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List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, January–June 2016

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List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, January–June 2016

1 January

  • Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit open ground in the Sha'ar Negev area.
  • A Palestinian TV reporter, Anal al-Jadaa, was shot in the leg by a rubber bullet while covering clashes between villagers and Israeli troops at Kafr Qaddum.
  • An Israeli Arab, Nashat Milhem (29) of Ar'ara shot dead two Israeli Jews, Alon Bakal (26) and Shimon Ruimi (30), and wounded six others, two seriously, in a pub on Dizengoff Street, Tel Aviv. Milhem hailed a cab and killed its driver, Ayman Shaaban (42), a Bedouin from Lod, after being driven to the north of Tel Aviv. Milhem reportedly had a police record, and suffered from superpower delusions and personality disorders. On 10 January, two days after Milhem was killed in a shoot-out at a mosque in his home town, after relatives tipped off the Shin Bet about his presence in the area, police defined his actions as a terror attack.
  • Mahmoud Kabaha, a Palestinian taxi driver from Barta'a on the Green Line was attacked and beaten by two armed settlers near Mevo Dotan and required hospital treatment. A partial video of the incident was released on January 4.
  • 2 January

  • In response to the previous day's rocket's fire, Israel launched four strikes against Hamas facilities: the al-Yarmouk training site in western Gaza City, the Falastin training site east of Beit Hanoun, the former Gaza International Airport near Rafah, and another area in the central Gaza Strip.
  • 3 January

  • A Palestinian reportedly tried to stab an Israeli at a bus station on Barzani street in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of East Jerusalem. A youth who fled the area was later detained.
  • Two Palestinian 12-year-olds, Shadi Farrah and Ahmad Zatari, were arraigned before the Jerusalem court and charged with attempted murder. They had been arrested on 30 December in possession of knives, and interrogated without the presence of either their parents or a lawyer.
  • The home of Noura Sub Laban in the Oqbit al-Khalidiya area of the Old City of Jerusalem was damaged by Israeli settlers who had taken over the adjoining property some weeks earlier. Six breaches in the wall were made. The home has been in the sights of the Ateret Cohanim organization since 2010.
  • A 19-year-old Israeli soldier was shot and sustained moderate wounds, while stationed outside the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron by a Palestinian gunman. Two suspects, who would also be linked to a shooting attack on 6 November 2015, were arrested some months later.
  • An Israeli soldier suffered a light to moderate leg wound when a Palestinian gunman fired on an Israeli checkpoint south of Hebron.
  • Two Palestinians were shot by Israeli forces in a search-and arrest raid on the Duheisha Refugee Camp near Bethlehem.
  • The home of Nihad Hanani in Beit Furik was attacked by settlers, believed to be from Itamar, before they were driven off. A Molotov cocktail was found at the scene.
  • 4 January

  • Two Israelis were initially reported to have been wounded in a stabbing attack on an Israeli police officer near Jerusalem's light rail service. The Palestinian was shot and sustained moderate wounds. According to a spokesperson for the Hadassah hospital, no Israeli was stabbed, though a 15-year-old girl had a very light leg injury and a 29-year-old student hurt himself on falling on the ground.
  • Eleven Palestinians were allegedly shot with live and rubber bullets by Israeli forces in clashes with mourners after the funeral of Ahmad Jamal Taha, shot dead after stabbing an Israeli to death on 27 November 2015. Seven were hit by live fire, and four with rubber bullets.
  • 5 January

  • Ahmad Younis Kawazba (18) of the village of Sa'ir north of Hebron was shot after stabbing an Israeli soldier at a Gush Etzion checkpoint in the West Bank. The soldier was lightly wounded. Kawazba is the 6th person from Sa'ir to have died since the October 2015 surge in the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
  • Unknown arsonists set fire to Jewish holy texts in a tent that served as a synagogue at an outpost next to the Karmei Tzur settlement in the West Bank. No one was at the site or injured but the books were badly damaged. Police said that the footprints of the suspects were found leading to a Palestinian village near the town of Halhul, the Ynet news site reported. According to Karmei Tzur residents, the suspected arsonists piled up the holy books and set them alight.
  • 6 January

  • Israel Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon decided that Beit al-Baraka, a (9.3 acre) former Protestant missionary compound north of al-Arrub refugee camp, purchased by Irving Moskowitz through a shell Swedish company in 2012 was to be annexed to the Gush Etzion bloc of settlements in the West Bank.
  • Five Bedouin families had their dwellings bulldozed in the E1 Corridor of the West Bank, leaving 25 members of familiers in the Abu Nuwwar community homeless.
  • 7 January

  • Israeli forces confiscated a bulldozer rehabilitating land for agricultural purposes at al-Khirbeh near Aqraba and Majdal Bani Fadil. Israeli spokesmen were unaware of the incident.
  • A two-story building, and a 125 square metre apartment under construction, belonging to the family of Nadia Abu Diab in Silwan, East Jerusalem, were demolished by Israeli authorities for lacking a permit.
  • Part of Imad Burqan's restaurant in Beit Safafa was bulldozed by Israeli authorities for lack of a permit.
  • Three cousins, Ahmad Salim Abd al-Majid Kawazba (19), Alaa Abed Muhammad Kawazba (19), and Muhannad Ziyad Kawazba (18), from Sa'ir northeast of Hebron were shot dead when they tried to stab Israeli soldiers at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank and were shot dead. No Israelis were injured.
  • Khalil Muhammad al-Shalaldah (16) also of Sa'ir was shot dead after he approached Israeli forces at the Beit Einun junction northeast of Hebron armed with a knife. His brother Mahmoud al-Shalaldah had been wounded by Israeli troops near Sa'ir on 13 November 2015 and later died. A day afterwards, the Palestinian Authority denounced the killings of the Sa'ir youths as summary field executions done without any attempt at arresting the youths. Hamas called for a "day of rage" following the two incidents.
  • 8 January

  • Palestinians hurled stones at a bus traveling north of Hebron, smashing a window and lightly injuring the driver in the eye from rock splinters.
  • Ahmad Abu Hummus (12) was in a critical condition after suffering severe head and eye injuries in clashes with Israeli forces in Isawiya, East Jerusalem. A Palestinian spokesman claimed he was shot by Israeli police while standing on a street. This claim was rejected by the courts during an appeal as the evidence shows that Ahmad stood among the rioters and participated in the disturbances.
  • Fourteen Palestinians were wounded in the legs by Israeli live fire inside the Gaza strip as clashes developed along the security barrier Another was shot by a rubber bullet,
  • Six Palestinians were shot with rubber bullets during demonstrations on the West Bank.
  • 9 January

  • Ali Abu Maryam (26) from the village of al-Jadida and Said Abu al-Wafa (38) of al-Zawiya, were shot dead at the al-Hamra military checkpoint, near the settlements of Beqaot and Ro'i, in the northern Jordan Valley of the West Bank. Israeli reports say the two tried to stab soldiers on guard. Palestinians present state that the two men, wholesale grocers en route to deliver goods to retail outlets, were told to get out of their car and then shot dead, and that knives were not visible to them. According to a detailed follow-up investigation by Gideon Levy and Alex Levac published in Haaretz, al-Wafa, reportedly a wealthy businessman running his family's import-retail business, was shot 11 times while still behind the wheel. The vehicle was parked at the proper place when approaching a checkpoint. His body was returned almost immediately to his family. Maryam was a management student at Al-Quds University, and worked as an agricultural labourer in the Israeli settlement of Beqaot. He was shot three times. The Israeli police are still investigating the incident.
  • Maher Amer (60) was shot in the thigh with live ammunition while returning from a visit to relatives. The incident occurred as Israeli troops dispersed protestors in their weekly demonstration at Kafr Qaddum.
  • 10 January

  • Israeli forces shot seven Palestinians south to Bethlehem, protesting the leveling and cementing of private Palestinian land at Tuqu' to prepare the ground for an Israeli military watchtower. Two youths, respectively 17 and 20 years old, were shot with live fire, the other five with rubber bullets.
  • A Palestinian worker trying to cross over the Separation Wall, near the Israeli settlement of Oranit, was shot and wounded after fleeing, when called on to stop. He was one of 60 Palestinians without work permits intercepted in the evening.
  • 11 January

  • Zayd Mahir al-Ashqar (18) from the Tulkarem village of Sayda was wounded in the abdomen by Israeli forces who shot him as he tried to stab an Israeli soldier on checkpoint duty near the Israeli settlement of Hermesh.
  • A young Palestinian who threw stones towards Israeli vehicles near Hizma checkpoint has been shot and lightly wounded by IDF troops on site.
  • Palestinians hurled rocks in East Jerusalem near the pilgrim road, lightly wounding three Israeli guards, all in their 30s.
  • An Israeli man was lightly injured from rock throwing of vehicles in Highway 60 near Kfar Tapuach.
  • 12 January

  • Srour Ahmad Abu Srour (21) from Aida Refugee Camp was shot dead at Beit Jala when Israeli forces raided that village and Beit Sahour after gunmen in a car fired at a container checkpoint northeast of Bethlehem. 6 members of a cell said to be aligned with Hamas, all from Bethlehem, - Muhammad Sami al-Hameed Al-Ezza (26), Muhammad Issa Mahmoud Al-Barbari (26), Muhammad Majdi Mustafa al-Ezza (21), Ahmed Muhammad Mahmoud Mashaikh (19), Ali Ahmed Muhammad Arouj (30), and Said Osama Issa Harmas (30)- said to be local and not externally directed, were arrested in late May for complicity in the incident.
  • Muhammad Ahmad Khalil Kawazba (23) of Sa'ir was shot dead after he was rushed an IDF patrol armed with a knife at the Beit Einun junction north of Hebron.
  • Adnan Hamid al-Mashni (17) from the village of Ash-Shuyukh was shot dead by IDF at Beit Einun junction. The army reports that the attacker arrived at the Beit Einun junction on Highway 60 with his car, exited the car and approached a patrol of Givati soldiers with a knife drawn. Palestinian sources reported that he was shot while driving near the junction and that Israeli sources claim Mashni had driven Kawazba to the site.
  • 13 January

  • Mousa Zaiter (23) of Gaza, an Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades member, was killed when an Israeli air strike struck a group of Palestinians inside the Gaza Strip during an incursion east of Beit Lahiya that aimed to level ground by bulldozing an area. Another three Palestinians were wounded. The reason given by Israeli spokesmen for the strike was that a group was identified as a "terrorist cell" intending to detonate an I.E.D at Israeli forces.
  • The tent of a family of nine living at Khirbet a-Rahwa, south of ad-Dhahiriya and near to the Israeli settlement of Tene was bulldozed by Israeli forces, leaving all homeless.
  • An Israeli Magav policemen was lightly wounded from a Molotov cocktail attack in Jerusalem.
  • 14 January

  • Muayyad Awni Jabbarin (20) was shot dead by Israeli troops near the Beit Einun checkpoint after allegedly trying to stab soldiers,
  • Haitham Mahmoud Abd al-Jalil (31) of Asira ash-Shamaliya, was shot dead after wounding an Israeli officer with a knife at a flying checkpoint set up outside his village. The soldier reportedly suffered a very light wound.
  • An Israeli Magav policemen was lightly wounded from a Molotov cocktail thrown at IDF forces at Isawiya, Jerusalem.
  • 15 January

