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* July 2 – [[Jerusalem bulldozer attack]]: A Palestinian Arab resident of [[east Jerusalem]] attacks several cars on the [[Jaffa Road]] in [[Jerusalem]] using a [[Loader (equipment)|front-end loader]] (erroneously referred to as a [[bulldozer]] in the media), killing three people and wounding at least 30 other pedestrians, before being shot to death. |
* July 2 – [[Jerusalem bulldozer attack]]: A Palestinian Arab resident of [[east Jerusalem]] attacks several cars on the [[Jaffa Road]] in [[Jerusalem]] using a [[Loader (equipment)|front-end loader]] (erroneously referred to as a [[bulldozer]] in the media), killing three people and wounding at least 30 other pedestrians, before being shot to death. |
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* July 16 – [[Hezbollah]] [[2008 Israel-Hezbollah prisoner swap|swaps]] the bodies of 199 [[Palestinian Arab]] and [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] militants, four Hezbollah prisoners captured during the [[2006 Lebanon war]] and the [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] [[Druze]] militant [[Samir Kuntar]] in exchange for the bodies of the Israeli soldiers [[Ehud Goldwasser]] and [[Eldad Regev]]. |
* July 16 – [[Hezbollah]] [[2008 Israel-Hezbollah prisoner swap|swaps]] the bodies of 199 [[Palestinian Arab]] and [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] militants, four Hezbollah prisoners captured during the [[2006 Lebanon war]] and the [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] [[Druze]] militant [[Samir Kuntar]] in exchange for the bodies of the Israeli soldiers [[Ehud Goldwasser]] and [[Eldad Regev]]. |
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* August 25 – Israel releases 199 Palestinian Arab prisoners as a goodwill gesture to the [[President of the Palestinian National Authority]], [[Mahmoud Abbas]], as the [[United States Secretary of State]], [[Condoleezza Rice]], visits the area.<ref> |
* August 25 – Israel releases 199 Palestinian Arab prisoners as a goodwill gesture to the [[President of the Palestinian National Authority]], [[Mahmoud Abbas]], as the [[United States Secretary of State]], [[Condoleezza Rice]], visits the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpyT722Opigm_Q4o_kBRSUEUyH1A |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-09-09 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520164045/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpyT722Opigm_Q4o_kBRSUEUyH1A |archivedate=2011-05-20 |df= }}</ref> |
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* September 22 – At least 19 people are wounded when a Palestinian Arab drives his car into a crowd of [[Israel Defense Forces|IDF]] soldiers at a busy intersection in [[Jerusalem]].<ref>{{cite news|title=19 hurt as terrorist plows car into Jerusalem crowd|url= |
* September 22 – At least 19 people are wounded when a Palestinian Arab drives his car into a crowd of [[Israel Defense Forces|IDF]] soldiers at a busy intersection in [[Jerusalem]].<ref>{{cite news|title=19 hurt as terrorist plows car into Jerusalem crowd |url=http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1023443.html |date=2008-09-22 |accessdate=2008-09-22 |publisher=Haaretz |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923193708/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1023443.html |archivedate=2008-09-23 |df= }}</ref> The driver is shot and killed at the scene by an Israeli soldier.<ref>{{cite news |title=Palestinian drives into crowd, injures 15, police say |url= http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/22/jerusalem.attack/index.html?eref=rss_topstories |date= 2008-09-22 |accessdate= 2008-09-22 |publisher=CNN News}}</ref> |
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* December 27, 2008 – January 18, 2009 – [[Operation Cast Lead]]: A large-scale three-week [[Israel Defense Forces|IDF]] military campaign in the [[Gaza Strip]] seriously damages the paramilitary infrastructure of [[Hamas]]. Israel claims that the strikes are a response to frequent Qassam rocket and mortar fire from the Strip on Israel's southern civilian communities. |
* December 27, 2008 – January 18, 2009 – [[Operation Cast Lead]]: A large-scale three-week [[Israel Defense Forces|IDF]] military campaign in the [[Gaza Strip]] seriously damages the paramilitary infrastructure of [[Hamas]]. Israel claims that the strikes are a response to frequent Qassam rocket and mortar fire from the Strip on Israel's southern civilian communities. |
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* January 26 – [[George Habash]], 81, [[Palestinian territories|Palestinian]] founder of the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]], heart attack.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7211395.stm |work=BBC News | title=Palestinian radical founder dies | date=January 26, 2008}}</ref> |
* January 26 – [[George Habash]], 81, [[Palestinian territories|Palestinian]] founder of the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]], heart attack.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7211395.stm |work=BBC News | title=Palestinian radical founder dies | date=January 26, 2008}}</ref> |
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* February 15 – [[Ayman al-Fayed]], 42, [[Palestinian territories|Palestinian]] commander of [[al-Quds Brigades]], [[explosion]].<ref> |
* February 15 – [[Ayman al-Fayed]], 42, [[Palestinian territories|Palestinian]] commander of [[al-Quds Brigades]], [[explosion]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B9E244E5-4819-4D19-8578-F1F7C14FF2B6.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-09-20 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516122913/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B9E244E5-4819-4D19-8578-F1F7C14FF2B6.htm |archivedate=2008-05-16 |df= }}</ref> |
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* April 16 – [[Fadel Shana'a]], 23, [[Palestinian territories|Palestinian]] [[Reuters]] [[cameraman]], [[flechette]] shell.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/18/israelandthepalestinians |location=London |work=The Guardian | first=Rory | last=McCarthy | title=Palestinian journalist killed by metal darts from Israeli shell | date=April 18, 2008}}</ref> |
* April 16 – [[Fadel Shana'a]], 23, [[Palestinian territories|Palestinian]] [[Reuters]] [[cameraman]], [[flechette]] shell.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/18/israelandthepalestinians |location=London |work=The Guardian | first=Rory | last=McCarthy | title=Palestinian journalist killed by metal darts from Israeli shell | date=April 18, 2008}}</ref> |
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* August 9 – [[Mahmoud Darwish]], 67, [[Palestinian territories|Palestinian]] poet, complications from [[open heart surgery]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/11/poetry.israelandthepalestinians |location=London |work=The Guardian | first=Peter | last=Clark | title=Mahmoud Darwish | date=August 11, 2008}}</ref> |
* August 9 – [[Mahmoud Darwish]], 67, [[Palestinian territories|Palestinian]] poet, complications from [[open heart surgery]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/11/poetry.israelandthepalestinians |location=London |work=The Guardian | first=Peter | last=Clark | title=Mahmoud Darwish | date=August 11, 2008}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 06:56, 18 June 2017
Incumbents
Palestinian National Authority (non-state administrative authority)
- President – Mahmoud Abbas (PLO)
- Prime Minister –
- Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (in the West Bank) – Salam Fayyad (Third Way) (emergency rule)
- Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (in the Gaza Strip) – Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas) (in rebellion against the Palestinian National Authority)
Events
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- January 24 – Two Palestinian Arabs infiltrate a religious seminary and stab three students in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Etzion before being shot dead.
