January 3: Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians in a clash with Palestinian stone throwers in Nablus on the West Bank, one of them a 15 year old boy. Later on the day in the funeral process for the three dead one more Palestinian was shot and killed. Three others was souned. [1]
January 13: A father of 5 children was killed and 3 Israelis were injured in a roadside ambush by Palestinian gunmen. The Fatah's "military wing" claimed responsibility.
January 22: A Palestinian eleven year old boy from the Jebaliya refugee camp in Gaza was killed and two others was killed near Gaza's border fence. In Nablus soldiers blew up a four story building in a standoff with a Palestinian fugitive.
January 28: Israeli forces carried out an invasion of the Alzaytoun area south of Gaza City, killing 8 Palestinians, 5 of whom were armed members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and wounding "dozens" [1].
January 29: 11 Israelis killed and 50 wounded in a suicide bombing of a city bus in Jerusalem, Israel. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades branch of Fatah claimed responsibility. A day after, also Hamas claimed responsibility. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a video documenting the sights that police forensic expert encountered when they've arrived to the scene. (contains graphic content).
January 30: Three armed Palestinians were killed in gun fights with IDF forces. Two of them were killed while carrying explosives near Dugit. The third was killed in gunfight at Bethlehem. [1]
February 2: Yasser Abu al-Aesh, an alleged local leader of Islamic Jihad, was was among four militants killed during an Israeli raid in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. The house where the men had been staying was later completely destroyed. [1]
