Saudi Arabia yesterday urged Pope Benedict XVI to issue a statement clarifying his stand on Islam and its teachings after his provocative statement on Tuesday denigrating Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
In a message to his Vatican counterpart, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal denounced the pope’s allegation that the Prophet spread Islam with sword and his move to justify Crusade wars launched against Muslims.
In his speech, Benedict cited an obscure Medieval text that characterized some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as “evil and inhuman,” particularly “his command to spread by the sword the faith.”
Prince Saud said the Muslim nation has always tried to open effective dialogue with other religions and cultures, especially Christianity. “I write to you this message at a time when international relations are going through a difficult phase ... with the hope of finding solutions to overcome such difficulties,” the prince said.
“We were hurt by the pope’s statement on Islam and on the personality of the Prophet, particularly his comment that the Prophet spread Islam with the sword,” Saud said.
The Saudi minister referred to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah’s opening address at the Islamic summit in Makkah on Dec. 7-8, 2005. In his speech, the king said Islam is a moderate religion and rejects extremism and isolationism. The king had called for confronting deviant thoughts using all available means.
A final communiqué issued after the summit emphasized the need for dialogue with other cultures, based on mutual respect and understanding, in order to build a world of tolerance, cooperation and peace.
The 10-point program approved by the leaders of Islamic countries during the summit condemned all forms of extremism that does not match with Islamic values and its humane nature, the prince said.
The summit emphasized the responsibility of the international community and governments in ensuring respect for all religions and confront moves to denigrate them.
Prince Saud said the references made by the pope against Islam and the Prophet, during his speech at a German university, was unnecessary. He reminded the pope that Muslims hold Jesus Christ and his mother Mary in high esteem as their faith would not be complete without believing in Jesus as a prophet.
Prince Saud said he believed that the pope’s statement would not indicate a change in Vatican’s policy toward Islam after decades of dialogues between leaders of the two great religions. He said the angry Muslim reaction toward the statement demanded a quick response from the pope.
Islamic terror is "forever" and beloved by the UN, EU and State Dept.
So much does the US State Dept endorse Islamic terror
that terrorist actions in the USA are ignored and blamed on bipolar behavior.
2005/7/14 Israel Netiv Haasara 1 1 Palestinian terrorists hit an Israeli residence with a missile, killing a woman.
2002/3/2 Israel Mar Saba 1 0 Jerusalem police detective assassinated by Tanzim while on holiday in the desert.
2003/4/15 Israel Karni Terminal 2 7 Hamas gunman enters a place of business and sprays fire from an automatic weapon. Two Israelis are killed and seven injured.
2003/1/2 Israel Menahamiya 1 0 Badly burnt body of a 70-year old man (father of nine) found after being kidnapped by Fatah-al-Aqsa.
2003/4/29 Israel Tel Aviv 3 55 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) suicide bomber blows up a night club, killing three Israelis and injuring at least fifty-five.
2003/5/18 Israel Jerusalem 7 20 Muslim suicide bomber, dressed in Jewish religious garb as a disguise, boards a passenger bus and kills seven. About twenty others are hospitalized.
2005/3/7 Israel Hebron 0 2 Two Israelis are wounded by a Palestinian sniper.
2003/5/20 Israel Afula 3 70 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) and Islamic Jihad vie for responsibility of a bombing in a shopping mall that kills three and injures over seventy.
2004/1/14 Israel Gaza 4 10 Female suicide bomber kills herself and four others at a checkpoint for Palestinians entering Israel to work. Ten others are injured in the blast. The mother-of-two pretended to fall over, then detonated her bomb against those rushing to help her.
2001/9/24 Israel Shadmot Mehol 1 0 Islamic Jihad kills 28-year-old Israeli.
2004/7/11 Israel Tel Aviv 1 34 A woman waiting for a bus is murdered in an al-Fatah bombing. Thirty-four others are injured. The bomb was packed with metal bolts.
2003/5/23 Israel Gaza 0 8 Hamas detonates pipe bomb under a bus. Eight passengers are hospitalized.
2004/7/10 Israel Gaza 1 0 Three members of a Palestinian "resistance" group (billing itself as non-violent) are killed when the bomb they are transporting goes off earlier than expected. A passerby is also killed.
2004/6/29 Israel Beit Rima 1 0 Palestinian sniper guns down a 63-year-old Israel truck driver. Arafat's al-Aqsa takes credit.
2004/1/19 Israel Lebanese Border 1 2 Israeli bulldozer hit with a Hezbollah rocket attack. One soldier was killed and two injured.