  • Mohammed Abu Ziad (18) and Mohammed Majdi Abu Kita (26) were killed during clashes with Israeli troops east of the Bureij refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip and at least 10 other youths were wounded in varying degrees of severity. Israel's military said Palestinians rushed to the border and tried to damage the fence. Soldiers called on them to stop and fired warning shots in the air. When they persisted, troops fired "at rioters posing a threat of infiltration."
  • An Israeli soldier was lightly wounded by rocks thrown during clashes with Palestinians near a security checkpoint in Beitunia, west to Ramallah. During the clashes, dozens of Palestinians burned tires and hurled rocks toward Israeli troops who responded with crowd-control weapons.
  • Muhammad Abu Zayed (19) and Muhammad Majdi Qaita (26) of Khan Younis, were shot dead, the first in the head the latter in the stomach, hours apart in actions by Israeli troops during clashes near Bureij Refugee Camp inside the Gaza Strip. At least 10 other Palestinians from Gaza were said to have been wounded by live fire during the clashes. Israeli sources said the incidents occurred when groups tried to breach the border barrier.
  • Clashes erupted in the West Bank. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, five Palestinians were wounded by live and rubber bullets, and dozens suffered injuries from smoke and tear gas inhalation.
  • 17 January

  • Wissam Marwan Qasrawa (21) from the village of Masliya south of Nablus was shot dead by Israeli troops after an alleged stabbing attack on soldiers.
  • Dafna Meir (38) of the Israeli settlement of Otniel south of Hebron was stabbed to death, struck in the head from behind, by Palestinian assailant who then fled, allegedly in the direction of a nearby Palestinian town. A Palestinian teenager Morad Adais (15) of Yatta was later arrested as a suspect for the crime.
  • 18 January

  • A 30-year-old Israeli woman in the Israeli settlement of Tekoa was stabbed by a Palestinian whom security guards then shot and seriously wounded.
  • A garage belonging to Jamal Ahmad Darraj, and a room built on to a house owned by Hamdi Abu Khalil were destroyed in Kharbatha in the West Bank. A quarry in nearby Kharbatha al-Musbah, owned by Ahmad al-Habiba, was also reportedly damaged. The reason was that the owners lacked Israeli permits for recent work.
  • 20 January

  • Israel announced it would expropriate 1,500 dunams (370 acres) of West Bank agricultural land, north of the Israeli settlement of Almog and close to the Palestinian city of Jericho, declaring them state lands. The expropriation is the largest since August 2014, when Israel seized 1,000 acres close to the Gush Etzion settlement bloc near Bethlehem. The putative legal basis for the move is an Ottoman law dating back to 1858 which allows land that has lain fallow to be seized by the governing power.
  • The home of Hiba Abu Asab in Beit Hanina was demolished by Israeli bulldozers for lack of an Israeli permit. It is one of 6,000 Palestinian home destroyed in the Jerusalem area since the 1967 occupation began.
  • A Palestinian (42) in the Gaza Strip was shot in the foot by Israeli border policed near the Karni crossing southeast of Gaza City.
  • 21 January

  • The homes of Fawaz Qafisha, Shams al-Zatari, and Hussein al-Zatari on al-Sahla Street near the Ibrahimi Mosque/Cave of the Patriarchs in central Hebron were subject to attack by Israeli settlers. Rocks were thrown, several doors battered down, and tear-agas from Israeli soldiers nearby doused the homes.
  • Palestinians threw a Molotov cocktail on a Magav force, wounding a policemen in Isawiya, Jerusalem.
  • Three Bedouin homes, respectively of Hamda Muhammad Odeh Abu Kutaiba, her son, Ali Abu Kutaiba, and Ghassan Jahalin, all mobile homes donated by the European Union, were bulldozed at Jabal al-Baba, near the village of al-Eizariya. Seventeen people evacuated by force, were left homeless, half of them children. All their furniture and belongings inside were also destroyed. The Bedouin protest that the donated units could be have been dismantled rather than destroyed. It is believed these demolitions are part of a plan to establish thousands of homes for Israeli settlers in the E1 corridor.
  • An Israeli police officer, around 40-year-old, was mildly wounded in his leg from a Molotov cocktail thrown on the road in Highway 1 in the East Jerusalem area of the West Bank, as police dispersed youths reportedly preparing to throw stones.
  • During an arrest raid on the village of Tell near Nablus in the West Bank, in which 19 Palestinians were arrested, Hamed Ibrahim Awad Ramadan (21) was shot in the thigh with live ammunition, and Jihad al-Wahhabi was reportedly wounded in the lower abdomen with a 0.22-caliber "tutu" bullet.
  • An Israeli bus driver was lightly wounded from rock throwing near the settlement of Beit El.
  • 22 January

  • Fifteen Palestinians were wounded by Israeli live fire and another 2a also injured by bullets in clashes in the al-Faraheen area east of Khan Younis.
  • A Palestinian was shot in the foot with live fire in clashes near the Nahal Oz checkpoint.
  • At Kafr Qaddum, a nine year old child, Ayat Zahi, was wounded in the hand, reportedly while on the porch of her house. Another two Palestinians Hamza Khaldoun (21) and Abdullah Anwar (40) in the village also were shot by live fire in the same incident.
  • Tamir Thiyab (20) lost an eye after being shot by a rubber bullet in clashes with Israeli troops in Qalqiliya.
  • A 10-year-old child, Bashar Mustafa al-Khatib, was shot in the head by a rubber bullet in clashes with Israeli troops at Bil'in.
  • Sharif Haneni suffered a gunshot wound from a rubber bullet to the leg when shot by Israeli troops in clashes in the village of Beit Furik
  • A Palestinian youth was shot in the foot and then arrested in clashes with Israeli troops at the northern exit of Bethlehem. A second person was shot in the foot and hospitalized at Beit Jala.
  • Muhammad Nabil Halabiya (17) of Abu Dis in East Jerusalem died when a pipe bomb in his possession blew up, while he was in the vicinity of an Israeli military site.
  • 23 January

  • A teenage girl, Ruqayya Eid Abu Eid (13) of 'Anata, was shot dead after reportedly trying to stab a security guard at the gate of the Israeli settlement of Anatot. The incident occurred according to police sources after a family quarrel, which led her to abandon her home determined to die. Her father arrived too late to stop her, reportedly.
  • 24 January

  • A car driven by a settler was struck by bullets near the West Bank settlement of Dolev. No one was injured.
  • A rocket was fired from Gaza and struck open ground in the Sha'ar HaNegev area of southern Israel.
  • 25 January

  • Israel launched two airstrikes in reprisal for the rocket attack, striking the al-Qassam Brigades' al-Muhararat training site near Deir al-Balah and a plot of ground south of Khan Younis.
  • Two Israeli women were stabbed in the West Bank settlement of Beit Horon, west of Ramallah, by two Palestinians. Shlomit Krigman, aged 23, from Shadmot Mehola, was critically injured with stab wounds to her upper body, and later died; the elder woman (aged 58) was moderately injured. The assailants also left two bombs on the site. A security guard shot both dead as they fled the scene. They were identified as Ibrahim Osama Yousif Allan (23) from the village of Beit Ur al-Tahta and Hussein Muhammad Abu Ghush (17) from the Qalandiya refugee camp.
  • 27 January

  • Ibrahim Ali Surri's house in the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood of East Jerusalem was bulldozed, reportedly for having been built without an Israeli permit.
  • Kifaya al-Rashq's home in Shuafat was bulldozed apparently to clear ground for Route 21 and connect Jerusalem to the Israeli settlements of Pisgat Ze'ev, Ramat Shlomo and Neve Yaakov. The family of 19 were left homeless.
  • Obada Aziz Abu Ras (18) from Bir Nabala was arrested on suspicion he was behind a stabbing attack that left a 35-year-old Israeli critically injured at a gas station near the West Bank settlement of Giv'at Ze'ev.
  • 29 January

  • Seven Palestinian protestors were shot by live fire during clashes in the Strip respectively at Faraheen east of Khan Younis in the south and by the Beit Hanoun crossing to the north. One man was reportedly shot in the head. Warning shots were reportedly fired earlier.
  • A farmer in Gaza was shot in the foot by live fire from Israeli border troops.
  • Israeli troops confiscated a truck and excavator used in road repair from the village of Khirbet al-Dir. Residents claim military exercises in the area had ruined agricultural plots and roads in the area, which is adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Mehula in the northern Jordan Valley of the West Bank.
  • 30 January

  • Gazan farmers and shepherds were driven from their fields when Israeli forces opened fire near Khan Younis.
  • Two youths stabbed an ultra-Orthodox American-Israeli boy, who had made aliyah just over a month earlier, in the back on Sultan Suleiman Street next to Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. The victim suffered minor injuries. The 17-year-old Israeli was attacked while leaving the Western Wall after prayer on his way to a military prep school in Jerusalem. A Palestinian youth from East Jerusalem, aged 16, later turned himself in to the police.
  • 31 January

  • Three Israeli soldiers were shot, respectively in the neck, abdomen and legs, by a Palestinian with a handgun after he was stopped at a checkpoint in the West Bank between Beitin, Silwan and Al-Bireh in the direction of Ramallah. The Palestinian, Amjad Jaser Sukkar (34) of Jamma'in, was a staff sergeant with the Palestinian Authority, and chauffeur for the Palestinian attorney general Ahmad Hanoun. He had announced his intention on Facebook. According to Edo Konrad, Sukkar's act reflected exasperation, as a Palestinian security official, carrying out policies that abet the occupation. Living was pointless "as long as the occupation oppresses our souls and kills our brothers and sisters."
  • A Palestinian man was shot after allegedly engaging in an attempted car-ramming attack on route 443 near Ramallah in the West Bank.
  • 1 February

  • Four Bedouin makeshift homes of corrugated iron in the Ayub area between Ras Karkar and Deir 'Ammar were demolished by Israeli forces. Twenty-two people were left homeless.
  • Ahmad Hassan Tuba (19) of the village of Kafr Jammal was shot dead after crossing or attempting to cross the Israel/West Bank Barrier near the Israeli settlement of Sal'it near Tulkarem. Israeli spokesmen say he was found hiding behind bushes by troops and shot after he pulled a knife. No soldiers were injured.
  • 2 February

  • Israeli forces, during a raid on a mobile phone shop in the West Bank village of Qabalan, shot Yousif Shahrour in the foot and arrested him and two others, on suspicion they were linked to Hamas, and took them to detention in Ariel.
  • A Palestinian boy (14) was in critrical condition after being shot in the abdomen by live fire, in clashes with Israeli forces. The latter shot him in clashes at the Jabal al-Tawil area of al-Bireh. An Israeli spokesperson said the 'main instigator' of a 'violent mob' was shot by them after an attempt was made to damage the security fence of the nearby Israeli settlement of Psagot.
  • In the southern Hebron hill area of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, Israeli forces demolished 23l Palestinian houses. Ahmad Issa Abu Iram's two room home in Janba was bulldozed, while solar panels used by the family were also confiscated. Two homes owned by respectively Issa Younis Abu Iram and his brother Jamil Younis Abu Iram, reportedly built with foreign aid after their dwellings had been destroyed last winter, were also razed. At the same time a number of other homes, consisting of corrugated iron and tents, were bulldozed in the Halawa and al-Tabban areas. Three thousand Israeli settlers live in the area. Palestinians were expelled from the area in the 1970s when it was declared a closed military zone, but were permitted to return after a long court case.
  • The 200-metre home of IIyad Abu Mahamid, in Wadi Abu al-Hummus south of Sur Baher, was demolished for lack of an Israeli permit, on the day the family of seven planned to move in.
  • The 220-square-metre home of Yahya Muhsin in the Wadi Qaddum neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem was razed to the ground by bulldozers. Over 3,000 Palestinian homes have been destroyed in East Jerusalem since the 1970s.
  • 3 February

