List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, January–June 2017

For an outline of what is excluded from, or included in, this list, see List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, January–June 2015.

January

1 January

• A Palestinian youth in Hizma, was shot in the head with a rubber coated steel bullet during clashes with Israeli forces in the village.

2 January

• Israeli bulldozers demolished 11 residential structures in the Bedouin West Bank community of Khan al-Ahmar, leaving 87 Palestinians, mostly women and children, homeless. The UN condemned the demolition, stating that in the whole village, the homes of 140 people are under threat, after a long legal battle between the Israeli government and villagers to enforce a previous demolition order for the village, which previously reached Israel’s High Court.

3 January

• Israeli forces demolished some 15 structures, barns, homes and the hamlet's school, in Khirbet Tana, near Beit Furik in the Jordan Valley.
• According to initial Israeli reports 2 Palestinian motorcyclists were severely injured, and another lightly injured, at an Israeli flying checkpoint between Jenin and the al-Jalama checkpoint in a vehicular ramming attempt in which 2 Israeli border police also sustained injuries. Two 2 Palestinian motorbikes were invoived. The initial report was later revised defining the incident as an accident. It was later reported by Palestinian media that a teen, Sharif Khanfar, was apparently riding on a Vespa motorcycle with three friends when they were arrested for allegedly attempting to hit the Israeli soldiers, and that they were injured when struck by an Israeli jeep. Khanfar later required surgery which led to the amputation of his leg below the knee. Many circumstances regarding the event, according to the boy's lawyer, remain unclear.

4 January

• 2 Palestinian homes, extending over 500 metres, built 15 years earlier without an Israeli license and owned by Adnan Shweiki in Shuafat, East Jerusalem were demolished by Israeli bulldozers. 18 people, of whom 10 were children, were dispossessed of their dwelling.
• Israeli forces on Wednesday demolished two Palestinian-owned homes in the neighborhood of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem. The owner of one razed house, Amer Ubeido, stated his family had lived in the house for 16 years and that all efforts to obtain an Israeli permit had failed.

5 January

• According to Palestinian sources Israeli naval forces sunk the boat of a Gaza fisherman, Muhammad al-Hissi (33), who subsequently went missing off the coast of Beit Lahiya. Israeli sources stated that they were escorting boats that deviated from the prescribed fishing zone when an Israeli vessel collided with one, causing it to sink. He was declared dead, aftrer search efforts failed to retrieve his body, on January 7.
• The Palestinian Ministry of Health stated that a car in which its deputy Minister Asaad al-Ramlawi was riding came under Israeli fire as it drove past al-Ram. Israeli sources stated no Israeli forces were present, and suggested the damage was due to local stone throwers.

6 January

• A Palestinian was seriously injured while walking along a road near the settlement of Ariel when he was struck by an Israeli car. The identity of the driver is unknown.

8 January

• Fadi Ahmad Hamdan al-Qunbar (28) of the East Jerusalem suburb of Jabel Mukaber drove his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers at Armon Hanatziv killing 4 and injuring 13 others, 3 seriously. The fatalities were Yael Yekutiel (20) of Givatayim, Shir Hajaj (22) from the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, Shira Tzur (22 ) from Haifa and Erez Orbach (20) from the settlement of Alon Shvut. He was shot dead as he reversed. Israeli reports stated that his mother and 12 other kin would be stripped of their residency rights, and that plans were being made to build a settlement structure on his home, which was to be demolished. According to OCHA, in the wake of the attack, Israel demolished 4 structures in Jabal Mukaber area of East Jerusalem, and gave warning notices to the extended kin of the culprit regarding dozens of their homes which lack Israeli permits.

