Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2016

January

1 January

• Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit open ground in the Sha'ar Negev area.
• A Palestinian TV reporter, Anal al-Jadaa, was shot in the leg by a rubber bullet while covering clashes between villagers and Israeli troops at Kafr Qaddum.
• January 2016 Tel Aviv shooting: An Israeli Arab, Nashat Milhem of Ar'ara, shot dead two Israeli Jews, Alon Bakal and Shimon Ruimi, and wounded six others, two seriously, in a pub on Dizengoff Street, Tel Aviv. Milhem hailed a cab and killed its driver, Ayman Shaaban, a Bedouin from Lod, after being driven to the north of Tel Aviv. Milhem reportedly had a police record, and suffered from superpower delusions and personality disorders. On 10 January, two days after Milhem was killed in a shoot-out at a mosque in his home town, after relatives tipped off the Shin Bet about his presence in the area, police defined his actions as a terror attack.
• Mahmoud Kabaha, a Palestinian taxi driver from Barta'a on the Green Line was attacked and beaten by two armed settlers near Mevo Dotan and required hospital treatment. A partial video of the incident was released on 4 January.

  2 January

• In response to the previous day's rocket's fire, Israel launched four strikes against Hamas facilities: the al-Yarmouk training site in western Gaza City, the Falastin training site east of Beit Hanoun, the former Gaza International Airport near Rafah, and another area in the central Gaza Strip.

  3 January

• A Palestinian reportedly tried to stab an Israeli at a bus station on Barzani street in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of East Jerusalem. A youth who fled the area was later detained.
• Two Palestinian 12-year-olds, Shadi Farrah and Ahmad Zatari, were arraigned before the Jerusalem court and charged with attempted murder. They had been arrested on 30 December in possession of knives, and interrogated without the presence of either their parents or a lawyer.
• The home of Noura Sub Laban in the Oqbit al-Khalidiya area of the Old City of Jerusalem was damaged by Israeli settlers who had taken over the adjoining property some weeks earlier. Six breaches in the wall were made. The home has been in the sights of the Ateret Cohanim organization since 2010.
• A 19-year-old Israeli soldier was shot and sustained moderate wounds, while stationed outside the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron by a Palestinian gunman. Two suspects, who would also be linked to a shooting attack on 6 November 2015, were arrested some months later.
• An Israeli soldier suffered a light to moderate leg wound when a Palestinian gunman fired on an Israeli checkpoint south of Hebron.
• Two Palestinians were shot by Israeli forces in a search-and-arrest raid on the Duheisha Refugee Camp near Bethlehem.
• The home of Nihad Hanani in Beit Furik was attacked by settlers, believed to be from Itamar, before they were driven off. A Molotov cocktail was found at the scene.

  4 January

• Two Israelis were initially reported to have been wounded in a stabbing attack on an Israeli police officer near Jerusalem's light rail service. The Palestinian was shot and sustained moderate wounds. According to a spokesperson for the Hadassah hospital, no Israeli was stabbed, though a 15-year-old girl had a very light leg injury and a 29-year-old student hurt himself on falling on the ground.
• Eleven Palestinians were allegedly shot with live and rubber bullets by Israeli forces in clashes with mourners after the funeral of Ahmad Jamal Taha, shot dead after stabbing an Israeli to death on 27 November 2015. Seven were hit by live fire, and four with rubber bullets.

  5 January

• Ahmad Younis Kawazba of the village of Sa'ir north of Hebron was shot after stabbing an Israeli soldier at a Gush Etzion checkpoint in the West Bank. The soldier was lightly wounded. Kawazba is the 6th person from Sa'ir to have died since the October 2015 surge in the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
• Unknown arsonists set fire to Jewish holy texts in a tent that served as a synagogue at an outpost next to the Karmei Tzur settlement in the West Bank. No one was at the site or injured but the books were badly damaged. Police said that the footprints of the suspects were found leading to a Palestinian village near the town of Halhul, the Ynet news site reported. According to Karmei Tzur residents, the suspected arsonists piled up the holy books and set them alight.

  6 January

• Israel Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon decided that Beit al-Baraka, a former Protestant missionary compound north of al-Arrub refugee camp, purchased by Irving Moskowitz through a shell Swedish company in 2012 was to be annexed to the Gush Etzion bloc of settlements in the West Bank.
• Five Bedouin families had their dwellings bulldozed in the E1 Corridor of the West Bank, leaving 25 members of familiers in the Abu Nuwwar community homeless.

