Timeline Of The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict In 2014

This is a list of individual incidents and statistical breakdowns of incidents of violence between Israel and Palestinian dissident factions in 2014 as part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Overview

2,314 Palestinians were killed and 17,125 injured by Israeli operations in 2014, a rise from 39 deaths and 3,964 injuries caused in the previous year, according to UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Over the same period 87 Israelis were killed, and 2,629 injured. The majority of casualties occurred during the Gaza War, but 58 Palestinians were killed and 6,028 injured in the West Bank, the highest figure since 2007. Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians, mostly settlers, and security forces resulted in 12 fatalities, compared to 4 the previous year.
In 2014, the Israeli military administration in the West Bank demolished 493 structures and homes of 969 Palestinians; 97 buildings in East Jerusalem; the homes of 208 Palestinians in East Jerusalem; and an average of 9 Palestinian buildings per week.

According to the United States Human Rights Report for the year, the most significant human rights abuses across the occupied territories by multiple actors consisted of excessive use of force against civilians, including killings; arbitrary arrest and associated torture and abuse, often with impunity.' The Report states also that Palestinian detainees suffered abuses, particularly during arrest and interrogation, properties were confiscated or demolished, and limitations were placed on freedom of expression, assembly, and association. In addition, severe restrictions were imposed on Palestinians' internal and external freedom of movement.

January 2014

In January 2014, six Palestinians (two in Gaza; four in the West Bank), five of whom were civilians, were killed by Israeli forces. 219 Palestinians, of whom 216 were civilians and 43 children, suffered injuries (41 in Gaza, 178 in the West Bank). Throughout the same period, there were no Israeli fatalities, and nine people, of whom eight civilians, were injured. Two civilians, of whom was a 16-year-old boy, were shot dead by Israeli forces allegedly without warning for being too close to the border perimeter. 22 Palestinian civilians were injured (16 by live fire) in demonstrations, in which stones were thrown, east of Jabaliya. The protests were related to Israeli restrictions on access to land.

There were 29 attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in their occupied territories, resulting in eight Palestinians injured, and nearly 1,000 trees and eighteen vehicles vandalized. Settler violence from Yitzhar, Bracha, and Shilo outposts in the Nablus Governorate were particularly notable.

Seven clashes between school children and IDF forces deployed near Palestinian schools, involving stone-throwing near school entrances led to military responses using tear gas, rubber-coated metal bullets, and child arrests were registered for early January, especially near the Al Khadr school in Bethlehem. 106 Palestinian buildings were demolished by Israeli forces in the West Bank, and 183 Palestinians suffered displacement. During 434 search operations on the West Bank, 491 Palestinians were detained. On 31 January airstrikes, mostly in Beit Lahiya, killed approximately 1,200 heads of livestock on farms in the Gaza, including 150 cattle, 400 rabbits, 600 pigeons and 60 hens, while damaging five homes, two schools, and educational centre and an office.
* On 3 January 2014, the IDF shot Adnan Jamil Shehdeh Abu Khater (16) of Jabaliya, claiming he was trying to sabotage the border fence. He died later that day. B'Tselem stated that Abu Khater had not participated in hostilities."Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories, after operation Cast Lead"
B'Tselem. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
* On 22 January 2014, two Gazans were killed in an airstrike: Muhammad Yusef Ahmad a-Z'anin (23) of Beit Hanoun, a non-belligerent, was killed. Ahmad a-Z'anin (21), a member of the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was the target assassinated by missile fire from the IAF. Both were sitting outside the latter's house when killed.
* On 24 January 2014, Bilal Samir Ahmad Aweidah (19) of Beit Lahiya, a non-belligerent, was shot dead in the chest by the IDF in a-Sayfa, after walking within several metres of the border fence with friends.
* On 29 January 2014, Muhammad Mahmoud Mubarak (20) of al-Jalazon Refugee Camp was shot dead by the IDF near Ein Siniya. Israeli reports say he opened fire at a military tower near the Israeli settlement of Ofra. According to Palestinian eyewitnesses, he was a labourer on a USAID project repaving the main road in Ein Siniya, and had earlier directed traffic. Soldiers arrived, forced him to undress, then dress again, ordered him to march, and then shot him and blocked the arrival of medics and an ambulance to succor him.