10-23 January Overview

During this period, 3 Palestinians were shot dead and 26 Palestinians were wounded, among whom 12 children, during clashes throughout the West Bank. 10 were wounded whenj protests erupted at the razing of a home in Al-Ram. 44 Palestinian structures were demolished for lacking Israeli building permits in Area C and East Jerusalem, leaving 17 Palestinians without homes. Near Jericho (Al Jiftlik-Abu al 'Ajaj) and Nablus (Tell al Khashabeh), 19 structures, 15 built with humanitarian funds, were razed. The destruction of a road at Al Buweib near Hebron affected the livelihoods of an estimated 3,000 Palestinians. Following a ramming attack on 8 January, 11 structures were demolished in the area he came from in Jabel Mukaber, East Jerusalem.45 people were affected by the demolition. A further 80 buildings containing 240 families were issued with demolition notices on the same grounds in this suburb. 199 search and arrest operations by Israeli forces led to the arrest of 288 Palestinians. Settlers vandalized 56 Palestinian trees in raids on 2 Palestinian groves in Beit Lid and Turmus Ayya. They also beat up a Palestinian working his land at Burqa, Nablus. Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians in Gaza and off the Gaza coast on at least 38 occasions for allegedly violating the Israeli-imposed Access Restricted Areas (ARA) leading the the wounding of 5 people, 3 of whom were fishermen and one a 10 year-old girl. On six occasions, 11 Palestinians trying to nenter Israel or sail beyond the restricted zone. Several Israeli vehicles were damaged as a result of 17 incidents of Palestinian stone-and Molotov cocktail throwing. Stones thrown at the Jerusalem Light Rail train running through the Palestinian area of Shuafat also caused some damage.

10 January

• Israeli forces shot dead 2 Palestinians The first, Muhammad al-Salihi (32), a corn-cob peddler, was shot dead during an Israeli predawn raid on the Far'a al-Faraa Refugee Camp in the Tubas Governorate area of the West Bank. According to his mother, the incident occurred when he protested loudly at the incursion into their home. He was shot from 6 to 11 times. According to Israeli reports he was shot outside his home, in the yard, when he advanced towards troops with a knife in his hand. In a follow up report, Gideon Levy stated that blood was visible on the floor inside the house and that according to Salihi’s mother, a widow they were woken by sounds the son took to be those of burglars. An altercation ensued, the son yelled ‘God is great’, at which he was shot several times. The knife shown in the Israeli photo, she added, is of one the house was not furnished with. Their house was reportedly raided in order to secure access to, and arrest, a neighbour in a nearby house
• The second incident occurred when IDF troops shot dead a 17 year old boy during clashes in Tuqu' village (Bethlehem). Stones and molotov cocktails were thrown during the clashes.
• Israeli forces destroyed part of an 11-km water pipeline servicing 4 Bedouin communities in the northern Jordan Valley sector of the West Bank. The villages affected were al-Ras al-Ahmar, al-Hadidiya, Khirbet Makhul, and Khirbet Humsa. The infrastructure had been built four years earlier with funding supplied by the NGO Action Against Hunger

12 January

• 8 Palestinian structures, including businesses, spread over 1.2 acres in Jabal Mukabir were bulldozed by Israeli forces for lack of Israeli permits
• Palestinians in Isawiya hurled rocks at a force of the Israeli Police and Border Guard, aiding civilian vehicles after a car crash. No one was injured.
• Palestinians hurled a cocktail molotov on the fence of the Israeli settlement of Beit El. Israeli soldiers chased their vehicle and lost them. Four suspects were arrested on 30 January.

13 January

• 2 Palestinians, Abd al-Khaliq Barnat and Ashraf Abu Rahma suffered injuries during clashes with Israeli forces at the weekly Bilin protest march near Ramallah in the West Bank was treated on the scene by Palestinian medical crews after sustaining an unidentified injury.

14 January

• According to Psalestinian sources a Gazan youth was injured by Israeli troops while collecting firewood near the separatyion barrier outside Beit Lahiya.

