Timeline in 2001

Because the background of events leading to the Zionist settlement in Palestine is so wide, the geographical scope of this timeline includes events outside the immediate theatre of Palestine.


  2001
       2001: end of Following a request from Orange, the Israel Electric Corporation connection a hilltop which settlers are calling Migron to the grid and the national water carrier connects the hilltop to the water system   >>start date

20 Dec 2001: Israeli air force bombs Gaza International Airport
13 Dec 2001: Ariel Sharon breaks Israeli contact with Yasser Arafat
12 Dec 2001: Israeli F-16 warplanes bomb Palestinian targets in West Bank and Gaza
12 Dec 2001: Attack on settler bus, in which10 settlers die

27 Nov 2001: Attack on Afula bus station
25 Nov 2001: First Israeli fatality from Palestinian rocket
22 Nov 2001: Five Palestinian children killed by landmine planted by Israeli army outside their school

24 Oct 2001: end of Israeli occupation forces invade the Bethlehem area; kill numerous Palestinian civilians; demolish homes   >>start date
17 Oct 2001: Israeli Minister Rehavam Zeevi is assassinated
16 Oct 2001: start of Israeli occupation forces invade the Bethlehem area; kill numerous Palestinian civilians; demolish homes   >>end date
   Oct 2001: First Palestinian rocket fired at Israel
   Oct 2001: Zionist pressure forces withdrawal of genetics paper from Human Immunology journal

11 Sep 2001: Attack on Twin Towers and Pentagon
08 Sep 2001: end of World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in Durban, South Africa   >>start date

31 Aug 2001: start of World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in Durban, South Africa   >>end date
27 Aug 2001: Israel assassinates Abu Ali Mustafa (head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine)
09 Aug 2001: Suicide bombing in Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem

19 Jul 2001: Jewish settlers ambush al-Itmeizi family, murdering three of them, including a 10-week-old girl
07 Jul 2001: Israeli colonial forces on the Rafah border fire heavy machine guns on a group of children playing football; one killed, two seriously wounded

20 Jun 2001: 1st World Refugee Day
18 Jun 2001: Bus bombed in Hadera
13 Jun 2001: Head of CIA negotiates ceasefire in Middle East

20 May 2001: Mitchell Commission publishes report on outbreak of intifada
   May 2001: Settlers erect a fake cellphone mast on a hilltop they call Migron and receive military permission to install a 24-hour security guard to watch it

02 Apr 2001: Assassination of Mohammed Abdel Al

26 Mar 2001: Israeli sewage reservoir dam collapses flooding Palestinian agricultural land in Gaza

13 Feb 2001: Israel assassinates Massoud Ayad
06 Feb 2001: 2001 Israeli general election

31 Jan 2001: end of Trial of Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah at Camp Zeist   >>start date
   Jan 2001: Taba peace negotiations


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