February 2014

Three Palestinian civilians (two in Gaza; one in the West Bank) were shot dead by Israeli forces, while 221, of whom 219 were civilians and 53 children, were injured (40 in Gaza and 181 in the West Bank). In the same period, no Israelis were killed, and six were injured, of whom five were civilians. Twenty three incidents settler-related incidents, dix involving injuries to a person, and seventeen resulting in damage to Palestinian properties were registered. Three settlers were injured, and one settlement was damaged. Over January and February, the Israeli Air Force, conducted 23 airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, mostly on military sites over Gaza City, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, in response to mortar and rocket fire. This was one more than the total number of such strikes throughout 2013. Three of these involved targeted killing airstrikes, killing one alleged militant and injuring two, with one civilian bystander killed in collateral damage, and three civilians, including an eleven-year-old boy. Through January to February, five civilians were killed and 79 injured by IDF operations in the Gaza Strip, including four children and three suffered injuries related to airstrikes. The Israeli government demolished 17 Palestinian dwellings, of which nine in Jerusalem. 236 IDF searches were conducted in the West Bank, and 295 Palestinians were detained.''The Monthly Humanitarian Bulletin February - February 2014''
, ochaopt.org; 20 March 2014.
* On 13 February 2014, Ibrahim Salman Muhammad Mansur (35) of Gaza City, a non-belligerent, was shot dead with a bullet to the head from an Israeli military tower while collecting gravel from 100 to several hundred meters from the Gaza-Israel border fence. Israeli sources claim he was tampering with the fence. Another Palestinian was wounded in the incident. Survivors say no warning was given.
* On 27 February 2014, Mu'taz Abd a-Rahim Ahmad Washahah (26) of Bir Zeit was machine-gunned to death (45 bullets) at close range at his home when he refused to be arrested by Israeli security forces, on suspicion that he was a terrorist. Palestinians stated that Washahah had earlier fired shots at a bridge between Bir Zeit and an illegal Israeli settlement rumoured to have surveillance cameras, but had not targeted anyone. The family house was shelled, and he was killed when Israeli forces stormed it. Locals report his two brothers were arrested after having their hands tied behind their backs and their legs and arms broken with rocks. The soldiers responded with tear gas and bullets, both rubber and live. During the operation, a man trying to extinguish a fire in his car when the IDF threw a sound-bomb into it was shot with a rubber bullet, a camera was shot out of a Bir Zeit University student's hand as she took photos of the scene, causing nerve damage to her fingers, and an 18-year-old boy, Majid al Hamouri was shot in the leg.
* On 28 February 2014, Amneh Atiyyah Mahmoud Qdeih (58) of Khuza'a, a mentally disturbed woman was shot from an Israeli military tower while she was in the vicinity of the Gaza border. She had reportedly lost her way after a wedding ceremony nearby. She was found by relatives the day after, and taken to hospital, where she died on 1 March.Jack Khoury, Gili Cohen, Amira Hass and Reutersbr>"Israeli military kills Palestinian woman near Gaza border"
Haaretz, 2 March 2014.

March 2014

Eleven Palestinians (including seven civilians) were killed and 236 (seventeen in Gaza, 219 in the West Bank), of whom 234 were civilians, and 68 children, were wounded, in clashes with Israeli forces in March 2014. There were no Israeli fatalities; five soldiers were injured. Nine Palestinians were injured in settler attacks, 24 Palestinian properties were damaged, as opposed to one incident where settler property was damaged. Another eleven Gaza residents were injured by the explosion of military ordnance. New settlement activities on land claimed as Palestinian private property took place this month in the northern Jordan Valley. Fifteen dunams of private Palestinian land, declared for Israeli military use in the 1990s and lying next to the Ro'i settlement; an Israeli settler began to farm fifty dunams of Palestinian land he fenced off in Khan al-Ahmar east of Jerusalem, between the settlements of Ma'ale Adumim, Kfar Adumim and Anatot.

