8 January: Minor rioting breaks out in East Jerusalem due to a visit to the Temple Mount by members of the Knesset's Interior Committee to investigate complaints of illegal construction.[1][2]
14 March: The body of Sergeant David Manos, an Israeli soldier who disappeared in Israel in late 1984, is discovered in the West Bank.[8] Four Palestinians from Deir Ballut would later be charged with his kidnapping and murder.[9]
30 March: Land Day demonstrations are held across the occupied Palestinian territories.[10]
April
Former Mayor of Gaza CityRashad al-Shawwa meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to propose a new peace intiative using a Gaza First approach which would see the Gaza Strip be granted autonomy under Egyptian rule.[11][12]
May
23 May: Meron Benvenisti's West Bank Data Base Project publishes a report warning that conditions in the Gaza Strip were significantly deteroriating.[13][14]
June
5 June: The nineteenth anniversary of the Six-Day War is marked. The anniversary would see a spate of attacks by Palestinian terrorists on Israeli civilians.[15]
25 July: American Vice-President George H.W. Bush arrives in Israeli for an official visit, during which he would meet with a group of Palestinian moderates.[17] Following the visit, Bush would announce additional aid for Palestinian development, to be used under a Jordanian-led programme, a move that the PLO denounces.[18]
August
September
9 September: Palestinian newspaper Al Fajr publishes the results of an opinion poll overseen by An-Najah University, Meron Benvenisti, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Newsday. The poll finds that 78% would prefer the establishment of a "democratic Palestinian state in all of Palestine" as the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict compared to 17% supporting a two-state solution, with 88% saying that the 1978 Coastal road massacre was justified.[19] The An-Najah University professor who led the poll would subsequently have his visa revoked for engaging in non-academic activity.[20]
16 September: The Cairo Amman Bank announces its intention to open a branch in Nablus, the first Arab bank to resume operations in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.[21]
27 September: First of the 1986 Ashkelon stabbings. Over the next month and a half, a group of Palestinian terrorists would carry three separate stabbing attacks against Israeli civilians from Ashkelon while they were visiting the Gaza Strip to shop.[22][23][24][25]
2 November: Balfour Day is marked by demonstrations across the occupied territories.[30]
3 November: Controversy is sparked after the Israeli government orders Palestinian Akram Haniyah deported for "hostile activity" and Fatah militancy.[31]
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