Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2011
Appearance
This is a list of incidents of violence between Israelis and Palestinians in 2011 as part of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
January
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details |
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1 | Rocket attack | 0 | 0 | Israel | In the evening, a mortar shell fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip landed near a kibbutz in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council. A woman suffered from shock, but no physical injuries or damage were reported. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for mortar attacks that day, saying that it had fired four mortars at two military posts in Israel and adding that it would "cling to the option of resistance and confront the Israeli occupation".[1][2] |
2 | Shooting | 1 | 0 | West Bank | Israeli soldiers manning the Bekaot checkpoint east of Nablus shoot and kill Ahmad Maslamani, a Palestinian man in his 20s from the village of Toubas who was carrying a Coca Cola bottle which the soldiers reportedly mistook for an explosive device.[3] |
3 | Airstrike | 0 | 2 | Gaza Strip | Israel Air Force planes bomb three targets in the Gaza Strip, including two refugee camps, injuring two Palestinians.[4][5] |
4 | Airstrike | 0 | 0 | Gaza Strip | Israel Air Force planes bomb two targets in the Gaza Strip, reported by Israel to be a tunnel and a training base belonging to Hamas.[6][7] |
6 | Shooting | 2 | 0 | Gaza Strip | According to Palestinian medics, Israeli troops killed two Palestinians on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The IDF said they shot at two people who were attempting to cross a border fence.[8][9] |
7 | Shooting | 1 | 0 | West Bank | Israeli troops shot and killed a 67-year-old Palestinian man during an operation into the West Bank, Palestine to arrest members of Hamas who had recently been released from a Palestinian prison.[10][11] The man's wife claims that he was killed while sleeping in his bed, while the Jerusalem Post claims that soldiers shot him after they saw him make a "sudden move" and thought he was reaching for a weapon. [12] |
7 | Airstrike | 0 | 0 | Gaza Strip | Israel bombs three targets in the Gaza Strip, targets it claims where activity centers and a Hamas tunnel.[13] |
8 | Rocket attack | 0 | 3 | Israel | At about 2:20 pm, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired four 181-millimeter mortar shells at Israel, all of which landed in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council. One of the shells hit a residential area within an agricultural community in the area. Three Thai foreign agricultural workers were injured, one seriously, one moderately and one lightly, all by shrapnel. A number of other people suffered from shock. The shell also killed a cat nearby. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility, saying that it had fired six mortar shells at an Israeli military post near Nahal Oz.[14][15][16][17][18] |
8 | Shooting | 1 | 0 | West Bank | Khaldun Samudi, a Palestinian who ran towards a checkpoint is shot dead by Israeli troops. Soldiers later found explosives on Samudi's body. [19][20][21] |
10 | Shooting | 1 | 0 | Gaza Strip | Israel Defense Forces soldiers shot and killed a 65 year old farmer near their security fence for unknown reasons.[22][23][24] |
10 | Airstrike | 0 | 0 | Gaza Strip | Two targets in the Gaza Strip were bombed by the Israeli airforce.[22][23][24] |
11 | Airstrike | 1 | 0 | Gaza Strip | An Israeli missile attack kills a Palestinian militant while he was riding a motorcycle in the Gaza Strip.[25] |
12 | Airstrike | 0 | 0 | Gaza Strip | Israel bombs three targets in the Gaza Strip, no injuries are reported.[26] |
18 | Tank assault | 1 | 2 | Gaza Strip | Israeli tanks enter the northern Gaza Strip; some fighting occurs killing one Palestinian and injuring two others.[27] |
20 | Shooting | 1 | 0 | West Bank | Salem Samudi, a Palestinian whos friend, Khaldun Samudi, was killed by Israelis on the 8th, is shot dead during an exchange of fire with Israeli forces.[28] |
27 | Explosion | 1 | 0 | Gaza Strip | A Palestinian shepard dies in an explosion while tending his sheep near an unoperational border crossing.[29] |
