This page is a partial listing of incidents of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2006. * IDT = Israeli (civilians/soldiers) killed by Palestinians; cumulative * PDT = Palestinians (civilians/militants) killed by Israelis; cumulative.

January

*January summary: 13 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories *January 19: 20 injured in bombing at fast-food restaurant in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...

February

*February summary: 29 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Palestinian territories; 1 Israeli killed by a Palestinian man. *February 5: 1 killed, 5 injured in stabbing attack by Palestinian on Israeli taxi bus en-route to Tel Aviv.

March

* March summary: 15 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Palestinian territories; 1 Palestinian kills himself in Palestinian territories; 5 Israelis killed by Palestinians in the Territories; 2 Israelis killed in Israel by Palestinian militants (rocket). *March 1: 1 killed in shooting attack at gas station near Migdalim,

West Bank The West Bank is located on the western bank of the Jordan River and is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up the State of Palestine. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

. *March 28: 2 killed (incl. 1 child) in explosion of

Qassam rocket The Qassam rocket ( ; also ''Kassam'') is a simple, steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. These rockets cannot be fired to target specific military objectives in or near ci ...

found in western

Negev The Negev ( ; ) or Naqab (), is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. ), in the north. At its southern end is the Gulf of Aqaba and the resort town, resort city ...

area. *March 30: 4 killed (incl. 1 child) by suicide bomber posing as Jewish hitchhiker, in Kedumim in Occupied Territories.

April

*April summary: 31 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories; 1 Palestinian kills himself in Israel; 6 Israeli civilians killed by Palestinians in Israel; 10 others killed by a Palestinian in Israel. *April 17: 11 killed (including 2 Romanians, 1 French citizen, 1 US citizen and 1 dual Israeli-French citizen), over 60 injured by suicide bomber outside a fast-food restaurant in Tel Aviv after being prevented by a security guard from entering. *April 23: Two Palestinian fighters, Daniel Saba George and Arafat Mahmoud of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, were killed by the IDF in Bethlehem.

May

* May summary: 36 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories * Gaza Zoo in Rafah reportedly damaged.

June

*June summary: 41 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Palestinian territories; 2 Palestinians detained by Israelis in Palestinian territories and taken to Israel; 1 Israeli captured by Palestinians in Israel and taken to Gaza; 64 members of the

Palestinian Legislative Council The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of the Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian Authority, elected by the Palestinians, Palestinian residents of the Palestinian territories of the Wes ...

detained by Israeli forces and held in Israel as of October 24, 2006. *June 9: In the Gaza beach explosion, Israeli artillery shelling kills 8 Palestinians. *June 10: The militant

Hamas The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (the Arabic acronym from ), is a Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islam, Sunni Islamism, Islamist political organisation with a military wing, the Qassam Brigades. It has Gaza Strip under Hama ...

group calls off its truce with

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

, after seven civilians are killed in the

Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine. I ...

. More than seventy

s were launched at Israeli towns by Hamas militants since Friday morning, wounding Palestinian and Israeli civilians alike. *June 24, 03:30–04:30 local time, near

Rafah Rafah ( ) is a city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, and the capital of the Rafah Governorate. It is located south-west of Gaza City. In 2017, Rafah had a population of 171,889. Due to the Gaza war, about 1.4 million people from Gaza C ...

: Ali Muamar is beaten by Israeli soldiers, his sons Osama and Mustafa Muamar are detained and taken to an undisclosed location in Israel, and Ali Muamar is treated in hospital. *June 25: Palestinian militants infiltrate Israel through a secret tunnel and start a gunbattle at a military checkpoint – 2 Israeli soldiers and 3 Hamas militants are killed and an Israeli soldier is reported as missing and is later found out to have been captured by the militants. Israeli PM vows a fierce military response to the attack once the soldier,

Gilad Shalit Gilad Shalit (, ''Gilˁad Šaliṭ'' ; born 28 August 1986) is a former MIA soldier of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who, on 25 June 2006, was captured by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid via tunnels near the Israeli border. Ham ...

, is returned. Two infantry brigades and supporting armoured regiments are deployed along the

border, in preparation for a major offensive. *June 28: Israel starts a military operation in the Gaza strip, deploying a large number of tanks, APCs and troops in order to rescue the soldier captured in the attack three days before that. *June 29: Israeli troops detain one third of the

Palestinian government The government of Palestine is the government of the Palestinian Authority or State of Palestine. The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (EC) is the highest executive body of the Palestine Liberation Organization and ac ...

and altogether 64 members of the

, who are

members.

July

*July summary: 177 Palestinians killed by Israel security forces (1–15 July: 97 in the Palestinian Authority territories); *12 July: An

i air strike destroys the Palestinian Foreign Ministry Building in

Gaza City Gaza City, also called Gaza, is a city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, and the capital of the Gaza Governorate. Located on the Mediterranean coast, southwest of Jerusalem, it was home to Port of Gaza, Palestine's only port. With a population of ...

