Terrorism against Israel in 2002

January

• 9, 4 Israeli soldiers belonging to a Bedouin patrol battalion are killed by two armed Palestinian attackers. Hamas claimed responsibility.
• 14, an Israeli soldier killed and another wounded in an ambush between Nablus and Tul-Karem. Fatah claimed responsibility.
• 15, 1 Israeli woman shot dead in Jerusalem, 1 man (an American citizen living in Israel) kidnapped into Nablus and shot dead there.
• 16, an Arab resident of East Jerusalem killed while driving in a car with Israeli license plates near Jenin.
• 17, 6 men and women are killed at a Bat-Mitzvah[?] ceremony in Hedera[?] by a Fatah (Al-Aqsa) gunman.
• 22, 2 women killed by a Fatah (Al-Aqsa Brigades) gunman in Jerusalem
• 25, 20 people are injured in a suicide bombing in the Old Bus Station of Tel-Aviv.
• 27, 1 elderly Israeli is killed and over 150 wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a woman associated with the Fatah movement.

February

• 6, an Israeli woman, her 11 year-old daughter and a soldier guarding them killed in a gun attack in the Israeli town of Hamra. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility.
• 8, an Israeli woman stabbed to death by several Palestinian young men while walking in a park in Jerusalem.
• 9, an elderly woman shot and killed while driving in the northern West Bank.
• 10, two Israeli soldier women killed in a shooting attack in a civilian bakery near a military base in Be'er Sheva. 4 people are injured. Hamas claimed responsibility.
• 14, 3 Israeli soldiers killed while trying to assist an ambushed civilian convoy.
• 15, an Israeli soldier killed at a roadblock near Ramallah. Fatah (Al-Aqsa) claims responsibility.
• 16, 2 young settler girls killed in a suicide bombing at a pizzeria in the northern West Bank. The PFLP claimed responsibility.
• 18, an Israeli-Arab policeman killed by a suicide bomber. Fatah (Al-Aqsa) claims responsibility. A settler woman and two soldiers trying to assist her killed in a combined shooting and bombing in Gaza. Fatah (Al-Aqsa) claims responsibility.
• 19, 6 Israeli soldiers killed in a sudden gunfire attack on a roadblock near Ramalla. Fatah (Al-Aqsa) claimed responsibility.

See also: Terrorism against Israel