27 | Shooting | 1 | 0 | West Bank | A Palestinian, Uday Maher Qadous, (other sources give the name as Fadi Kadous) is shot and killed by Israeli settlerswhile he tended his field.[30][31] One source reports that some Palestinians threw rocks towards the Israeli during the clash.[32] |
28 | Shooting | 1 | 1 | West Bank | A Palestinian is shot and killed in clashes with Israeli settlers and another Palestinian is injured.[33] |
31 | Shooting | 0 | 1 | Gaza Strip | A Palestinian is injured when Israeli troops open fire on a group of Palestinians collecting scrap metal near the border.[34] |
31 | Rocket attack | 0 | 0 | Israel | A Grad rocket landed near a residential neighborhood in the city of Netivot. The explosion disrupted a wedding in the vicinity of the landing site; four people suffered from shock, and damage was caused to a road and a parked car. Another Grad rocket exploded near the city of Ofakim a few minutes later, but no injuries or damage were reported.[35] |
February
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details |
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2 | Airstrike | 0 | 0 | Gaza Strip | Israeli war planes bomb a target in the Gaza Strip. Israel states the target was a smuggling tunnel. [36] |
4 | Riot control | 0 | Many | West Bank | Palestinians protesting against the Israeli West Bank barrier are fired upon with tear gas, rubber-coated bullets, and live ammunition in multiple towns; Nil’in, Bil’in, Wadi Rahal, al-Ma’sara, and al-Nabi Saleh. [37][38] |
5 | Shooting | 0 | 2 | Gaza Strip | Two Palestinians are shot by Israeli forces while they gathered gravel from destroyed homes in Gaza.[39][40] |
5 | Shooting | 0 | 1 | Gaza Strip | Palestinian workers are shot at by Israeli forces, injuring one, while they collected gravel in the northern Gaza Strip. [41] |
8 | Airstrike | 0 | 8 | Gaza Strip | Israeli warplanes bomb a Health Ministry medicine wearhouse and a field in the Gaza Strip, injuring eight people. The IDF say that they bombed a tunnel and two "terror activity centres" in response to Palestinian rocket attacks and that there were secondary explosions at two of the targets.[42][43][44][45] |
9 | Demolition of homes | 0 | 0 | West Bank | Israel destroys Palestinian tents and barracks, built without a permit from Israel, near Nablus. A range of "8 families" to "180 Palestinians" has been given as previously living there.[46][47] |
11 | Clash | 1 | 2 | West Jerusalem | Hussam al-Rweidi was stabbed to death and two other Palestinians are injured, during a clash with Israelis in west Jerusalem. [48][49] |
11 | Anti-protest attack | 0 | Dozens | West Bank | Israeli forces fire gas agents and rubber-coated bullets against Palestinian protesters in Silwan, injuring dozens.[50][51] |
13 | Shooting | 0 | 2 | Gaza Strip | Two Palestinians are shot and wounded by Israeli forces as they collected rubble in the northern Gaza Strip.[52] |
14 | Shooting | 0 | 1 | Gaza Strip | Suleiman Abu Rkab, a Palestinian, is shot and wounded by Israeli forces while he worked near the northern border with Israel.[53] |
15 | Shooting | 0 | 1 | West Bank | Wael Mahmoud Ayed, a 17 year old Palestinian is shot in the abdomen by Israeli settlers while he farmed his land.[54] |
16 | Unexploded ordnance | 0 | 2 | Gaza Strip | Two Palestinians are injured after a previously unexploded Israeli ordnance explodes.[55] |
17 | Shooting | 0 | 2 | Gaza Strip | Two Palestinians are shot in their legs by Israeli forces while collecting stone aggregates, with Israel stating that the workers violated the buffer zone at the border.[56] |
17 | Shooting | 3 | 0 | Gaza Strip | Three Palestinians are shot and killed by Israeli forces. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine has stated that one of those killed was a member of the organisation, killed "during a mission carried out by our military wing." Other sources describe the three men as fishermen.[57][58][59] |
19 | Rocket attack | 0 | 0 | State of Israel | A projectile is fired from the Gaza Strip into Eshkol Regional Council, no damage or casualties are reported.[60] |
19 | Anti-protest attack | 0 | 2 | West Bank | Israeli forces fire gas agents, live ammunition, and rubber-coated bullets against Palestinian protesters in Beit Ummar, with the mayor being shot in his leg, and a child injured from a concussive grenade.[61] |
21 | Property attack | 0 | 0 | West Bank | Israeli settlers destroy between 220-270 Palestinian olive trees near Nablus.[62] |
