January 3: Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians in a clash with Palestinian stone throwers in Nablus in the West Bank, one of them a 15 year old boy. Later on the day in the funeral process for the three dead, one more Palestinian was shot and killed. Three others was wounded. [1] (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/7630925.htm)
January 13: A father of 5 children was shot to death and 3 Israelis were injured in a roadside ambush by the Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. [2] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)
January 14: 4 Israelis were killed at Erez crossing after a suicide bomber exploded herself in a checkpoint to the industrial zone of Erez. The Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility. [3] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)
January 28: Israeli forces carried out an invasion of the Alzaytoun area south of Gaza City, killing 8 Palestinians, 5 of whom were armed members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and wounding "dozens" [4] (http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_01/123.html).
January 29: 11 Israelis killed and 50 wounded in a suicide bombing of a city bus in Jerusalem. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility. A day after, also Hamas claimed responsibility. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a video (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfh/go.asp?AEUU016w0) documenting the sights that police forensic expert encountered when they've arrived to the scene. (contains graphic content). [5] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)
January 30: Three armed Palestinians were killed in gun fights with IDF forces. Two of them were killed while carrying explosives near Dugit. The third was killed in gunfight at Bethlehem. [6] (http://quickstart.clari.net/voa/art/el/08C4D869-112D-402E-8F85501F11C30838.html)

February (IDT: 16, PDT: 32(13/19) )

February 2: Yasser Abu al-Aesh, an alleged local leader of Islamic Jihad, was was among four militants killed during an Israeli raid in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. The house where the men had been staying was later completely destroyed. [7] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3450361.stm)
February 11: 12 Palestinian militants and civilians were killed in clashes with Israeli forces in al-Shojaeya neighbourhood in Gaza city. In Rafah refugee camp one Palestinian civilian was killed by Israeli sniper fire. During the day more than 50 Palestinians were wounded, 23 of them children. [8] (http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/fff1462724cb2a7985256e370052b63c?OpenDocument)
February 22: 8 Israelis are killed and 60 wounded in a suicide bombing of a city bus (14A) in Jerusalem, occurring one day before the start of hearings at the International Court of Justice regarding the Israeli West Bank barrier. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility. [9] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)
February 26: Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Amir Zimmerman, 25, of Kfar Monash was killed and two other soldiers wounded when two Palestinian guerrillas opened fire near the Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The guerrillas were killed by IDF forces. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. [10] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)
February 27: An Israeli couple (parents of a 2-year old girl) were shot dead in their car on their way home, in the northern Negev. After firing at the car from a distance, causing the driver to lose control of it, the shooters approached the car and shot the couple at point-blank range. Altogether, over 40 bullets were used. Yasser Arafat's Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.[11] (http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El3363&enZone=Security&enVersion=0&)[12] (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4460077) , [13] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)
February 28: Mahmud Jhouda, head of Islamic Jihad's "military wing" in Gaza was killed together with another Islamic Jihad member and a relative of his, when the car in which the three were driving was targeted by an Israeli helicopter. [14] (http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040228-104611-2890r.htm)

March (IDT: 11, PDT: 44(18/26) )

March 3: Three Hamas militants were killed in the Gaza Strip when the car they were driving was targeted by an Israeli helicopter. Hamas said the three were on "a jihad mission". [15] (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4491105)
March 13: Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers near the Karni border crossing in Gaza. [16] (http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1065393.htm)
March 14: Two Palestinian suicide bombers kill 10 and wound 12 in the Israeli port of Ashdod. Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim joint responsibility. [17] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)
March 18: Four Palestinians, two militants and two children, are killed in two Israeli air strikes on Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. Several more is wounded. [18] (http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1068190.htm)
March 19: An Israeli man is shot dead from a passing vehicle while jogging in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem. Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim the attack, and later apologize when it becomes known that the victim was George Khury, a Christian Arab. [19] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)
March 22: Ahmed Yassin, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip was killed by an Israeli missile.

April (IDT: 3, PDT: 44(18/26) )

April 3: Yaakov Zagha, a 40 year father of six, is shot dead outside his house after Chana, his 14 year old daughter was wounded by a Palestinian from nearby Tul Karem. The shooter was later killed by IDF forces. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. [20] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)
April 7: A demonstration of Palestinians and international activists against the West Bank wall was fired upon by Israeli soldiers. Twenty people were injured, none seriously. [21] (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/413406.html)
April 17: Israeli border policeman Kfir Ohaiyon, 20, of Eilat was killed and three other Israelis injured in a suicide bombing at the Erez Crossing in northern Gaza. [22] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)
April 25: Border Policeman Cpl. Yaniv Mashiah, 20, of Jaffa, was killed and three others lightly wounded just an hour after the beginning of Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers when shots were fired at their vehicle near Hebron. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. [23] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)

