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Violence In The Israeli-palestinian Conflict 2003Note: This compilation includes only those attacks that resulted in casualties. Numerous other attacks which failed to murder, maim, or wound are not included. Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 2000 2001 2002 - 2003 - 2004 Total Death Toll in 2003: 232 Note: The death toll quoted here is just the sum of the listings. There may be many omissions from the list. The human rights organisation B'Tselem has complied statistics of about 600 deaths during 2003 in the occupied territories alone. January (death toll: 56) February (no recorded deaths) March (death toll: 21) April (death toll: 14) - April 8: Two Israeli combat helicopters, accompanied by an F-16 fighter jet, attacked a densely populated area of Gaza City. One helicopter launched two missiles against a civilian car which exploded and killed the two militants inside the car. Soon after a crowd of Palestinians gathered around the car, the helicopter fired a third missile and killed five more. In total seven Palestinians were killed and 53 more were wounded. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1350.shtml
- April 11: Tom Hurndall, a British member of the International Solidarity Movement, was shot in the head by the Israeli army. He died after almost a year in coma January 13, 2004. http://media.guardian.co.uk/israel/story/0,11876,950262,00.html
- April 15: An Israeli and a Palestinian were killed and four Israelis were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire at the Karni industrial zone crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
- April 24: A 23-year-old Israeli security guard was killed and 13 were wounded,in a suicide bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
- April 30: Three Israelis are killed, about 60 injured when a British Muslim suicide bomber blows himself up outside Mike's Place bar on the Tel Aviv coast. A second would-be suicide bomber, also a British citizen, failed to explode and attempted to escape through the sea. His body was washed away to the shore a few days later. On March 8, 2004, Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, and released a videotape showing an interview with the two terrorists.
May (death toll: 15) - May 2: A British cameraman was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Rafah. http://media.guardian.co.uk/israel/story/0,11876,950262,00.html
- May 5: An Israeli was killed and two others (including the victim's 6-year-old daughter) were seriously wounded when terrorists fired shots at their vehicle near Shvut Rachel, in Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
- May 11: A 53-year-old Israeli man was shot in the head and killed by Palestinians in a roadside ambush north of Jerusalem. Both Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.
- May 17: An Israeli couple were killed by a suicide bomber in Hebron. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
- May 18: Palestinian suicide bomber kills seven, wounds 20 on bus in Jerusalem's French Hill district. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
- May 19: A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to a mall in the northern Israeli town of Afula. Three people are killed and about 60 wounded. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.
June (death toll: 26) - June 5: The bodies of two Israelis were found near Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem, brutally beaten and stabbed to death.
- June 8: Haviv Dadon, 16, of Shlomi was killed and four other Israelis wounded in a Hizbullah rocket attack.
- June 11: 17 people killed and over 100 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself on board a #14A bus in downtown Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility.
- June 12: A 51-year-old Israeli was found shot to death in his car in the West Bank. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
- June 17: An Israeli 7-year old girl is killed and three of her family members (including her younger sister) wounded when Palestinians, armed with assault rifles, attack the car they were travelling in, on road no. 6, some few hundreds meters far from Qalqiliya. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.
- June 19: An Israeli shopkeeper is killed in Sdei-Trumot (a village in northern Israel), when a Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up inside the shop. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
- June 20: A 47-year-old Israeli was killed when his car was fired upon in an ambush by Palestinians north of Ramallah. His parents, US citizens, were seriously wounded and his wife lightly injured. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
- June 26: An Israeli phone company employee was killed in a shooting attack by a Palestinian teenager in the Israeli Arab town of Baka al-Garbiyeh. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
- June 30: A 46-year-old construction worker from Bulgaria was killed in a shooting attack on a road west of Jenin, while driving a truck. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, in opposition to the declared ceasefire.
July (death toll: 2) - July 7: A 65-year-old Israeli woman was killed in her home in Moshav Kfar Yavetz and three of her grandchildren lightly wounded in a terrorist suicide bombing. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
- July 15 A 24-year-old Israeli was stabbed to death while protecting his girlfriend against a Palestinian armed with a long-bladed knife on Tel Aviv's beach-front promenade. The terrorist, who was shot and apprehended, is a member of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which claimed responsibility for the attack.
August (death toll: 27) - August 12: A 43-year-old Israeli was murdered by a teenage Palestinian suicide bomber who detonated himself in a Rosh Ha'ayin supermarket.
- August 12: Two Israelis were killed by a teenage Palestinian suicide bomber who detonated himself at a bus stop outside Ariel.
- August 19: 23 killed, 136 wounded by an explosion, caused by a Palestinian suicide bomber, on board a bus in Jerusalem. Among the victims are several children. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Hebron, and Hamas claim responsibility for the attack.
- August 29: A 25-year old Israeli was killed in a shooting attack while driving north-east of Ramallah. His wife who was seven months pregnant, sustained moderate injuries, and gave birth to a baby girl by Caesarean section. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
September (death toll: 18) October (death toll: 41) November (death toll: 8) December (death toll: 4)
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