Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Since 1973, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become the main element of the larger Arab-Israeli conflict. This conflict, in turn, is part of much larger and more widespread Middle East conflict, as the entire region has been and is host to many disputes and wars not involving Israel.
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- Conflict: intifada - Arab-Israeli conflict - Terrorism against Arabs - Terrorism against Israel - Israeli settlements
- Ethnicity: Israeli - Jew - Palestinian - Arab
- Geography: Gaza - Gaza Strip - Golan Heights - Israel - Judea - Palestine - Syria - West Bank - Israel/Geography
- People: Yasser Arafat - Shimon Peres - Colin Powell - Nabil Shaath - Ariel Sharon - Anthony Zinni - Sheikh
- Organizations: Palestinian Authority - Israel Defence Forces - PLO - Fatah - Hezbollah - Hamas
- Religion: Islam - Judaism- Palestinian-Christian
- Places: Jenin - Haifa - Bethlehem - Church of the Nativity
- External links: Sharm El-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee Final Report (Mitchell Report), http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/mitchell.htm
Timeline
A suicide bomber disguised as an Israeli soldier kills at least two Israelis and wounds more than 50 in Netanya.
Shin Bet officials announces 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 Levenger, son of Rabbi Moshe Levenger, a founder of the Hebron settlement.
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 Gaza in retaliation for the most recent suicide bombing.
A Palestinian suicide bomber badly injures himself near Megiddo, southeast of Haifa, when the explosives he was carrying go off prematurely.
A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 15 and wounds 58 in a billiards and gambling club in Rishon le Zion at approximately 11 pm local time, while Ariel Sharon is meeting with President Bush in Washington D.C.
In April, a total of 311 Palestinians and 58 Israelis were killed, most during Israel's West Bank offensive.
A suicide bomber kills 4 Israelis and 2 Chinese workers at the entrance to the Mahaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem.
A bus bombing kills 8 Israelis in Haifa.
Israeli troops invade Bethlehem. Numerous Palestinians take refuge within the Church of the Nativity.
Israeli troops exchange gunfire with guards of Yasir Arafat in Ramallah. A suicide bomber identified as Shadi Tubasi, a resident of the refugee camp Jenin, kills 15 and wounds more than 40 in an Arab-owned restaurant in Haifa. Later, a suicide bomber wounds four members of an intensive care unit, one critically, in a paramedics' dispatch station in Efrat. 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.
A suicide bomber explodes in My Coffee Shop, 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.
Israeli forces begin Operation Defensive Shield, an incursion into the West Bank.
At the start of Passover, a suicide bomber kills 28 and injures more than 100 in the Park Hotel in Netanya during seder.
A bus bombing kills 7 Israelis at the Musmus junction in Umm el-Fahm.
Israeli forces continue the raid on Ramallah and other West Bank towns. A helicopter attack near Tulkarmkills Mutasen Hammad and two bystanders. A bomb in Gaza 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.
A. Raffaele Ciriello, an Italian photographer, is killed by Israeli forces in Ramallah.
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".
Israeli forces invade the Jabaliya refugee camp and Ramallah, killing at least 17 residents and wounding 45.
A suicide bomber kills 11 Israelis at Cafe Moment in Jerusalem, across the street from the official residence of Ariel Sharon.
A suicide bomber kills 9 Israelis in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem.