- January 24 – Palestinian Arab gunmen open fire on Israelis outside the Shuafat refugee camp on the outskirts of Jerusalem, killing a border police officer and seriously wounding a female officer.
- February 4 – 2008 Dimona suicide bombing: A suicide attack carried out by Hamas at a shopping centre in Dimona, Israel. One Israeli elderly woman is killed in the attack while nine other people are wounded (one of them critically). Hamas claims responsibility for the attack.[1]
- February 27 – Over 46 Qassam rockets are fired by Palestinian Arab militants into the Western Negev and Israel's Southern Mediterranean coast, many of them hit the city of Ashkelon and the town of Sderot, among other Israeli towns and villages in the area. One of the rockets that landes in a parking lot at the Sapir Academic College killing 47-year-old Israeli student, Ronni Yechia.[2]
- February 28 – March 3 – Operation Hot Winter: Israel Defense Forces military campaign in the Gaza Strip is launched in response to the constant firing of Qassam rockets from the Strip by Hamas militants.
- March 6 – Mercaz HaRav massacre: Eight Israeli civilians are killed and 9 wounded when a Palestinian Arab attacker opens fire at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem.[3]
- May 14 – A Katyusha rocket is fired at the Israeli city of Ashqelon striking a clinic on the third floor of the Huzot shopping mall, serious wounding three people, moderately wounding two and with eleven other people suffering minor wounds. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claims responsibility.[4]
- June 6 – An Israeli man is killed and four other people are wounded when Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip fire a mortar shell at kibbutz Nirim in the western Negev desert.[5]
- July 2 – Jerusalem bulldozer attack: A Palestinian Arab resident of east Jerusalem attacks several cars on the Jaffa Road in Jerusalem using a front-end loader (erroneously referred to as a bulldozer in the media), killing three people and wounding at least 30 other pedestrians, before being shot to death.
- July 16 – Hezbollah swaps the bodies of 199 Palestinian Arab and Lebanese militants, four Hezbollah prisoners captured during the 2006 Lebanon war and the Lebanese Druze militant Samir Kuntar in exchange for the bodies of the Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.
- August 25 – Israel releases 199 Palestinian Arab prisoners as a goodwill gesture to the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, as the United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, visits the area.[6]
- September 22 – At least 19 people are wounded when a Palestinian Arab drives his car into a crowd of IDF soldiers at a busy intersection in Jerusalem.[7] The driver is shot and killed at the scene by an Israeli soldier.[8]
- December 27, 2008 – January 18, 2009 – Operation Cast Lead: A large-scale three-week IDF military campaign in the Gaza Strip seriously damages the paramilitary infrastructure of Hamas. Israel claims that the strikes are a response to frequent Qassam rocket and mortar fire from the Strip on Israel's southern civilian communities.
Notable deaths
- January 26 – George Habash, 81, Palestinian founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, heart attack.[9]
- February 15 – Ayman al-Fayed, 42, Palestinian commander of al-Quds Brigades, explosion.[10]
- April 16 – Fadel Shana'a, 23, Palestinian Reuters cameraman, flechette shell.[11]
- August 9 – Mahmoud Darwish, 67, Palestinian poet, complications from open heart surgery.[12]
Notes
- ^ McCarthy, Rory (February 6, 2008). "Hamas says it was behind suicide blast in Israel". The Guardian. London.
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Killing of 8 at Jewish seminary threatens latest truce efforts". USA Today. March 6, 2008. Retrieved March 15, 2009.
- ^ [2]
- ^ Barzak, Ibrahim (June 6, 2008). "Palestinian girl, 6, killed as Israel retaliates for fatal kibbutz attack". The Independent. London.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2011-09-09.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "19 hurt as terrorist plows car into Jerusalem crowd". Haaretz. 2008-09-22. Archived from the original on 2008-09-23. Retrieved 2008-09-22.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Palestinian drives into crowd, injures 15, police say". CNN News. 2008-09-22. Retrieved 2008-09-22.
- ^ "Palestinian radical founder dies". BBC News. January 26, 2008.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ McCarthy, Rory (April 18, 2008). "Palestinian journalist killed by metal darts from Israeli shell". The Guardian. London.
- ^ Clark, Peter (August 11, 2008). "Mahmoud Darwish". The Guardian. London.