  7 January

• Israeli forces confiscated a bulldozer rehabilitating land for agricultural purposes at al-Khirbeh near Aqraba and Majdal Bani Fadil. Israeli spokesmen were unaware of the incident.
• A two-story building, and a 125-square-metre apartment under construction, belonging to the family of Nadia Abu Diab in Silwan, East Jerusalem, were demolished by Israeli authorities for lacking a permit.
• Part of Imad Burqan's restaurant in Beit Safafa was bulldozed by Israeli authorities for lack of a permit.
• Three cousins, Ahmad Salim Abd al-Majid Kawazba, Alaa Abed Muhammad Kawazba, and Muhannad Ziyad Kawazba, from Sa'ir northeast of Hebron were shot dead when they tried to stab Israeli soldiers at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank and were shot dead. No Israelis were injured.
• Khalil Muhammad al-Shalaldah also of Sa'ir was shot dead after he approached Israeli forces at the Beit Einun junction northeast of Hebron armed with a knife. His brother Mahmoud al-Shalaldah had been wounded by Israeli troops near Sa'ir on 13 November 2015 and later died. A day afterwards, the Palestinian Authority denounced the killings of the Sa'ir youths as summary field executions done without any attempt at arresting the youths. Hamas called for a "day of rage" following the two incidents.

  8 January

• Palestinians hurled stones at a bus traveling north of Hebron, smashing a window and lightly injuring the driver in the eye from rock splinters.
• Ahmad Abu Hummus was in a critical condition after suffering severe head and eye injuries in clashes with Israeli forces in Isawiya, East Jerusalem. A Palestinian spokesman claimed he was shot by Israeli police while standing on a street. This claim was rejected by the courts during an appeal as the evidence shows that Ahmad stood among the rioters and participated in the disturbances.
• Fourteen Palestinians were wounded in the legs by Israeli live fire inside the Gaza strip as clashes developed along the security barrier Another was shot by a rubber bullet,
• Six Palestinians were shot with rubber bullets during demonstrations on the West Bank.

  9 January

• Ali Abu Maryam from the village of al-Jadida and Said Abu al-Wafa of al-Zawiya, were shot dead at the al-Hamra military checkpoint, near the settlements of Beqaot and Ro'i, in the northern Jordan Valley of the West Bank. Israeli reports say the two tried to stab soldiers on guard. Palestinians present state that the two men, wholesale grocers en route to deliver goods to retail outlets, were told to get out of their car and then shot dead, and that knives were not visible to them. According to a detailed follow-up investigation by Gideon Levy and Alex Levac published in Haaretz, al-Wafa, reportedly a wealthy businessman running his family's import-retail business, was shot 11 times while still behind the wheel. The vehicle was parked at the proper place when approaching a checkpoint. His body was returned almost immediately to his family. Maryam was a management student at Al-Quds University, and worked as an agricultural labourer in the Israeli settlement of Beqaot. He was shot three times. The Israeli police are still investigating the incident.
• Maher Amer was shot in the thigh with live ammunition while returning from a visit to relatives. The incident occurred as Israeli troops dispersed protesters in their weekly demonstration at Kafr Qaddum.

  10 January

• Israeli forces shot seven Palestinians south to Bethlehem, protesting the leveling and cementing of private Palestinian land at Tuqu' to prepare the ground for an Israeli military watchtower. Two youths, respectively 17 and 20 years old, were shot with live fire, the other five with rubber bullets.
• A Palestinian worker trying to cross over the Separation Wall, near the Israeli settlement of Oranit, was shot and wounded after fleeing, when called on to stop. He was one of 60 Palestinians without work permits intercepted in the evening.

  11 January

• Zayd Mahir al-Ashqar from the Tulkarem village of Sayda was wounded in the abdomen by Israeli forces who shot him as he tried to stab an Israeli soldier on checkpoint duty near the Israeli settlement of Hermesh.
• A young Palestinian who threw stones towards Israeli vehicles near Hizma checkpoint has been shot and lightly wounded by IDF troops on site.
• Palestinians hurled rocks in East Jerusalem near the pilgrim road, lightly wounding three Israeli guards, all in their 30s.
• An Israeli man was lightly injured from rock throwing of vehicles in Highway 60 near Kfar Tapuach.

  12 January

• Srour Ahmad Abu Srour from Aida Refugee Camp was shot dead at Beit Jala when Israeli forces raided that village and Beit Sahour after gunmen in a car fired at a container checkpoint northeast of Bethlehem. 6 members of a cell said to be aligned with Hamas, all from Bethlehem, - Muhammad Sami al-Hameed Al-Ezza, Muhammad Issa Mahmoud Al-Barbari, Muhammad Majdi Mustafa al-Ezza, Ahmed Muhammad Mahmoud Mashaikh, Ali Ahmed Muhammad Arouj, and Said Osama Issa Harmas - said to be local and not externally directed, were arrested in late May for complicity in the incident.
• Muhammad Ahmad Khalil Kawazba of Sa'ir was shot dead after he was rushed an IDF patrol armed with a knife at the Beit Einun junction north of Hebron.
• Adnan Hamid al-Mashni from the village of Ash-Shuyukh was shot dead by IDF at Beit Einun junction. The army reports that the attacker arrived at the Beit Einun junction on Highway 60 with his car, exited the car and approached a patrol of Givati soldiers with a knife drawn. Palestinian sources reported that he was shot while driving near the junction and that Israeli sources claim Mashni had driven Kawazba to the site.