15 January

• The ground floor home of Muhammad Muheisin, which is beneath 5 floors of apartments taken over by Israeli settlers in Silwan in 2014, was subject to a raid by settlers and reportedly damaged.
• Israeli border police arrested 4 masked settlers from the outpost of Geolat Zion, after observing them waving clubs and hurling stones at Palestinians farming in the vicinity of near Turmus Ayya. An indictment was laid against the four for "racially-motivated assault with intention to harm" on January 23

16 January

• As part of an plan to connect Israeli settlements with a new road, Israeli forces started uprooting hundredsa of olive trees on what are described as private Palestinians lands at the villages of Izbat al-Tabib, Nabi Ilyas, and Azzun in the West Bank district of Qalqiliya.
• Israeli forces shot dead, with four live ammunition hits to the chest, Qusay Hassan al-Umour (17) during clashes at Tuqu' near Bethlehem. Israeli reports stated he was the main instigator, among 200 rioters, of stone throwing.Video taken shows Israeli troops dragging the wounded youth 100 metres without a stretcher, and his unconscious body hitting the ground several times. Israeli sources say they were forced to retrieve the wounded youth this way because rocks were being thrown. In a follow up analysis, Israeli human rights NGO B'tselem stated that the incident took place after the clashes, finally involving some 10 remaining youths of an original 80-100, had subsided, and that according to an eyewitness who was filming at the time, a sniper then fired 4 shots at youths in an olive grove hitting the one who was sitting down.A video clip documenting the incident shows one of the soldiers shooting at the legs of wounded man's sister Hiyam al-‘Amur, as she tried to reach him and shooting in the leg another youth trying to assist her. They conclude that the IDF report had no basis in reality.
• Israeli civil administration authorities confiscated two tractors owned by Nimr Moussa Hroub and Mithqal Fayez Naghnaghiyeh of Ibzig. The tractors were deemed a threat to human life and as having been obtained without Israeli permits.
• Israeli forces confiscated a truck of Hussein Ibrahim Masaed outside Ibziq near the village of Aqabah

17 January

• Nidal Daoud Mahdawi (44) a father of 5 with Israeli residency was shot dead by Israeli troops at a crossing near Tulkarem for allegedly approaching them with a knife in his hand.
• Layan Ayed al-Razem (4) was reportedly hit by a settler vehicle as she crossed a street in southern Hebron,
• Israel forces demolishedthe homer of Ahmad Muhammad Hamdan Bani Fadal together with an agricultural structure at Khirbet al-Taw in the Jordan Valley near Nablus.
• Khalid Abu Riyala a Gaza fisherman was shot several times by rubber coated steel bullets. The incident occurred off the coast of al-Wahah in the northern Gaza Strip. Several boats were confiscated. Israeli sources say the boats deviated from the the designated fishing zone set by Israel off Gaza's coast.
• Firas Mahmoud, to avoid paying an Israeli fine covering the costs of a future Israeli demolition ($78,518), was forced to bulldoze his own home. The house had been built recently for his family of 5, without an Israeli permit, in the Habayil al-Arab area of Isawiya.

18 January

• Settlers in an apparent price tag operation damaged 12 olive trees in Turmus Ayya near Ramallah. Graffiti on rocks nearby spoke of ‘revenge’.

20 January

• A six year old girl in Gaza was reported in Palestinian sources to have been wounded in the stomach by an Israeli bullet near Beit Lahiya in the Gaza Strip. Israeli sources state they are investigating.
• Abed Hisham al-Sultan, a Gaza fisherman was injured after being struck by a rubber-coated steel bullet when Israeli forces opened fire on fishing boats off the coast. Israeli sources state they are investigating.
• Awad Mansour (12) was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the hand by Israeli forces during clashes at Kafr Qaddum. Israeli sources say they are looking into the matter.
• Four Israeli settlers, including three off-duty soldiers, entered, for an unknown reason, the Palestinian village of Qusra and were rescued and evacuated by the village's mayor after a group of local residents circled them and hurled rocks at them. They were handed to the Israeli Army. Residents of the village said they suspected the settlers had entered specifically to instigate clashes, according to the Rabbis for Human Rights organization.
• Palestinians from Shuafat in East Jerusalem hurled rocks at the Jerusalem Light Rail and damaged a train door. No one was injured.

