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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (December 21-27, 2011)

This past week sporadic rocket and mortar shell fire from the Gaza Strip into the western Negev continued. Ismail Haniya, , is on a flying tour of several Arab-Muslim countries, the first since 2007. His first stop was Egypt, where he met with the Deputy General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood and high-ranking general intelligence
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (December 14-20, 2011)

Thispast week Israeli-Palestinian events focused on the second stage of the dealfor the release of Gilad Shalit. Five hundred and fifty Palestinian terroristsreleased from Israeli jails were handed over Palestinian spokesmen againstressed the need to release the remaining terrorists imprisoned in Israel,emphasizing additional abductions. The24th anniversary of the founding of Hamas was marked by a
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (December 7-13, 2011)

This past week terrorist events focused on another round of escalation in Israel’s south (December 8-10). It began with an Israeli Air Force attack which killed two terrorist operatives. One of them was an Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade operative, who was in the process of preparing a terrorist attack against Israel.
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News of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (November 30 – December 6, 2011)

This past week one rocket was fired into the western Negev from the Gaza Strip. In Lebanon, an organization called the Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed it was not responsible for the rockets fired. Reuters reported that Hamas operatives were leaving the movement’s headquarters in Damascus and that Hamas was examining options in other Arab states
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News of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (November 23-29, 2011)

On the night of November 28 three rockets were fired from south Lebanon into the western Galilee. There were no casualties but property was damaged. Sporadic rocket fire from the Gaza Strip continues to plague southern Israel. This past week two rocket hits were identified in the western Negev. On November 24 Mahmoud Abbas and
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News of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (November 16-22, 2011)

This past week two rocket hits were identified in Israeli territory. One fell near a kindergarten in the western Negev. In response Israeli aircraft struck two terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip. Contacts for the Egyptian-brokered meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mashaal continue, held to bridge over areas of disagreement. Aid convoys continue to
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For decades, the Palestinian terrorist organizations have waged a vicious war against the State of Israel, starting in the 1920s and 1930s, causing untold bloodshed. Their mass-casualty suicide bombing attacks claimed hundreds of victims. After the Six Day War, Palestinian terrorism accelerated and the number of terrorist attacks in Israel and abroad against Jewish and Israeli targets increased.

During the 1970s, planes were hijacked by terrorists from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.  After the Black September events (the removal of terrorists from Jordan in 1970), most prominent were terrorist attacks abroad carried out by a terrorist group from the Fatah organization calling itself Black September. Those attacks culminated in 1972, when 11 Israeli sportsmen were murdered at the Munich Olympics. Trans-border terrorist attacks were also carried out (attacks from Jordan until 1970 and attacks from the Lebanese border in the 1970s), some of them targeting Israeli civilians. In the 1990s, suicide bombing attacks became the main form of struggle carried out by the Palestinians, first by the radical Islamic organizations, primarily Hamas, and later also by secular organizations such as Fatah. 


There was a significant increase in terrorist attacks during the Palestinian terrorist campaign of 2000-2005 (known as the Al-Aqsa or Second Intifada), during which a great many attacks were carried out, including many suicide bombing attacks which disrupted daily life in Israel and threatened its large cities. The second half of 2015 and early 2016 witnessed a wave of terror characterized by lone-wolf attacks, mainly stabbing, vehicular and shooting attacks.