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Fatalities before Operation "Cast Lead"
The Fatalities' data can be shown either by the date of the event in which they were hurt, or by the date of their death. Since some of the fatalities died of their injuries days, weeks and sometimes months after they were hurt, choosing the view affects the distribution of data.
| Data by the date of event, 29 September 2000 - 26 December 2008 |
Occupied Territories | Israel | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaza Strip | West Bank | Total | ||
| Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces | 2998 | 1790 | 4788 | 69 |
| Palestinians killed by Israeli civilians | 4 | 41 | 45 | 2 |
| Israeli civilians killed by Palestinians | 39 | 200 | 239 | 492 |
| Israeli security force personnel killed by Palestinians | 97 | 146 | 243 | 89 |
| Foreign citizens killed by Palestinians | 10 | 7 | 17 | 37 |
| Foreign citizens killed by Israeli security forces | 4 | 6 | 10 | 0 |
| Palestinians killed by Palestinians | 475 | 134 | 609 | 0 |
| Data on minors and women (included in previous table) | Occupied Territories | Israel | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaza Strip | West Bank | Total | ||
| Palestinian minors killed by Israeli security forces | 635 | 316 | 951 | 3 |
| Palestinian women killed by Israeli security forces | 93 | 53 | 146 | 1 |
| Israeli minors killed by Palestinians | 4 | 35 | 39 | 84 |
| Israeli women killed by Palestinians | 7 | 43 | 50 | 179 |
| Palestinians killed by Palestinians for suspected collaboration with Israel | 11 | 109 | 120 | 0 |
| Data on participation in the hostilities and targeted killings (included in first table) | Occupied Territories | Israel | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaza Strip | West Bank | Total | ||
| Palestinians who did not take part in the hostilities and were killed by Israeli security forces ( not including the objects of targeted killings) | 1353 | 833 | 2186 | 5 |
| Palestinian killed by Israeli security forces, Not known if involved in fighting | 238 | 404 | 642 | 4 |
| Palestinians who took part in the hostilities and were killed by Israeli security forces | 1257 | 471 | 1728 | 60 |
| Palestinians who were the object of a targeted killing | 150 | 82 | 232 | 0 |
| Palestinians killed during the course of a targeted killing | 277 | 107 | 384 | 0 |
The figures do not include:
- Four Palestinian-citizens of Israel killed by Israeli military gunfire in the Territories.
- Palestinians killed by an explosive device that they set or was on their person .
- Two Jewish Israeli citizens and One member of the Israeli security forces, killed by a Palestinian citizen of Israel in Nahariya in September 2001 .
- One Jewish Israeli citizen killed within Israel by a Palestinian-Israeli citizen in October 2000 .
- 12 Palestinian citizens of Israel killed within Israel by the Israeli Police in October 2000 .
- Seven members of the Ghaliya family (the two parents and their five children, one an adult), who were killed in June 2006 in an explosion on the coast by Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip. The cause of the explosion remains unclear.
- One Palestinian-citizen of Israel killed by Border Police gunfire within Israel in July 2003.
- Five Palestinian citizens of Israel killed by an absconded Israeli soldier on a bus in Shfar'am, within Israel , in August 2005 and the shooting soldier, beaten to death by Palestinian-citizens of Israel.
- One Palestinian resident of a-Sheikh Sa'ed was killed on May 2007 during a fire exchange between Palestinian militants and Israeli policemen at the a-Sheikh Sa'ed checkpoint in East Jerusalem.
- One Israeli citizen from Kfar Qana, who was killed in August 2007 in the Old City in East Jerusalem after he grabbed a security guard's weapon.
- One Twelve-year-old Israeli child who, in August 2007 while on a family visit in the village of Saida in Tulkarm district, was killed by undercover troops who had come to arrest his brother and his brother's friend, who were wanted by Israel.
- Palestinians who died after Israel delayed their transfer for medical treatment outside the Gaza Strip.
- Palestinians who died in the West Bank after medical treatment was delayed due to restrictions of movement
- Palestinians executed by Palestinian Authority in the Occupied Territories until June 2005