23 January

• An Israeli soldier was lightly injured from a pipe bomb planted in a burned tire at the Palestinian village of Al-Mughayyir. According to the army the soldiers were sent to the village following reports of burning tires. As the soldiers were investigating the scene, one of the soldiers inspected a burning tire, when then exploaded and lightly injured him.

24 January

• Dozens of Palestinians were expelled from their homes in Khirbet al-Kurzaliya east of Aqraba in the northern Jordan Valley. The reason given was to allow military exercises.
• Israeli planes sprayed weedkiller along the Palestinian side of the Separation barrier between Israel and the Gaza Strip. The reason given was to improve Israeli visibility into the area. According to Palestinian sources, the effect was to damage crops or areas set aside for spinach, broad beans, barley and wheat planted far from the buffer zone.The complaint was being examined according to Israeli sources.

25 January

• Palestinins threw cocktail molotovs at the fence of the Israeli settlement of Migdal Oz, causing a fire. No one was injured.
• Hussein Salem Abu Ghush (24) from the Qalandiya refugee camp reportedly tried to ram his vehicle into a group of Israelis standing at a hitchhiker's bus stop on Wednesday evening near a gas station in Kokhav Ya'akov in the West Bank. He was shot and killed by people present at the scene. A search of the vehicle discovered a knife in the driver's possession.
• Omar Nathir Ibrahim al-Barghouthi (26) reportedly opened fire on an Israeli military vehicle near the village of Aboud in the West Banka, and was shot by soldiers in response.

26 January

• An Israeli soldier was lightly wounded in the foot in clashes that ensued when Israeli forces raided the Jenin Refugee Camp to arrest 2 men suspecting of being members of Hamas, and Palestinians hurled Molotov oocktails and pipe bombs. It is not known which side caused the soldier’s wound.
• A car, the ethnicity of whose driver was not reported, injured lightly an Israeli soldier when the vehicle drove through the Beitunia checkpoint without stopping.
• Israeli bulldozers uprooted 500 14 year-old olive trees,planted over six acres of land under Palestinian cultivation outside the village of Kharas. They represented the only source of income for Mohammad and Faisal Moussa al-Hroub’s families.

27 January

• A Palestinian man opened fire at a vehicle near the Israeli settlement of Nili. The vehicle was damaged and no one was injured.
• 3 Palestinians were shot by rubber-coated steel bullets fired by Israeli forces during a night-time raid on the Jenin Refugee Camp. Those injured were Muhammad Lamiya Dbaya , shot in the leg and Ishaq Rafiq Abu Shahla and Malek Muhammad Amer, both wounded in the chest.

29 January

• Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Khalifa (19) of Jenin was shot dead at the Jenin Refugee Camp with a live bullet in the lower back. 5 other Palestinians were wounded. Israeli sources say pipe bombs were thrown at them during the raid, soldiers were "faced with immediate danger" and the instigators were targeted and hit. There were no Israelis injured. Five members of Khalifa‘s family had been arrested in a raid some days earlier, on suspicion they were Hamas members.

30 January

• Yahya Omar Ali Sarhan (19) was reportedly shot in the knee by Israeli troops posted in an olive grove near Tulkarem. According to Sarhan, the incident occurred while he was walking towards the Jabara checkpoint where he habitually sells lighters, israeli sources say they are looking into the matter.
• Nahed Qabaha was injured and his minibus damaged when Israeli settlers threw stones at the vehicle near the village of As-Sawiya between Ramallah and Nablus. Qabaha was injured and required hospitalization. In all, it is said 10 vehicles were damaged.

February

2 February

• A Palestinian woman from Isawiya rammed her vehicle at a police cruiser near the gate of the Israeli settlement of Adam, lightly injuring two police officers and one security guard. She was shot by the forces in the scene and was sent to a hospital under arrest. The police said that in initial questioning the motive appears to be "personal".

4 February

• A Palestinian teenagers was shot and injured in his legs by Israeli forces after hurling rocks at a military post near Beit Furik. He was evacuated by the Palestinian Red Crescent.