22 | Property attack | 0 | 0 | West Bank | The Israeli army destroy 230 Palestinian olive trees near Bethlehem.[63] |
22 | Shooting | 0 | 1 | Gaza Strip | The Israeli army shoots a Palestinian worker while he worked near the border with Israel.[64] |
22 | Explosives disarmed | 0 | 0 | Gaza Strip | Two improvised explosive devices are found near the Gaza Strip border with Israel and are destroyed by Israeli soldiers.[65] |
23 | Improvised explosive device | 0 | 0 | Gaza Strip | An Improvised Explosive Device is detonated at the Gaza border, targetting Israeli soldiers.[66]` |
23 | Mortar/missile attacks | 1 | 11 | State of Israel | Seven projectiles are fired from the Gaza Strip. One is fired at an Israel Defence Forces position, and the other six are fired at civilians. One hits a building in Beersheba. The Israel Defence Force return fire, killing one militant and injuring several other Palestinians, at least six of whom are militants. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad both say that they fired mortars.[67][68][69][70][71] |
23 | Shooting | 0 | 2 | Gaza Strip | Two Palestinians are shot by Israeli troops as they collected material for concrete in the Gaza Strip.[72] |
23 | Airstrike | 0 | 2 | Gaza Strip | The Israeli Air Force targets a squad of militants who launched Grad rockets into a residential area in Be'er Sheva. A "direct hit" was confirmed.[73][74] |
24 | Airstrike | 1 | 6 | Gaza Strip | In a joint Israel Defence Force-Israel Security Agency operation, the Israel Air Force uses an unmanned aerial vehicle to target militants in a pick-up truck along the Gaza-Egypt border. The missile was launched at the vehicle when it was near smuggling tunnels in Rafah, killing one militant, and wounding six, in response to rocket fire on Israeli civilians.[75][76][77] Palestinian sources however state that the vehicle occupants escaped and that four nearby civilians were injured in the Israeli attack.[78] |
25 | Airstrike | Gaza Strip | The Israel Air Force target several sites in the Gaza Strip.[79] | ||
25 | Riot | West Bank | About seventy violent rioters attack I.D.F. soldiers and Israeli Border Police with rocks in Bil'in, West Bank. They also damage the West Bank barrier[80] | ||
26 | Airstrike | 0 | 2 | Gaza Strip | The Israeli Air Force bombs four sites in the Gaza Strip, including a Hamas guard post. One man is injured, aswell as a seven month old girl, whose injury was "slight".[81] |
28 | Thwarted Attack | Gaza Strip | The Israel Defence Force thwarts an attempted attack on I.D.F. soldiers near the Gaza-Israel border. The I.D.F. spots several militants attempting to plant explosives and open fire on them, and "identified a hit".[82] |
March
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details |
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01 | Thwarted Attack | Gaza Strip | A anti-tank missile is launched at an Israel Defence Force Merkava tank during a routine patrol in the southern Gaza Strip. The I.D.F.'s new Trophy (countermeasure) destroys the missile before it hits the tank. The I.D.F. return fire "identifying a hit".[83][84] | ||
06 | Airstrikes | 0 | 0 | Gaza Strip | In response to a rocket barrage against Israeli towns by Islamic militants, the Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes on underground tunnels and militant training camps in the Gaza Strip. Secondary explosions occured in the underground tunnel.[85][86] |
08 | Thwarted Attack | 0 | 0 | West Bank | Israeli Border Police discover five pipe-bombs, three Molotov cocktails, and a knife on a Palestinian militant at a checkpoint in Tabuach.[87][88] |
11 | Riots | 0 | 0 | West Bank | Groups of rioters, including atleast one anarchist group, attack Israeli Defence Forces in Ni'lin and other areas in the West Bank. Two rioters are arrested.[89] |
11 | Rocket Attack | 0 | 0 | Israel | A Qassam rocket is launched from the Gaza Strip into Hof Ashkelon Regional Council in southern Israel. The rocket explodes in an agricultural field. Due to the Red Color, civilians were in bunkers when the rocket detonated, and there were no injuries.[90] |
See also
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- List of armed conflicts and attacks, 2011
- List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2011
- List of Israeli assassinations
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