May (IDT: 18(5/13), PDT: 44(18/26) )

May 2: Tali Hatuel, a 34-year-old Israeli woman, eight months pregnant, and her four daughters: Hila (11), Hadar (9), Roni (7) and Meirav (2), were shot to death in the Gaza Strip, near the Kissufim checkpoint. Three other Israelis were wounded. The Popular Resistance Committees and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. [24] (http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=6772)

June (IDT: 4, PDT: 44(18/26) )

June 27: Staff-Sergeant Ro�i Nissim, 20, from Rishon L�Tzion, was killed and 5 others were injured when an underground tunnel laden with more than 1000 kg of explosives detonated under IDF outpost of the "Urhan" junction near Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility. [25] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)
June 28: 4-year-old child Afik Zahavi and Mordehai Yosefof, 49, were murdered in Sderot by a Palestinian Qassam rocket that hit a kindergarten, the first fatal Qassam attack. The boy's mother,Ruthie Zahavi, 28, was critcally wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility. [26] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc) *June 29: Moshe Yohai, 63, from Ashdod, an Israeli truck driver was murdered by shootings near Ramallah. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility. [27] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)

July (IDT: 3, PDT: 44(18/26) )

July 4: Victor Kreiderman, 49, was murdered and his wife, Emma, wounded in a shooting attack between Mevo Dotan and Shaked. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility. The militant fled to the nearby Arab village of Yabed. [28] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)
July 6: Captain Moran Vardi, 25, of Shayetet-13 was killed during a battle with two militants which barricaded in a house in Nablus. In that battle four Palestinians were killed, two of them were PFLP militants. [29] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)
July 11: A remote-control bomb murdered Ma'ayan Naim, 19 years old, and wounded 34, in a bus station in Har-Zion Boulevard in Tel Aviv. Yasser Arafat's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim responsibility. Israeli prime-minister Ariel Sharon said that: "Today�s fatality [in the Tel Aviv bombing] was the first act of murder perpetrated under the protective wing of the Hague ruling". [30] (http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=9635),[31] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)

August (IDT: 17, PDT: 47(19/28) )

August 2: A Qassam rocket hits Sderot and damaged a house, casuing explosive blast injuries to 3 people. [32] (http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&xCache=%7Bts%20%272004%2D09%2D06%2016%3A53%3A32%27%7D&articleID=10429)
August 11: Two people were killed and sixteen were wounded when an explosive device was detonated by Palestinian militants inside an Arab taxi as the taxi attempted to cross the Qalandia checkpoint just north of Jerusalem. Two Palestinians were killed, and about 20 people, a majority of them Arabs, were wounded. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades faction of Fatah claimed responsbility and expresses regret that Arabs were among the dead and wounded. [33] (http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&xCache=%7Bts%20%272004%2D09%2D06%2016%3A56%3A32%27%7D&articleID=10641)
August 13: Shlomo Miller, 50 years old and father of seven children, was killed by gunshots and another person wounded in an ambush near Itamar. The murderer was killed by Israeli security forces and was identified an officer in Yasser Arafat's Preventative Security Force. Fatah claimed responsibility. [34] (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc)
August 15: a MAGAV policeman was slashed with a knife across the neck by an Arab from Shuafat, in the Old City of Jerusalem. The officer managed to return fire and kill the attacker. The policeman was seriously wounded and underwent emergeny surgery. [35] (http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&xCache=%7Bts%20%272004%2D09%2D06%2016%3A56%3A32%27%7D&articleID=10681)
August 20: Nail Khalil Abu Ghulah, claimed to suffer a psychological disorder, was shot to death by Israeli soldiers east of Wadi Gaza village while climbing the fence of an Israeli community. [36] (http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/8007251f5d5e174d85256efc00539013?OpenDocument)
August 27: 3 Israelis were rescued by IDF Combat Engineering force from lynching at the hands of Arabs in the Qalandia refugee camp. A Palestinian mob attacked the Israelis, stoned them, beat them and tried to set their truck on fire. The Israelis were wounded and after beening rescued by IDF Combat Engineering force, they were hospitalized in "Haddasah Ein-Kerem" hospital in Jerusalem. [37] (http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2969361,00.html)
August 30: A Israeli civilian was wounded by gunfire directed towards an IDF position near Khan Yunis. He was evacuated to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. [38] (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=471198)
August 31: Two Palestinian suicide bombers kill 16 Israelis and wound more than 94 others aboard two city buses in Beer Sheva. Among the dead is Avial Atash, age 4. Hamas claims responsibility. [39] (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6114623) , [40] (http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2971003,00.html)

September (IDT: 11 (4/7), PDT: )

