List of Palestinian suicide attacks


This article contains lists of Palestinian suicide attacks carried out by Palestinian individuals and militant groups, usually against Israeli civilian targets. The use of indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations is illegal under international law.
The first suicide attack was carried out in 1989 and the attacks stopped in 2008. The high point was in 2002 during the Second Intifada. A 2007 study of Palestinian suicide bombings during the Second Intifada found that 39.9 percent of the suicide attacks were carried out by Hamas, 26.4 percent by Fatah, 25.7 percent by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, 5.4 percent by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and 2.7 percent by other organizations.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has advocated classifying suicide bombings as crimes against humanity, a position adopted by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in 2002.
The criteria used for this list: successful deliberate attacks committed by Palestinian militant groups against either civilians or security forces, in which the perpetrators intended to die during the attack.

1989 (1 attack)

1990s

1993 (2 bombings)

1994 (5 bombings)

1995 (4 bombings)

1996 (4 bombings)

1997 (3 bombings)

1998 (2 bombings)

1999 (2 bombings)

2000s

The Al-Aqsa intifada saw a dramatic upswing in suicide bombings, with A, 40% of the total number originated in East Jerusalem.

2000 (5 bombings)

2001 (40 bombings)

2002 (47 bombings)

2003 (23 bombings)

2004 (17 bombings)

2005 (9 bombings)

2006 (3 bombings)

2007 (1 bombing)

2008 (2 bombings)

2010s

2015 (1 bombing)

2016 (1 bombing)

Total number of injuries and fatalities, by year

Note: statistics are taken from lists above.
YearDeadInjuredTotalSuicide attacks
198916n/a161
1993239412
19943813515
199539n/a394
199659n/a594
199724n/a243
19983n/a32
19990n/an/a2
200064105
20018547656140
200223811435247
20031458322823
2004983313117
20053360939
200615991143
20073n/an/a1
2008122231
20150111
2016020201
Total8059641.769171

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