13 March –
Island of Peace massacre: Seven 11-year-old girls from
Beit Shemesh's Feurst School are killed and many other are severely injured by a
Jordanian soldier, who opened fire on the schoolchildren while they were on a class trip at the "
Island of Peace", a joint Israeli and Jordanian tourist resort, under Jordanian rule.
4 September –
Ben Yehuda Street Bombing: Three
Hamassuicide bombers simultaneously blow themselves up on the Ben Yehuda Street pedestrian mall in Jerusalem, killing five Israelis. The bombing was carried out by Palestinian Arabs from the village of
Asira ash-Shamaliya.
Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets
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25 September –
assassination attempt on Khaled Mashal: Two
Mossad agents attempted to assassinate
Khaled Mashal, the
Hamas' Jordanian branch chief, in Jordan by injecting him a toxin in his ear. The operation failed after the Jordanian authorities managed to apprehend the two
Mossad agents and later on, in exchange for their release, an Israeli physician had to fly to
Amman and administer an antidote to Mashal. The fall out from the failed assassination eventually led to the release of Sheik
Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the Hamas movement, and scores of Hamas prisoners.