Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas maintained that as of 22 June there was no evidence that Hamas was behind the kidnapping Kidnapping .

Sheera Frenkel had reported Reporting similar views from Israel and Palestinian sources some ten days earlier .

Both ISA and Palestinian authorities said Telling that the two men have been missing since the night of the kidnapping Kidnapping , and the ISA stated Statement that both had engaged in terrorism Terrorism , been arrested Arrest , and served time in the past , and were considered suspects immediately after the kidnapping Kidnapping .

A senior Palestinian intelligence official said Communication off the record Recording that their disappearance constituted clear evidence the two suspects have links with the abduction Kidnapping .

He praised the kidnappers hoping the action could lead to the release Releasing of Palestinian prisoners .

Israel 's stated goals in Operation `` Summer Rains '' were to suppress Control the firing of Qassam rockets from Gaza into the western Negev , and to secure the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit , who had been captured Conquering by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on June 25 .

The soldier was captured Conquering amid a background of violence between the IDF and Palestinian militant groups since the Israeli withdrawal Escaping from Gaza .

Egypt acted as a mediator over the issue of the officer 's release , and on August 15 a senior Hamas official said Statement it would not release Releasing Shalit except in exchange for the release of thousands of Palestinian detainees by Israel .

Palestinian militant groups retaliated Revenge by launching rocket attacks Attack on Israel , with over 300 Grad missiles , Qassam rockets and mortar shells launched , of which 177 hit Israeli territory striking Attack the major urban centers of Ashdod , Ashkelon and Beersheba , as well as smaller communities .

Some deaths Death and injuries Bodily_harm among Palestinian civilians during the escalation , which were reported Reporting as casualties Catastrophe of the clashes Hostile_encounter , were later shown to be unrelated to Israeli actions .

The United States , France , and an official from the United Nations condemned Judgment_communication the Palestinian attacks Attack , and the US stressed Statement that Israel has the right to defend Defending itself .

On March 13 , Egypt brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant groups .

Hamas did not participate Participation in the fighting Hostile_encounter directly , and insisted that all-out war Hostile_encounter would `` be devastating Destroying to the Palestinian people . ''

El Al Flight 432 , was a Boeing 720-058B ( a shortened Change_event_time Boeing 707-120B ) that was attacked Attack by a squad of four armed Bearing_arms Palestinian militants , members of the Lebanese-based militant organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine , while it was preparing GetReady for takeoff Motion at the Zurich International Airport in Kloten on February 18 , 1969 .

Amjad Awad and Hakim Awad , two young Palestinian cousins from the village of Awarta , were arrested Arrest for the murders .

The attack was harshly condemned Judgment_communication by the United Nations , the Quartet on the Middle East , France , Germany , the United Kingdom , the United States , and many other governments , as well as the Palestinian Authority and a number of non-governmental organizations .

Xinhua , the official press agency of the People 's Republic of China , stated Statement that the attack was praised Judgment_communication by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad .

Despite Hamas 's claim Statement , Dubai would not comment Statement on the incident or identify the two Palestinian suspects .

The 2011 Tel Aviv nightclub attack Attack was a combined vehicular assault Attack and stabbing Attack attack Attack carried out Attack at 01:40 ( GMT+2 ) 29 August 2011 in which a Palestinian attacker stole Theft an Israeli taxi cab and rammed Destroying it into a police checkpoint guarding the popular nightclub , Haoman 17 , in Tel Aviv which was filled Filling with 2,000 Israeli teenagers .

Khdeir , a 16-year-old Palestinian , was forced Control into a car by Israeli citizens on an East Jerusalem street .

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blamed Judgment_communication the murder Killing on the Israeli government and demanded Request Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu condemn Judgment_communication it `` as we condemned Judgment_communication the kidnapping Kidnapping of the three Israelis '' .

The PFLP 's exploitation of Jordanian territory was an example of the increasingly autonomous Arab Palestinian activity within the Kingdom of Jordan – a serious challenge Competition to the Hashemite monarchy of King Hussein .

Historical tension between Palestinian refugees and Lebanese factions fomented Convincing the violent Lebanese internal political struggle between many different factions .

The creation of the Security Zone in South Lebanon benefited Influence civilian Israelis , although at great cost Cost to Palestinian and Lebanese civilians .

The plan Arranging was to seize Conquering a luxury hotel in Tel Aviv and take tourists and foreign ambassadors hostage in order to exchange Exchange them for Palestinian prisoners held Arrest by Israel .

The Israeli airstrikes Military_operation and ground bombardment Military_operation , the Palestinian rocket attacks Attack and the ground fighting Hostile_encounter resulted in Causation the death Death of thousands of people , the vast majority of them Gazans .

