Palestine timeline
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Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre was an attack on Muslim Arabs praying at the mosque in the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of... Read more
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Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty signed
The Israel–Jordan Treaty of Peace (full name: Treaty of Peace Between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan) is a peace treaty... Read more
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Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Yasser Arafat Are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
In the early 1990s, Arafat and leading Fatah officials engaged the Israeli government in a series of secret talks and negotiations that led to the... Read more
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Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Oslo II) signed
Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip or Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement, or simply the Interim Agreement, also known as Oslo... Read more
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Jaffa Road bus bombings
The Jaffa Road bus bombings were attacks on two No. 18 buses in Jerusalem, Israel in 1996. Hamas suicide bombers killed 45 people in the attacks,... Read more
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Operation Grapes of Wrath
Operation Grapes of Wrath is the Israeli Defense Forces code-name (Hezbollah calls it April War) for a sixteen-day military blitz against Lebanon... Read more
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Protocol concerning the re-deployment in Hebron
Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron, also known as The Hebron Protocol or Hebron Agreement, began January 7 and was concluded from... Read more
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1997 Ben Yehuda Street bombings
On September 4, 1997, three Hamas suicide bombers simultaneously blew themselves up on the pedestrian mall, killing 5 Israelis. The bombing was... Read more
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Wye River Memorandum signed
The Wye River Memorandum was an agreement negotiated between Israel and the Palestine Authority to implement the earlier Interim Agreement of 28... Read more
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Second (al-Aqsa) Intifada
The Second Intifada, also known as the al-Aqsa Intifada was the second Palestinian uprising, a period of intensified Palestinian-Israeli violence,... Read more
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October 2000 events
The October 2000 events is a term used to describe several days of protests in northern Israel that soon escalated into clashes between Arab... Read more
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Ramallah lynching
The 2000 Ramallah lynching was a violent incident in October 2000 of the Second Intifada in which a Palestinian mob lynched two Israeli soldiers,... Read more
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Taba Summit
The Taba summit (also known as Taba Summit, Taba Talks, Taba Conference, Taba, or permanent status talks at Taba) were talks between Israel and the... Read more
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Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing
The Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing was a terrorist attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on June 1, 2001 in which a suicide bomber blew... Read more
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Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing
Location: Jerusalem 2:00 pm – Attack type: suicide bomber Deaths: 15 Injured: 130 Perpetrator(s): Hamas The Sbarro restaurant suicide... Read more
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2001 Ben Yehuda Street bombings
On December 1, 2001 two suicide bombers detonated themselves on Ben Yehuda Street, followed by a car bomb set to go off as paramedics arrived.... Read more
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Beirut Summit/Arab Summit Conference
The Beirut Summit (also known as the Arab Summit Conference) was a meeting of the Arab League in Beirut, Lebanon in March 2002 to discuss the... Read more
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Passover massacre
Location: Netanya Attack type: suicide bomber Deaths: 30 Perpetrator(s): Hamas The Passover massacre (also known as the Netanya Bombing or... Read more
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Operation Defensive Shield
Operation Defensive Shield was a large-scale military operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002, during the course of the Second... Read more
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Matza restaurant suicide bombing
Location: Haifa, Israel Attack type: suicide bomber Deaths: 16 Injured: 40+ Perpetrator(s): Hamas The Matza restaurant suicide bombing... Read more
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Yasser Arafat Dies
The next day, chief surgeon Christian Estripeau of Percy reported that Arafat's condition had worsened, and that he had fallen into a deeper coma.... Read more
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Thousands of Palestinians Cross into Egypt, as the Border Wall With Gaza in Rafah is Blown up by Militants
The breach of the Gaza-Egypt border began on January 23, 2008, after Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip set off an explosion near the Rafah Border... Read more
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U.S.-Israel talks in Paris cancelled, increasing West Bank settlements cited
A meeting between Israel's prime minister and a senior US envoy has been cancelled amid growing differences over settlement building in the West... Read more
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Israeli Commandos Board Gaza-Bound Flotilla, Killing at Least 10
More than 10 people have been killed after Israeli naval commandos boarded six aid ships in a convoy heading towards the Gaza Strip. The fleet... Read more
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Israel Begins Deportation of Pro-Palestinian Flotilla Activists
After being held in Israel for two days, all of the Gaza aid flotilla activists are expected to be deported within hours on Wednesday, an Israeli... Read more
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