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Note: This compilation includes only those attacks that resulted in casualties. Attacks which did not kill or wound are not included.
This page is a partial listing of incidents of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2004.
A shootout, also called a firefight, gunfight, or gun battle, is an armed confrontation entailing firearms between armed parties using guns, always entailing intense disagreement(s) between the fighting parties. The term can be used to describe any such fight, though it is typically used in a non-military context or to describe combat situations primarily using firearms.
Terrorism in Egypt in the 20th and 21st centuries has targeted the Egyptian government officials, Egyptian police and Egyptian army members, tourists, Sufi Mosques and the Christian minority. Many attacks have been linked to Islamic extremism, and terrorism increased in the 1990s when the Islamist movement al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya targeted high-level political leaders and killed hundreds – including civilians – in its pursuit of implementing traditional Sharia law in Egypt.
On August 18, 2011, a series of cross-border attacks with parallel attacks and mutual cover was carried out in southern Israel on Highway 12 near the Egyptian border by a squad of presumably twelve militants in four groups. The attacks occurred after Israel's interior security service Shin Bet had warned of an attack by militants in the region and Israeli troops had been stationed in the area. The militants first opened fire at an Egged No. 392 bus as it was traveling on Highway 12 in the Negev near Eilat. Several minutes later, a bomb was detonated next to an Israeli army patrol along Israel's border with Egypt. In a third attack, an anti-tank missile hit a private vehicle, killing four civilians. Eight Israelis – six civilians, one Yamam special unit police sniper and one Golani Brigade soldier—were killed in the multiple-stage attack. The Israel Defense Forces reported eight attackers killed, and Egyptian security forces reported killing another two.
From late 2011 to 2014, Kenya experienced an upsurge in violent terrorist attacks. Kenyan government officials asserted that many of the murders and blasts were carried out by al-Shabaab in retaliation for Operation Linda Nchi, a coordinated military mission between the Somalian military and Kenyan military that began in October 2011, when troops from Kenya crossed the border into the conflict zones of southern Somalia. According to Kenyan security experts, the bulk of the attacks were increasingly carried out by radicalized Kenyan youth who were hired for the purpose. Kenya security officials also indicated that they were part of death squads, which carried out many of the killings under the orders of a government security council. By mid-2014, the cumulative attacks began affecting Kenya's tourism industry, as Western nations issued travel warnings to their citizens.
The following is a chronological timeline of fatal incidents during the ongoing Sinai insurgency, which was invigorated by a period of relative instability and political turmoil in Egypt, beginning with the 2011 uprising against former autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Insurgent attacks, however, intensified significantly following the July 2013 coup that ousted Muslim Brotherhood-backed president Mohamed Morsi and subsequent crackdown on his supporters.
On 18 October 2015, a gunman shot and killed 19-year-old Israeli soldier Omri Levy in a bus station in Beersheba. After killing the soldier, he took his automatic rifle and fired into a crowd. When more security officers appeared, the gunman fled, but was killed by security personnel.
In July 2013, at the same time as mass protests began against the 3 July coup d'état which deposed Mohamed Morsi, and in parallel with the escalation of the already ongoing jihadist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, pro-Muslim Brotherhood militants started violent attacks against policemen and soldiers in central and western Egypt. In the following months, new Islamist armed groups were created to reinstate Islamist rule in Egypt, like Soldiers of Egypt and the Popular Resistance Movement. Since 2013, violence in mainland Egypt has escalated and developed into a low-level Islamist insurgency against the Egyptian government.
The Islamic State Insurgency in Tunisia referred to the low–level militant and terror activity of the Islamic State branch in Tunisia from 2015 to 2022. The activity of the Islamic State (IS) in Tunisia began in June 2015, with the Sousse attacks, though an earlier terror incident in Bardo Museum in March 2015 was claimed by ISIL, while the Tunisian government blamed Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade for the attack. Following massive border clashes near Ben Guerdane in March 2016, the activity of the IS group was described as an armed insurgency, switching from previous tactics of sporadic suicide attacks to attempts to gain territorial control. The armed insurgency was suppressed in 2022.
On 2 August 2017, a 19-year old Palestinian teen critically injured an Israeli civilian with a knife at a local supermarket in the city of Yavne, located in the Central District of Israel. The attacker was subsequently arrested after being captured by civilians who were at the spot. Police confirmed the attack was an act of terrorism.
The 2020 Vienna attack was a series of shootings that occurred on 2 November 2020 in Vienna, Austria. A few hours before the city was to enter a lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a lone gunman started shooting in the busy city centre. Four civilians were killed in the attack and 23 others were injured, seven critically, including a police officer. The attacker was killed by police and was later identified as an ISIL sympathizer. Officials said that the attack was an incident of Islamist terrorism.
On 21 November 2021, a shooting took place in the Old City of Jerusalem. Fadi Abu Shkhaydem, a 42-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem killed a 26 year old Israeli, who had made aliyah from South Africa in 2019. He injured four others before being shot dead by police.
The following is a list of events during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2022.
On 16 February 2024, a mass shooting took place at a bus station at the Re'em Junction along Highway 40 in Kiryat Malakhi, a city in Southern District, Israel. Two people were killed and four injured, with the shooter killed by an off-duty Israel Defense Force (IDF) reservist at the scene.
On 7 January 2024, a Palestinian gunman opened fire on a civilian vehicle moving along "The British Police cross section" between Route 60 and Route 465 near Wadi al-Haramiya. He targeted a vehicle with an Israeli license plate, killing a 30-year-old Arab-Israeli man from East Jerusalem. A woman, also a resident of East Jerusalem, was severely injured, and died from her wounds two weeks later.
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- 1 2 "Terror shooting attack near Ashdod kills police officer, wounds four, attacker killed". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 15 October 2024. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- 1 2 Tzuri, Matan; Turgeman, Meir (15 October 2024). "1 killed, 4 injured in shooting attack on Highway 4". Ynetnews. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- ↑ "One killed, four injured in suspected terror attack in Israel's Ashdod". news.az. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- 1 2 3 "Shooting attack on vehicles on Highway 4". MDAIS. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- ↑ "Terror attack fatality was policeman; civilian shot and killed terrorist". The Times of Israel. 15 October 2024. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
- ↑ "Policeman killed, 4 injured in terror shooting on highway near Ashdod". Times of Israel. 15 October 2024. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- ↑ Halabi, Einav (15 October 2024). "Terrorist identified in deadly Highway 4 shooting". Ynet News . Retrieved 19 October 2024.
- ↑ Syndicate, Jewish News (15 October 2024). "One dead, four wounded in suspected terrorist attack in Israel" . Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- ↑ "LIVEBLOG: Volley on Haifa area; 1 killed in shooting attack near Ashdod". Israel Hayom . Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- ↑ Algemeiner, The (15 October 2024). "One Dead, Four Wounded in Suspected Terrorist Attack in Central Israel - Algemeiner.com". www.algemeiner.com. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
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