In the first quarter of 2014, sixteen clashes, involving Israel search and arrest operations and forced entry into schools, resulting in injuries from tear gas and damage to school property were registered by UNICEF.''The Monthly Humanitarian Bulletin - March 2014''
, ochaopt.org. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
* On 3 March 2014, Sharif Yusef Ahmad Naser (21) and Mus'ab Musa Saber a-Z'anin (21) both of Beit Hanoun were killed when an IAF missile hit them as they were attempting to fire a rocket at Israel.
* On 10 March 2014, Raed Alaa a-Din Nafe'a Z'either (also spelled Zuaiter; aged 38), originally from Nablus, a Jordanian-Palestinian judge with a doctorate in international law, was shot dead, although unarmed, by IDF soldiers at the Allenby Bridge Border Crossing, after arguing with a soldier and pushing him. Israeli officials allege he tried to grab a rifle. It was also claimed he was a terrorist, who shouted "Allahu Akbar" while wielding a metal pole, and then trying to strangle a soldier. Witnesses denied this version, saying Z'either was smoking a cigarette when he was pushed by a border guard and asked not to be insulted. The soldier in the scuffle shot him, and another killed him. The Israeli government later apologized. According to an Al-Haq investigation based on affidavits, Z'either was pushed for being late to board to bus, and pushed the soldier back, a scuffle ensued. Other soldiers arrived, he was pushed to the ground, and began shouting in protest at his maltreatment while walking towards the soldiers, waving his arms. At a distance of four yards away, he was shot once, and then shot again three times.
* On 10 March 2014, Saji Sayel Muhammad Jarab'ah (20) of Beitin died from bullet wounds to the head when ambushed by IDF soldiers near Route 60. Israeli sources say he had been throwing stones earlier.
* On 11 March 2014, Shaher Hamuda Mahmoud Abu Shanab (23), Abd a-Shafi Saleh Mahmoud Abu Mu'ammar (33) and Isma'il Hamed Abed Abu Judahan (22), all Islamic Jihad militants of Um a-Naser in the Rafah district, were killed by an IAF missile while firing mortar shells.
* On 19 March, Yusef a-Shawamreh (14) of Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa in the Hebron Governorate, was shot dead after being ambushed by IDF soldiers as he and two friends snuck through a gap in the separation barrier to gather edible tumble thistles on family land to which the barrier denies them access.
* On 22 March 2014, Yazan Mahmoud Bassem Jabarin (19), a member of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, from Jenin refugee camp, was shot dead while throwing a molotov cocktail at Israeli security personnel during a clash between camp refugees and troops raiding the camp to arrest Hamzah Jamal Abd a-Salam Abu al-Heija (21), a member of Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades. Abu al-Haija refused to surrender, and anti-tank shells were lobbed into his house.al-Heija exchanged gunfire, a rocket was fired into his home and he was shot dead outside. A third person, Muhammad Omar Saleh Abu Zeinah (21), a member of Islamic Jihad's al-Quds Brigades was shot dead while carrying al-Heija's body.

Furious Palestinian leaders complained that the deaths raised to sixty the number of Palestinians killed by the IDF since the American-sponsored 2013–14 Israeli–Palestinian peace talks began in mid-2013.

April 2014

284 Palestinians (including 281 civilians, 92 of whom were children), were injured in clashes with Israeli forces. An Israeli settler was killed by Palestinians near Hebron. Fifteen Israelis were injured, including six civilians. 196 Palestinian children were held in detention over April, and 90 were displaced by house demolitions, which spoked in this month with 87 demolitions in Area C. Many of the structures torn down were built with funds from foreign donors. On 6 April, the Israeli Civil Administration declared 1,000 dunums of land in Area C in the Bethlehem Governorate, as Israeli government property, forbidding access by Palestinians to the area.