  • A 400 square metre car repair garage owned and run by Haitham Mustafa in Isawiya was bulldozed by Israeli forces for lacking an Israeli license. It was reportedly built on Palestinian land Israel plans to confiscate in order to lay out an Israeli national park.
  • Hadar Cohen (19) of Or Yehuda, an Israeli Magav policewoman died from a bullet wound to the head. She with two other officers approached two Palestinians seated on a bench near the Damascus Gate, and asked for their identity papers. One of the men stood up and stabbed one of the women officers (20) seriously wounding her, and Cohen shot him dead. A second man pulled out a Carl Gustav rifle and starting shooting. A third Palestinian appeared and shot Cohen dead. Police in the area opened fire and killed all three. A third aman was lightly injured. The three men were Ahmad Rajeh Ismail Zakarneh (20/21), Muhammad Ahmad Hilmi Kamil (20/21), and Najeh Ibrahim Abu al-Rub (20/21) from the village of Qabatiya. All three had previously been barred by the Shin Bet from entering Israel. Other munitions and explosives were reportedly found nearby.
  • 4 February

  • In a raid on the West Bank village of Qabatiya from where the three assailants involved in the death of Hadar Cohen the day before, Israeli forces shot four youths with live ammunition, leaving one in critical condition with a bullet wound to the head. In addition, an Israeli jeep also ran over and critically injured Mujahed Zakarneh (15). The raid's purpose was to issue house demolition notifications to the families of the three Palestinians implicated in the Damascus Gate incident. The town of 20,000 was declared a closed Israeli military zonea and all exits and entrances were sealed.
  • Two Israeli Palestinians girls (13) from Ramla's al-Jawarish neighbourhood stabbed an Israeli security guard who asked for their identification papers. The guard (27) suffered light wounds to the hand and leg.
  • Israeli forces razed five Palestinian tent homes and demolished five other structures in the village of Tammun in the West Bank's Jordan Valley because they lacked a permit.
  • A bus carrying Israelis and security guards caught fire when struck by Molotov cocktails thrown in the Ras al-Amud area of the Silwan neighbourhood of East Jerusalem. No injuries were reported.
  • 5 February

  • Haitham Ismail al-Baw (14) of Halhul was shot dead by Israeli troops while reportedly either preparing to or trying to throw a Molotov cocktail at passing vehicles on Route 60 in the West Bank. His cousin, Wajdi Yusif al-Baw (12) was also reportedly injured, handcuffed and taken away.
  • A Palestinian was shot in the leg in clashes near the Border Fence at the Nahal Oz crossing east of Shuja'iyya in the Gaza Strip.
  • A Palestinian was shot by Israeli live fire in the foot in border clashes near the Bureij Refugee Camp.
  • Two participants in the weekly demonstration at Kafr Qaddum were reportedly shot and injured by Israeli live fire.
  • 6 February

  • Jamal al-Shati, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was reportedly shot in the stomach by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli forces dispersing an attempt to break the blockade of the village of Qabatiya.
  • Shlomit Ganon (65) of Mishmar Hanegev was slightly stabbed by a Palestinian youth from Yatta, illegally resident in Israel. The incident occurred in Rahat.
  • 7 February

  • Israel announced it was confiscating 4 homes in Sur Baher in East Jerusalem belonging to the families of the 4 teenagers indicted on a charge of causing the death of an Israeli driver by stone-throwing on 14 September 2015. The court has yet to issue a definitive ruling on their guilt. The order was to be executed on February 10, and would deprive 23 people of their homes. The family protested the ordinance as an example of collective punishment. Israel claims the measure is intended as deterrence.
  • 8 February

  • Unknown vandals threw a Molotov cocktail on a house of a Jewish family in Abu Tor neighborhood in East Jerusalem. No one was injured but minor damage was made to the house's window.
  • 9 February

  • Israeli forces razed 11 Palestinian structures, 5 homes and 6 tents, in the village of Khirbet Tana, where 300 herders reside, near Nablus. The reason given was that it was an Israeli "firing zone" since the 1970s. Israel has defined 20% of the West Bank as "closed military areas", and this is the 6th demolition carried out at Khirbet Tana since 2006.
  • A Palestinian girl (18) from East Jerusalem allegedly tried to stab an Israel security officer near the Damascus Gate. According to Israeli reports, she was stopped for acting suspiciously and during a search, reached into her bag, pulled out a knife and tried to stab the policeman. She was arrested without injury.
  • An Israeli from the settlement of Neve Daniel suffered a moderate wound from a stabbing attack while jogging. He reported that the assailant fled in the direction of the Palestinian village of Nahalin. Israeli imposed a total blockade on the village, denying consignments of food and blocking 500 residents an exist to their workplaces in Bethlehem area schools.
  • 10 February

  • A Palestinian youth, Omar Madi (16), was shot dead by Israeli troops during clashes in the Al Arroub Refugee Camp. An Israeli spokesman said soldiers had fired on a demonstrator in a group throwing stones at Israeli cars on Route 60.
  • A Palestinian truck driving between the village of Azzun and the Israeli settlement of Karnei Shomron had its windshield smashed by an axe. A 40-year-old settler from Karnei Shomron was later arrested, after the driver laid a complaint, and implicated himself for having thrown the axe. From 2013 to 2014, only two indictments were made by the Israeli police in the West Bank from the 150 complaints registered by Palestinians.
  • 11 February

  • Three youths from Beit Duqqu were shot in the lower limbs by Israeli forces raiding the village.
  • Israeli forces raided the village of Beit Ur al-Tahta near Ramallah, imposed a closure that stopped children from going to school, restricting the movement of 6,000 people and proceeded to demolish several structures lacking Israeli permits. Sultan Ziad Suleiman's car-garage was bulldozed, together with the 4 cars inside it. A shed owned by Sheikh Thafer, and a well owned by Samih Atallah Hamdan Suleiman, were destroyed.
  • Israeli forces bulldozed seven homes in al-Farisiya and Khallet al-Khader, leaving families homeless and demolished further 35 structures in the Bardala and Ein al-Baida communities, in the Tuba area of the Jordan Valley in the West Bank. The demolitions bring the number of homeless people displaced to 168, including 94 children, since the beginning of February.
  • 12 February

  • Two Gaza Palestinians were injured by Israeli live fire, while a third sustained serious injuries when struck in the head by a tear-gas canister, in clashes with Israeli troops by Bureij Refugee Camp.
  • At least one man was shot by live ammunition during clashes with Israeli troops east of Shuja'iyya.
  • A child was seriously wounded after being struck by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli forces dispersing the weekly protests at Ni'lin. The child required surgery. Four other activists were injured.
  • 13 February

  • Two Palestinians were shot, a third suffered bruising and 4 Israeli soldiers suffered light injuries near the al-Zayyim checkpoint. Two Palestinians were observed crossing the Separation Barrier and getting into a car, which sped away when approached and crashed into a military jeep, whereupon the soldiers opened fire. All 3 Palestinians were Israelis
  • Kilzar al-Uweiwi (18) lightly wounded an Israeli soldier, and a Palestinian bystander who intervened to stop her, near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. She was shot three times and later died of her wounds. An autopsy suggested she might have been saved had she received medical attention in time to stop a massive haemorrhage in her chest.
  • 14 February

  • Nihad Raed Muhammad Waqed (15) and Fuad Marwan Khalid Waqed (15) of the village of Araqah were shot dead by Israeli troops after they threw stones at cars, and attempted to cross the Separation Barrier. When border police arrived the youth started firing at them, and were killed by the response fire. A photo of a knife and a rifle were found nearby, according to Jerusalem Online.
  • Naim Ahmad Yousif Safi from al-Ubeidiya, east of Bethlehem, was shot dead at the Mazmoria checkpoint near the Israeli settlement of Har Homa when he was observed to be carrying a knife. Israeli sources say he was running towards them.
  • Yasmin Rashad al-Zarou (14) was critically wounded at military checkpoint 160 near the Ibrahimi Mosque/Cave of the Patriarchs when she was shot 6 times. Israeli sources allege she tried to stab them, but a border policeman managed to push her away before then shooting her. Palestinian reports state that she, accompanied by her sister, was walking away from the checkpoint when shot. A disabled Palestinian waiting near the checkpoint was flipped to the ground with his wheelchair following the incident, and a stun grenade was fired at bystanders running to assist him.
  • Two Palestinians, Mansour Yasser Abdul-Aziz Shawamrah (20) and Omar Ahmad Omar(20) both from the West Bank village of al-Qubeiba were shot dead near the Damascus Gate. Shawamrah, an officer in the PA security forces was stopped while carrying a bag for a search and was shot when reportedly drawing a rifle and aiming it at Israeli troops, while the other was shot reportedly when firing from nearby. Explosives and a knife were found in the bag.
  • Stones were hurled at a bus near Hizma junction north to Jerusalem. No one was injured but damage was made to the bus' front.
  • 15 February

  • Israeli forces shot 28 Palestinians at the al-Amari refugee camp with live fire and rubber bullets during clashes in the West Bank near Ramallah, which broke out when a home was surrounded. It is unknown whether the raid was to plan the demolition of the house or search it.
  • Israeli bulldozers under military escort demolished a number of Palestinian homes at Khirbet Om al-Rashash village, near Nablus. The structures, barns and homes of brick and corrugated iron, lacked the appropriate Israeli building permits.
  • 16 February

  • 100 7-year-old olive trees in Wadi Qana, west of Deir Istiya in the West Bank were uprooted by Israeli forces on the grounds the area was an Israeli natural reserve.
  • 17 February

  • In a sweep through the West Bank leading to the arrest of 15 Palestinians, locals in Halhul reported that in a raid on the home of Maher al-Hashlmoun, who is a prisoner of Israel, soldiers took away $3,843 from the house.
  • The Israeli authorities bulldozed access roads and agricultural structures on 5 acres of land outside al-Isawiya village. Israel has earmarked the area as a future Israeli national part, that would absorb175 acres of Palestinian land the al-Issawiya and al-Tur neighbourhoods.
  • 18 February

  • A 21-year-old Israeli was killed and one Israel aged 36 was moderately injured in a stabbing attack at the Rami Levi supermarket within the Sha'ar Binyamin Industrial Zone, a settlement in the West Bank. The perpetrators of the attack were Ayham Bassam Ibrahim Subih(14) and Omar Salim Rimawi (14) both from Beitunia. The two assailants were shot and critically wounded by a bystander.
  • 19 February

  • Muhammad Abu Khalaf (20) from Kafr Aqab in East Jerusalem was shot dead after stabbing 2 Israeli border police near the Damascus Gate. They received light wounds. Al Jazeera reports he was shot some 50 times by 5 policemen after he had fallen to the ground from 2 shots. The shooting was caught on video.
  • Abed Raed Abdullah Hamad, was shot dead by Israeli troops where he tried to ram his car into soldiers. No Israelis were injured. He had announced his death on Facebook some hours before the incident.
  • One Palestinian was shot by live fire to the hand, another to the foot, in clashes at the northern edge of Bethlehem.
  • Two Palestinian teenagers were shot by Israeli live fire in clashes at the Jalazone Refugee Camp.
  • Three Palestinians were shot by Israeli live fire near Shuja'iyya in the central Gaza Strip, during clashes.
  • Four Palestinians were shot, 3 by Israeli live fire, in the northern Gaza Strip.
  • Khaled Yousif Taqatqa (21) was shot dead by Israeli troops during clashes with local residents at Beit Fajjar in the West Bank.
  • 20 February

