Timeline in
2002
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.
2002
30 Dec 2002: Israeli border police murder Amran Abu Hamadiya
28 Nov 2002: Attack on exclusive Israeli hotel in Mombasa
22 Nov 2002: Israeli sniper kills UN official Iain Hook
21 Nov 2002: Irish peace volunteer targeted and shot by Israeli sniper in Jenin
10 Nov 2002: Shooting attack at Kibbutz Metzer
29 Oct 2002: Israeli undercover death squad assassinates Palestinian Islamic activist
27 Oct 2002: Palestinian resistance fighter detonates a bomb at the Ariel settlement killing three soldiers
11 Oct 2002: Shaden Abu-Hijleh is assassinated in the courtyard of her home by Israeli death squad
07 Oct 2002: 14 Palestinians die in Israeli raid
19 Sep 2002: Suicide bomb on Number 4 bus on Allenby Street, Tel Aviv
11 Aug 2002: Israeli soldier shoots into windscreen of taxi driven by Meno Lehrman and carrying Gideon Levy, Miki Kratsman, Salah Haj Yehiye
10 Aug 2002: Israeli soldiers assassinate a municipal maintenance man in Nablus
01 Aug 2002: Israeli army murder Amjad Abdel Hadi Jabbur
28 Jul 2002: Settlers conduct pogrom in Hebron
22 Jul 2002: Blair and senior ministers plan regime change in Iraq at secret Downing Street meeting
22 Jul 2002: Israeli Air Force assassinates Salah Shehadeh; thirteen others killed
16 Jul 2002: Attack on settler bus in West Bank, killing seven settlers
11 Jul 2002: Israeli soldiers assassinate Imad abu Zahra, a Palestinian photographer, in Jenin.
24 Jun 2002: President Bush makes a policy speech on Israel/Palestine
21 Jun 2002: Israeli tank fires shells in crowded Jenin marketplace, killing 3 children and 1 adult
20 Jun 2002:
end of
34th Zionist Congress, in Jerusalem
>>start date
18 Jun 2002: Cherie Blair is attacked for expressing sympathy for Palestinians
17 Jun 2002:
start of
34th Zionist Congress, in Jerusalem
>>end date
18 May 2002: Israeli soldiers at a roadblock assassinate a Palestinian doctor from the village of Beit Ummar
15 May 2002: Israeli tanks fire indiscriminately into houses in Dir Al-Balah, Gaza, killing 16 year-old youth
10 May 2002:
end of
Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
>>start date
07 May 2002: Suicide bombing in Rishon Letzion
02 May 2002: Israel freezees all family reunifications between Israeli and residents of West Bank & Gaza
29 Apr 2002: Jewish terrorist group (Bat Ayin) attempts to blow up girls school in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Tur
28 Apr 2002: Israeli denies access to UN team assigned to investigate Jenin attack
24 Apr 2002:
end of
Israeli attack on Jenin
>>start date
14 Apr 2002: Israeli cabinet decides to build a system of fences, walls, ditches and barriers in the West Bank
06 Apr 2002: Israel expels Abu Dhabi TV anchor and executive producer
02 Apr 2002:
start of
Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
>>end date
30 Mar 2002: Israeli soldiers broadcast pornography on 3 occupied Palestinian TV stations
29 Mar 2002: start of Operation Defensive Shield
28 Mar 2002:
start of
Israeli attack on Jenin
>>end date
28 Mar 2002:
end of
Arab League convenes for a summit in Beirut and offers Israel a normalization treaty in return for its withdrawal to the 1967 Green Line.
>>start date
27 Mar 2002: Suicide bombing at Park Hotel in Netanya
27 Mar 2002:
start of
Arab League convenes for a summit in Beirut and offers Israel a normalization treaty in return for its withdrawal to the 1967 Green Line.
>>end date
09 Mar 2002: Suicide bombing in Cafe Moment
09 Mar 2002: Israeli air force attack Arafat's hq in Gaza
09 Mar 2002: Israeli forces storm another Palestinian refugee camp, killing several Palestinians, including a 15-year-old girl.
09 Mar 2002: Palestinian gunmen open fire on strip of hotels in Netanya
03 Mar 2002: Sniper attack on Wadi al-Haramiya checkpoint
03 Mar 2002: Five additional settler families join the security guard and his family on the hilltop which settlers have taken to calling Migron
Mar 2002:
start of
UEFA ban on international football matches in Israel
>>end date
Feb 2002:
end of
Sharon's libel suit against Ha'aretz
>>start date
21 Feb 2002: Ariel Sharon declares his support for a separation wall in the West Bank
20 Feb 2002:
end of
Israeli army murder spree against Palestinian policemen
>>start date
19 Feb 2002:
start of
Israeli army murder spree against Palestinian policemen
>>end date
10 Feb 2002: Palestinians fire first Qassam-2 rocket at Israel
24 Jan 2002: Elie Hobeika killed a few days after announcing he would testify against Ariel Sharon
10 Jan 2002: Israeli bulldozers flatten 59 houses in the Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza Strip
03 Jan 2002: Israel seizes ship, Karine A, in international waters in Red Sea
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