The majority of the 87 demolitions this month took place in Area C, a third in the Jordan Valley, and several affected three Bedouin communities: Al Jaw'wana, Humsa al Buqai', Tell al Khashabah and the community of Jabal al Baba community. These led to 171 people being left homeless, half of them children. Four Palestinian structures were demolished in East Jerusalem, displacing eight people.''The Monthly Humanitarian Bulletin: April 2014''
, ochaopt.org. Retrieved 22 May 2014.

May 2014

In May, two Palestinians were killed on the West Bank, and 266, of which 246 were civilians, were injured, twenty in the Gaza Strip. OCHA documented a total of 27 incidents involving settler violence in the West Bank. Thirteen Palestinians, including eight children, were hurt in conflicts with settlers or due to use of live ammunition by Israeli forces intervening between the two. There were no Israeli fatal casualties, but 68 were injured, 28 of whom were civilians. At least 355, mainly olive, trees were uprooted by settlers. Five settler attacks took place in the vicinity of the Bat Ayin settlement in the Bethlehem Governorate. On 15 May 2014, fifty grape-trees and five olive trees belonging to a Beit Ummar family, were cut down by settlers.

* On 1 May 2014, Shelly Dadon (19) of Afula was murdered by a Palestinian taxi driver, Hussein Yousef Khalifa (34), from whom she had sought a ride.
* On 5 May 2014, a large swastika was spray-painted on the tomb of a rabbi who lived in the Galilee in the first and second centuries.
* On 15 May 2014, two Palestinian teenagers, Nadim Nuwara (17) and Muhammad Abu Thahr (16) were shot dead at the same site, each while walking away some distance from the protest, and reportedly by Israeli Border Police, within an hour of each other after a solidarity demonstration outside the jail in Beitunia. In both cases, video caught the event in real time. Neither of the youths was armed. Israeli sources at first dismissed the shootings shown on the videos as a fiction staged by Palestinians. In November, after forensic examination on a bullet that killed one of the victims revealed its provenance in Israeli equipment, a border policeman was arrested on suspicion of the unauthorized use of lethal arms with regard to Nuwara's death,"Israeli border policeman arrested over Palestinian boy's killing"
Reuters, 12 November 2014. and was indicted and charged with manslaughter. The indictment stated that " e defendant used the blanks magazine so that his live fire, as opposed to rubber-bullet fire, would not be observed", and that he targeted Nuwara's torso "with the intent of causing him grave injury, and while anticipating the possibility that he would cause his death."

June 2014

The IDF conducted 767 raids in the West Bank and East Jerusalem between 1 June and 31 August 2014, following the abduction of three Israeli teenagers. Seven people were killed during confrontations with IDF soldiers conducting search operations. For the period May–June the number of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces totaled 100.''The Monthly Humanitarian Bulletin: June-August 2014''
, ochaopt.org; 3 October 2014.