. An

brigade A brigade is a major tactical military unit, military formation that typically comprises three to six battalions plus supporting elements. It is roughly equivalent to an enlarged or reinforced regiment. Two or more brigades may constitute ...

enters the central

via

Kissufim crossing Kissufim () is a kibbutz in the northwestern Negev desert in Israel. Located adjacent to the Gaza Strip at an altitude of 92 meters above sea level, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In it had a population of . Histo ...

, aiming at temporarily bisecting it. Simultaneously, the

Israel Air Force The Israeli Air Force (IAF; , commonly known as , ''Kheil HaAvir'', "Air Corps") operates as the aerial and space warfare branch of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). It was founded on May 28, 1948, shortly after the Israeli Declaration of Indep ...

targets a meeting of

operational wing commanders in an apartment building in

. One Hamas leader, seven members of his family and one neighbor are killed. Top Hamas leaders

Mohammed Deif Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri (; 12 August 1965 – 13 July 2024), better known as Mohammed Deif (), was a Palestinian militant who served as the sixth commander of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. He succeeded Salah Shehade following t ...

and Abu Anas al-Ghandour, who Israeli officials claim were heavily involved in the kidnapping of Cpl.

, are moderately wounded. Fourteen additional

Palestinian militants Palestinian political violence refers to acts of violence or terrorism committed by Palestinians with the intent to accomplish political goals in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Common objectives of political violence by Pal ...

are killed in other incidents in the

. *14 July:

militants launch 5

s at the

i town of

Sderot Sderot (, , ; , sometimes Romanized as "Sederot") is a western Negev city and former development town in the Southern District (Israel), Southern District of Israel. In , it had a population of . Sderot is located less than a mile from Gaza St ...

, causing local electrical malfunctions.

i ground forces pull out of the central

, after several days of fighting in which about 30

militants were killed. Israeli forces remain in

Gaza airport Yasser Arafat International Airport ( ''Maṭār Yāsir 'Arafāt ad-Dawli'') was an airport in the Gaza Strip. It was located between Rafah and Dahaniya, close to the Egyptian border. The facility was built as a result of the Oslo Accords an ...

near

, to thwart the delivery of kidnapped soldier

into

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

. About 1,500

Palestinians Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenou ...

cross the

Gaza Gaza may refer to: Places Palestine * Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea ** Gaza City, a city in the Gaza Strip ** Gaza Governorate, a governorate in the Gaza Strip Mandatory Palestine * Gaza Sub ...

border after

attack

ian policemen stationed at

border terminal, blowing a hole in the wall near it. *15 July: Two

militants killed in two

i air strikes in the

, one of them on a house in

. *16 July: Three Palestinian militants are killed in an Israeli airstrike, soon after Israeli forces re-entered the Gaza Strip. *17 July:

militants launch ten

s against

and

Ashkelon Ashkelon ( ; , ; ) or Ashqelon, is a coastal city in the Southern District (Israel), Southern District of Israel on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast, south of Tel Aviv, and north of the border with the Gaza Strip. The modern city i ...

, causing damage in residential areas but no casualties.

strikes kill five militants and one civilian in the

strikes the

Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...

Foreign Ministry for a second time in a week, wounding 5 people. *19 July: At least nine

have been killed in fresh Israeli operations in

and the

. *28 July: The mutilated body of Dr. Danny Yaakovi, an

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

, is found in the

. *30 July: The

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is the Earth, global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the stated purpose of maintaining international peace and internationa ...

compound in

is stormed and ransacked by

protesting the 2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis. Members of the Islamic Jihad militant group threw stones and fired assault rifles. Eight vehicles were damaged and five people were wounded.

August

* 10 August: An Italian tourist is stabbed to death by a Palestinian affiliated with

Palestinian Islamic Jihad The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (, ''Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn''), commonly known simply as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), is a Palestinian Islamist paramilitary organization formed in 1981. PIJ formed as an offsh ...

in the Old City of

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

. * August 19: An Israeli citizen is shot and killed by a Palestinian in Bkaot in the Bikaa region in Israel.

November

* 23 November:

Fatma Omar An-Najar Fatma Omar Mahmoud An-Najar (; died November 23, 2006) was a Palestinian grandmother and suicide bomber who lived in the Gaza Strip. On November 23, 2006, she detonated explosives she was wearing on a belt, and injured several Israeli soldiers nea ...

detonated explosives she was wearing on a belt and injured several Israeli soldiers near

Beit Lahia Beit Lahia or Beit Lahiya () is a city in the Gaza Strip, north of Jabalia, in the North Gaza Governorate of the State of Palestine. It sits next to Beit Hanoun and close to the border with Israel. According to the Palestinian Central Burea ...

and the

Jabalia Camp Jabalia Camp () is a Palestinian refugee camp in the North Gaza Governorate of the Gaza Strip, north of Jabalia. It is the largest refugee camp in Palestine, with more than 100,000 inhabitants. The camp only covers an area of 1.4 km2 making i ...

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Casualties of WarPalestinian terrorism since September 2000
(from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
List of victims
(from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Fatalities
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*2006

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

Terrorist incidents in Israel in 2006