This is a detailed list of Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks on Israel in 2018. All of the attacks originated in the Gaza Strip, unless stated otherwise. For information pertaining to the wider conflict, see Arab–Israeli conflict and Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This list does not include reports of deaths and injuries caused by Hamas rocket and mortar attacks that fell within Gaza.
In August 2014, Operation Protective Edge was ended after 4,594 rockets and mortars launched toward Israel. From the end of the operation came into force an unofficial cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
January
January 1
Around 9pm, two rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel. One fell short in Gaza, The other in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council.[1]
January 3
Between 2pm and 9pm, four rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel. They all both landed in open areas in the Eshkol Regional Council.[2]
February
February 2
At exactly 12am, one rocket was fired from Gaza at Israel. The IDF did not confirm if it landed within Israeli territory.[3]
Around 9pm, one rocket was fired from Gaza at Israel. It landed in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council.[4]
Around 10pm, one rocket was fired from Gaza at Israel. It landed in an open area in the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council.[6]
May
May 29
On May 29, there were 70 rockets and mortars fired at Israel.[7][8][9]
June
June 3
On June 3, 3 rockets were fired into southern Israel from Gaza the rockets were intercepted by Iron Dome.[10]
June 18
On June 18, 3 rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza.[11]
June 20
On June 20, 45 rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza.[12]
June 27
On June 27, 13 rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza. 3 were intercepted by Iron Dome.[13]
July
July 14
On July 14, 174 rockets or mortar shells were fired into Israel from Gaza. 30 were intercepted by Iron Dome.[14]
August
August 8
On August 8, 8 rockets were fired at Israel, 2 were intercepted, 4 impacted open areas, and 2 landed in Sderot causing damage and 2 injuries.[15]
November
November 11
On November 11, 17 rockets were fired at Israel, of which 3 were intercepted.[16]
November 12
On November 12, a mortar fired from Gaza hit an Israeli bus,[16] critically wounding a 19-year-old man.[17]
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Iron Dome is an Israeli mobile all-weather air defense system developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries. The system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells fired from distances of 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) to 70 kilometres (43 mi) away and whose trajectory would take them to an Israeli populated area. From 2011 to 2021, the United States contributed a total of US$1.6 billion to the Iron Dome defense system, with another US$1 billion approved by the US Congress in 2022.
Since 2001, Palestinian militants have launched tens of thousands of rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip as part of the continuing Arab–Israeli conflict. The attacks, widely condemned for targeting civilians, have been described as terrorism by the United Nations, the European Union, and Israeli officials, and are defined as war crimes by human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. The international community considers indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets to be illegal under international law. Palestinian militants say rocket attacks are a response to Israel's block of Gaza, but the Palestinian Authority has condemned them and says rocket attacks undermine peace.
The Shaar HaNegev school bus attack was a missile attack on 7 April 2011, in which Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip fired a Kornet laser-guided anti-tank missile over the border at an Israeli school bus, killing a schoolboy.
Operation Returning Echo was an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) military operation in the Gaza Strip from March 9 until March 14, 2012. It was the worst outbreak of violence covered by the media in the region since the 2008–2009 Gaza War.
The 2012 Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip was a military operation carried out in the Gaza Strip by the Israel Defense Forces starting on 14 November 2012, following rocket attacks on Israeli territory launched from Gaza during the preceding days.
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