED and a petrol bomb at the gates of Migdal Oz, a settlement south of Jerusalem. [21]

March 6: Two IDF soldiers killed on a routine patrol along the security fence of the Gaza Strip by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). [22]

March 6: A Palestinian terrorist entered a religious seminary and killed eight students. Eleven other students were wounded. Two of the students killed were 15 years old, three were 16, two 18 years old and the other 26. [23]

March 5: A Palestinian was killed and an Israeli was wounded in a drive-by shooting in a village near Hebron. Fatah’s Al Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade claimed responsibility. [24]

Feb 27: Roni Yihye, 47, a mature student at Sapir College in Sderot and father of four was killed by a Qassam rocket as he sat in his car by the college campus. [25]

Feb 27-March 2: A severe escalation occurred in Gaza and southern Israel. The IDF attacked and killed a five-man Hamas cell in Gaza which had been trained in Iran and Syria. Hamas responded by firing more than 200 rockets at Israeli towns, principally Sderot, killing one civilian and injuring a number of others. Hamas also fired 23 Iranian-made Grad rockets, five of which hit the city Ashkelon, population 120,000. To curb the rocket fire the IDF carried out air-strikes and deployed ground forces which attacked rocket launching cells, rocket-producing factories and rockets and weapons storehouses. [26]

Feb 27: Five members of Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades who had been given amnesty were arrested after shooting at IDF forces. [27]

Feb 25: Yossi Haimov, aged 10, severely injured by a Qassam rocket. Doctors manage to save his arm from amputation. [28]

Feb 24: A senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Majdi Tzubhi Kasam Mabruk, was arrested in Nablus. Mabruk is believed to be responsible for a number attacks on IDF troops, planning suicide bombs, and building explosive devices. [29]

Feb 20: Armed men broke into the Christian Baptist School in Gaza City, vandalized class rooms, beat guards and shot at them. [30]

Feb 15: Armed men broke into the YMCA library in Gaza City, abducted two guards, stole a computer and a car and detonated a bomb which destroyed the building and burnt many of the books. [31]

Feb. 9: Barrage of 40 rockets on Sderot and western Negev, Osher Twito, aged 8, hit by Qassam and has leg amputated. [32]

Feb. 4: Palestinian detained with explosives in Sinai by Egyptian security services. [33]

Feb. 4: suicide bombing in Dimona, one killed, claimed by Hamas, bombers came from Hebron. [34]

Feb. 3: Yuval Diskin, head of Israel’s internal security services, says large quantities of weapons including long range rockets, anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles have been smuggled into Gaza during the period when the barrier between Egypt and Gaza was open. [35]

Feb. 2: Two Palestinian brothers are detained in Sinai with an explosive device. They had planned to go to a tourist resort in the southern region of the Sinai peninsula to carry out a terror attack. [36]

Feb. 1: Fifteen Palestinians are detained in El-Arish in Sinai by Egyptian security services, 12 were Hamas men with weapons and explosives. [37]