  • Israeli troops drove off at gunpoint Muhammad Abd al-Hamid Sleibi and his family while they were pruning trees in their private plots near Beit Ummar. Sleibi said hje had a court decision permitting to work his fields, but soldiers told him only one member of his family was permitted on the terrain at any one time.
  • 21 February

  • Stones were hurled at the Jerusalem Light Rail in Shuafat. No one was injured but damage was made to the train.
  • Palestinians in a moving vehicle shot at an Israeli military post next the entrance of Beit El and fled the scene. No one was injured. Soldiers responded by firing and confirmed a hit on the vehicle.
  • The only school catering to the children of the Bedouin community of Abu al-Nuwaar community near al-Eizariya in the West Bank was demolished by Israeli forces. residents said it was razed because building concrete structures in the area was forbidden.
  • Qusay Diab Abu al-Rub (15) from the village of Qabatiya was shot dead by Israeli soldiers after reportedly trying to stab a soldier at the Beita checkpoint. Roughly 10 rounds were fired at him. No soldiers was injured,
  • An assailant attempted to stab an IDF soldier, the stabber was shot and is in critical condition.
  • A 14-year-old was arrested for allegedly trying to carry out a stabbing attack near Bani Na'im. No injuries were reported.
  • 22 February

  • Israeli forces demolished the house of Muhammad al-Huroub in Deir Sammit overnight. al-Huroub had shot dead 2 Israelis in November 2014.
  • Israeli forces demolished the house of Raed Muhammad Jabara al-Masalma in Dura overnight. al-Masalma had killed 2 Israelis in Tel Aviv in November 2014.
  • Israeli forces shot a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip. He suffered a moderate wound in the foot.
  • 23 February

  • Gaza fisherman reported damage to their boats after being fired on by Israeli naval forces off the Gaza coast.
  • Mamdou Yousef Mahmoud Amro (27) a Dura school teacher allegedly attempted to stab Captain Eliav Gelman (30) at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank. He was wounded moderately while Gelman was killed by friendly fire.
  • In a 69 page report the Israeli Human Rights groups HaMoked and B'Tselem published a study claiming to have documented what they consider to be systematic violations of rules forbidding torture and abuse set forth by Israel's High Court of Justice in 1999. The evidence was taken from interviews with and affidavits from 116 Palestinian prisoners detained in the Shikma Prison in Ashkelon.
  • 25 February

  • A Palestinian attacked and critically wounded an Israeli security guard in a mall in the Israeli West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim. Three days later, Saadi Ali Abu Hamid (21)from al-Eizariya in East Jerusalem was arrested on suspicion of being involved in the attack.
  • Stones were hurled at an Egged bus in Jerusalem. No one was injured but damage was made to the bus' windowpane.
  • Stones and a paint bottle were hurled at the light rail in Jerusalem. No one was injured but damage was made to the train. Security forces arrested one suspect.
  • 26 February

  • Omar al-Nayif (52), a militant for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who had escaped from an Israeli prison in 1990 where he was serving a life sentence for killing an Israeli settler in 1986, and had sought refuge in Bulgaria for decades, was found shot dead in the garden of the Palestinian embassy in Sofia. According to the PFLP he was the victim of an Israeli targeted assassination.
  • Dozens of Palesatinian protestors throughout the West Bank were reported wounded or injured in clashes with Israeli troops during the weekly Friday demonstrations.
  • 27 February

  • A 17-year-old ultra-orthodox Israeli teenager, who had made aliyah to Israel a month and a half earlier and who was returning from prayer at the Western Wall, suffered a light stab wounded while returning to his military prep school when attacked by a 16-year-old Palestinian, who turned himself in when alerted he was suspected of involvement, the following day.
  • $255,552 worth of machinery for cutting iron from the Beit Ummar- based Ghazalah Building Materials company was seized by Israeli forces. The owner says he has documents attesting he purchased them in Tel Aviv. Israeli sources insist he must prove ownership.
  • The village pof Yasuf in the Salfit area was, accordingt to villagers, attacked by settlers under army escort.
  • Gaza fisherman claimed their boats were damaged when Israeli naval forces fired open fire on them,
  • 28 February

  • A Palestinian from Gaza was shot by Israeli forces east of Khan Younis. His wound was described as light.
  • Hisham Muhammad Atwan Sbeih and Yazan Omar Salah (16) were shot in the chest and critically injured by Israeli forces in the village of al-Khader, near Bethlehem. Sbeih, a middle-aged dentist, was said to have been shot while seated in his car.
  • During a raid on the home of Tareq and Tahreer Darwish in Isawiya in East Jerusalem to detain their sons, Yousef (18) and Laith (17) on unknown charges, it is claimed that the whole family was injured, including the mother, daughter, Batoul (14) and Darwish (2). The mother and toddler were later released.
  • An Israeli policewoman was lightly injured during riots in Isawiya in which Palestinians threw stones and Molotov cocktails at Border Police. Troops fired at the protesters, and a 19-year-old Isawiya resident was shot in the leg.
  • 29 February

  • Two Oketz Unit (Special Forces) soldiers entered Qalandiya Refugee Camp through its central checkpoint, according to Israeli sources. Their presence was opposed by Palestinians in the camp, who threw stones and Molotov cocktails, setting their jeep on fire. A Hannibal Directive was implemented. The Two were retrieved after a fire-fight. Accoreding to local informants, they had been held by gunmen for three hours until a helicopter evacuated them. Five Border policemen were wounded, one moderately. One Palestinian, Iyad Omar Sajadiyya (22), a journalism student at al-Quds University in Abu Dis, due to graduate this spring, was shot dead with a bullet to the head, while 12 were wounded, 4 by live Israeli fire, 6 by rubber bullets, and 2 from tear gas canister wounds According to Palestinian reports, the 2 were undercover agents who had entered the camp througha an alley running by the camp's cemetery. According to Israel reports, they accidentally entered the area after being misled by a Waze navigation app
  • 1 March

  • The home of Yousif Abed Simrin, under construction in the Wadi Yasoul area of Silwan since September 2015, and lacking a permirt, was razed to the ground by Israeli forces.3 Palestinians Muhammad Simrin, Ahmad Awad, Izz al-Din Simrin, and Khalid Shweiki were shot by rubber-bullets during the incident.
  • 2 March

  • An Israeli settler and reserve soldier, Roi Harel, from the settlement of Eli was reportedly attacked by two Palestinian teenagers, Labib Khaldoon Anwar Azzam (17) and Muhammad Hisham Ali Zaghlawan (17) from the village of Qaryut. Harel said that they carried clubs and axes, overcame him momentarily, and penetrated close to the children's bedroom of his house. He fought them off the premises and locked himself with his family inside his home. Soldiers shot both intruders dead as they fled. The settler has hospitalized with light cuts to his head.
  • "Dozens" of structures in "the hamlet of Khirbet Tana, which has 275 residents, and lies outside Beit Furik near Nablus were demolished by Israeli forces. Among the structures, including homes of tin, plastic, wood, and stone, destroyed was a foreign-donated set of mobile caravans serving as a primary school for 26 children.
  • A three-story Palestinian building,each floor with 2 apartments, under construction at At Tur was bulldozed by Israeli forces.
  • Two Israeli soldiers on patrol were stabbed, one lightly the other lightly/moderately, at the settlement of Har Bracha.
  • 3 March

  • An Israeli policeman directing traffic near al-Auja, close to Jericho in the northern West Bank was lightly wounded in the shoulder in a stabbing attack.The assailant, Hadiyeh Ibrahim Ereinat (14), a girl from al-Auja, was chased and arrested shortly afterwards.
  • Gunmen fired on an Israeli police vehicle by the Rahelim Junction, near the West Bank settlement of Ariel.
  • Settlers from Yitzhar, close to Nablus, during what Palestinian sources described as a raid on the village, hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles at the entrance to Asira al-Qibliya. Security forces pushed the settlers back to Yitzhar. On the way back they hurled stones at a vehicle and shattered its windshield. No injuries were reported.
  • 4 March

  • A Palestinian woman driving her car hit an Israeli soldier stationed on the sidewalk of the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank. The soldier sustained light injuries to the legs. The woman, Amani Husni Sabatin (34) of the village of Husan, was shot dead. A knife was reportedly found on the dashboard afterwards.
  • Israeli tear-gas canisters fired during clashes in northern Bethlehem smashed the windows of a Red Crescent ambulance sent to assist youths in the area, causing two paramedics, Ayman Dababseh and Fadi Jaafreh, to suffer from excessive tear gas inhalation. According to Palestinians, the ambulances were deliberately targeted.
  • Khalid Murad Shtewei (12) suffered a live fire gun wound to his right leg, causing severe bone damage, during clashes with Israeli forces at Kafr Qaddum. According to Palestinian reports, a video of the incident shows Mashhour Jumaa (45) also being shot when he attempted to pick the boy up and carry him away.
  • 7 March

  • A Palestinian from Gaza was shot in the leg during security operations east of al-Maghazi Refugee Camp.
  • A 60-year-old tourist was lightly wounded in the head by stone-throwers on a roof who pelted her and a group of visitors at St Anne's Church, near Lion's Gate in Jerusalem.
  • 8 March

  • Fadwa Ahmad Abu Teir (50) an Israeli-Palestinian woman of Umm Tuba in East Jerusalem approached Israeli police stationed on Hagai Street in the Old city and reportedly attempted to stab them. She was shot once in the eye and twice in the abdomen, and died shortly thereafter. Palestinian sources say Israeli troops blocked medical care for 10 minutes. Israeli sources say police who arrived at the scene administered first aid but soon thereafter pronounced her dead. The incident occurred in al-Wad street in Jerusalem's Old Quarter. The attacker was the niece of Hamas official Muhammad Abu Tir.
  • Mahir Faris Abd al-Rahman Bani Fadil of Aqraba had his tractor confiscated by Israeli forces after ploughing ground Palestinian sources claim was his own land.
  • An ultra orthodox Israeli, Yonatan Ezriyahav (39) was lightly to moderately wounded in a store on Baron Hirsch Street by a Palestinian,Abd Al-Rahman Radad (17) from al-Zawiya village, who stabbed him in Petah Tikva. The assailant was wrestled with by a store owner and Ezriyahev who wrested the knife from him and stabbed him to death.
  • Two Israeli police officers, one 47 the other 33 were shot by a Palestinian using a Carl Gustav rifle in Salah al-Din Street,East Jerusalem. Both were shot in the head, and the older officer was left in critical condition, while the other suffered a moderate wound to the neck. The assailant was shot dead.
  • In the 2016 Tel Aviv stabbings, Taylor Force, an American who was part of a Vanderbilt University tour group was killed and 11 Israelis were wounded - 3 seriously, 3 moderately and a further 6 lightly- when a Palestinian, Bashar Masalha (22) from Hajjah in Qalqilya, ran amok in a stabbing spree in Jaffa. He then continued running in the direction of Tel Aviv, stabbing motorists as he went. One of the moderately wounded was a pregnant woman. Masalha was subsequently subdued and apparently shot dead as he lay prone by a volunteer policeman, as a crowd encouraged him to shoot Masalha in the head, according to a video of the incident posted on Youtube. It was the third attack within a number of hours on Tuesday evening.
  • Amir Maimoni (29) of Zohar, a Shin Bet agent, was shot dead by friendly fire at the Gaza Border, after another agent mistook him for a Palestinian.
  • 9 March

