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Israeli and shelling
Over 100 Lebanese refugees were killed by the shelling of a UN base at Qana, in what the Israeli military said was a mistake.
During the Jordanian Siege of Jerusalem during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the accurate Jordanian shelling of Israeli positions led to suspicions that a spy was operating.
On December 16, 2004, the Israel Defense Forces raided the town with armoured bulldozers and tanks in order to stop mortar shelling of Israeli towns.
Egypt began shelling Israeli positions along the Bar Lev Line, using heavy artillery, MiG aircraft and various other forms of Soviet assistance with the hope of forcing the Israeli government into concessions.
* A 16-year-old Israeli was killed and five people were injured in Hezbollah shelling of the northern Israeli town of Shlomi.
The 1980s were especially bleak: much of Beirut lay in ruins, as a result of the 1976 Karantina massacre carried out by the Lebanese Front ( LF ), the Syrian Army shelling of Christian neighborhoods in 1978 and 1981, and the Israeli invasion that evicted the PLO from the country.
The two Arab countries reluctantly joined the war, Jordan by shelling the Israeli part of Jerusalem and Syria by entering Israel from the Golan Heights.
The raid, codenamed " Purple Iron " was the third operation in Khan Yunis in response to constant mortars shelling on Israeli settlements.
The 1996 shelling of Qana or the First Qana massacre, took place on April 18, 1996 near Qana, a village in Southern Lebanon, when artillery shells fired by the Israeli Defence Force hit a United Nations compound.
A United Nations investigation later stated it was unlikely that the Israeli shelling was a technical or procedural error.
15 minutes later, at 2: 08 PM, an Israeli unit responded by shelling the area with M-109A2 155 mm guns.
( f ) Contrary to repeated denials, two Israeli helicopters and a remotely piloted vehicle were present in the Qana area at the time of the shelling.
Following the withdrawal, the Israeli town of Sderot and other Israeli communities near the Gaza strip became subject to constant shelling and mortar bomb attacks from Gaza with only minimal Israeli response.
The Israeli government claims the troops entered in response to continued shelling of the Israeli town of Sderot from the Jabalia area, including Qassam rockets launched on September 28.
Tutu's final report to the United Nations human rights council concluded, however, that " n the absence of a well-founded explanation from the Israeli military – who is in sole possession of the relevant facts – the mission must conclude that there is a possibility that the shelling of Beit Hanoun constituted a war crime.
Many Lebanese civilians were killed by heavy Israeli shelling and air strikes which also caused extensive property damage and internal displacement.
" Senior Israeli defense officials maintain that the shelling using white phosphorus munitions was in response to Israeli military personnel being fired upon by Hamas fighters who were in proximity to the UN headquarters, and was used for smoke .< ref > Katz, Yaakov.
Operations included attacks on convoys and routine patrols ; placement of roadside bombs and remote control activated devices ; occasional attempts to storm IDF outposts ( most famously the attack on the D ' lat outpost, in which a Hezbollah fighter succeeded in breaching the walls of the outpost and planting a Hezbollah flag before the attack was repelled ); launching ground-to-ground missiles, particularly AT-3 Sagger missiles at IDF tanks and outposts ; and occasional shelling of Israeli border towns with Katyusha rockets.

Israeli and civilian
Under technical assistance contracts, Israel serviced Israeli planes within the air force inventory as well as Boeing civilian aircraft flown by TAME and Ecuatoriana Airlines.
Hezbollah was responsible for thousands of Katyusha rocket attacks against Israeli civilian towns and cities in northern Israel, which Hezbollah said were in retaliation for Israel's killing of civilians and targeting Lebanese infrastructure.
Israeli settlements in the occupied territories ( commonly referred to as simply Israeli settlements ) are the Jewish civilian communities built on land that was captured by Israel from Jordan, Egypt and Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.
* 2006 – Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets ' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.
In July 1968, a faction of George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) hijacked an Israeli El Al civilian plane en route to Algiers ; in December, Habash himself oversaw an attack on an El Al plane in Athens, resulting in two deaths.
Later that month, Israeli agents flew into Beirut's international airport and destroyed 13 civilian airliners belonging to various Arab carriers.
* 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
" ( The story was written during the Lebanon War of 1982, when Israeli planes bombed the modern Tyre and caused heavy civilian casualties ).
*** 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict – the frequent Hamas Qassam rocket and mortar fire launched from within civilian population centers in Gaza towards the Israeli southern civilian communities led to an Israeli military operation in Gaza, which had the stated aim of reducing the Hamas rocket attacks and stopping the arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip.
Throughout the conflict Hamas further intensified its rocket and mortar attacks against Israel, hitting civilian targets and reaching major Israeli cities Beersheba and Ashdod for the first time.
The intense urban warfare in densely populated Gaza combined with the use of heavy firepower by the Israeli side and the intensified Hamas rocket attacks towards populated Israeli civilian targets led to a high toll on the Palestinian side and among civilians .</ small >
A civilian Cessna 152 aircraft entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon, with unknown intentions and refusing to answer or comply with ATC repeated warnings to turn back.
* October 2: an Israeli civilian and a soldier are killed in separate attacks by gunfire in West Bank.
* November 24: an Israeli officer killed by sniper fire in Gaza strip, and an army-employed civilian killed in the West Bank.
An Israeli soldier killed in a gunfire attack on a civilian bus.
* December 21: an Israeli civilian ambushed and killed near Jerusalem.
* 10 February: Two female Israeli soldiers are killed and four people are injured in a shooting attack at a civilian bakery near a military base in Beersheba.