The hijackers had the stated objective to free Releasing 40 Palestinian and affiliated Collaboration militants imprisoned in Israel and 13 prisoners in four other countries in exchange Exchange for the hostages .

The Bus 300 affair Criminal_investigation ( ) , also known as Kav 300 affair Criminal_investigation , was a 1984 incident in which Shin Bet members executed Action two Palestinian bus hijackers , immediately after the hostage crisis incident ended Process_end and they had been captured Conquering .

On February 23 , 1997 , Ali Hassan Abu Kamal , a 69-year-old Palestinian teacher , opened fire Use_firearm on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in Manhattan , New York City .

Ten years after the shooting Use_firearm , Abu Kamal 's daughter revealed Reveal_secret that she had lied in hiding Hiding_objects that her father 's actions had in fact been motivated by Palestinian nationalism .

Her mother 's 1997 account Statement was a cover story fabricated by the Palestinian Authority as Abu Kamal sought revenge Revenge against the Americans , the British , and the French for supporting Supporting Israel .

The Deir Yassin massacre Killing took place Process_start on April 9 , 1948 , when around 120 fighters from the Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi killed Killing hundreds of Palestinian Arabs in Deir Yassin , a village of roughly 600 people near Jerusalem .

By the 20th century , the revolt was largely absent in the Palestinian collective memory , from which `` the humiliating and traumatic events '' were `` conveniently erased '' , according to Israeli historian Baruch Kimmerling .

However , Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal state that the revolt was a formative event for the Palestinian sense of nationhood in that it brought together disparate groups against a common enemy .

Moreover , they asserted Statement that these groups reemerged Cause_to_amalgamate later to constitute the Palestinian people .

The conflict Hostile_encounter resulted in Causation between 1,166 and 1,417 Palestinian and 13 Israeli deaths ( 4 from friendly fire ) .

Israel 's stated goal was to stop indiscriminate Palestinian rocket fire into Israel and weapons smuggling into the Gaza strip .

After hostilities broke out Process_start , Palestinian groups fired rockets in response Response to what they characterized as `` massacres '' .

During the last week of the offensive ( from 12 January ) , Israel mostly hit targets it had damaged before and struck Attack Palestinian rocket-launching units .

According to the Shin Bet , after the conflict Hostile_encounter , there was a decrease Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in Palestinian rocket attacks .

In September 2009 , a UN special mission , headed by the South African Justice Richard Goldstone , produced Creating a report accusing both Palestinian militants and the IDF of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity , and recommended Convincing bringing those responsible to justice .

The Zion Square assault , also described by Israeli police , the judge who passed sentence , Israeli and foreign media as a 'lynch ' or 'attempted lynch ( ing ) ' , was an attack by Israeli youths against four Palestinian teenagers that took place on the night of 16–17 August 2012 at Zion Square in Jerusalem .

The four were chased Self_motion by 10–15 teenagers and a 17-year-old Palestinian boy Jamal Julani was beaten Bodily_harm unconscious and subsequently found Know to be in a critical condition .

The attack took place Process_start on the same day as a firebombing of a Palestinian taxi driving near the Israeli settlement of Bat Ayin in which a Palestinian family of 5 and their driver suffered Bodily_harm serious burns .

The attack took place Process_start on the same day as a firebombing of a Palestinian taxi driving near the Israeli settlement of Bat Ayin in which a Palestinian family of 5 and their driver suffered Bodily_harm serious burns .

The establishment of the state of Israel and the displacement of a hundred thousand Palestinian refugees to Lebanon during the 1948 and 1967 exoduses contributed Influence to shifting Change the demographic balance in favor of the Muslim population .

Fighting Hostile_encounter between Maronite and Palestinian forces ( mainly from the Palestine Liberation Organization ) began Process_start in 1975 , then Leftist , pan-Arabist and Muslim Lebanese groups formed Coming_to_be an alliance with the Palestinians .

Minor protests occurred Coming_to_be in Djibouti , Mauritania , the Palestinian National Authority , Saudi Arabia , and the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara .

The Lod Airport massacre was a terrorist Terrorism attack Attack that occurred Coming_to_be on May 30 , 1972 , in which three members of the Japanese Red Army recruited by the Palestinian group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-External Operations ( PFLP-EO ) , attacked Attack Lod Airport ( now Ben Gurion International Airport ) near Tel Aviv , killing Killing 26 people and injuring Bodily_harm 80 others .

Because airport security was focused Aiming on the possibility of a Palestinian attack Attack , the use of Japanese attackers took Conquering the guards by surprise .