2001/11/27 Israel Afula 2 50 Fatah and Islamic Jihad terrorists fire assault rifles at a crowded bus-stop, killing two and injuring about fifty.
2001/10/2 Israel Alei Sinai 2 15 Two young men (19 and 20) were killed in their homes by grenade attack. Fifteen others were wounded.
2003/3/7 Israel Kiryat Arba 3 8 Palestinians dressed as Jewish seminary students infiltrate a settlement and kill a husband and wife sitting down to dinner, one other. They also shoot eight other civilians.
2004/7/4 Israel Yabad 1 1 Palestinian gunmen stop a car, confirm that the occupants are Jewish civilians, then open up with automatic weapons, killing a man and injuring his wife.
2003/8/19 Israel Jerusalem 20 100 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) take credit for blowing up a civilian bus killing at least twenty, including five children and a mother of thirteen (along with her five-month old baby), and injuring more than one hundred, including about forty children.
2002/2/18 Israel Gush Katif 3 1 Three Israelis killed in Palestinian shooting attack.
2005/1/9 Israel Shebaa Farms 1 3 An Israeli officer is killed, and three others injured, in a Hezbollah rocket attack along the Lebanese border.
2003/2/6 Israel Nablus 2 0 al-Aqsa gunmen attack an army outpost in the West Bank and kill two soldiers.
2004/6/27 Israel Gaza 1 5 al-Aqsa terrorist group digs a 350-meter tunnel under an Israeli guard post, detonates explosives, then uses assault rifles to prevent ambulance crews from rescuing the victims.
2001/10/17 Israel Jerusalem 1 0 Israeli Tourism Minister, 75, assassinated in the hallway of the Hyatt Hotel.
2003/6/8 Israel Erez 5 4 Gunmen from three different Islamic terrorist groups, disguised as IDF soldiers, open fire on a checkpoint in Gaza, killing four soldiers and wounding four others. A fifth soldier is killed in Hebron.
2004/5/2 Israel Gush Katif 5 3 Palestinian gunmen ambush a vehicle and kill four Jewish children and their pregnant mother who were in the process of entering their community. Islamic Jihad takes credit for the brutal attack.
2001/10/27 Israel Ariel 3 19 Muslim suicide bomber kills three and injures nineteen at a gas station.
2003/12/22 Israel Kfar Darom 2 2 Two Israelis are killed when members of the al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade open up on a security patrol with grenades and automatic weapons.
2004/8/3 Israel Rafah 3 10 Attempted bombing of an Israeli bulldozer backfires. Three Palestinian bystanders are killed and ten others, including journalists, are injured.
2003/6/17 Israel Kibbutz Eyal 1 3 Palestinian gunmen open fire on a civilian car, killing a 7-year old girl and wounding her 3-year old sister along with her brother and grandfather.
2002/2/10 Israel Be'er Sheva 2 4 Drive-by shooting leaves two young Israelis dead and four others wounded.
2002/2/9 Israel Ariel 1 0 Elderly man shot to death in a Palestinian ambush while driving car.
2004/6/21 Israel Kfar Darom 1 0 Palestinian terrorists attack a Jewish settlement, killing a greenhouse worker from Thailand.
2003/3/5 Israel Haifa 15 30 Palestinian suicide bomber blows up a bus, killing at least fifteen and injuring thirty-seven. 14-year-old American girl is among the dead.
2003/6/30 Israel Jenin 1 0 One day after agreeing to a cease-fire, Fatah gunmen open up on a truck carrying foreign construction workers. One Bulgarian is killed.
2003/6/23 Israel Gaza 4 4 Four are killed, four others injured when a bomb carried by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade explodes prematurely.
2001/10/4 Israel Afula 3 13 Palestinian terrorist disguised as Israeli paratrooper opens fire on crowded bus stop and kills three, injures thirteen.
2002/2/6 Israel Moshav Hamra 3 0 Three people including a mother and her 11-year-old daughter were killed in a home invasion by an armed terrorist.
2003/1/28 Israel Gaza 3 0 Three Palestinians die when a home-made bomb detonates prematurely.
2003/6/20 Israel Ofra 1 3 Israeli-American is killed by Hamas (Islamic Resistance) gunmen when driving through the West Bank with his elderly parents (also shot) and his wife.
2002/11/28 Israel Beit Shean 6 35 Two Palestinian gunmen kill four Israelis who were waiting for a bus. More than two dozen people were also injured.
2004/12/7 Israel Karni 1 4 One Israeli soldier is killed by a bomb at a border crossing. Four are others injured.