* On 12 June 2014, three Israeli youths were kidnapped by two Hamas-affiliated militants from Hebron and, apparently. almost immediately shot dead.
* On 16 June 2014, the IDF shot and wounded a Palestinian caught trying to set fire to the fence of a Jewish town.
:The IDF shot dead a Palestinian, Ahmed Sabarin (Ahmad Arafat Husseini Samad'ah) (21) at the Al-Jalazone refugee camp during a night raid in which he threw rocks. Two others were wounded during clashes protesting the search operation.
* On 20 June 2014, Mustafa Husseini Taher Aslan (23) of Qalandiya Camp, al-Quds district, threw improvised grenade was thrown at a soldier in the incident, who suffered light wounds. He was shot by the soldiers.
::Muhammad Jihad Muhammad Dudin (15) of Dura, Hebron was among a group of stone-throwing youths, as troops who had engaged in a search raid were withdrawing from the town at 05:30 Operation Brother's Keeper. The soldiers, in retaliation for the stone-throwing, shot Israeli troops arrived in the town at 22:00. Throughout the night hundreds of children and teens threw stones and were shot at with tear gas. Mohammad watched from his window at least until 03:30. Soldiers raided numerous homes. The withdrawal began at 04:45. The last column began to leave just after 05:00. According to his family, Mohammad left his house secretly before dawn. His cousin and neighbor Mahmoud Dudin (21) was an eyewitness and recounted that suddenly a soldier imn the rearguard wheeled round and aimed at the demonstrating youngsters at 80 metres, and fired 6 live-fire shots. Mohammad called on his cousin to help him, after he was hit. His last words were:' "Take care of yourself, take care of my parents, I love them."
* On 22 Jun 2014, Ahmad Sa'id So'ud Khaled (27) of Ein Beit al-Ma' refugee camp in the Nablus Governorate, was shot with several rounds in Nablus. Khaled suffered from mental illness and epilepsy, and failed to stop while called on to halt, as he walked in the direct of Israeli troops. His family said he had been on the way to dawn prayers at the local Omer Ben al-Khattab Mosque. Soldiers raiding houses 10 metres from his own shot at him at a distance of 30 metres and 4 bullets hit him in the abdomen, back, right thigh and right shoulder.
* On 27 June 2014, Osamah Hassan Musa al-Hassumi (28) of Beit Lahiya, and Muhammad Muhammad Ramadan al-Fasih (22) of Gaza City, both members of the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, were killed in a targeted assassination at Al-Shati refugee camp by an IAF missile. The strike occurred while they were travelling in a car.
* On 29 June 2014, Muhammad Zayed Salem Obeid (26) of Wadi as-Salqa, in the Deir al-Balah Governorate, a Hamas militant, was killed by an IAF drone-launched missile strike.

July 2014

According to Shin Bet, in July 2014 Palestinians carried out a record number of attacks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem against settlers and Israeli forces: in 507 incidents, 90% involved the throwing of firebombs, compared to 100 such incidents in May. According to OCHA, these clashes were triggered by the Israeli crackdown in the West Bank after the abduction of three Israeli youths.

* On 1 July 2014, a teenager, Yusef Ahmad Bani Gharrah (also known as Yousef Abu Zagha), of Jenin refugee camp was killed by multiple wounds in his upper torso while out walking with several other young men. The incident occurred during an arrest raid and the shots were fired by uniformed and plainclothes Israeli security forces. Israeli sources claim he was a Hamas militant on the point of throwing an explosive device.
::A mob consisting of several hundred Jews, who had participated in a demonstration with MK Michael Ben-Ari and Itamar Ben-Gvir ( Jewish National Front), went on a rampage through Jerusalem. The group shouted slogans like " death to Arabs", "a Jew is a brother, an Arab is a bastard", "we want war", "Mohammed is dead", and "Kahane was right", and attacked five Arab bystanders, two of whom required medical treatment. A McDonald's restaurant was attacked on suspicion that Arabs were employed there. Three Palestinian laborers eating their evening meal in a parking lot were cornered by 100 youths who attacked them until undercover police arrested three of the assailants.

