Terrorism against Israel in 2003

January

• January 5th: 20 people, including many foreigners, are murdered in two nearly simultaneous homicide bombings in central Tel Aviv. More than 100 others were reported seriously injured. Islamic Jihad and Yasser Arafat's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility. Another arm of Yassar Arafat's movement denied responsibility.

March

• March 5th: 17 killed, about 40 injured in explosion on bus in Haifa.

April

• April 30th: A British Muslim suicide bomber blows himself up outside Mike's Palce bar on the Tel Aviv coast. Three Israelis are killed, about 60 injured.

May

• May 18th: Palestinian suicide bomber kills seven, wounds 20 on bus in Jerusalem's French Hill district.

• May 19th: A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to a mall in the northern Israeli town of Afula[?]. Three people are killed and about 60 wounded.

June

• June 11th: 17 Israelis killed and scores wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself on board a line 14 bus in downtown Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility.

• June 17th: An Israely 7-year old girl is killed and her younger sister severely wounded when Palestinians, remed with assault rifles, attack the car they were travelling in, on road no. 6. The Al-Aqsa Brigades[?] (a division of the Fatah) calim responsibility.

• June 19th: An Israeli shopkeeper is killed in Sdei-Trumot (a village in northern Israel), when a Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up inside the shop.