2004/2/27 Israel Lahav 2 0 Palestinian gunmen open fire on a civilian vehicle, killing two young Jewish parents of a two-year old daughter.
2004/2/22 Israel Jerusalem 8 61 An al-Aksa suicide terrorist blows up another civilian bus during rush hour, killing eight passengers and injuring over sixty.
2003/8/11 Israel Shlomi 1 4 Hezbollah rocket attack on a village kills a 16 year-old and leaves four other civilians injured.
2002/11/10 Israel Metzer 5 0 Palestinian gunman kills five including mother and her two children ages 4 and 5. She was in the process of reading a bedtime story.
2002/10/31 Israel Gaza 3 6 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) bomb goes off prematurely killing three and injuring six, including a 10-year-old girl.
2005/2/25 Israel Tel Aviv 5 49 Three weeks after a truce-signing, a Palestinian suicide bomber kills five Israelis outside a nightclub. Forty-nine others in line are injured.
2003/6/26 Israel Baqa al-Gharbiya 1 0 Israeli security guard is shot and killed by an Arab youth sent by al-Aqsa martyrs brigade.
2002/10/21 Israel Tel Aviv 16 24 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) car bombers kills at least sixteen people riding on a bus. More than twenty-four are injured.
2002/10/10 Israel Tel Aviv 1 20 Muslim bomber kills a 71-year-old grandmother of fifteen.
2002/1/17 Israel Hadera 6 35 Terrorist barges into a bat mitzvah reception and kills six guests with an assault rifle. Thirty-five others also shot.
2002/10/8 Israel Zief Junction 1 3 Palestinian terrorist shooting kills one and injures three.
2003/8/3 Israel Jerusalem 0 4 Palestinian gunmen open up on a car carrying a mother and three children. All were wounded in the attack.
2004/3/6 Israel Eraz 3 9 Three Palestinian policemen were killed, and nine injured in a botched attack by three terrorists against an Israeli border checkpoint.
2002/9/19 Israel Tel Aviv 5 40 Bus bombing kills five and injures more than forty.
2002/11/21 Israel Jerusalem 11 50 Muslim bomber kills eleven and injures over fifty passengers on a bus. Most victims were high-school students.
2002/8/4 Israel Meron Junction 8 50 Suicide bomber kills eight and injures over fifty in an attack on a bus.
2002/11/15 Israel Hebron 12 14 Palestinian ambush kills twelve and injures fourteen. Victims were returning from a prayer service.
2002/7/30 Israel Jerusalem 0 7 Fedayeen suicide bomber injures seven civilians.
2002/7/17 Israel Tel Aviv 3 40 Dual Palestinian suicide attack on an Israeli convenience store leaves at least three dead and more than forty injured.
2002/2/28 Israel Atarot 1 0 Jewish employer killed by a Muslim employee. Fatah takes credit for this attack.
2002/6/19 Israel Jerusalem 7 35 One day after killing nineteen Jews, a second Muslim blows up a bus-stop killing seven more. Thirty-five are injured.
2004/8/31 Israel Be'er Sheva 16 98 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) suicide bombers murder sixteen people, including a 3-year-old child riding two passenger buses. About one-hundred others are injured in the explosions.
2004/7/23 Israel Beit Hanun 1 3 al-Aqsa militants shoot a 16-year old boy to death and injure other three members of his family who object to the terrorists using their backyard for launching missiles into Israel.
2004/3/14 Israel Ashdod 10 19 Two 18-year old suicide bombers kill ten port workers, and injure about twenty more. Al-Aqsa takes credit and says its intended target, chemical tanks, would have caused far greater civilian casualties.
2002/5/28 Israel Itamar 3 2 Palestinian gunman kills three teen-agers and injures another two. All youths were playing basketball in their community at the time.
2002/1/16 Israel Jenin 1 0 Arab killed in Jenin while sitting in a car bearing Israeli license plates.
2004/8/11 Israel Jerusalem 2 16 Unsuccessful suicide car bombing at an Israeli checkpoint kills two Palestinians and injures sixteen.
2002/11/4 Israel Kfar Saba 2 40 Jihad suicide bomber kills two mall shoppers and wounds more than forty with a powerful blast.
2002/4/10 Israel Yagur 8 22 Eight people are killed by a Muslim bomber while riding on a bus. Twenty-two others are injured in the attack.
2002/1/15 Israel Givat Ze-ev 1 1 Woman killed near gas station. Her aunt was injured in the shooting attack by Palestinians.
2004/12/21 Israel Moshov 1 0 A 39-year-old Israeli woman is stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists.
