Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Gaza

Note: The data here do not include settlers and construction in the eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem, i.e., those areas of the West Bank that are included by Israel in the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem.

Data sources: Statistical abstract of Israel, various years; B’tselem report, By Hook or By Crook. Table 1 (based on Statistical abstract of Israel, various years). Data: 1, 2.

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Rockets fired at Israel from Gaza 2002-09

The chart and table below show the number of rockets fired at Israel from Gaza each month in the period 2002 to January 2010.

The data source is the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC).  The IICC data is apparently the official Israeli count as it is referred to by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs on its website.

Links to specific documents from which the data was collected: Rocket threat from the Gaza Strip, 2000-2007, Anti-Israeli Terrrorism in 2007 and its Trends in 2008, Summary of rocket fire and mortar shelling in 2008, Operation Cast Lead – Update No. 15, Operation Cast Lead – Update No. 18, News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict July 14-21, 2009. All documents were retrieved 24-July-2009. Data for most of 2009 is available by week and was assigned to months based on greatest week/month overlap.

Unfortunately, no statistics of Israeli artillery fired at Gaza seem to be available.

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
’02	3	9	6	0	0	0	9	0	3	2	1	2
’03	21	12	16	4	19	30	0	14	0	31	2	6
’04	7	12	7	16	13	16	53	19	46	34	8	50
’05	41	0	0	8	11	17	28	6	29	8	15	16
’06	1	47	69	58	45	134	197	41	46	68	182	58
’07	28	43	31	25	257	63	61	81	70	59	65	113
’08	136	228	103	373	206	158	4	8	1	1	125	361
’09	363	55	32	4	5	1	1	1	11	6	5	5
’10	12	3	15	1	11	8	5	7	11	3	13	11
’11	15	6	23	69	1	3	17	155	3	45	10	28
’12	10	28	174	11	3	179	19	22	11	122	1243	0
’13	0	1	2	13	2	5	5	4	1	3	0	3
’14	16

Updates: Table and graph updated to show data for later periods. All updates use data from periodic reports at the ITIC website. Note: there are often some discrepancies between the weekly and the monthly numbers of the ITIC.

Palestinian and Israeli fatalities by month 2000-08

The following chart was generated using B’Tselem data. The data does not cover December 2008. The number of Israeli deaths was higher than the number of Palestinian death on the same month once during 99 months covered (June, 2001).

The totals for the years and for the entire period are:

Period	Israeli	Palestinian
2000 (Sept. – Dec.)	41	279
2001	191	469
2002	420	1032
2003	185	588
2004	108	828
2005	50	197
2006	23	662
2007	13	390
2008 (Jan. – Nov.)	31	452
Total	1062	4897