List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2001–2006

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Main article: Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel

This is a partial list of Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks on Israel between 2001 and 2006. These attacks commenced in April, 2001, though the first rocket to actually hit an Israeli city was on 5 March 2002, and the first Israeli fatality was 28 June 2004.

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[edit] 2001

April 16, 2001
The first rocket fell on Israel on 16 April 2001[1]

[edit] 2002

February 10, 2002
A Qassam 2 rocket was fired from Gaza into Israel on Sunday, landing in a field six kilometers from the Gaza border near Kibbutz Sa'ad in the Negev Desert. Israel responded with air force attacks and an armored incursion. Seventeen militant prisoners were released from Gaza jail as a result. No deaths were reported.[2][3]

[edit] 2003

[edit] 2004

September 24, 2004
Settler Tiferet Tratner, 24, of Neve Dekalim, was killed in her home by a mortar (weapon) attack on the Gush Katif settlement bloc built in Gaza[4]
September 29, 2004
On the eve of the Sukkot holiday, Yuval Abebeh, 4, and Dorit Benisian, 2, were killed by a Qassam rocket (one of three) fired from Gaza into Sderot. About 30 people were wounded in the attack, for which Hamas claimed responsibility.
October 28, 2004
Israeli army Sgt. Michael Chizik, 21, of Tiberias, was killed when a mortar shell landed in the settlement of Morag in the Gaza Strip.[4]

[edit] 2005

January 5, 2005
Nissim Arbiv, 26, of Nissanit, was severely injured by a mortar shell in the Erez industrial zone. He died from his injuries ten days later.[4]
January 15, 2005
A Qassam rocket attack on Sderot left Ayala Abukasis, 17, brain dead. She died on January 21.
February 9, 2005
A barrage of 25 to 50 Qassam rockets and mortar shells hit Neve Dekalim settlement, and another barrage hit at noon. Hamas said it was in retaliation for an attack in which one Palestinian was killed near an Israeli settlement.[5]
June 7, 2005
Two Palestinian workers, Salah Ayash Imran, 57, Muhammed Mahmoud Jaroun, and a foreign worker Bi Shude, 46, were killed, and five other workers were wounded, when a Qassam rocket hit a packing shed in Ganei Tal, in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.[6]
July 14, 2005
Dana Galkowicz, 22, was killed in a Qassam attack in the Kibbutz Netiv Ha'asara, just north of the Gaza Strip. Hamas, Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine and Fatah all claimed responsibility for the attack.[7]
September 24, 2005
Five Israelis were injured when Palestinian militants launched about 30 rockets on Israeli communities from the Gaza Strip. This attack followed an incident the previous day, in which 20 Palestinians, including 16 civilians, were killed when a vehicle carrying Qassam rockets exploded during a Hamas rally in Jabalya. The exact circumstances surrounding the incident are still unknown. To date, no evidence has been found to substantiate Hamas’ claim that Israeli interference was responsible for the accident.[8]
December 11, 2005
A rocket fired from Jenin in the West Bank landed near Ram-On. It was the first Palestinian rocket attack from the West Bank.[9][10]
December 14, 2005
Jitladda Tap-arsa, 20, a female Thai national, was killed by a mortar while working in a greenhouse in the Gush Katif settlement of Ganei Tal.[4]
December 26, 2005
A Qassam rocket landed near a kindergarten during a Hanukkah party at kibbutz Sa'ad.[11]

[edit] 2006

February 3, 2006
A Qassam rocket struck a family's house in the western Negev village of Karmia, moderately injuring four people, including a 7-month-old baby.[12]
March 28, 2006
Islamic Jihad fired a 122 mm Katyusha rocket from the Gaza Strip into Israel.[13] Near the Kibbutz Nachal Oz two Israeli-Arabs (Salam Ziadin and Khalid, 16, a Bedouin father and son) are killed when a dormant Qassam rocket they find in the Nahal Oz area explodes. Katyushas, frequently used by Hezbollah in Lebanon, had never before been fired from Gaza. Larger numbers of Qassam rockets began landing in the Western Negev in March 2006: 49 in March, 64 in April, 46 in May, and over 83 by the end of June. Most of the rocket launches prior to 2006 were carried out by Islamic Jihad but following Hamas's election victory, other groups such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement have been claimed to take over the firings.
March 30, 2006
Two Qassam rockets landed in kibbutz Karmia, south of Ashkelon, one of them in a football field, where children played only hours earlier, and injured one person.[14]
June 11, 2006
Three people are wounded, one critically when a Qassam landed near the Sapir Academic College near the Negev town of Sderot.[15] 14 Qassams are fired throughout the day.[16]
July 27, 2006
A Qassam rocket landed next to a kindergarten in a community south of Ashkelon at 10:45 a.m. Friday. Two children were lightly wounded and eight more people suffered shock. Additionally, the kindergarten building was damaged.[17]
September 20, 2006
Two teenage Israeli Arab shepherds were moderately wounded by two Qassam rockets fired from Gaza.[18]
November 15, 2006
Twelve rockets in four separate attacks hit Sderot, killing Faina Slutzker, 57, and seriously wounding two others. One of the wounded, Maor Peretz, a security guard, lost both legs in the attack.[19]
November 21, 2006
A Qassam rocket struck a factory and hit 43 year-old Yaakov Yaakobov, fatally wounding him.[20]

[edit] See also

Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009

[edit] References

  1. ^ ""Hamas terror war against Israel: Palestinian terrorists in Gaza continue to fire Qassam rockets at Israeli civilian targets."". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. January 2009. http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+since+2000/Missile+fire+from+Gaza+on+Israeli+civilian+targets+Aug+2007.htm. 
  2. ^ "Israel responds to Palestinian missile attack". CNN. February 11, 2002. http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/02/11/mideast/index.html. 
  3. ^ "The Homemade Rocket That Could Change the Mideast". February 11, 2002. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,202159,00.html. 
  4. ^ a b c d "List of Deaths Caused by Qassam Rockets and Mortar Fire. Total: 23". The Israel Project]. November 27, 2006. http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=883997&ct=3887857. 
  5. ^ "Abbas orders security crackdown". BBC News. 2005-02-10. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4252445.stm. 
  6. ^ Shude - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  7. ^ Galkowicz - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  8. ^ "3 hurt in rocket barrage on South". Ynet. September 24, 2005. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3146445,00.html. 
  9. ^ Warnings Come True: Kassam Fired near Afula
  10. ^ Qassam fired from West Bank
  11. ^ "Rocket lands near kindergarten". YNet. December 26, 2005. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3190485,00.html. 
  12. ^ "Baby hurt in rocket attack". YNet. February 3, 2006. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3210491,00.html. 
  13. ^ BBC NEWS | Middle East | Katyusha rocket 'fired from Gaza'
  14. ^ "Islamic Jihad: We fired Qassams at Israel". YNet. March 30, 2006. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3234384,00.html. 
  15. ^ "Gaza Strip: Situation Report (27 June 2006) - OCHA report (27 June 2006)." UNISPAL - United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine. 27 June 2006. 12 May 2008.
  16. ^ "14 Qassams fired at Israel; man critically injured". YNet. June 11, 2006. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3261205,00.html. 
  17. ^ "Qassam hits kindergarten; two children lightly wounded". Ynet. July 28, 2006. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3282603,00.html. 
  18. ^ "Palestinians Fire two Rockets at Israel Town". Associated Press. September 20, 2006. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092000120.html. 
  19. ^ Palestinian Authority: End Rocket Attacks on Civilians by HRW
  20. ^ "Sderot: Qassam lands near school". YNet. November 22, 2006. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3331211,00.html. 
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