Israeli and areas
Many refugees from areas captured by Israeli forces in 1947 – 48 fled to the Bethlehem area, primarily settling in the what became the official refugee camps of ' Azza ( Beit Jibrin ) and ' Aida in the north and Dheisheh in the south.
The Israeli forces left Gaza City and other urban areas, leaving the new Palestinian Authority to administer and police those areas.
Under contemporary Israeli law, however, certain areas of Israeli family and personal status law are under the authority of the rabbinic courts and are therefore treated according to Halakha.
Israel dismantled 18 settlements in the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, and all 21 in the Gaza Strip and 4 in the West Bank in 2005, but continues to both expand its settlements and settle new areas in the West Bank in spite of the Oslo Accords which barred both Israeli and Palestinians from undertaking unilateral actions that would alter the status quo.
Israeli neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and communities in the Golan Heights, areas which have been annexed by Israel, are also considered settlements by the international community, which does not recognise Israel's annexations of these territories.
These areas are placed under Israeli military occupation and are widely referred to as Israeli-occupied territories.
The agreement called for the implementation of Palestinian self-rule in portions of the West Bank and Gaza Strip over a five year period, along with an immediate halt to and gradual removal of Israeli settlements in those areas.
... According to Freedom House's annual survey of political rights and civil liberties, Freedom in the World 2001 – 2002, the chaotic nature of the Intifada along with strong Israeli reprisals has resulted in a deterioration of living conditions for Palestinians in Israeli-administered areas.
In essence, the accords called for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, and affirmed a Palestinian right of self-government within those areas through the creation of a Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority.
While the CNU has international participation in Canada, sister organizations have been formed in other areas of the world including the Council for European Urbanism ( CEU ), the Movement for Israeli Urbanism ( MIU ) and the Australian Council for the New Urbanism.
He described Iran as a " loathsome regime ", but said that unlike Israel, " at least it keeps its totaliatarian theocracy to within its own borders ", and that the close proximity of affluent Israeli settlers to impoverished Palestinians was more " heart-rendering " than conditions in South Africa during apartheid, as the bantustans were " some distance away from the affluent areas ".
On June 27 around eight Egyptian Su-7s and MiG-21s attack Israeli rear areas in Sinai.
Additional grounds of rejection was that the Israeli proposal planned to annex areas which would lead to a cantonization of the West Bank into three blocs.
The 2008 attack by the Israeli military on civilian areas of Palestinian Gaza was described as a " stain on the world's conscience ".
* Violating Israeli curfew orders enforced on Palestinian areas in order to monitor Israeli military actions, deliver food and medicine to Palestinian homes, or escort medical personnel to help facilitate their work.
* Entering areas designated as " closed military zones " by the Israeli military.
Further in other areas such as East Jerusalem the UN in May 2009 noted that " only 13 percent of East Jerusalem land is currently zoned by the Israeli authorities for Palestinian construction, and much of that is already built up " While the settlers constitute 17 % of the residents of the West Bank ( 300, 000 out of a total population of 1. 8 million ), the built up areas in the settlements occupy just 1. 7 % of the West Bank ; and if they continue to build solely at the rate of their natural growth ( 9, 000 births per year ), they will consume over the next decade a total of just one-half of one per cent in an area already delineated as their " municipal boundaries ".
Most of its population fled to Jenin and its surrounding areas after the Israeli forces overtook the city of Bisan on May 15 1948.
The Israeli engineering corps is also responsible for counter-NBC warfare ( i. e. defending troops against unconventional weapon and clean infected areas ).
The Israeli Engineering Corps used armored versions of the D9L, D9N and D9R to clear booby-trapped areas, open routes, rescue stuck armored fighting vehicles, and build sand mounds.

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