This page is a partial listing of incidents of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2006 .
IDT = Israeli (civilians/soldiers) killed by Palestinians; cumulative
PDT = Palestinians (civilians/militants) killed by Israelis; cumulative.
January summary: 13 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories[ 1]
January 19: 20 injured in bombing at fast-food restaurant in Tel Aviv
February summary: 29 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Palestinian territories;[ 1] 1 Israeli killed by a Palestinian man.
February 5: 1 killed, 5 injured in stabbing attack by Palestinian on Israeli taxi bus en-route to Tel Aviv.[ 2]
March summary: 15 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Palestinian territories;[ 1] 1 Palestinian kills himself in Palestinian territories;[ 3] 5 Israelis killed by Palestinians in the Territories;[ 3] [ 4] 2 Israelis killed in Israel by Palestinian militants (rocket).
March 1: 1 killed in shooting attack at gas station near Migdalim, West Bank .[ 4]
March 28: 2 killed (incl. 1 child) in explosion of Qassam rocket found in western Negev area.
March 30: 4 killed (incl. 1 child) by suicide bomber posing as Jewish hitchhiker, in Kedumim in Occupied Territories.[ 3]
April summary: 31 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories;[ 1] 1 Palestinian kills himself in Israel;[ 5] 6 Israeli civilians killed by Palestinians in Israel;[ 5] [ 6] 10 others killed by a Palestinian in Israel.[ 5]
April 17: 11 killed (including 2 Romanians, 1 French citizen, 1 US citizen and 1 dual Israeli-French citizen), over 60 injured by suicide bomber outside a fast-food restaurant in Tel Aviv after being prevented by a security guard from entering.[ 5]
May summary: 36 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories[ 1]
Gaza Zoo in Rafah reportedly damaged.[ 7] [ 8]
June summary: 41 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Palestinian territories;[ 1] 2 Palestinians detained by Israelis in Palestinian territories and taken to Israel; 1 Israeli captured by Palestinians in Israel and taken to Gaza; 64 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council detained by Israeli forces and held in Israel as of October 24, 2006.[ 9]
June 9: In the Gaza beach explosion , Israeli artillery shelling kills 8 Palestinians.[ 10]
June 10: The militant Hamas group calls off its truce with Israel , after seven civilians are killed in the Gaza Strip . More than seventy Qassam rockets were launched at Israeli towns by Hamas militants since Friday morning, wounding Palestinian and Israeli civilians alike.[ 11] [ 12]
June 24, 03:30–04:30 local time, near Rafah : Ali Muamar is beaten by Israeli soldiers, his sons Osama and Mustafa Muamar are detained and taken to an undisclosed location in Israel, and Ali Muamar is treated in hospital.[ 13]
June 25: Palestinian militants infiltrate Israel through a secret tunnel and start a gunbattle at a military checkpoint – 2 Israeli soldiers and 3 Hamas militants are killed and an Israeli soldier is reported as missing and is later found out to have been captured by the militants. Israeli PM vows a fierce military response to the attack once the soldier, Gilad Shalit , is returned. Two infantry brigades and supporting armoured regiments are deployed along the Gaza Strip border, in preparation for a major offensive.[ 14] [ 15]
June 28: Israel starts a military operation in the Gaza strip, deploying a large number of tanks, APCs and troops in order to rescue the soldier captured in the attack three days before that.
June 29: Israeli troops detain one third of the Palestinian government and altogether 64 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council , who are Hamas members.[ 9]
July summary: 177 Palestinians killed by Israel security forces[ 16] (1–15 July: 97 in the Palestinian Authority territories);[ 1]
12 July: An Israeli air strike destroys the Palestinian Foreign Ministry Building in Gaza City .[ 17] [ 18] An Israeli brigade enters the central Gaza Strip via Kissufim crossing , aiming at temporarily bisecting it. Simultaneously, the Israel Air Force targets a meeting of Hamas operational wing commanders in an apartment building in Gaza City . One Hamas leader, seven members of his family and one neighbor are killed.[citation needed ] Top Hamas leaders Mohammed Deif and Abu Anas al-Ghandour, who Israeli officials claim were heavily involved in the kidnapping of Cpl. Gilad Shalit , are moderately wounded. Fourteen additional Palestinian militants are killed in other incidents in the Gaza Strip .[ 19] [ 20] [ 21]
14 July: Hamas militants launch 5 qassam rockets at the Israeli town of Sderot , causing local electrical malfunctions.[ 22] Israeli ground forces pull out of the central Gaza Strip , after several days of fighting in which about 30 Hamas militants were killed. Israeli forces remain in Gaza airport near Rafah , to thwart the delivery of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit into Egypt .[ 23] About 1,500 Palestinians cross the Gaza -Egypt border after Palestinian militants attack Egyptian policemen stationed at Rafah border terminal , blowing a hole in the wall near it.[ 24] [ 25] [ 26] [ 27]
15 July: Two Hamas militants killed in two Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip , one of them on a house in Gaza City .[ 28] [ 29]
16 July: Three Palestinian militants are killed in an Israeli airstrike, soon after Israeli forces re-entered the Gaza Strip.[ 30]
17 July: Hamas militants launch ten Qassam rockets against Sderot and Ashkelon , causing damage in residential areas but no casualties. Israel Air Force strikes kill five militants and one civilian in the Gaza Strip .[ 31] [ 32] Israel Air Force strikes the Palestinian Foreign Ministry for a second time in a week, wounding 5 people.[ 33]
19 July: At least nine Palestinians have been killed in fresh Israeli operations in Gaza and the West Bank .[ 34]
28 July: The mutilated body of Dr. Danny Yaakovi, an Israeli physician , is found in the West Bank .[ 35]
30 July: The United Nations compound in Gaza City is stormed and ransacked by Palestinians protesting the 2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis . Members of the Islamic Jihad militant group threw stones and fired assault rifles. Eight vehicles were damaged and five people were wounded.[ 36]
^ a b c d e f g "Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories" . B'Tselem . Archived from the original on 2008-05-04. Retrieved 2006-08-05 .
