May 2 –
Hamas and
Islamic Jihad launch at least 18 rockets into Israel, damaging a road, hitting a car in a commercial center of
Sderot, killing an Israeli woman and lightly wounding 2 others.
May 21 – A man is killed in
Sderot after a rocket landed near the car in which he was sitting.
June 7 – 15 –
Battle of Gaza:
Hamas takes control of the entire
Gaza Strip after numerous gun battles, and establishes a separate government while
Fatah remains in control of the
West Bank. This in practice divides the area administered by the
Palestinian Authority into two. President
Mahmoud Abbas and the more moderate
Fatah party advocate a Palestinian Arab state alongside Israel, while Prime Minister
Ismail Haniya and the Islamist
Hamas party reject Israel's right to exist.
November 27 – The
Annapolis Conference is held in
Annapolis, the capital of the US state of
Maryland. The conference marks the first time a
two-state solution is articulated as the mutually agreed-upon outline for addressing the
Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The conference ends with the issuing of a joint statement from all parties.
Notable deaths
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