* On 2 July 2014, a day after the burial of the three Israeli teenagers, a Palestinian boy, Mohammed Abu Khdeir (also spelled Mohammad Abu Khdair), was kidnapped, doused in petrol and torched just outside Jerusalem, in retaliation. Later that day, at least 35 Palestinians and journalists were injured by riot control police use of rubber-bullets in a violent demonstration, involving stone-throwing and fireworks, protesting the murder of Abu Khdeir (or Abu Khdair) at Shuafat, East Jerusalem.
* On 8 July, war broke out between Israel and Hamas. In the ensuing conflict, 72 Israelis died (66 soldiers and 6 civilians). Among Gazans, 2,192 died (1,523 believed to be civilians, including 519 children; 70% under age 12) and 269 women. 557 of these were identified as militants, and 146 are of unknown status.''Humanitarian Bulletin Monthly Report, June-August 2014''
, ochaopt.org, 30 September 2014. Some 11,000 Gazans were wounded, and 500,000 displaced from their homes.
* On 14 July 2014, Munir Ahmad Hamdan al-Badarin (18), of as-Samu, Hebron Governorate, was ambushed by an IDF unit sometime after 05:45, while he and some others were engaged in stone-throwing, near the entrance to their village, at Route 317. Eight others in the group were pursued and fired on with rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas at them. The IDF said they'd fired at his legs, but he was hit in the waist.
* On 21 July 2014, Alaa Jihad Ahmad a-Sghayer (20), of Idhna, Hebron Governorate, was seriously wounded by IDF gunfire responding to his throwing of firecrackers in protest at Operation Protective Edge. He died eight days later on 29 July 2014.
* On 21 July 2014, Mahmoud Hatem Mahmoud Shawamreh (26), of Al-Ram, was shot dead by the IDF, after he and a group of young men fled on sighting an IDF jeep, as they prepared to throw Molotov cocktails. Shawamreh tried to lob a Molotov cocktail at his pursuers, and he was shot three times with live ammunition a military jeep.
* On 22 July 2014, Mahmoud Saleh Ali Hamamreh (29), of Husan, Bethlehem Governorate, was shot in the chest by the IDF as he emerged from his grocery store to witness a clash, and died shortly afterwards on the following day. An IDF spokesperson stated the unit had fired rubber-coated metal bullets at some fifty Palestinians involved in throwing stones and Molotov cocktails.
* On 23 July 2014, Mohammad Qasem Hamamreh (19) was hit in the head with a tear gas canister at 07:00, after attending Mahmoud Hamamreh's funeral in Husan, during a clash in which he participated. He died the following day in hospital.
* On 24 July 2014, Muhammad Ziad Abd al-Fatah A'araj (17), of Qalandiya, al-Quds Governorate, was killed after being shot in the head, arm and leg by live ammunition in Qalandia refugee camp, while protesting the military's actions in Operation Protective Edge. According to B'Tselem, he was unarmed, contrary to what Israeli officials allege. Some Palestinian gunfire occurred after he was killed.
* On 25 July 2014, Eid Rabah Abd al-Qader Fdeilat (28) of al-Arrub refugee camp, Hebron Governorate was shot in both his chest and legs as he fled, after quarreling with IDF soldiers at a flying roadblock near his home. The altercation arose as he protested that the roadblock hindered his brothers from coming to break their Ramadan Iftar meal at his home. The IDF account said he tried to wrest a rifle from a soldier.
* On 25 July 2014, Nasri Mahmoud Nasri Taqatqah (14) of Beit Fajjar, Bethlehem Governorate, was killed by IDF fire during a demonstration in his village.
* On 25 July 2014, ATayeb Saleh Muhammad Saleh Shhadeh (20) of Huwara, Nablus Governorate, was shot in the head when he fired firecrackers at police officers in clashes that erupted shortly after the fatal shooting of a Palestinian by a settler."13 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in West Bank since Operation Protective Edge began: Excessive use of live fire suspected"
B'Tselem Press Release, 29 July 2014.
* On 25 July 2014, three residents of Beit Ummar, Hebron Governorate, Hashem Abu Mariyah (50), Sultan Yusef Muhammad a-Shaqadam (Sultan Za'aqiq) (30) and Abd Alhamid Al Brigheith (38), were shot dead as Israeli forces used live fire to disperse a demonstration, which began as a procession at noon from the 'Asidah Mosque after noon prayers. Several villagers tried get close to an IDF military tower to throw stonesd. Abu Mariiyah, an advocate of children's rights working for the Defense for Children International – Palestine NGO was shot in the chest at 14:00 while standing alone by a side-street inside the village, far from the military watch tower, and reportedly waiting for the chance to cross a street. The other two stood among a group of roughly three dozen boys and men. Sultan Za'aqiq, who had thrown stones, was shot in the chest and back at 14:20 by an IDF soldier on a rooftop some 60 meters away; Al Brigheith, who had not engaged in stone-throwing, was shot in the legs and abdomen as he ran to try and succor the fallen Sultan Za'aqiq. Human Rights Watch, after an investigation, called the deaths a case of reckless and unlawful killings by Israel.
* On 25 July 2014, Eid Fdeilat (26), of the al-Arroub refugee camp, Hebron Governorate, was shot as he attempted to go over a road to join his brothers at the breaking of the Ramadan fast. IDF Soldiers at the camp exit gates refused to allow him to pass. A scuffle left a soldier on the ground. Fdeilat fled, and he was gunned down by live ammunition hits to the back and shoulder. The IDF said he'd tried to snatch a soldier's rifle.
* On 26 July 2014, Khaled Odeh and Tayeb Odeh (21), both from Huwara, Nablus Governorate, were killed when demonstrators, in procession from the village mosque, encounter settlers in a car, and threw stones at it. On their way, the demonstrators encountered settlers in a vehicle and one youth threw stones at it. Khaled was killed when one passengers shot with live fire. A clash erupted between the demonstrators and Israeli soldiers, and the IDF shot Tayeb in the head, killing him. A Border Police spokesperson said the demonstrator had been shot after he had thrown firecrackers at them from close range.
* On 26 July 2014, Bassem Sati Sadeq Abu a-Rob (18) of Qabatiya, Jenin Governorate, was shot in the chest, and died on 29 July 2014. A demonstration was underway consisting of several thousand people, marching from Jenin towards the Jalameh checkpoint 200 yards away. The killing occurred after he lobbed a Molotov cocktail in the direction of IDF troops, during a demonstration against Israel's military operations in the West Bank.