  • An Israeli bus in the settlement of Ramot in East Jerusalem was fired on by gunmen, who then escaped. 2 Palestinians from Kafr Aqab were, according to initial reports, spotted as suspects by bus travelers at Sderot Golda Meir in Jerusalem. They were then said to have fired shots with makeshift Carl Gustav submachine guns, before they were tracked down and shot dead. They were reportedly trying to ram their car into civilians at a Jerusalem Light Rail stop near the Damascus Gate. A 57-year-old Israeli Palestinian from Beit Hanina suffered serious chest injuries in the attack, or was shot in the head.
  • Ahmad Yousef Amer (16) from the village of Mas-ha was shot dead, and another wounded when Israeli police fired on him when he approached them with a knife at an army checkpoint outside the blockaded Salfit village of Zawiya. Amer, in a last testament note, bid his parents goodbye, asked for forgiveness, and mentioned a 60 shekel debt he owed school friends. According to a local official, Israeli soldiers also assaulted a vegetable vendor while in his truck nearby.
  • A Palestinian woman entered the Israeli settlement of Kedumim near Hajjah and chased a woman. Security guards arrived, wrestled her to the ground and arrested her. She possessed a knife and is suspected of intending to attack the woman in her home. The woman was spotted by Dikla Gavish, whose husband Yeshuron Gavish lost both his parents, brother and grandfather in a Hamas attack on their home in the settlement of Elon Moreh 12 years earlier.
  • Five Jewish youths violently attacked for several minutes Ahmed Badar (40) from Silwan, a Palestinian employed as a janitor by the Jerusalem municipality. The incident occurred in, Jerusalem's Liberty Bell Park,a and while beating Badar, the youths yelled 'Death to Arabs'.
  • 11 March

  • A 29/30-year-old Israeli Haredi man was lightly to moderately wounded after being stabbed by a Palestinian near Dung Gate, East Jerusalem. A suspect, a 19-year-old youth from Qabalan in the West Bank, was later arrested. Police say footage from CCTV cameras assisted them in tracking down the suspect.
  • Two Israeli soldiers were wounded by a gunman who shot at them when a car was stopped at the Bel military checkpoint on Route 443 in the West Bank.
  • At least 3 rockets fired from the Gaza strip landed on open ground in southern Israel near Sderot. No damage was reported.
  • 12 March

  • Israel airstrikes struck 4 sites within the Gaza Strip reportedly identified as belonging to Hamas, in response to the rocket fire from the Strip.
  • Yasin Abu Khussa (9/10) died in an Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahiya. Some hours later his sister Israa Abu Khussa (6) also expired after being critically wounded in the same incident. In a follow-up investigation, B'Tselem faulted Israel for omitting to report that the attack on the Hamas training base also affected the Abu Khussa's home some 50 metres away, a temporary shack they have been living in since Israel's Israel's Gaza offensive in 2014. It blamed Israel for the deaths, for refusing to alter its tactics to comply with international humanitarian law.
  • 13 March

  • Adi Kamal Salamah ( 14) was shot in the chest by live ammunition during clashes with Israeli troops that had entered the village of al-Mazraa al-Gharbiya
  • 14 March

  • Qasem Farid Jaber (31) and Ameer Fuad al-Junaidi (22) fired from a Peugeot 504 pick-up truck at Israelis on a bus-stop outside the settlement of Kiryat Arba and were shot dead. One Israeli soldier was wounded
  • Shortly afterwards a car reportedly rammed an Israeli military vehicle in the same area, Hebron, injuring 3 Israeli soldiers. The driver, Yousif Walid Tarayra (alt. Yousef Walid Tra'ayra)(18) from Bani Naim, was shot dead by troops.
  • 15 March

  • Nahid Fawzi Imteir (24) of Qalandiya refugee camp died of wounds from an incident on March 1 in which 1 Palestinian was killed and another 11 wounded, as IDF forces endeavoured to extract 2 of their soldiers from the camp.
  • 17 March

  • A female Israeli soldier at a bus stop outside the Israeli settlement of Ariel suffered serious wounds to her upper body when she was attacked with a knife by two Palestinians,Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Kar Thawabta (20) and Ali Jamal Muhammad Taqatqa (19) from Beit Fajjar.
  • 18 March

  • Mahmud Ahmad Abu Fanunah (21) from Hebron according to Israeli reports got out of his car and tried to stab Israeli soldiers near the Israeli settlement of Gush Etzion and was shot dead. Palestinian bystanders deny he was held anything in his hands.
  • Two Palestinian youths carrying knives stopped and arrested after they approached the perimeter of the Israeli settlement of Sha'ar Binyamin Industrial Zone, east of Ramallah. They dropped their knives when challenged.
  • 19 March

  • A 20-year-old Israeli soldier suffered light head and facial wounds when a Abdullah Muhammad al-Ajlouni ( 18) after being stopped as a suspicious person and asked for his identity papers, pulled out a knife and stabbed the soldier at the Abu al-Rish checkpoint near the settlement of Kiryat Arba.
  • Two Palestinians were wounded by Israeli live fire during clashes with Israeli forces in the village of Tuqu'.
  • 21 March

  • Israeli forces demolished the foundations of a house in East Jereusalem's Jabel Mukaber neighbourhood, being built without an Israeli permit, belonging to Suhaib Jaabis, the brother of Israa Jaabis, who had carried out an attack on Israelis in October 2015.
  • A Palestinian youth was shot in the foot by a rubber bullet at Beit Rima near Ramallah.
  • 22 March

  • In a raid by Israeli forces on the campus of Jenin's Arab American University, office property was damaged and computers confiscated.
  • An Israeli raid on a charity run by the Palestinian authority caused an estimated $7,789 in damages to doors, windows, table, and for confiscated computers.
  • A 14-year-old Palestinian student was shot in the foot by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli forces in al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem.
  • Israeli forces bulldozed a house, a shed and an animal barn owned by Shaher Ahmad Issa in Khirbet Janba, in the Masafer Yatta area of the West Bank. A solar cell device was also confiscated.
  • Israeli forces razed Nasser Khalil Abu Obeid's tin shack in Khirbet al-Tabban in the Masafer Yatta area.
  • A Palestinian commercial store in Jabel Mukaber, East Jerusalem, was demolished by its owner Khader Obeidat,acting preemptively under Israeli orders. The owner demolished it to avoid paying municipal demolition costs. >
  • A 100 sq.metre mobile home structure used as a shelter by Majdi Idris, and his family was destroyed in Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem, since it was established without an Israeli permit.
  • Imad al-Abbasi 's family home in the Ein al-Luza area of Silwan was demolished by its owners under Iisraeli orders to avoid paying municipal demolition costs.
  • 23 March

  • Seventeen homes, 21 livestock pens, 5 outhouses and a small swimming pool in Khirbet Tana, east of Nablus were razed for lack of an Israeli permit. In addition, 4 old cars were confiscated for lack of an Israeli license. The village has 250 residents, shepherds and their families, unconnected to water or electricity, and has been subject to three demolitions in 2015, since it is not recognized by Israeli planning for the West Bank. 87 of the village's 250 residents, including 35 children, have since January been left homeless, some have retreated to living in nearby caves.
  • 24 March

  • Ramzi Aziz al-Qasrawi (21), and Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif (21) were shot dead in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron after stabbing a 20-year-old Israeli soldier, who suffered moderate wounds to his hand and shoulder. A Palestinian fieldworker for B'Tselem in Tel Rumeida, Imad Abu Shamsiya, filmed an Israeli soldier, some 11 minutes after the stabbing incident, killing off with a shot to the head one of the two assailants, al-Sharif, who lay wounded on the ground. The video was published by B'Tselem, and Shamsiya later reported that since the emergence of the video settlers had demonstrated outside his home shouting abuse leaving him in fear for his life. The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov condemned the killing of one assailant, for what appeared to be an extrajudicial killing. Amnesty International called for a prosecution as a possible war crime. The soldier, identified as Elor Azaria, a medic in the Shimshon Division, was arrested on suspicion of murder, and admitted he had fired the shot, stating variously that he shot the Palestinian because he needed to die, or did so because he felt his life was in danger. The IDF had ascertained minutes earlier that Sharif was not carrying explosives. The soldier later smiled and shook hands with the settler leader Baruch Marzel at the scene. The IDF later lowered the charge to manslaughter, and his indictment led to public outrage in Israel.Azaria was subsequently demoted, given an 18 months prison term and 1 year on probation, According to reports collected by the Israeli Human Rights NGO B'Tselem later, al-Qaraswi had also been shot in the head or neck by an Israeli soldier while he lay wounded from shots that hit him elsewhere in the body.
  • 25 March

  • A 15-year-old Palestinian girl from Isawiya was disarmed and arrested after reportedly brandishing a knife at soldiers near a gas station at the French Hill neighbourhood.
  • Taysir Shtewei (68) was shot in the head by a rubber bullet fired during clashes between Israeli forces and protesters at Kafr Qaddum. He was reportedly in his yard outside his home when wounded.
  • In clashes with Israeli forces in Beit Furik, Mustafa Tahsin Abu Hayt (16) suffered moderate to serious injuries when he was run over by a military jeep, while Yusif Thaer Hanani (17) was wounded by a rubber bullet.
  • Four young men from Gaza were shot by Israeli troops, 2 near Beit Hanoun, and 2 near the border east of Gaza City.
  • 26 March

  • Islam Shoaib (22) was sustained a serious wound after being shot in the chest by a rubber bullet in the al-Naqqar area of Qalqiliya. Mohammed Majid Haj Hassan (19) was shot in the kneecap. An IDF spokesman said that Israeli forces fired warning shots at the two Palestinians as they were attempting to damage the Israeli separation wall in Qalqiliya, and fired shots at the lower extremities, confirming at least one hit.
  • 27 March

  • Two Palestinians were shot with rubber bullets in an Israeli dawn raid on the Duheisha Refugee Camp in the West Bank.
  • 28 March

  • Ibrahim Hasan Mahmoud al-Hireini (6) was hit by an Israeli settler's vehicle as he crossed a bypass road near the Palestinian village of Zif. He was hospitalized with moderate injuries.
  • Two homes owned by Khader al-Jirashi near the 300 checkpoint in northern Bethlehem, together with a playground and a large barn, were bulldozed by Israeli forces. The owner said he had obtained a building permit from the Palestinian Authority. An Israelil spokesman stated it fell within the jurisdiction nof the Jerusalem Municipality.
  • 29 March

  • Israeli forces bulldozed a privately owned Palestinian playground, together with a storage room, poultry pen and fences which Khalid al-Zeir had built in al-Abbasiyya area of Silwan. The Israeli authorities claimed it had been constructed in an historically important archaeological area. Several trees belonging to the Simrin family, which had cleaned up the area several years ago when it had been used as a dump, were also cut down.
  • 2 April

  • Hatim Abu Mayyala (13) was shot in the back of the head by a rubber bullet while reportedly walking to school in the Ras al-Amoud area of Silwan. His father says he was then beaten by 6 policeman before an ambulance conveyed him to hospital.
  • 4 April

