TIMELINE: Attacks in Jerusalem

Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:41am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - A bulldozer went on a rampage in Jewish west Jerusalem on Tuesday, in the second such attack this month, and rammed into cars before the bulldozer's driver was shot dead, police said.

Following is a short chronology of attacks in Jerusalem in the past five years.

May 18, 2003 - Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 on a bus in the French Hill district. Twenty are injured. Another suicide bomber strikes soon afterwards at a nearby roadblock but kills only himself.

June 11, 2003 - Seventeen people are killed when a suicide bomber blows up a bus near an open-air market in central Jaffa Road. At least 100 are injured. Hamas claims responsibility.

August 19, 2003 - A suspected Palestinian suicide bombing rips through a bus in west Jerusalem killing 23 people.

September 9, 2003 - Two bombings hit Israel, one in Tel Aviv and one in west Jerusalem. In the second bombing, seven people are killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing in a cafe. Hamas's military wing claims responsibility for both bombings.

January 29, 2004 - A suicide bomber blows up a bus in west Jerusalem, near the office of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, killing 10 people. The al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claims responsibility. Hamas also claims responsibility the next day.

February 22, 2004 - A Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up on an Israeli bus, killing eight people.

September 22, 2004 -A Palestinian woman suicide bomber blows herself up near a hitch-hiking post in East Jerusalem, killing two Israeli border policemen.

March 6, 2008 - Palestinian gunman kills eight students at the Jewish Merkaz Harav religious collegem. Hamas officials claim the deadliest attack by Palestinian on Israelis in two years. The gunman is also shot dead.

July 2, 2008 - A Palestinian rams a bulldozer into an Israeli commuter bus, cars and pedestrians on Jaffa Road in west Jerusalem. Three Israelis are killed and 20 injured. The Palestinian is shot dead.

July 22, 2008 - A bulldozer goes on a rampage in west Jerusalem injuring around 11 people, one seriously. A border police patrol shoots the driver dead.

 

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