According to B'Tselem, in the roughly three-week period since the opening of hostilities (July 7) to month's end, Israeli fire wounded at least 577 Palestinians in the West Bank, 388 being shot with live fire rounds, and most were hit in the lower torso and limbs. Palestinians report that 0.22-inch-caliber bullets apparently ruled out for dispersing demonstrations or public disturbances, and snipers, were being used.

August 2014

* On 1 August 2014, Tammer Faraj Muhammad Qab (20) of Deir al-Ghusun, Tulkarm Governorate, was shot in the chest and killed in Tulkarm by IDF soldiers during a protest demonstration against Israel's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza
* On 1 August 2014, Udai Nafez Fakhri Jaber (19) of Rafat, al-Quds Governorate was shot in the chest and killed in Saffa by Border police for throwing stones at them, during a demonstration against Israel's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.
* On 4 August 2014, an apparently lone gunman shot and wounded a soldier who had been patrolling Mount Scopus.
* On 4 August 2014, a Palestinian man drove an excavator type of tractor out of a construction site, injuring several pedestrians and killing one man before ramming the tractor into a public bus.
* On 8 August 2014, Muhammad Ahmad Yusef Qatri (18) of al-Am'ari refugee camp, was shot in the chest and killed near the settlement of Pisgot by an Israeli soldiers after throwing stones during a protest against Israel's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.
* On 8 August 2014, Nader Muhammad Sa'di Abd al-Ghani Idris (42) was shot in the chest and killed in Saffa, Ramallah by Border police during a protest against Israel's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. He died the following day.
* On 10 August 2014, Khalil Muhammad Ahmad al-'Anati (10) of al-Fawwar refugee camp, Hebron Governorate, was shot in the back and killed while in a company of boys who were throwing stones at a military jeep.
* On 11 August 2014, Zakaria Musa Da'ud Sa'id (22) of Qabalan, Nablus Governorate was killed in Qabalan after suffering from several gunshot wounds to the face and body fired by undercover Israel Border Police officers, during a firefight occasioned by an attempt to arrest him.
* On 11 August, according to a Hebron mother of twelve, Jihad al-Atrash, a Jewish intruder concussed al-Atrash's four-year-old son, by pushing him off the balcony of her house in a dispute, causing him problems in walking properly.
* On 22 August 2014 Hassan Hazem Abd al-Hamid Ashur (16) of Nablus was shot during a demonstration against Israel's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, by IDF forces in Beit Furik, and died three days later.
* On 31 August 2014 Muhammad Abd al-Hamid Ibrahim Sinuqrut (15) of Wadi al-Joz, East Jerusalem was wounded by a sponge round shot by Israeli police which caused a fatal head wound, and died on 4 September 2014.