  • Yazan Khalid Naaji (12) suffered serious in juries when shot in the head by an Israeli rubber bullet during classes at Isawiya.
  • Three homes of Ahmad Zakarnah, Ahmad Abu al-Rub, and Muhammad Kameel from Qabatiya who had killed an Israeli policeman and wounded another in February were demolished. 5 local Palestinians were hospitalized after being shot with rubber bullets during clashes that erupted during the demolition work.
  • Israeli forces demolished Azzam Mahmoud Gheimat's 170 sq.metre house in Surif, home to a family of 7.
  • Jamal al-Taweel and Hisham al-Jabrawi's 2 homes at Khirbet al-Marajim near Duma were demolished.
  • Abed al-Basit Abu Rmeila's home in Jabel Mukaber, East Jerusalem, home to a family of 7, was demolished.
  • 5 April

  • Israeli forces damaged property, including a printer and artwork, in a night-time raid on al-Quds University in Abu Dis to seize what they termed Hamas propaganda.
  • Israeli forces levelled the 200 sq-m. poultry slaughterhouse in Beit Sahour, the only one in the town, and was owned by the municipality. A balcony and well were also demolished, and a shipping container used as a home by its owner Issa Kheirwas confiscated. The balcony was demolished because Israel considers it as extending into Area C, whereas the house is in Area B. The 200-square meter property belonged to the Beit Sahour municipality
  • Muhammad Hassan (22) received a head wound from a rubber bullet during clashes when dozens of settlers reportedly attempted to raid the village of Duma. According to Palestinians, the assault was related to revenge for the arrest of several settlers suspected of involvement in the Duma arson attack.
  • Shireen al-Sidawi tore extensions to his home in Beit Hanina made 3 years ago. He did so to avoid paying municipal costs, when Israeli forces moved it to demolish the additions.
  • Israeli forces uprooted and burnt 47 olive saplings planted by local Palestinians to commemorate Land Day in the Ras al-Amud area of Silwan.
  • 6 April

  • Israeli forces razed 6 tin shanties in Umm al-Khair near the Israeli settlement of Carmel in the West Bank, leaving 35 people homeless. Those affected were Adel Suleiman al-Hathalin, Khadra Suleiman al-Hathalin, Suleiman Eid al-Hathalin, Kheiri Suleiman al-Hathalin, Eid Suleiman al-Hathalin and Muatasim Suleiman al-Hathalin. An Israeli spokesman said they lacked building permits.
  • A girl Duaa Diab Jaber (10 ) sustained severe fractures when hit by a car in Hebron. Local Palestinians allege the car was driven by an Israeli settler.
  • Three Palestinian youths were injured by rubber bullets during clashes as Israeli troops escorted an estimated 1,000 Jews to a nighttime visit at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus. Molotov cocktails and stones were said to have been thrown by local youths.
  • 7 April

  • A car paint shop, owned by Khalid and Yassir Isteih, and employing 15 people was demolished by Israeli forces in the village of Ni'lin.
  • Israeli forces razed Issa Abed al-Ghani Srour's poultry slaughterhouse close to a military checkpoint in Ni'lin. 72 Palestinians were employed there.
  • Israeli forces demolished Palestinian housing structures at Bir al Maskoub near Khan al-Ahmar, lying between the Israeli settlements of Ma'ale Adumim and Kfar Adumim.
  • Further demolitions of shanties were undertaken by Israeli forces at demolitions were carried out Thursday in Khirbet Tana, on the grounds that it was a military firing zone. 20% of the West Bank has been declared a military firing zone since the 1970s.
  • Israeli settlers under military escort levelled agricultural ground and uprooted trees near Deir Ghassana. The area is contiguous with the Israeli settlement of Beit Aryeh-Ofarim. Bani Zeid, according to ARIJ, has suffered losses of thousands of dunams due to settler encroachment over the years.
  • Israeli forces demolished 54 structures in 9 villages in Area C of the West Bank, 18 of them created by funds from foreign donors, leaving 154 Palestinians homeless on a single day. A further 293 people, including 98 children were adversely affected by the demolitions.
  • A 30-year-old Israeli man was lightly wounded by stones in Mount of Olives, East Jerusalem
  • 8 April

  • An Israeli military bulldozer was damaged by an Palestinian IED when it ran over a mine in the southern Gaza Strip.
  • Two Palestinians were wounded by rubber bullets during clashes with Israeli forces in Izbat al-Tabib in the Qalqiliya region. The incident occurred when Israelli forces intervened to stop Palestinians marching out to plant olive seedlings on land threatened by confiscation to settlements.
  • Two Palestinians were shot in the legs with live fire inside the Gaza Strip near the Nahal Oz crossing as a protest near the border was suppressed.
  • Three Palestinians were shot the Beit Hanoun crossing in northern Gaza Strip during protests at the border.
  • 11 April

  • Amir al-Tarabin (13) was shot in the foot by Israeli soldiers stationed near Hujr al-Dik area in central Gaza Strip, reportedly while he was herding cattle.
  • 14 April

  • Hajj Ghazi al-Ajouli's currency exchange office in Ramallah was damaged by fire when a raid by Israeli forces, involving the use of stun grenades and the detonation of charges to break open its safe, ignited the building. Israeli sources say they were searching for terrorist funds.
  • Ibrahim Baradiya.(50) was shot dead just outside the entrance of Arroub Refugee Camp after allegedly trying to attack a soldier with an axe.
  • 15 April

  • A Palestinian man was shot in the upper body by live fire, and another injured during clashes with Israeli forces involving stone throwing and attempts to damage the border fence, close to the Israel–Gaza barrier near Bureij refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.
  • Muhammad Nidhal Abu Ghazi (15) was run over by an Israeli jeep at during clashes in al-Arrub refugee camp.
  • 16 April

  • A Palestinian member of a committee for prisoner rights Alaa al-Haddad was allegedly assaulted and beaten by Israel soldiers near Sur Bahir.
  • 18 April

  • Eleven students at the al-Zahraa girls' school in the Tariq Ibn Ziad neighborhood of Hebron suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation after the school was dowsed with tear gas canisters. Several were hospitalized.
  • Three Palestinian 13-year-olds were arrested after reportedly beating a Jewish minor in Jerusalem's Old Quarter.
  • A bomb exploded in an Israeli bus in Moshe Baram Road in East Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood, injuring 21 people, with 2 seriously injured, and 6 suffering from burns and smoke inhalation. The bomb was set off by Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour (19), from Aida refugee camp, and Hamas claimed responsibility. The youth died in an Israeli hospital two days later.
  • 19 April

  • A Palestinian fisherman was shot by Israeli naval forces, which then detained another three. The incident occurred off the coast of Rafah
  • A Palestinian boy (15) from al-Ram was shot in the thigh by Israeli forces conducting a detention raid.
  • 20 April

  • Stone-throwing, suspected by Palestinians, smashed the window of an Israeli ambulance answering an emergency call near Ramla. It was the third such incident in that area in the last 2 weeks.
  • Two Israeli soldiers were wounded from an improvised explosive charge thrown at them during a riot after Israeli security forces began demolishing the house of Hussein Abu Gosh in Qalandia who stabbed Shlomit Kriegman to death on 25 January 2016. The security forces responded with crowd-control weapons until the demolishing was complete.
  • Palestinians hurled molotov cocktails at firefighters while putting down a fire in Pisgat Ze'ev, East Jerusalem.
  • 21 April

  • Palestinians were wounded by rubber bullets when Israeli forces conducted night raids in metal working shops the villages of al-Eizariya and Abu Dis.
  • Human Rights Watch criticized the closing of roughly 35 Palestinian quarries, which yield an income of $25 million per annum, near the West Bank village of Beit Fajjar since late March, and the confiscation of industrial equipment used there. The shut down has paralyzed work in these sites, and, it is claimed, threatened the livelihoods of some 3,500 workers. Noting a change in practices, Israel, it claims, no longer returns confiscated equipment once fines are paid, as was the case in the past. The closure is viewed by the NGO as collective punishment imposed in response to knifing attacks on Israelis from residents of the village. Israel states they lack licenses, which Israel has not supplied since 1994.
  • Alaa Ghaleb al-Rajabi (16) was hit head-on by a settler's car in Hebron and hospitalized in a moderate condition. The day before a settler had reportedly threatened to shoot a Palestinian family as they drove their car nearby Kiryat Arba-
  • Palestinians fired at policemen and Magav forces stationed in Kalandia checkpoint. The forces responded by shooting toward to source of fire in Al-Ram neighborhood in East Jerusalem.
  • 22 April

  • Palestinians hurled a cocktail molotov on a house in Gilo, East Jerusalem. When firefighters arrived to put down the fire more molotov cocktails were thrown at the crew and caused a fire in a nearby field. No one was injured.
  • 23 April

  • Residents of the West Bank village of Jalud were notified by the army that the government had decided to confiscate 1,250 acres of their private land. Khallat al-Wusta, Shieb Khallat al-Wusta, and Abu al-Kasbar are the four villages to be affected by the measure.
  • 24 April

  • Two Palestinians were shot in Silwan, after throwing an IED when Israeli soldiers raided the area.
  • 26 April

  • Said Huwary, a cameraman for Reuters, and Hafez Abu Sabra, a reporter for Ro'ya TV, were injured while covering a Palestinian demonstration against the detention of journalist Omar Nazzal, who had been arrested earlier while in transit out of Israel to Jordan in order to attend a conference in Bosnia.
  • 27 April

  • Maram Salih Hassan Abu Ismail (23) a pregnant mother of two children, and her brother Ibrahim Taha (15/16), both from Beit Surik, were shot dead by an Israeli guard. Israeli reports state they had refused to halt while approaching a checkpoint. The mother allegedly threw a knife at Israeli police, or had her hands in a purse. The boy had his hands behind his back. Palestinian reports say the woman was shot 12-15 times, and that her brother was shot as he approached his injured sister. They further stated that the two had taken a passage meant for vehicles, not pedestrians, and were walking the wrong way against traffic, that they hadn't understood Hebrew, and that the person who shot them was stationed 20 metres away behind stone blocks. They also alleged that after the initial shooting, an officer approached them to fire further shots at their bodies and that knives were then planted at the scene and photographed for distribution. Although photographs of knives were given, Israel did not release video from the site which is monitored by security cameras. It emerged some days later, that while an Israeli policeman had fired warning shots in the air, the killing was the work of a private security contractor employed by the Israeli police. The Justice Ministry dropped an enquiry since it is outside the remit of its police investigations unit. Israel security forces have suggested that in several such cases, the incident may be an example of people with personal problems seeking an opportunity to be shot by police by staging attacks.
  • Two 14-year-old Palestinian girls were arrested, one after being shot after they allegedly attacked >Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the village of Beit Ur al-Tahta.
  • 29 April

  • Three Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli troops at the weekly demonstration at Kafr Qaddum against the blockade imposed on the village. Two were respectively wounded in the back and stomach by rubber bullets, and a third was burnt when a tear gas canister struck him in the hand.
  • 30 April

  • Muhammad Qashqeesh from Halhul suffered a moderate wound to the foot when he approached the Separation Barrier near Dar Salah, just east of Bethlehem.
  • 2 May