2004/3/19 Israel Jerusalem 1 0 al-Aqsa Brigade apologizes after the jogger that it gunned down in cold blood turns out to be Arab.
2002/3/31 Israel Haifa 15 40 Fifteen Israelis were killed in a restaurant by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. Over forty others were injured.
2002/3/28 Israel Elon Moreh 4 0 A 20-year-old man, his two middle-aged parents and his grandfather were killed during a home invasion by a Muslim gunman.
2002/6/5 Israel Afula 17 38 Seventeen people killed by a Muslim suicide bomber while riding in a bus. Thirty-eight others were injured.
2005/1/18 Israel Sderot 1 1 17-year-old Israeli girl dies trying to protect her 10-year-old brother from a Hamas rocket attack (on 1-15).
2002/3/17 Israel Kfar Sava 1 16 Terrorist opens fire on motorists. One teen-ager is killed and sixteen are injured.
2004/12/15 Israel Khan Yunis 1 2 Hamas militants kill a foreign agriculture worker at an Israeli settlement and injure two more with mortars.
2002/3/12 Israel Metzuba 6 7 Gunmen disguised in IDF uniforms ambush a bus and kill six, wound seven.
2002/11/18 Israel Rimonim Junction 1 0 Woman killed by Palestinian gunmen in a drive-by.
2004/5/22 Israel Nablus 0 4 A 19-year-old suicide bomber kills himself and injures four others at a checkpoint.
2003/7/6 Israel Ramallah 1 0 Palestinian terrorists shoot and kill a 35-year old man suspected of being an Israeli collaborator.
2002/3/5 Israel Tel-Aviv 3 30 Three Israelis were killed and more than thirty injured when two Muslim gunmen opened fire at adjacent restaurants.
2002/3/3 Israel Kissufim 1 4 Soldier killed at a roadblock by Palestinian gunman. Four others injured.
2002/2/25 Israel Neve Ya'akov 1 2 One killed and two injured by terrorist while waiting for a bus.
2002/2/22 Israel Jerusalem 1 0 59-year-old man killed by Palestinian terrorist while driving home from work.
2002/2/19 Israel Ramallah 6 1 Six soldiers killed when terrorists open fire at a roadblock.
2003/1/23 Israel Hebron 3 0 Hamas terrorists ambush and kill three Israeli soldiers protecting an intersection.
2002/11/20 Israel Tulkarm 1 1 Palestinian bomb explodes prematurely. Kills one, injures one.
2004/5/14 Israel Rafah 2 2 Hamas snipers kill an Israeli soldier as he was in the process of bringing food to an elderly Palestinian woman's house. A soldier attempting to help the first was killed as well.
2004/8/13 Israel Itamar 1 1 Palestinian gunman murders an Israeli driver outside a settlement.
2003/7/8 Israel Kfar Yavetz 1 3 Suicide bomber identifying himself as Islamic Jihad kills a 65-year old grandmother of twenty watching TV in her house. Three of her grandchildren are injured.
2005/6/7 Israel Ganei Tal 3 0 Islamic Jihad bomb an Israeli greenhouse, killing three, including a Chinese worker.
2004/5/12 Israel Rafah 5 0 Another remote-controlled landmine attack by Islamic Jihad on an APC kills five additional Israeli soldiers attempting to block off tunnel used by Palestinian terrorists.
2005/6/25 Israel Beit Hagai 2 3 A brutal shooting attack a point-blank range on a group of Israeli teenagers, hitchhiking on a roadside, leaves a 17-year-old and a 16-year-old dead. Three others were injured. al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade take credit for the murder.
2004/7/19 Israel Tel Aviv 1 0 Arafat's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade takes credit for killing an Israeli judge at close range as he was driving home.
2005/1/13 Israel Karni Crossing 6 4 Three Palestinian suicide bombers infiltrate the security wall, via an explosion, and murder six Israelis. Four others are wounded.
2003/2/11 Israel Bethlehem 1 0 Palestinian sniper guns down Israeli soldier in front of the Church of the Nativity.
2001/12/1 Israel Jerusalem 11 180 Eleven teen-agers were killed by two "holy warrior" suicide bombers. Most of the one-hundred and eighty injuries were also to teen-agers.
2004/11/1 Israel Tel Aviv 3 38 Two Jewish women and a man are murdered at a cheese deli in an open market by a 16-year-old who let the Abu Ali Mustafa terrorist network strap explosives to his chest.
2001/11/27 Israel Gush Katif 1 3 Woman killed while driving home. Three others injured.
2001/11/29 Israel Hadera 3 9 Three killed and nine wounded in Palestinian attack on a bus-stop.
2003/12/12 Israel Nablus 0 7 Palestinian gunmen ambush a van carrying Israeli worshippers on their way home from a prayer service. Seven are injured.
2001/10/28 Israel Hadera 4 39 Palestinian terrorists open fire on a bus-stop killing four and wounding nearly 40.
2004/4/12 Israel Netzarim 0 0 Two Palestinians are killed by the IDF as the attempt to infiltrate a settlement for the purpose of killing Israeli citizens.
2001/12/2 Israel Haifa 15 40 Muslim terrorists killed fifteen people and injured forty who were riding on a bus.
2001/10/18 Israel Mar Saba 1 2 Palestinian terrorists kill one and seriously injure two by firing on their vehicle in the Judean desert.
2003/3/10 Israel Hebron 1 4 One Israeli is killed and four more injured after roadside attack by Palestinians.
2001/10/7 Israel Sheluhot 1 0 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) suicide bomber kills one civilian.
2001/10/5 Israel Avnei Hefetz 1 0 Palestinian machine-gun ambush kills Israeli civilian.
2004/5/11 Israel Gaza 6 0 Hamas terrorists trigger a land mine blast under an APC, killing six young Israeli soldiers. Hamas also takes the body parts to prevent their recovery.
2001/12/12 Israel Samaria 11 30 Fatah and Hamas (Islamic Resistance) attackers used roadside bomb, anti-tank grenades and light arms fire to kill eleven and injure thirty passengers on a bus.
2001/9/11 Israel Bachan 2 0 Two policeman (ages 19 and 26) were killed when Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a border checkpoint.
2005/1/7 Israel Nablus 1 3 An Israeli motorist is killed by a Palestinian sniper. Three others are injured, two critically.
2003/7/15 Israel Tel Aviv 1 2 al-Aqsa Fatah terrorist stabs three civilians, including one woman. The Israeli killed used his body to successfully shield the woman from the Muslim's knife.
2004/4/17 Israel Eraz 1 3 Hamas takes credit for a suicide bombing that kills a 20-year-old border guard then complains loudly when it's own leader is taken out with a missile a few hours later.
2004/4/25 Israel Migdal Oz 1 2 Palestinian gunmen kill a border policeman and wound two others in a sniper attack from a residential section.
2002/5/27 Israel Petah Tikva 2 37 Fatah takes credit for killing a 14-month-old baby and her grandmother near an ice-cream parlor in an attack that also injured thirty-seven.
2002/1/15 Israel Beit Jala 1 0 American citizen was kidnapped then killed by Al-Aksa Brigade.
2002/3/6 Israel Khan Yunis 2 0 Two Israeli soldiers killed in a Palestinian ambush.
2004/4/3 Israel Avnei Hefetz 1 0 Father of six shot dead by a Hamas terrorist outside his home after spending the evening with his children.
2004/12/22 Israel Hebron 1 0 Palestinians snatch rifle from Israeli guard and shoot him to death with it.
2002/1/9 Israel Kerem Shalom 4 2 Palestinian terrorists infiltrate border and kill four soldiers. Two others were wounded.
2002/5/22 Israel Rishon Lezion 2 40 A Palestinian suicide bomber kills two and injures forty people at a shopping mall.
2002/5/19 Israel Netanya 3 59 A Palestinian suicide bomber killed three and injured fifty-nine people at a market.
2002/12/12 Israel Hebron 2 0 Israeli man and woman killed in an ambush shooting attack by Palestinians.
2004/5/18 Israel Rafah 2 0 Palestinian bombs take the lives of two Arab teenagers - a sixteen-year-old girl and her 13-year-old brother - who were washing clothes on the roof of their house when hit by the shrapnel.
2002/3/14 Israel Gaza 3 2 Terrorists detonate a bomb by remote control that kills three Israelis and injures two.
2004/12/12 Israel Rafah 5 6 Five Israeli soldiers are killed when Hamas terrorists set off a bomb under a checkpoint. Six others hospitalized.
2004/12/11 Israel Neveh Dekalim 0 4 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) lobs several rockets into an Israeli neighborhood. Four, including three children, are seriously injured.
2005/1/12 Israel Morag 1 3 Palestinians use explosives and arms fire to murder an Israeli officer in the process of constructing a security fence.
2002/1/27 Israel Jerusalem 1 150 An 81-year-old was killed and over one-hundred and fifty injured by suicide bomber armed with more than 10k of explosives.
2001/10/28 Israel Metzer 1 0 Fatah terrorists kill one Jew in a machine gun attack.
2002/1/22 Israel Jerusalem 2 40 Palestinian terrorist fires assault rifle into a bus-stop, killing two women and injuring forty others.
2002/7/17 Israel Emmanuel 7 26 Palestinian attack on a bus kills at least seven and injures twenty-six.
2002/2/16 Israel Karnei Shomron 3 30 Three teen-agers were killed by a Muslim suicide bomber at a pizzeria. Thirty others injured.
2003/8/12 Israel Ariel 1 2 Hamas suicide bomber kills one Israeli civilian and injures two others
2002/3/5 Israel Afula 1 17 85-year-old man was killed in a Fedayeen suicide bombing at a bus station.
2003/8/12 Israel Tel Aviv 1 10 Fatah suicide bomber kills a 42 year-old father of two in a shopping mall. Several others are injured.
2002/2/25 Israel Tekoa 2 1 Two killed and one injured in a terrorist shooting attack.
2005/6/29 Israel Mt. Dov 1 3 Hezbollah attacks an Israeli position from across the Lebanese border, killing one and injuring three.
2002/2/8 Israel Jerusalem 1 0 25-year-old stabbed to death by four Palestinian teen-agers.
2003/5/5 Israel Shilo 1 2 al-Aqsa members ambush a vehicle, killing a father and seriously injuring his 6-year old daughter. A soldier rushing to help was wounded as well.
2005/5/1 Israel Tzieda 1 1 Islamic Jihad kills a 21-year-old Israeli soldier.
2005/8/3 Israel Sderot 1 9 Palestinian terrorists fire a rocket at a group of Israeli demostrators. The missile hits their own group instead, killing a 3-year-old boy and injuring nine others, including five children.
2002/10/29 Israel Hermesh 3 1 Settlement infiltrated by a Palestinian terrorist who kills one woman, two girls and injures a man.
2004/1/29 Israel Jerusalem 11 50 Eleven people are murdered, and at least fifty others injured by a Palestinian suicide bombing inside a passenger bus. Al-Aksa martyrs brigade claims responsibility.
2002/3/5 Israel Bethlehem 1 1 Female motorist gunned down by a Palestinian sniper. Her husband was badly injured.
2002/12/27 Israel Otniel 4 6 Palestinian gunman breaks into a Jewish seminary and kills four students who were sitting down to Sabbath dinner, wounds six others.
2004/11/12 Israel Beit Zeit 0 0 Two bungling al-Aqsa terrorists are killed, and a third injured, when their car bomb explodes prematurely shortly after Arafat's funeral.
2001/9/15 Israel Jerusalem 1 0 23-year-old Israeli killed by Palestinian.
2004/1/11 Israel Talmon 1 2 Palestinian gunmen kill a father of five as he is traveling in his car. Two others are shot and injured.
2002/3/2 Israel Jerusalem 10 52 Ten people, mostly women and small children were killed by a suicide bomber. Most were waiting with baby carriages for their husbands to return from the synagogue.
2003/8/29 Israel Ramallah 1 1 Israeli couple is attacked by Palestinian gunmen while driving. The husband is killed and his 24-year old pregnant wife badly injured.
2003/3/30 Israel Netenya 0 38 Islamic Jihad terrorist walks into a beachfront caf‚ and blows himself up, injuring more than thirty civilians.
2003/2/15 Israel Beit Lahia 4 0 Hamas terrorists use a roadside bomb to kill four Israeli soldiers who were in a passing tank.
2003/12/25 Israel Tel Aviv 4 18 Suicide bomber kills four Israeli civilians, including a teenage girl and injures at least eighteen more at a bus stop.
2003/1/17 Israel Givat Harsina 1 3 Two Hamas gunmen open fire on a house, killing a father and injuring his four-year-old daughter along with two others.
2002/3/8 Israel Tulkarem 1 0 Another soldier is killed by a Palestinian sniper.
2003/1/2 Israel Jordan Vally 1 0 72-year old man stoned to death by al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade.
2002/3/7 Israel Gush Katif 5 23 Five Israeli teen-agers were killed and twenty-three were injured by a Palestinian sniper.
2003/9/4 Israel Jenin 1 4 Palestinian gunmen kill an Israeli soldier and injure four more.
2002/7/31 Israel Jerusalem 7 80 Seven students, including five Americans, were killed in a bombing at Hebrew University. More than 80 others were injured.
2003/11/25 Israel Nablus 1 0 Assassination attempt by Palestinian gunmen on Nablus mayor, said to be working with Jews, leaves his brother dead.
2003/11/22 Israel Jerusalem 2 0 Two Israelis are shot dead while guarding a construction site.
2002/6/20 Israel Itamar 4 4 Mother and three young sons killed in their home by Muslim invader.
2003/5/11 Israel Ofra 1 0 Fatah gunmen kill a 53-year old father of six who was driving to work.
2001/12/25 Israel Beit She'an 1 4 One Israeli reservist was killed an four others wounded in a shooting attack.
2002/3/3 Israel Ofra 10 6 Hamas terrorist kills ten and wounds six by opening fire at a roadblock.
2005/1/18 Israel Gush Katif 1 7 Palestinian suicide bomber murders a father of three and injures seven others.
2002/8/3 Israel Jerusalem 1 2 Palestinian gunman kills telephone truck driver and wounds two other passengers.
2002/3/9 Israel Netanya 2 50 The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades takes credit for killing a 9-month-old infant and one other in grenade attack that also left 50 others injured.
2003/11/18 Israel Gush Etzion Tunnel 2 0 Palestinian (al-Aqsa) gunman approaches checkpoint with an AK-47 concealed in a prayer mat, which he then uses to shoot two Israeli soldiers to death at point-blank range. He then flees.
2003/9/9 Israel Jerusalem 7 50 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) bomber detonates explosives outside a caf‚. Seven patron are killed and at least fifty injured.
2005/6/19 Israel Gaza 1 2 The Palestinian terrorist group, Abu Rish Brigade, takes credit for an ambush on a civilian labor group that leaves an Israeli guard dead.
2004/9/24 Israel Neve Dekalim 1 0 Palestinians fire a mortar into a Jewish residential neighborhood, killing a 22-year-old woman.
2001/11/6 Israel Nablus 1 0 Israeli Captain killed in Palestinian ambush.
2003/1/5 Israel Tel Aviv 23 100 Twenty-three people are killed and more than one-hundred injured by twin Palestinian suicide bombers.
2003/4/24 Israel Kfar Sava 1 13 al-Aqsa member detonates a bomb at a railway station, killing a 23-year old guard and injuring more than a dozen bystanders.
2004/9/23 Israel Morog 3 1 Palestinian gunmen attempt to infiltrate a Jewish settlement. They are stopped by Israeli troops, but manage to kill three.
2002/6/18 Israel Jerusalem 19 50 Several children on their way to school are among the nineteen dead and fifty injured by Fedayeen ("holy warrior") suicide attack on a bus.
2003/6/11 Israel Jerusalem 16 112 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) bomber, disguised as an Orthodox Jew blows up a bus, killing sixteen and injuring at least one-hundred and twelve.
2002/7/26 Israel Hebron 4 3 Four people, including a mother, father and son, were killed by gunmen while riding in two cars.
2001/11/9 Israel Samaria 1 0 Woman shot and killed by Muslim terrorists as she was driving home from work.
2003/10/24 Israel Netzarim 3 2 Two Hamas (Islamic Resistance) terrorists infiltrate a Jewish settlement and then enter a barracks to go room from room shooting female soldiers as they slept.
2003/10/22 Israel Hebron 0 2 Two settlers are injured in a gun battle with Palestinian infiltrators.
2003/10/19 Israel Ein Yabrud 3 1 Fatah gunmen ambush an Israeli unit guarding a settlement. Three are killed and one is injured.
2001/9/20 Israel Tekoa 1 1 Wife killed, husband injured in shooting attack by Palestinian gunmen.
2001/11/2 Israel Ofra 1 0 19-year-old soldier killed when Palestinian gunmen open fire at a roadblock.
2003/10/15 Israel Gaza 3 1 Three American security guards are killed by a terrorist bombing on their car in Gaza.
2005/7/12 Israel Netanya 5 70 The terror group, Islamic Jihad, takes credit for a suicide bombing, in which a bomber kills five Jews crossing the street in front of a mall. All of the victims were female, two were teenage girls. About seventy others were injured.
2003/9/26 Israel Negahot 2 2 Palestinian gunman infiltrates a settlement, randomly picks a house, and then proceeds to shoot the residents, including an infant girl.
2002/3/24 Israel Ramallah 1 0 Woman killed by a Palestinian sniper while riding in a bus.
2003/10/4 Israel Haifa 19 55 Nineteen people are killed and more than fifty wounded by a Islamic Jihad bomber in a restaurant. Three children were among the dead.
2002/3/30 Israel Tel-Aviv 1 30 A 36-year-old woman is murdered, and thirty others wounded by a suicide bomber in a caf‚.