6 February

• A Gaza rocket landed in a field in southern Israeli, and Israel responded with a combined artillery and air forces attack targeting sites in the Gaza Strip. One casualty, a Gaza fisherman hit lightly by shapnel, was reported.
• Later, in the evening Israel launched 8 missiles at several sites within the Gaza Strip.2 Palestinians in Khan Yunis were injured.

7 February

• A Palestinian building under construction was razed in Beit Hanina.
• A sheep barn and orther structures owned by Bassam Ali Radwan Fuqaha was bulldozed at Kardala, in the north east of the West Bank and on the grounds that it was built in an area declared by Israeli to be a military zone.
• Another structure was razed nearby Kardala, at Khirbet Ras al-Ahmar, on the grounds that it was too close to an Israeli military zone.

8 February

• A Palestinian building in the Tal al-Foul area of Beit Hanina was razed by Israeli bulldozers.
• Taysir Ahmad al-Shaer‘s five-floor house in Tuqu' near Bethlehem was seized and turned intro a military outpost . Israeli sources said the military were investigating the report
• The house of Izzat Yassin Abu Munshar Shuhada street in Hebron was sealed by Israeli forces, denying him access. Attempts to repair it had been impeded 2 years ago by Israeli settlers, and Palestinian sources said they feared the move was a prelude to the building being taken over by settlers.
• Suleiman Hamad Salah (85) of the village of al-Khader was run over reportedly by an Israeli settler on Route 60, the Israeli bypass road in the West Bank, and died soon after. A spokesman for the army said reports on the incident were being examined.

9 February

• Palestinian sources report that Hussam Hamid al-Sufi (24) of Rafah, and Muhammad Anwar al-Aqraa (38) of Gaza City died after an Israeli air strike bombed a smuggling tunnel between Rafah and Egypt. 5 others were injured. This was denied by an Israeli spokesman. Israeli sources said the alleged tunnel attack occurred after 4 rockets were fired from Egypt’s Sinai area towards Eilat in Israel.
• Sadiq Nasser (19) of Beita near Nablus shot and wounded 6 Israelis at the Petah Tikva market inside Israel.An Israeli Palestinian , Maed Amar from Kafr Qasim,was beaten up by passersby for yelling a warning to take cover in Arabic when the gunfire broke out, being suspected of complicity in the attack.

10 February

• A room and a courtyard to the Silwan house owned by Arif al-Qarain were raided and occupied by Israeli settlers.

15 February

• Israeli forces left 8 Palestinians homeless after demolishing 2 houses and a room belonging to Ma’an that Israeli forces demolished a house and a room belonging to the Abd al-Aziz family.

16 February

• Rafat Muhammad Shihdeh Abu Arrar Masalmeh (36) from Deir Samet was hit, reportedly by a vehicle driven by a settler, sustaining several injuries outside Beit Ummar. The settler, later arrested, said it was an accident.

21 February

• According to his family, Gazan fisherman Muhammad Imran Sabri Bakr, had received a critical bullet wound in the back after being arrested with four other fisherman off the coast of al-Sudaniyya, in the Gaza Strip.

22 February

• The house of Luay Abu Rmouz in Beit Hanina was bulldozed. Built 7 years earlier, the owner stated that, he had paid $21,000 in fines meanwhile in attempts to secure a permit. He, his wife and 5 children were left homeless.

23 February

• An Israeli soldier was injured when an explosive device was set off during a night raid on the Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus. Two Palestinians were also injured as protests involving stone throwing and molotov cocktails erupted when 1,200 Jewish worshipper were escorted to Joseph's Tomb.

24 February

• A 16 year old Palestinian youth from Gaza was shot by Israeli border guards with live fire in the leg, sustaining moderate injuries east of Maghazi refugee camp.
• Muhammad Salim Kaain (13) of Hebron was injured when leftover Israeli military ordnance exploded.

