Terrorism against Israel in 2001

MDT stands for Monthly Death Toll and the number after denotes how many Israeli were killed by terrorist attack this month.

Table of contents

1 January (MDT: 6 ) 2 February (MDT: 13 ) 3 March (MDT: 8 ) 4 April ( MDT: 7) 5 May 6 June 7 July 8 August 9 September 10 October 11 November 12 December

January (MDT: 6 )

• January 14: a settler murdered.
• January 17: a 16 year old Israeli youth is seduced by a Palestinian woman and murdered by her accomplices.
• January 23: two Israelis abducted from a restaurant where they had been peacefully eating and murdered.
• January 25: an Israeli killed in a shooting atack in Ataron (a suburb of Jerusalem).
• January 29: an Israeli killed in a drive-by shooting north of Jerusalem.

• February 1: two Israelis murdered in different places in the West Bank while driving in their cars.
• February 5: an Israeli soldier killed by sniper fire.
• February 11: an Israeli settler killed by gunfire while driving.
• February 14: 8 Israeli soldiers run down by a Palestinian driving a bus.
• February 26: a body of an Israeli found. Autopsy and invistigation revealed it was most likely he was killed by terrorists.

• March 1: an Israeli killed in a suicide bombing in a service taxi.
• March 4: 3 elderly Israelis killed in a suicide bombing in downtown Netanya. Hamas claimed responsibility.
• March 19: a settler killed in a gunfire attack while driving.
• March 26: an 10-months old settler babygirl, Shalevet Pas, killed by deliberate sniper fire in Hebron.
• March 28: two Israelis killed in a suicide bombing. Hamas claimed responsibility.

• April 1: an Israeli soldier killed in a firefight near Nablus. An Israeli woman stabbed to death on a Haifa street.
• April 2: an Israeli soldier killed by a sniper while guarding a Jewish religious shrine in Nablus.
• April 21: a mutilated body of an Israeli found near Ramallah, terrorists suspected.
• April 22: a Kfar-Saba doctor of American origin killed by a suicide bomber. 60 people are wounded, Hamas claimed responsibility.
• April 28: an Israeli soldier off-duty killed and 4 women injured in a drive-by shooting in the Galilee. An Israeli woman stabbed to death in Karmiel, Galilee.

• 1, a settler is killed by gunfire while driving.
• 8, a guard of an Israeli settlement killed.
• 9, two 14-year settler boys stoned to death.
• 10, two Romanian workmen are killed in a bomb attack in Gaza.
• 15, an Israeli young woman is killed by gunfire while driving.
• 18, 5 Israelis killed in a suicide bombing in Netanya. Over 100 are wounded, Hamas claimed responsibility. An Israeli soldier off-duty is killed by gunfire while driving.
• 23, an Israeli is killed while driving from a road-side ambush.
• 25, a burnt body of an Israeli is found near Tulkarem.
• 29, an Israeli settler is killed by gunfire while driving, Fatah claiming responsibility. Two other Israelis were killed north of Jerusalem.
• 31, an Israeli settler shot and killed in a drive-by shooting.

• 1, 21 Israeli young people killed by a Hamas suicide bombing near a disco club near the Tel-Aviv Dolphinarium.
• 5, a 5 month-old baby is mortally wounded by a Palestinian stone.
• 12, a Greek Orthodox churchman is killed in a drive-by shooting on the Maaleh Adumim road.
• 14, an Israeli intelligence official is killed by one of his informants.
• 18, two settlers killed in various locations by Fatah gunfire.
• 20, a settler is ambushed and killed.
• 22, two soldiers killed in a suicide explosion of a jeep that signalled for help.
• 28, a woman killed and another injured in a drive-by shooting.

• 5, a pregnant Israeli settler woman is murdered in a gunfire ambush.
• 6, an Israeli businessman killed in Amman, Jordan.
• 7, an Israeli Arab killed because of suspected collaboration with Israel; an Israeli is killed while driving.
• 9, 15 people die and 130 are injured in the Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility. An Israeli student killed in a shooting attack north of the West Bank.
• 25, 3 Israeli soldiers killed in an attack against an Israeli outpost. The DFLP claimed responsibility. 3 Israeli civilians killed by gunfire while driving near Jerusalem.
• 26, an Israeli settler is invited to an Arag village and then killed.
• 27, an Israeli settler is killed in a roadside ambush.
• 29, an Israeli fuel truck driver is killed near Nablus.
• 30, an Israeli is killed in the restaurant owned by his Arab friends.

• 2, an Israeli soldier off-duty and her boyfriend killed in a Palestinian infiltration of a Gaza settlement.
• 4, 3 people killed when terrorist opens fire in the central bus station in Afula. 13 people are injured, Fatah claimed responsibility.
• 5, an Israeli settler killed in a machine gun ambush.
• 7, an Israeli farmer killed in a suicide bombing north of Jordan Valley.
• 17, Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi is assassinated by the PFLP.
• 18, an Israeli tourist is killed while driving in a jeep in the Judean desert.
• 28, 4 people killed and 40 wounded when Palestinian policemen attack a crowded a bust stop in Hedera. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. An Israeli soldier killed in the Galilee in a drive-by shooting. Tanzim claimed responsibility.

• 1, 11 young people killed by a suicide bombing in an entertainment area in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility.
• 2, 15 are killed and more than 40 wounded in a suicide bus bombing in Haifa. Hamas claimed responsibility.
• 12, a bus full of civilians is attacked by gunfire and grenades near the settlement Emmanuel. 10 killed, more than 30 wounded. Both Hamas and Fatah accepted responsibility.
• 25, a soldier was killed by gunfire over the Jordanian border. No group claimed responsibiliy.
• 27, Karine A, an arms-smuggling ship manned mostly by Palestinian is seized by Israeli forces