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Template:Totallydisputed This article is about Israeli military and covert operations, which have been described by some as terrorist acts.

• A number of massacres committed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
• The exile of a large number of Palestinians during the Palestinian exodus of 1948; the largest single expulsion was at Lydda and Ramle on July 14, of 60,000 people, while expulsions were also ordered for Operation Hiram.

An incomplete list of military operations after 1948. Some of the following incidents were characterized by Israel as collateral damage resulting from counter-insurgency operations.

• • Qibya massacre, carried out among others by Unit 101 under the command of Ariel Sharon.
  • Operation Suzannah (also known as the Lavon Affair), conducted in 1954.
  • Kafr Qasim massacre, carried out by the Israeli border police in 1956.
  • In a 1982 assassination attempt targeting Yasser Arafat, 200 people died when a Beirut apartment block was destroyed by an Israeli bomb.
  • In 1985, 73 people were killed in another assassination attempt aimed at Arafat in Tunis.

Political Assassinations

• Several incidents during the 2nd Intifada in which Israel has assassinated individuals involved in violence against Israeli civilians, in certain cases also killing civilians around them in the process of what Israel describes as collateral damage. The targeted individuals were members of militant organizations, including Fatah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad; also some were simultaneously employed by the Palestinian Authority security forces.
• Operation Days of Penitence, an Israeli military operation in the northern Gaza Strip conducted between September 30, 2004 and October 15, 2004

Actions by Israeli allies

• The Sabra and Shatila massacre was perpetrated during September 1982 in Beirut, Lebanon by the Phalangist Lebanese Christian militia; The death toll is disputed, and commonly cited estimates range from 400 to 3000. The Israelis surrounded the camps and sent the Phalangists into the camps to clear out PLO fighters, and provided the Phalangists with support including flares, food, and ammunition. An Israeli investigation found a number of officials (including the Defense Minister of that time, Ariel Sharon) "indirectly responsible" for not preventing the killings, while emphasizing that the "direct responsibility" lay with the Phalangist militia that had done the killing. The Kahan Commission wrote: "responsibility is to be imputed to the minister of defense for not ordering appropriate measures for preventing or reducing the danger of massacre as a condition for the Phalangists' entry into the camps." However, some consider the sole responsibility for the massacre to lie with the Phalangists, rather than Israel.

The Use of Bulldozers as Weapons

Bulldozing of houses and destruction of infrastructure within Palestinian residential areas in the name of Israeli security add to the perceived poor conditions and lack of opportunities for the Palestinians. This is a frequently-used point of indignation used against Israel by Palestinian sympathizers.

Since 1967 Israel has used Caterpillar bulldozers to demolish nearly 9,000 Palestinian homes, leaving more than 50,000 people homeless. Since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000, Israel has razed the homes of 12,737 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the past two years the Israeli army deployed Caterpillar bulldozers to uproot 200,000 Palestinian olive trees.

Related articles

• Israeli-Palestinian conflict timeline
• British Mandate of Palestine
• Camp David 2000 Summit between Palestinians and Israel
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• List of conflicts in the Middle East
• International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Arab League and the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2004
• Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Violence against Israelis
• Palestinian terrorism

Pro Palestinian Views

• Palestinian Position: Information from Palestine
• Palestinian negotiation team
• "Israel's Sacred Terrorism: A Study Based on Moshe Sharett's Personal Diary and Other Documents" -Washington Report on Middle East Affairs 3/18/1985

From US Israel Chamber of Commerice

• 1948 Arab-Israeli War
• Israel and Lebanon
• Human rights in Israel and the territories

• Arab-Israeli conflict
• Terrorism
• History of Israel