External links and references
- Bomber Disguised as Israeli Soldier Kills 2 in Market, The New York Times, May 20, 2002
- Fear and Rage in Gaza, and Threats by Hamas, The New York Times, May 20, 2002
- 6 Nations to Take Bethlehem Exiles, but Questions Remain, The New York Times, May 20, 2002
- Israel Arrests Settlers it Says Tried to Bomb Palestinians, The New York Times, May 19, 2002
- Rebuffing Sharon, Likud Party Repudiates Palestinian State, The New York Times, May 13, 2002
- THE CHURCH: Hymns, Not Gunfire, Fill Bethlehem, The New York Times, May 13, 2002
- SECURITY FORCES: Palestinians Sow Confusion and Doubt on Bombing, The New York Times, May 13, 2002
- OPINIONS: Shock of Sept. 11 Is Making Americans More Supportive of Israel, Polls Suggest, The New York Times, May 13, 2002
- Israelis Advancing on Gaza; Progress Made to Resolve Siege, The New York Times, May 10, 2002
- Exile Agreement Appears to Settle Bethlehem Siege, The New York Times, May 9, 2002
- 15 Killed by Suicide Bomber Near Tel Aviv, The New York Times, May 8, 2002
- THE SIEGE: Deal Seen Near to End Impasse in Church Siege, The New York Times, May 6, 2002
- BETHLEHEM: U.S. Pressure Said to Drive Talks on Siege at Church, The New York Times, May 5, 2002
- U.S. Pushing Israel to Accept Arafat for Negotiations, The New York Times, May 5, 2002
- INTELLIGENCE: Enlisting Data Seized in Raids, Israel Widens an Effort to Implicate Arafat in Terrorism, The New York Times, May 5, 2002
- THE OVERVIEW: Three Killed in Raid in Nablus; Peace Conference Idea Wins Initial Support on Both Sides, The New York Times, May 4, 2002
- NEWS ANALYSIS: Administration's Plans for Mideast Talks Face Obstacles, The New York Times, May 4, 2002
- DIPLOMACY: In Drive for Peace Progress, White House Saw Jenin Inquiry as Expendable, The New York Times, May 4, 2002
- THE SATURDAY PROFILE: Schooled in America, Seething in the West Bank, The New York Times, May 4, 2002
- Bomb Kills at Least 20 in Israel as Arabs Open Beirut Meeting, The New York Times, March 28, 2002
- NEWS ANALYSIS: After a Dire Day, Trying to See Beyond Revenge, The New York Times, March 28, 2002
- WASHINGTON: Bush Diplomacy Yields Few Promising Signs, The New York Times, March 28, 2002
- THE OVERVIEW: Suicide Bomber Kills 7, but Envoy Presses On, The New York Times, March 21, 2002
- THE BORDERS: Attack Puts Israeli Army on Edge in the North, The New York Times, March 21, 2002
- DIPLOMACY: Cheney's Bid to Arafat Aimed to End Violence, The New York Times, March 21, 2002
- THE VIOLENCE: Israel Promises a Pullback as Death Toll Keeps Rising, The New York Times, March 15, 2002
- On Both Sides in the Mideast, Fear and Stress Are Building, The New York Times, March 15, 2002
- U.S. Says Powell Demanded Pullout by Israeli Forces, The New York Times, March 15, 2002
- LEBANON FRONT: Fatal Attack Shatters Israeli Border Town's Calm, The New York Times, March 14, 2002
- WARTIME POLITICS: Israel's Tactics Prompt a Fiery Disagreement in the Cabinet and Censure Abroad, The New York Times, March 14, 2002
- Israeli Offensive Is 'Not Helpful,' President Warns Sharon, The New York Times, March 14, 2002
- THE U.N.: U.S. Role in Resolution on Mideast Startles Some, The New York Times, March 14, 2002
- THE CASUALTIES: Italian Photographer Is Killed Covering Israeli Incursion, The New York Times, March 14, 2002
- THE OFFENSIVE: After the Raid, a Slum's Assessment, The New York Times, March 14, 2002
- CLASHES: At Least 17 Are Killed in Israeli Raid at Palestinian Camp in Gaza, The New York Times, March 12, 2002
- NEWS ANALYSIS: In New Conflict, Narrowing Ratio of Dead Pressures Sharon, The New York Times, March 12, 2002
- THE SCENE: In Mourning for Husband Lost as Camp Was Invaded, The New York Times, March 12, 2002