September 3: Two Arabs transporting a bomb are hit by Israeli gunfire causing the bomb to explode. Both Arabs die. [41] (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1094187588696&p=1078027574121)
September 7: A 60 year old jogger is wounded by shrapnel from a Qassam rocket fired at Sederot. [42] (http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&xCache=%7Bts%20%272004%2D09%2D07%2016%3A30%3A23%27%7D&articleID=10966)
September 7: 14 Hamas miltants are killed and 40 wounded in an Israeli airstrike on their training camp. [43] (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/mideast), [44] (http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&xCache=%7Bts%20%272004%2D09%2D07%2016%3A30%3A23%27%7D&articleID=10966)
September 8: a bomb car ladden with explosives blow up near a MAGAV road block in Baqa al-Sharkiya, managing to kill only its driver. The Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility. [45] (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/475034.html)
September 8: an Arab fugitive was killed and two others wounded in Jericho during a shootout with Israeli soldiers come to arrest them. [46] (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6184807)
September 10: Abdel Aziz Ashkar, 34, a Hamas leader was killed by Israeli forces. [47] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3640212.stm)
September 13: Three senior militants belonging to the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades were killed in an Israeli targeted assassination in Jenin. [48] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=68897) ,[49] (http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2976693,00.html)
September 15: 9 Palestinian militants and 1 child were killed in two IDF operations in Nablus and Jenin. In Nablus, Shayetet-13 killed 4 Fatah and 1 Islamic Jihad militants, one child was killed in the crossfire. In Jenin 4 wanted Fatah militants were killed by undercover Border Police troops. Two female suicide bombers turned themselves in to IDF forces following the death of their handler Hanni Aqad. [50] (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/477853.html) , [51] (http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART/783/861.html)
September 20: Senior Hamas commander in Gaza Khaled Abu Shamiyah was killed by Israeli forces. [52] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69098) , [53] (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/479395.html)
September 20: Two Hamas members, Rabah Zakut and Nabil al-Saidi, while on their way to launch Qassam rockets into Israel, were killed by Israeli forces in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza. [54] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69157)[55] (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/479537.html)
September 22: a female suicide bomber detonated herself up wounding some 15 people and killing two others: Momoya Tahio, 20, from Rehovot, and Menashe Komemi, 19, from Moshav Aminadav. Both were MAGAV officers who stopped her from approaching the nearby bus stop in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility. [56] (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/480604.html)
September 23: A Qassam rocket attack on Sederot resulted in 8 Israelis being treated at Barzalai Hospital in Ashkelon. [57] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69344)
September 23: Three terrorists were killed during an attack on the Israeli community of Morag. [58] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69316)[59] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69340)
September 23: Three Israelis soldiers were killed defending the community of Morag: Captain Tal Bardugo, 22, from Jerusalem; St.-Sergeant Nir Sami, 21, from Jerusalem; St.-Sgt. Yisrael Lutati, 20, from N’vei Dekalim. [60] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69346)
September 24: Tif’eret Tretner, 24, an Israeli woman, is killed and another one is wounded, on Friday morning when four mortar shells were fired at Neveh Dekalim, part of the Gush Katif bloc in the Gaza Strip. [61] (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/481479.html)[62] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69404)
September 27: Two terrorists detected while placing a bomb near the Erez Crossing were shot and wounded by Israeli troops. [63] (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=69513)
September 29: Hamas member Tawfik Ali Charafi, and two or three others were killed. [64] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3699224.stm) [65] (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6362400)
September 29: Three Qassam rockets that hit Sderot murders two-years-old Dorit Aniso and four-years-old Yuval Abebeh, and injures 10-20 people. Terrorist group Hamas claimed responsibility. [66] (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/483283.html)
September 30: Israeli women and 2 soldiers are killed in terrorist attacks in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. [67] (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/483442.html)

October (IDT: , PDT: )

October 1, 2004: one Palestinian is killed and six are arrested, by IDF forces, in Palestinian police office near the Erez crossing. An explosive belt and several rifles were captured in the office. The seven apparently planned to commit a combined suicide attack on the Erez crossing. [68] (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/483837.html)
October 2, 2004: ten Palestinians are killed by IDF forces in another day of fighting in the Gaza Strip. Four armed gunmen were killed in a failed attempt to infilitrate Kibbutz Nahal Oz in the Negev, while six others, Hamas members, were killed by the Israeli Air Force's targeted strikes. [69] (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/israel_palestinians)

External links

Palestinian terrorism since September 2000 (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Palestinian%20violence%20and%20terrorism%20since%20September) (from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Fatalities only.
List of victims (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc) (from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Fatalities only.
B'Tselem casualty statistics (http://www.btselem.org/English/Statistics/Total_Casualties.asp) (infrequently updated, distinguishes between Israelis living on each side of the Green Line except in Jerusalem) Fatalities only.

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Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2004

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