List of Palestinian suicide attacks#2003
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This article contains a non-comprehensive list of Palestinian suicide attacks carried out by Palestinian individuals and militant groups, usually against Israeli civilian targets. The use of indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations{{cite journal|last=Kurz|first=Robert W.|author2=Charles K. Bartles|title=Chechen suicide bombers|journal=Journal of Slavic Military Studies|year=2007|volume=20|issue=4|pages=529–547|doi=10.1080/13518040701703070|url=http://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a477845.pdf|access-date=30 August 2012|publisher=Routledge|s2cid=96476266|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011185147/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a477845.pdf|archive-date=11 October 2017|url-status=live}} is illegal under international law.{{cite web|title=Protection of the civilian population|url=http://www.icrc.org/ihl/WebART/470-750065|website=Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977.|publisher=International Committee of the Red Cross|access-date=10 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714143327/http://www.icrc.org/ihl/WebART/470-750065|archive-date=14 July 2014|url-status=live}}
The first suicide attack was carried out in 1989. The high point was in 2002 during the Second Intifada. The Al-Aqsa Intifada saw a dramatic upswing in suicide bombings, with A, 40% of the total number originated in East Jerusalem.{{efn|"During the second intifada, from October 2000 until October 2005, 30 suicide bombings and other attacks killed 195 people and injured many more in Jerusalem. Of these, 186 casualties resulted from attacks perpetrated by Jerusalem residents."{{sfn|ICG|2012|p=1, n.2}}}} A 2007 study of Palestinian suicide bombings during the Second Intifada (September 2000 through August 2005) found that 39.9% of the suicide attacks were carried out by Hamas, 26.4% by Fatah, 25.7% by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), 5.4% by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and 2.7% by other organizations. The attacks steeply declined by 2008.[http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/benmelech/files/JEP_0807.pdf Human Capital and the Productivity of Suicide Bombers pdf] Journal of Economic Perspectives Volume 21, Number 3, Summer 2007. Pages 223–238 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127151257/http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/benmelech/files/JEP_0807.pdf |date=January 27, 2013 }}
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has advocated classifying suicide bombings as crimes against humanity, a position adopted by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in 2002.[https://books.google.com/books?id=O-MoDwAAQBAJ&dq=wiesenthal+center+%22suicide+bombing%22+%22crime+against+humanity%22&pg=PA90 The European Union, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Denial], University of Nebraska Press, by R. Amy Elman, page 90
The criteria used for this list:
- successful deliberate attacks committed by Palestinian militant groups or individuals against either civilians or security forces, in which the perpetrators intended to die during the attack.
- The perpetrator(s) are not included in the death tolls noted in this list.
1980s
=1989 =
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Name | Date | Location | Dead
!Injured | Notes | Ref. |
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Bus 405 suicide attack | July 6, 1989 | Near Kiryat Yearim | 16
|17 | Carried out by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. | [http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=275879 This Week In History: Terror attack on Bus 405], Jerusalem Post |
1990s
=1993=
=1994=
=1995=
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Name | Date | Location | Dead
!Injured | Notes | Ref |
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Beit Lid massacre | January 22, 1995 | Beit Lid Junction | 21
|69 | Two bombers. One detonated at rescue party. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. | {{Cite web |title=Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (Sept 1993) |url=https://www.gov.il/en/Departments/General/suicide-and-other-bombing-attacks-since-the-declaration-of-principles}} |
Kfar Darom bus attack | April 9, 1995 | Vicinity of Kfar Darom | 8
|52 | Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. | |
Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing | July 24, 1995 | Ramat Gan | 6
|30 | Hamas claimed responsibility. | |
Ramat Eshkol bus bombing | August 21, 1995 | Jerusalem | 4
|100+ | Police Chief Noam Eisenman was killed. Hamas claimed responsibility. |
=1996=
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Name | Date | Location | Dead
!Injured | Notes | Ref |
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First Jerusalem bus 18 suicide bombing | February 25, 1996 | Jerusalem Central Bus station | 26
|48 | Hamas claimed responsibility. | |
Ashkelon bus station bombing | February 25, 1996 | Ashqelon | 2
|80+ | Hamas claimed responsibility. | [http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9602/israel_explosion/02-25/pm/ CNN]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010054910/http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9602/israel_explosion/02-25/pm/ }} Hamas admits to fatal Israeli bus bombings |
Second Jerusalem bus 18 suicide bombing | March 3, 1996 | Jaffa street, Jerusalem | 19
|7 | Hamas claimed responsibility. | |
Dizengoff Center suicide bombing | March 4, 1996 | Tel Aviv | 13
|130 | Attributed to Hamas. Carried out together with Palestinian Islamic Jihad. |
=1997=
= 1998=
= 1999=
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Name | Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Notes | Ref |