27 February

• A Palestinian woman was shot and lightly wounded by Israeli forces at the Qalandiya checkpoint after they determined that she was approaching them carrying a bag in a suspicious manner, and not stopping as requested.
• A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip exploded in an empty area in the Sha’ar HaNegev zone of southern Israel.
• Israel launched multiple strikes across the Gaza Strip in retaliation. At least 2 missiles struck Hamas’s Shuhada post, near Nusseirat refugee camp. Further missile strikes were made respectively at a monitoring post near Rafah city, and at the Hitteen post in Beit Lahiya. A fourth strike in Rafah’s Nahda neighbourhood left 4 wounded, three moderately

28 February

• An elderly Palestinian Hussein Hassan Qawariq (72) was shot in the foot and pelvis when he failed to respond to calls to stop while approaching the Huwwara checkpoint.

March

1 March

• A Palestinian Saadi Mahmoud Ali Qaisiya (25), from the village of ad-Dhahiriya west of Masafer Yatta.was shot dead by an Israeli settler inside his home at Teneh Omarim, according to early reports. According to the IDF the Palestinian slightly wounded the 33 year old Israeli who responded by shooting the alleged assailant. It was later claimed that the man had penetrated an Israeli outpost called Mor Farm. The family head heard noises outside, and, on emerging from his home, saw the man holding two knives. He ran inside to get a gun, chased by the Palestinian who managed to stab him in front of his family before he was shot dead by the victim. The 33 year old Israeli suffered slight wounds.

3 March

• 2 Palestinians of Gaza were shot by Israeli forces near the border east of Beit Lahiya. One was wounded in the foot the other in the stomach.
• Ahmad Shawer, a Palesatinian TV reporter was shot by a rubber-coated steel bullet in the head at Kafr Qaddum in Qalqiliya, while another was shot in the foot by Israeli forces during clashes that took place during the weekly march against the occupation.

4 March

• An Israeli policeman suffered slight injuries when Palestinians in Silwan, throwing fireworks and stones, clashed with Israeli police..

6 March

• Basel al-Araj resident of the village of al-Walaja was shot dead after a 2 hour gunfight with Israeli forces at the refugee camp of Qaddura. Al-Araj had been arrested, imprisoned and then released by Palestinian security forces, and was wanted on charges he was planning terrorist attacks. Palestinian sources say he was executed after he ran out of ammunition. 2 other Palestinians involved in clashes with the raiding forces at the time also suffered wounds.
• 20 Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement outpost of Havat Gilad attacked Palestinian farmers working in their lands in the nearby village of Far'ata in the Qalqiliya district. settlers destroyed an agricultural tractor owned by Abdullah Shanaa, causing clashes to erupt, during which 55-year-old Mariam al-Salman suffered from bruises on her upper body after settlers threw rocks at her.

7 March

• A Palestinian (22) perhaps at a nearby observation post was injured by Israeli artillery while the IDF was dismantling an explosive device near the border.

9 March

• Settlers, reportedly from Maon, uprooted of olive saplings and doused Palestinian crops, worked by Fadel Jibril Moussa Rabiaa and his brothers in the village of al-Tawana, with pesticide.
• A rocket from the area of Khan Yunis in Gaza was fired in the direction of the Kissufim Israeli military site in southern Israel from eastern Khan Yunis, but fell short and exploded inside the Gaza Strip.

10 March

• Israel shelled several sites at al-Qarara, eastern Khan Yunis and Deir al-Balah inside the Gaza Strip.
• An 18 year old Palestinian , was shot in the head by Israeli forces at Silwad.
• Israeli forces shot a Gazan youth, one of several approaching the border, in the foot near the Nahel Oz military post

13 March

• Ibrahim Mahmoud Matar (25) of Jabel Mukaber was shot dead by Israeli officers near the Lion's Gate, East Jerusalem, at dawn prayers. According to Israeli reports, Matar had been detained after parking his car when he tried to pass through the Lion's Gate, and attacked two soldiers with what was described as a large butcher's knife inside the police post, lightly injuring one and moderately wounding another. A third officer then shot him with 4 bullets. According to Palestinian reports, Matar wielded a stick and was executed when he could ahave been arrested.

See also

• House demolition in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• Israeli settler violence
• List of Israeli price tag attacks
• Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel
• Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict