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War on the Middle East
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August 25
Three Israeli soldiers killed
Three Israeli soldiers are killed when guerrilla soldiers breach security at a Gaza Strip Israeli army post. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine claims responsibility.
August 26
Air Strikes
Israeli F-16s and F-17s destroy security installations in Gaza and the West Bank.
August 27
PFLP leader assassinated
Israeli troops kill the secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine by firing missiles through the window of his office in a suburb of Ramallah.
September 9
Two suicide bombs
Three people are killed and more than 30 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a train station at Nahariya in northern Israel. Another suicide bomber attacks an intersection at Beit Lid killing himself and wounding three people.
September 12&16
More incursions into the West Bank
On Sept. 12, the Israeli army sends tanks and bulldozers into Jericho and pushes again into Jenin. On Sept. 16, tanks enter Ramallah.
September 26
Agreement to work toward truce
Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres meet at Gaza International Airport and agree to work to build a lasting truce and resume security cooperation.
October 2
Two Israelis shot dead
Palestinian gunmen infiltrate a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip and shoot dead two Israelis, wounding 15 others. Hamas claims responsibility.
October 3
Retaliatory attacks
Israel destroys seven Palestinian police posts near the Jewish settlement in Gaza that had been attacked the night before.
October 17
Israeli minister shot dead
Right-wing Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi is shot dead in a hotel in east Jerusalem. The PFLP claims responsibility.
October 18-20
Major military assault
In the most extensive military operation in the occupied territories at the time, Israel deploys forces into and around six Palestinian cities, including Bethlehem.
October 28
Gunmen kill four
Two Palestinian gunmen kill four women in the northern Israeli city of Hadera before police shoot them dead.
December 1-2
Suicide bombs kill 25
A suicide bomb in Jerusalem kills 10; the next day another in Haifa kills 15.
December 3
Air attacks
Helicopter gunships and jets hit Palestinian Authority targets near Arafat's headquarters in Gaza City, in retaliation for the killing of 25 people by suicide bombers over the preceding weekend.
December 12
Israelis gunned down
Ten Israelis are killed by Palestinian gunmen on a bus in the West Bank near a Jewish settlement close to Nablus.
December 13
Israel responds with gunships
In retaliation for the Dec. 12 bus attack, helicopter gunships fire at numerous Palestinian buildings in the West Bank and Gaza, including a Palestinian police station in Ramallah.
December 16
Arafat calls for end to violence
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat calls for an end to attacks on Israel in one of his strongest statements in 15 months of violence.
December 20
Hamas says it will stop attacks
The political wing of Hamas announces it will stop its suicide bombings and mortar attacks on the condition that Israel halt political assassinations and the killing of [next page]