2004/9/30 Israel Sderot 2 15 Two small children (ages 2 and 4) are killed by a Palestinian rocket while playing in the front yard of their home. Hamas (Islamic Resistance) claims responsibility.
2002/3/29 Israel Jerusalem 4 28 Two security guards were killed and twenty-eight people were injured by a suicide bomber. Two soldiers were also killed that same day by Palestinians in Ramallah.
2003/1/13 Israel Moshav Gadish 1 5 Two Palestinian gunmen from Jenin penetrate a farming community and open fire on random vehicles. One civilian is killed, five are injured.
2005/6/20 Israel Baqa al-Sharqiya 1 1 Palestinian snipers kill an Israeli civilian traveling in his car. His 13-year-old son is shot as well.
2003/1/18 Israel Kiryat Arba 1 3 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) terrorists kill father of five as he was eating dinner with his family. Three others, including a 5-year-old girl are wounded.
2003/1/13 Israel Nitzana 1 1 Gaza gunmen opens fire on two Israeli soldiers near Egyptian border. One is killed, the other injured.
2002/3/29 Israel Neztarim 2 0 Two elderly Jews are killed by a Palestinian terrorist. Two Palestinian groups claim credit.
2002/3/20 Israel Musmus 7 30 Seven killed and thirty injured by a suicide bomber while riding on a bus.
2002/4/6 Israel Rafiah Yam 1 5 Palestinian gunman opens fire at the entrance to a settlement. One is killed, five are wounded.
2003/10/6 Israel Metullah 1 1 Hezbollah snipers fire from southern Lebanon and kill an Israeli soldier.
2002/4/9 Israel Jenin 13 7 Thirteen IDF reservists are killed and seven injured by the combined efforts of a very young Palestinian suicide bomber and supporting gunfire.
2003/10/9 Israel Tulkarm 1 2 One dead, two injured, by a 17-year old suicide bomber sent from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
2002/5/7 Israel Rishon Lezion 15 55 Fifteen people were killed an fifty-five more injured in a Fedayeen suicide attack on a crowded game club.
2004/9/30 Israel Eley Sinai 2 0 Palestinian gunmen kill a female jogger - and the medic trying to save her life.
2002/3/21 Israel Jerusalem 3 86 Suicide bomber kills three and injures eighty-six when detonating in a crowd of shoppers.
2002/3/27 Israel Netanya 29 133 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) bomber kills twenty-nine Jews celebrating Passover in a hotel. One-hundred and thirty-seven others are injured in the attack.
2001/11/4 Israel Jerusalem 2 45 Two boys, ages 14 and 16, where gunned down by Palestinian terrorists at a bus-stop. Forty-five others were injured.
2003/9/9 Israel Tel Aviv 8 15 Eight people are killed and fifteen injured when a Hamas (Islamic Resistance) bomber dressed as an Israeli soldier detonates a suicide bomb at a bus stop.
2003/4/10 Israel Moshav Bekaot 2 9 Palestinian terrorists infiltrate an Israeli training camp and kill two, injure nine.
2002/4/12 Israel Jerusalem 6 104 Six people, including two Chinese nationals, were killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber at a bus stop in an attack that left one-hundred and four others injured.
2002/3/9 Israel Jerusalem 11 54 A Hamas (Islamic Resistance) suicide bomber kills eleven and injures 54 at a crowded caf‚.
2004/6/28 Israel Sderot 2 12 Palestinian militants fire a rocket into a residential area, killing two, including a 3-year-old boy. The murdered child's mother was among a dozen injured.
2003/11/2 Israel Nablus 1 5 Islamic Jihad bombing of a jeep, kills 1 Israeli soldier and leaves five others injured.
2003/9/22 Israel Jerusalem 2 16 A female suicide bomber motions over two Israeli policemen and then kills them. Sixteen passersby are also injured.
2003/6/19 Israel Moshav Sde Terumot 1 0 Father of six working in his grocery is killed by an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber.
2001/9/12 Israel Habla 1 0 Jewish woman shot to death while driving home.
2003/5/17 Israel Hebron 2 0 Hamas (Islamic Resistance) suicide bomber positions himself near a young married couple on a romantic stroll and kills them both.
2004/7/20 Israel Syrian Border 2 0 Hezbollah snipers kill two IDF members as they are repairing an antennae.
2002/4/27 Israel Adora 4 7 Palestinian Terrorists dressed in IDF uniforms infiltrated a settlement and killed four civilians, including a 5-year old boy. Seven others were injured.
2005/7/23 Israel Kissufim 2 5 Palestinian gunmen murder an Israeli husband and wife. They also open fire on medical rescue workers, injuring five of them.