  • In the morning a mortar shell was fired at an IDF engineering unit near the Gaza border fence. An IDF tank fired at a Hamas observation point in southern Gaza near Sufa Crossing.
  • An Israeli man (60) suffered moderate wounds after being stabbed by a youth on al-Wad street in Jerusalemìs Old Quarter. An 18-year-old Palestinian youth was later detained on suspicion of involvement in the attack.
  • 3 May

  • In the afternoon, a Palestinian sniper fired at an IDF engineering unit working near the Gaza border fence. Israeli soldiers also fired at Palestinian targets near Nahal Oz
  • Ahmed Riyad Abd al-Aziz Shehada (36) from the Qalandiya Refugee Camp was shot dead after a suspected car-ramming attack at a junction near the Israeli settlement of Dolev. Palestinian eyewitnesses say Shehada's speeding truck hit 3 soldiers who were crossing a road, and fled, apparently in panic. He was pursued, the vehicle fired on, and, according to a witness, shot again after being pulled from the truck. One soldier suffered serious injuries, the other two were moderately injured. Shehada died, without medical treatment, from several gunshot wounds.
  • 4 May

  • Palestinian sources claim Raed Abu Mayyala, a local activist was "violently attacked" by settlers while filming them near the Cave of the Patriarchs/Ibrahimi Mosque.
  • A young Palestinian, Arif Jaradat (23) reportedly suffering from Down's syndrome, was shot in the back with live ammunition by Israeli forces during clashes with locals in the Ras al-Aroud area of the West Bank village of Sa'ir. He was shot from a distance of 10 metres after he drew attention to himself shouting ' No, my brother Mohammad!' He died of his wounds on June 19. The official Israeli report states:' A clarification of the case reveals that the force spotted a Palestinian who was about to throw a Molotov cocktail and opened fire in order to remove the threat. Immediately afterward, the force began to move toward the wounded individual in order to give him medical treatment, but he was evacuated by Palestinian elements before the force reached the scene.'
  • During the day, five mortar shells are fired at IDF units working on both sides of the Gaza border fence trying to locate hidden tunnels. IDF tanks stationed close to Gaza returns fire at nearby Hamas positions.
  • During the night between may 4th and 5th, and in response to the five mortar attacks, Israel launched several airstrikes and used tank fire against what it identified as Hamas positions within the Gaza Strip. Authorities in Gaza say the mortars were fired to stop Israeli bulldozers leveling areas inside the strip.
  • 5 May

  • In the afternoon, the Israeli Air Force conducted five strikes in the Gaza Strip. Hassan Hassanien (65) and 3 children in his family were injured in one of the strikes that struck a metal workshop in the al-Zaytoun neighborhood southeast of Gaza City.
  • A Palestinian woman Zaina Attia al-Amour (54), was killed by Israeli shelling at the al-Fakhari area east of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, reportedly while sitting at her farm.
  • A man in the Gaza Strip, Khazima al-Farra (21) was wounded by an Israeli airstrike on the al-Rayyan area in eastern Rafah-
  • 6 May

  • Israeli planes struck several Hamas sites for the third day. A mortar round from the Gaza Strip fell near some Israeli troops stationed near the Strip.
  • At the weekly Kafr Qaddum demonstrations, Akif Jumaa (55) waswounded in the wrist by a spong e bullet, TV reporter Ahmad Shawir was shot in the foot by rubber bullets and photojournalist Muthanna al-Deek was also wounded in the foot.
  • A Palestinian was shot during clashes with Israeli troops at the al-Mintar (Karni) crossing in the Gaza Strip.
  • 7 May

  • In response to a projectile fired into Israeli territory, Israel made 2 airstrikes on targets in the Khan Yunis area.
  • Gaza farmers were reportedly hindered from accessing their fields in the Strip when Israeli soldiers fired in their direction
  • 8 May

  • Hebron settlers reportedly attack two Palestinian human rights activists, Emad Abu Shamsiya and Yasser Abu Markhiya, The former was punched and had his video camera broken.
  • A Palestinian worker from village of Salah Dar was shot and wounded in the leg while trying to scale the Separation barrier. He was the 9th member of the village to have been wounded in similar incidents over the past days.
  • Seven Israeli soldiers were lightly hurt from smoke inhalation caused by a suspected arson in Ofrit base in Mount Scopus near Isawiyya in Jerusalem. An initial investigation of firefighters revealed the fire was caused by an arson. Ofrit base was arsoned several times in the past by Palestinian residents.
  • 9 May

  • A 3 story building in the al-Sadiya neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem's Old, with a view and court overlooking the Al-Aqsa mosque, and reportedly owned by the al-Yozbeshi family was taken over, during the owner's absence, by 40 settlers who prayed there.
  • 10 May

  • Two Israeli women in their 80s hiking in a park near the east Jerusalem settlement of East Talpiyot were attacked by masked assailants. One suffered wounds to her back. Three male Palestinian teens from Jabel Mukaber were arrested for the assault on May 19.
  • A home, built without an Israeli permit in the village of al-Walaja in the West Bank was demolished by Israeli bulldozers.
  • An Israeli officer was injured when a suspect object he was checking near Hizma, close to the settlement of Pisgat Ze'ev blew up.
  • 11 May

  • Two Palestinian youths were injured in clashes with Israeli troops at Kafr Aqab. One was shot in the chest and the other in the leg.
  • Three dunams of land reportedly in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, owned by the Abu Taah and Siam families was taken over by members of the Israeli Amana settlers’s organization. Amana intends to build its headquarters on the site.
  • 12 May

  • A 16-year-old Palestinian was arrested after he hurled rocks at cars in Pisgat Ze'ev in East Jerusalem near Palestinian neighborhood Shuafat. One vehicle was damaged.
  • 13 May

  • Ten Israelis were arrested for assaulting Palestinian residents near the Damascus Gate entrance, while reportedly calling for the destruction of the Al Aqsa mosque
  • Two Palestinians were wounded by sponge bullets during clashes with Israeli forces at Kafr Qaddum. A 26-year-old man was shot in the head, and an 18 year was wounded in the foot with live ammunition, .
  • A Palestinian Basim Yasim was lightly wounded when a tear gas canister fired by Israeli forces struck his hand during a demonstration at Bil'in., .
  • Three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were wounded in clashes with Israeli forces. One was struck in the foot by live ammunition near al-Bureij refugee camp.
  • 14 May

  • Settlers attacked the home of Riyad Abu Hazza in the Tel Rumeida quarter of Hebron, reportedly beating his wife and pepper-spraying his daughter.
  • Suspected arson caused by Palestinians burned dozens of dunams of grass and shrubs near Ofrit base in Mount Scopus near Issawiya in East Jerusalem. Initial investigation of firefighters revealed the source of the fire was several arsons in the area. The place was arsoned in the past by Palestinian residents.
  • 16 May

  • A Palestinian youth (20) from Abu Dis was arrested on suspicion of having stabbed a 30 year-old ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student on Haneviim Street near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. The Israeli suffered light injuries.
  • Ninety Palestinian Bedouin, mostly children. were left homeless after Israeli forces entered the Jabal al-Baba neighborhood outside al-Eizariya, and dismantled their 8 mobile homes, which had been providede by a European Economic Commu nity aid programme. The incident coincided with the celebration of Nakba Day.
  • A Palestinian from Bethlehem, Ahmad Abu Omar (32), was shot in the head with an Israeli rubber bullet as he tried to scale the Separation barrier and go to work in Jerusalem.
  • Two Israeli settler youth from Efrat, 19 and 22 years old, were arrested after a series of incidents in which they forced Palestinian vehicles off the road at gunpoint, and threatened to kill a driver. The pistols turned out, according to police, to be plastic guns.
  • 17 May

  • An Israeli Border guard vehicle was struck by gunfire near Qalandiya checkpoint.No one was injured.
  • Israeli forces demolished 2 homes, belonging respectively to the Tutanji and Ghanim families in al-Suwwana neighborhood contiguous to the Old City's eastern wall and the Mount of Olives. Twenty-three Palestinians were left homeless. Israeli authorities have designed their property for incorporation into an Israeli national park.
  • Firefighters were attacked by Palestinian residents who hurled stones at them near Modi'in Illit while putting out a fire. As a result of the attack the firefighters fled the area without putting out the fire. No firefighter was wounded. A similar incident occurred a week before on the same area.
  • 18 May

  • A Palestinian youth (18) was shot near the Karni border crossing in the Gaza Strip, allegedly for damaging with the Border fence. He was moderately wounded. Gazan farmers were shot at while endeavouring to work their fields in the Abu Reida zone east of Khuzaa.
  • Israeli forces demolished the al-Hawarin family home in Shuafat, East Jerusalem, built in 2001 after their home in Beit Hanina had been razed that year. Palestinians say the demolition was undertaken to make a road connecting settlements in the area.
  • 20 May

  • Two Palestinian youths were injured by Israeli tear-gas canisters fired in their direction. One suffered a neck wound, the other a minor foot wound. The incidents occurred during Israeli measures to disperse a crowd in the weekly Kafr Qaddum protest March
  • A Palestinian was injured by Israeli live fire east of Al-Bureij refugee camp.
  • 21 May

  • Israeli passengers reported that a gunman in a vehicle shot on an armored bus near Tuqu', causing damage to the windows. No one was injured.
  • 22 May

  • Two undercover Israeli policemen beat up a Palestinian employee of a Tel Aviv supermarket. The victim was Maysam Abu Alqian (19) from the Bedouin Negev town of Hura. The youth was later hospitalized. When asked to identify himself, he had reportedly asked the agents to show their badges. Reinforcements were called and, according to his employer Kobi Cohen, he was then assaulted by 3 policemen, though he had stood with arms folded. Cohen added:' There's only reason for it: It's because the guy was Arab.' Another eyewitness, Erez Krispin, reported that when en elderly woman queried the police during the incident, she was told to 'Fuck off before we finish you too,'" The police allege that he cursed and attacked them.
  • 23 May

  • A Palestinian girl, Sawsan Ali Dawud Mansur(17), was killed after allegedly rushing toward Israeli soldiers while wielding a knife. She was shot near the Ras Biddu checkpoint close by the Giv'on HaHadasha settlement in the West Bank. No one of the soldiers were injured.
  • 24 May

  • Israeli settlers in Hebron broke into an uninhabited Palestinian house, owned by the Al-Sayyid Ahmad and Tahboub families, who are forbidden from accessing the homes after the area was sealed off. The settlers took out several items of furniture, reportedly to be used in a bonfire customarily lit to celebrate the festival of Lag BaOmer.
  • Palestinians hurled a stone in the Jerusalem Light Rail in Shuafat, causing damage to one of the windows. No injuries were reported.
  • 25 May

  • Two Israeli Border policemen were lightly injured when Molotov cocktails were thrown which set their vehicle alight near the "Ofrit" base, close to the Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus in East Jerusalem.
  • The Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group in Gaza launched 4 rockets, one of which hit an open area in the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council district in southern Israel. It was the 9th rocket to land in Israeli territory in 2016.
  • 26 May

  • Israel mounted 2 airstrikes against sites used by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, one in Rafah, the other the Shuhada al-Qassam area west of the al-Nuseirat refugee camp, holding Hamas responsible for the rocket that hit Israeli soil the day before.
  • Molotov cocktails thought to be thrown by Palestinians caused a fire at Ofrit base on Mount Scopus near the Palestinian neighborhood of Isawiya.
  • 27 May