^ "Palestinian kills mother of three in Petah Tikva" . The Jerusalem Post . 2006-02-06. Archived from the original on 2006-05-19. Retrieved 2006-05-26 .
^ a b c "Kedumim deaths may have prevented greater tragedy" . The Jerusalem Post . 2006-03-30. Archived from the original on 2006-05-19. Retrieved 2006-05-26 .
^ a b "Father of two killed in Samaria shooting" . The Jerusalem Post . 2006-03-02. Archived from the original on 2006-03-24. Retrieved 2006-05-26 .
^ a b c d "A final kiss good-bye" . The Jerusalem Post . 2006-04-20. Archived from the original on 2006-05-19. Retrieved 2006-05-26 .
^ "Israeli civilians killed by Palestinians in Israel" . B'Tselem . Archived from the original on 2006-08-29. Retrieved 2006-08-06 .
^ "Rafah zoo levelled in Israel raid" . ~~~~. May 25, 2004. Archived from the original on December 22, 2006. Retrieved 2009-01-26 .
^ McGreal, Chris (May 22, 2004). "The day the tanks arrived at Rafah zoo" . London: ~~~~. Archived from the original on August 28, 2013. Retrieved 2009-01-26 .
^ a b "Israel seizes Hamas legislators" . BBC . 29 June 2006. Archived from the original on 1 March 2007. Retrieved 2006-08-05 .
^ "Hamas militants vow to end truce" . BBC News . 2006-06-10. Archived from the original on 2006-11-16. Retrieved 2006-06-09 .
^ "(Globe and Mail)" . The Globe and Mail . Archived from the original on 2006-06-14. Retrieved 2017-09-03 .
^ "(Haaretz)" . Archived from the original on 2006-06-16. Retrieved 2014-12-17 .
^ "Israel captures pair in Gaza raid" . BBC News . 24 June 2006. Retrieved 12 July 2020 .
^ (Haaretz) Archived 2006-07-15 at the Wayback Machine , (Reuters UK) [dead link ]
^ "BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Israel rules out prisoner release" . news.bbc.co.uk . 27 June 2006. Archived from the original on 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2017-08-21 .
^ Palestine News Network (5 August 2006). "Palestinian Ministry of Health: Israeli forces kill 177 & injure 1,010 Palestinians in July" . International Middle East Media Center . Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 2006-08-06 .
^ "BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Israel hits Palestinian ministry" . news.bbc.co.uk . 13 July 2006. Archived from the original on 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2017-08-21 .
^ (AP) [dead link ]
^ "(Haaretz)" . Archived from the original on 2006-07-21. Retrieved 2014-12-17 .
^ "IDF strike: Top Hamas member injured, 6 killed" . Ynetnews . Archived from the original on 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2017-08-21 .
^ Reuters . 2006-07-12 http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-07-12T122502Z_01_L12236669_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-GAZA.xml . Retrieved 2017-08-21 . [dead link ]
^ "Sderot: 5 rockets fired from Gaza Strip" . Ynetnews . Archived from the original on 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2017-08-21 .
^ (Haaretz) Archived 2006-07-19 at the Wayback Machine , (BBC) Archived 2017-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
^ "1,500 Palestinians storm Gaza from Egypt" . Ynetnews . Archived from the original on 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2017-08-21 .
^ "Palestinians stream across Egypt's breached border" . DeseretNews.com . 2006-01-05. Archived from the original on 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2017-08-21 .
^ "BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Palestinians breach Gaza border" . news.bbc.co.uk . 14 July 2006. Retrieved 2017-08-21 .
^ (Getty)
^ (Reuters) [dead link ]
^ "BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Israeli strike hits house in Gaza" . news.bbc.co.uk . 15 July 2006. Archived from the original on 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2017-08-21 .
^ "Gaza Strip: Three Palestinians killed by Israeli fire" . Al Bawaba . 2006-07-16. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2006-07-16 .
^ "Southern front: 22 Qassams land in western Negev" . Ynetnews . Archived from the original on 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2017-08-21 .
^ "(Haaretz)" . Archived from the original on 2006-07-19. Retrieved 2014-12-17 .
^ (Al-Jazeera) Archived 2006-08-28 at the Wayback Machine , (Haaretz) Archived 2006-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
^ "BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Palestinians die in Israeli raids" . news.bbc.co.uk . 19 July 2006. Retrieved 2017-08-21 .
^ "Settler murdered, his body burnt" . Ynetnews . Archived from the original on 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2017-08-21 .
^ "(Washington Post) " . The Washington Post . Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2017-09-03 .
^ "News1 | הותר לפרסם: נעצר רוצח התייר בעיר העתיקה" . www.nfc.co.il . Archived from the original on 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2017-08-21 .
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