September

* On 10 September 2014, Issa Khaled Issa Qatri (22) of al-Am'ari refugee was shot in the chest while watching an arrest operation by Israeli troops. The IDF alleges he tried to lob a pipe-bomb their way.
* On 16 September 2014, an Israeli construction worker, Netaniel Arami (27), fell from the 11th floor of a building where he was working, closing vents using a rappeller's cables. His family, as well as Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin, deputy speaker of the Knesset, and some websites, suggested he had been murdered by Arab co-workers. The police initially insisted his death was accidental. In late November, it emerged that Shin Bet had arrested three suspects on suspicion it was a nationalistically motivated crime. They were subsequently released for lack of evidence. The investigation is now treating it as a terror crime, and his family have been recognized as victims of terror.
* On 23 September 2014, Marwan Qawasmeh (29) and Amar Abu-Isa (32), both of Hebron, the suspected killers of 3 Israeli youths, were shot dead as they exchanged fire with IDF forces attempting to arrest them.

October 2014

Tensions in East Jerusalem began to rise in late October, as the number of Palestinian Jerusalemites injured by Israeli forces since 1 July rose to 1,333 (among which 80 children), while four had been shot dead. In the same period, three Israelis were killed and 65, of whom 33 were civilians, suffered injuries from Palestinians. Seventeen incidents of Palestinians throwing stones in the West Bank and East Jerusalem at Israeli vehicles and buses were reported, occasioning five injuries while Israeli authorities demolished 33 structures in the West Bank and east Jerusalem through 28 October to 4 November for lack of permits, bringing the overall number of demolitions of Palestinian property this year to 552 by 3 November.Protection of Civilians 28 October – 3 November 2014
OCHA 7 November 2014.
* On 16 October 2014, Bahaa a-Din Samir Musa Bader (12) of Beit Liqya in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate was shot dead by soldiers as clashes arose when the latter attempted to deliver a suppoena to a village resident. IDF sources say he was shot after throwing a Molotov cocktail in their direction.
* On 17 October 2014, a mob of eleven Jewish men, cursing Arabs, assaulted a Palestinian male, Muhammad Azzam (20), an employee of the Rimonim Shalom Hotel in Jerusalem, and reportedly tried to strangle him with a rope. He was rescued by security guards and taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center for treatment.
* On 19 October 2014, A settler from Yitzhar struck 2 Palestinian -5 and 8-year-old girls with his car while they got off their school bus to return home from their kindergarten near the village of Sinjil. One of the girls, Einas Khalil, was killed; the other Nilin Asfour, sustained serious injuries. The driver fled from the scene for fear of being lynched. He immediately reported the incident and stopped at Ofra, the closest Jewish town on his way. Israeli police concluded it was an accident. Palestinians at the scene asserted it was deliberate. The accident took place o
Highway 60
an intercity road where the speed limit is 80 km/h (50 Miles/h).
* On 22 October, Adbel-Rahman Shaloudi, a 21-year-old Palestinian, who is said to have joined Hamas in prison, and who came from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan

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