  • Three Palestinians were injured in protests. One was shot in the hand and foot at Kafr Qaddum by rubber bullets. A 24-year-old was shot in the foot by live fire near the Karmi crossing in the Gaza Strip. Another Palestinian teenager, 14, was reportedly shot in the thigh with live Israeli fire at the Separation near Bethlehem.
  • 29 May

  • Man lightly wounded from a stone hurled at a bus in Jerusalem.
  • 30 May

  • A Palestinian minor, Omar al-Abbushi (17) of Salfit, employed in a local Tel Avuv supermarket, lightly wounding an Israeli soldier (19) with a screwdriver and was arrested on attempting to flee.
  • 2 June

  • Ansar Hussam Harasha (25), a mother of two, was shot dead by Israeli forces after reportedly trying to stab soldier at the Innab checkpoint east of Tulkarem, near Anabta. It is not clear how she attempted to stab the soldiers if they were inside the post's concrete guard towera at the time.
  • 3 June

  • Israeli forces shot two Palestinian youths with live fire in their lower limbs during clashes overnight at Kafr Malik near Ramallah.
  • 4 June

  • Israeli forces shot Jamal Muhammad Dweikat (20) of Nablus with live fire to the head, during clashes from after midnight to dawn as they escorted Jews to visit a site known as Joseph's Tomb, which local Muslims believe is the tomb of Sheikh Yousef Dweikat. A further 10 were reportedly injured. Dweikat succumbed to his wounds on 6 June.
  • Wael Abdullah (16) was shot in the thigh with live ammunition when clashes broke out with Israeli forces at Kafr Qaddum
  • 5 June

  • The Israeli driver of an empty bus for settlers was injured when the bus was hit by rocks near the West Bank village of Hizma.
  • A passengerless Israeli bus for settlers was attacked with "steel balls" near Nablus in the West Bank. No one was injured but a window was broken.
  • 7 June

  • Palestinian gunmen open fire on Israeli vehicles near the village of Deir Abu Mash'al and the Israeli settlement of Halamish in the West Bank. One vehicle was hit by the gunfire, but no injuries were reported. A settler shot back.
  • Israeli bus driver was lightly wounded after assailants hurled rocks at a bus in Binyamin region north to Jerusalem in the West Bank.
  • 8 June

  • June 2016 Tel Aviv shooting Two Palestinian cousins, Mohammad Mahmara(Makhamri), a scholarship student of engineering, and Khaled Mahmara (21) from Yatta mounted an attack on Israelis at the Max Brenner and Benedict restaurants in the Sarona Market area of Tel Aviv, killing four people and wounding 8 others. 14 others were treated for shock The 4 killed were Ilana Nave (40), a mother of 4; Ido Ben Ari (41) a manager for Coca Cola from Ramat Gan; Michael Feige (58) a professor of sociology and anthropology at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Mila Mishayev (32) of Ashkelon, who was waiting for her fiancé. 2 of those injured were in critical condition, 2 in moderate condition while 4 received light injuries. The incident, which Tel Aviv's mayor Ron Huldai linked to Israel's continued occupation of the Palestinian territories, took place in the first week of Ramadan. In response Israel rescinded 87,000 permits to Palestinians from both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to visit family in Israel or attend prayers at the Temple Mount. It also froze 204 regular work permits for members of the shooters' extended family, A COGAT official added that their village of origin, Yatta, must undergo "a preventative root canal treatment that 'will go down in history', while Israeli Deputy Defense Minister rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan stated that life in Yatta will no longer "carry on as usual". One of the attackers, apparently in a state of shock, was offered shelter and a cup of water when mistaken for a fleeing bystander by an Israeli policeman's family, and only arrested in their home when the officer returned, having realized he was dressed like the other perpetrator.
  • 10 June

  • Hasan Khalid al-Qadhi (22/26), from Awarta, was shot and seriously wounded near Nablus, according to Israeli sources, for attempting to stab Israeli soldiers on duty at a security post. Palestinian sources state he was riding a bike at the time and that the man suffers from mental disabilities and had been detained several times until his actual mental condition was determined. On the occasion, he is said to have panicked and pedaled away on seeing soldiers and being asked to stop. One of several bullets lodged close to his spine, leaving him incapable of walking.
  • Palestinian security sources reported that an Israeli settler drove his car through a flock of Palestinian sheep, killing 25 near al-Zubeidat village in the West Bank district of Jericho.
  • 11 June

  • A home belonging to the family of Mourad Badir Adais (18) of Beit Amra west of Yatta was demolished by Israeli forces during a night-time raid on the township. The demolition was a punitive measure taken in retaliation for the stabbing to death of Dafna Meir (39) in the settlement of Otniel on January 17. Mourad Adais has been indicted as culpable of the murder.
  • 12 June

  • Overnight, 20 cars owned by Palestinians parked on Falafil street in Silwan were damaged by vandals. Palestinian sources attributed the damage to Israeli extremists.
  • Two Israelis were injured when Palestinian youths threw rocks at an Israeli bus passing through East Jerusalem. Two young men suffered head injuries while a 61 year-old woman suffered chest pains requiring hospitalisation.
  • An Israeli woman suffered light injuries near Kiryat Arba when her windscreen was hit by a rock thrown by Palestinians.
  • 13 June

  • Two Palestinian security officers, Imad Salih and Majd Salih, were lightly to moderately injured when the vehicle they were driving was pelted by stones near the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar.
  • 16 June

  • Two youths were wounded by live fire to the thighs, one critically, during an Israeli raid on the Aida Refugee Camp to rearrest two former prisoners.
  • Four molotov cocktails were thrown at a house belonging to a Jewish family in Armon HaNatziv in East Jerusalem. One molotov hit one of the house's windows and caused minor damage and the other free set the house's garden on fire.
  • Five vehicles belonging to Haitham al-Khatib, Laith Yassin, Abed al-Hamid Samara, Mujahed Birnat, and Muwaffaq al-Khatib, photojournalists, were impounded, as dozens of residents sreportedly suffered from severe tear-gas inhalation during an Israeli raid on the West Bank village of Bil'in-
  • 18 June

  • A young Palestinian man (23) suffered medium injuries from shrapnel when Israeli ordnance left over from the Battle of Shuja'iyya exploded.
  • 19 June

  • Four Palestinians were injured, and 13/26 were made homeless when Israeli forces demolished 2 housing structures in the West Bank village of Susya, together with an animal pen and an outdoor kitchen. The demolition took place during Ramadan, despite a written commitment not to enforce Israeli construction laws during this period, except in the casde of security risks. Families affected include that of Khalil Salameh Nawajaah, who had his two room brick home razed. Injuries were sustained when activists and family members were forcibly removed from the homes. After the bulldozing, the Israel unit then moved to nearby al-Dirat where it demolished other habitations. Rabbis for Human Rights leader Arik Ascherman said it was the first time in two decades that he had witnessed Palestinian homes being demolished during the Ramadan period.
  • 21 June

  • An Englishman, his Belgian wife and an Israeli woman were lightly injured on Route 443 in the West Bank, approximately between Modi'in and Beit Sira when their vehicle's windows were shattered by stones thrown by a group of Palestinians. Police believe oil was spilt on the road beforehand to maximize injuries. At least 10 vehicles were damaged by the stones thrown. The incident occurred at around 2 a.m. in the morning.
  • Israeli soldiers were dispatched to the scene. An officer from the Kfiur brigade driving an overpasso noticed a Palestinian vehicle on the parallel road and opened fire, believing it was driven by the rock-throwers. The vehicle, a taxi driven by Ehad Othman, contained five teenagers who were returning to their homes in Beit Ur al-Tahta from a swim in a pool in the nearby village of Beit Sira after the breaking of the Ramadan fast. Mahmoud Raafat Badran (15) was killed, while his two brothers, Amir (16) and Hadi (17), together with the other two passengers, their cousins, Dawood Issam Abu Hassan (16) and Majd Badran (16), the last on visit from Qatar, sustained serious wounds in the head and chest. According to Dawood Abu Hassan's testimony, an Israel man in black clothes stepped out of a Toyota, and began firing at them. The car crashed into the guardrails, and he and one other youth fled and hid under a bridge. The Qatar boys' parents were driving in a second vehicle just behind them and witnessed the incident. The driver, Othman was shot in the head, had his taxi confiscated, license revoked and had to pay his own medical expenses. Israel refused to accept responsibility. An Israeli journalistic investigation managed to get his driving rights restored. Two suspected stone-throwers were arrested,
  • 23 June

  • A Jewish boy (17) was reportedly attacked by a group of Arab youths in a park in Jaffa, and suffered several wounds from a bottle used to stab him.
  • People from as-Sawiya stated that some settlers from the Israeli settlement of Rachalim had set fire to dozens of dunams of their agricultural land near the Qabalan junction south of Nablus i
  • 24 June

  • A Palestinian youth from the Duheisha Refugee Camp was shot in the leg by live Israeli fire during clashes that arose during a pre-dawn raid on the camp.
  • Majd al-Khadour (18) of Bani Na'im was shot dead after apparently trying to ram Israeli settlers outside the settlement of Kiryat Arba. Two Israelis in their 50s were lightly injured.
  • 26 June

  • According to the director of the Al-Aqsa compound 12 Palestinians worshipers were injured by rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes with Israeli troops. Three suffered head wounds, the others were shot in the back and legs. Five were hospitalized
  • 27 June

  • Thirty-five Palestinians were hit by rubber-coated bullets in clashes with Israeli troops at Al-Aqsa.
  • 29 June

  • Wadi Fukin village sources stated that settlers from Beitar Illit, one of several in what Israelis call the Etzion bloc, raided their agricultural properties in the al-Fuwwar area destroying 2 greenhouses and plants belonging to Maher Sukkar, Jamil Assaf, Muhammad Manasra, Muhammad Saleh Manasra and Naim Daoud Attiyeh. They then sprayed the slogan " death to Arabs" on the site in a suspected Price tag policy act. Locals commented that such raids from Beitar Illit are a commonplace.
  • 30 June

  • Muhammad Nasser Tarayra, age 17 of Bani Naim infiltrated the fortified Harsanina neighbourhood of the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba and stabbed a Jewish girl, Hillel Yafa Ariel (13) of Kiryat Arba several times while she was asleep. Critically wounded, she was transported to hospital and later died of her wounds. According to some reports, he stabbed two other settlement guards before he was shot dead. A member of the volunteer security patrol, Shuki Gilboa, was shot and lost an eye when he entered the home and was attacked by the perpetrator, the shot was fired by the murdered girl's father, who fired 2 bullets, one hit the perpetrator as he was attacking Gilboa, the other hit Gilboa, who permanently lost one eye. Arrangements were made to demolish the attacker's family's home. His mother praised him as a 'hero' and shahid for in her view dying in defense of the Al Aqsa mosque. Israel locked down the township of Bani Naim, arrested the culprit's sister, Lara Nasser Tarayra (22) and his father, announced that the family home would be demolished and revoked 2,700 permits of residents to visit Israel. Israel leaders also proposed the deportation of his sister and mother from the West Bank.
  • Wail Abu Saleh (46) from Tulkarem in the West Bank was shot dead by an armed civilian in the market of Netanya after stabbing 2 Israelis, an Orthodox man in his 40s and a 62-year-old woman. Another Palestinian, Mohammad Kabaha (30), an Israeli Arab from Jaffa was arrested later on suspicion of being an accomplice for having transported Saleh into Israel.
  • References

    List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, January–June 2016 Wikipedia