The following is a timeline of events during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2018.
Aisha al-Rabi, 48, was killed by a group of Israeli settlers who threw stones at the car she was traveling in. At about 9:30 pm she and her family were on their way home to Bidya, Salfit Governorate in the northwestern West Bank. They slowed down as they were about to approach a permanent Israeli checkpoint in the area. At that point, a group of settlers began hurling rocks at their car. One rock smashed through the car and hit Aisha on the right side of her face, crushing her skull. Her husband, Yaqoub, drove to the hospital in Nablus, a 20 minutes drive away, where his wife was pronounced dead. [22]
Violence flared up again on 11 November 2018 when seven Palestinian militants were killed during a botched raid by the Israel Defense Forces in the southeastern Gaza Strip. One IDF officer was killed and another was injured. Over a dozen rockets were subsequently fired from Gaza, three of which were shot down. After a series of intense fire exchanges, ceasefire was agreed upon on 13 November 2018
A Palestinian wielding a knife snuck into a police station in Jerusalem and lightly wounded four officers before he himself was shot and apprehended. [23]
Mohammad Hossam Abdel Latif Habali, a 22 year old mentally disabled Palestinian, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on 4 December 2018 in Tulkarm, a city in the West Bank, [24] [25] near the border between Israel and the West Bank. [26] Witnesses report that Habali was killed by Israeli forces, and the IDF has not disputed the cause of death. [24]