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Egged bus 960 bombing | September 5, 1999 | Tveria | 0 | 1 | Hamas claimed responsibility. | [https://www.meforum.org/meib/articles/9909_me1.htm Middle East Intelligence Bulletin]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528073504/https://www.meforum.org/meib/articles/9909_me1.htm }} Israel Confronts the Enemy Within{{Cite web |title=CNN - Explosions rock Mideast peace efforts on heels of accord - September 5, 1999 |url=http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9909/05/mideast.03/ |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=www.cnn.com}} |
Haifa Central Bus Station bombing | September 5, 1999 | Haifa | 0 | 0 | Hamas claimed responsibility. | {{Cite web |title=CNN - Explosions rock Mideast peace efforts on heels of accord - September 5, 1999 |url=http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9909/05/mideast.03/ |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=www.cnn.com}} |
2000s
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= 2005 =
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Name | Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Notes | Ref |
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Karni border crossing attack | January 13, 2005 | Karni crossing, Gaza Strip | 6 | 5 | Carried out together by Hamas with Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and Popular Resistance Committees. | |
Stage Club bombing | February 25, 2005 | Tel Aviv sea promenade | 5 | 50+ | Carried out together with Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and with Hizballah involvement. | |
2nd HaSharon Mall suicide bombing | July 12, 2005 | Netanya | 5 | 90+ | Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. | |
Hadera Market bombing | October 26, 2005 | Hadera | 7 | 55 | Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. | |
3rd HaSharon Mall suicide bombing | December 5, 2005 | Netanya | 5 | 40+ | Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. |
= 2006 =
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Name | Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Notes | Ref |
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1st Rosh Ha'ir restaurant bombing | January 19, 2006 | Near Tel Aviv old central bus station | 0 | 32 | Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. | |
Kedumim bombing | March 30, 2006 | Kdumim, West Bank | 4 | 0 | Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility. | |
2nd Rosh Ha'ir restaurant bombing | April 17, 2006 | Near Tel Aviv old central bus station | 11 | 68 | Carried out by Palestinian Islamic Jihad together with Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. |
= 2007 =
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Name | Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Notes | Ref |
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Eilat bakery bombing | January 29, 2007 | Eilat | 3 | 2 | Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim joint responsibility. | {{cite news |last1=Myre |first1=Greg |title=Suicide Attack Is First in Israel in 9 Months |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/world/middleeast/30mideast.html |work=The New York Times |date=30 January 2007 |access-date=19 September 2023}} |
= 2008 =
2010s
= 2015 =
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Name | Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Notes | Ref |
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Ma'ale Adumim attempted bombing | October 11, 2015 | Jerusalem | 0 | 1 | Palestinian female bomber detonates a bomb in her car after being stopped by traffic cops, on the road from the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim to Jerusalem. | {{cite news |date=2015-10-11 |title=Terrorist detonates explosive near Ma'aleh Adumim checkpoint injuring police officer |url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Woman-detonates-explosive-at-Maaleh-Adumim-checkpoint-421560 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151012054829/http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Woman-detonates-explosive-at-Maaleh-Adumim-checkpoint-421560 |archive-date=2015-10-12 |access-date=2015-10-11 |work=Jerusalem Post |publisher=}} |
= 2016 =
2020s
= 2024 =
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Name | Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Notes | Ref |
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Lehi Street bombing | August 18, 2024 | Tel Aviv | 0 | 1 | Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. Israel confirmed it was a terrorist attack involving a powerful explosive. | {{Cite web |last=Gritten |first=David |date=19 August 2024 |title=Hamas claims Tel Aviv bomb explosion as suicide attack |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg58zqgle9ro |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}} |
See also
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- Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli West Bank barrier
- Israeli casualties of war
- Palestinian political violence
- First Intifada (1987–1993)
- Second Intifada (2000–2005)
- Silent Intifada (2014)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict (2015)
- Sumud (steadfastness)
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Sources and external links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100403224249/http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Suicide%20and%20Other%20Bombing%20Attacks%20in%20Israel%20Since Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs]
- [http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/ Johnston's Terrorism Archive]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150905081009/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/victims.html Jewish Virtual Library] Fatal terrorist attacks in Israel since the Declaration of Principles
- [http://www.epsusa.org/publications/newsletter/2004/nov2004/saleh.pdf Palestinian Suicide Bombers: A Statistical Analysis] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203200455/http://www.epsusa.org/publications/newsletter/2004/nov2004/saleh.pdf |date=2013-12-03 }}
- [http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/terrorists/palestinians/index.html Willing to Die: Palestinian suicide bombers], TruTV
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