June 14 In a drive-by shooting attack near
Hebron West Bank on 14 June,
Israeli police officer Yehoshua Sofer was killed and three others were wounded.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas's
Fatah party, claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that it was a response to the recent
2010 Gaza flotilla raid.
August 31 The first notable attack in the Hamas campaign, in which 4 Israelis were shot to death. Hamas spokesman Abu Ubaida said, "this attack is a chain in a series of attacks, some have been executed, and others will follow". ''
Ma'an News Agency'' reported that an Israeli security official said that this was one of a series of "terrorist attacks" designed to foil the 2010 peace talks.
Khaled al-Batsh, a leader of
Islamic Jihad, endorsed the Hamas killings, asserting that ""negotiations can only be stopped by a barrage of bullets." Journalist
Daoud Kuttab described the August 31 attack as "clearly timed to disrupt the talks and weaken the position of the Palestinian delegation." United Nations Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon stated the day after the incident that "this attack must be recognized for what it is: a cynical and blatant attempt to undermine the direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations starting tomorrow." On October 8, Israeli special forces killed a senior West Bank Hamas operative responsible for the attack. IDF soldiers entered several buildings in Hebron where Palestinian militants were holed up inside, killing two of the suspects and arresting six others.
September 1 {{Infobox terrorist attack Rabbi Moshe and Shira Morano, an Israeli couple in their 30s from
Ma'ale Efraim in the Jordan Rift Valley, were shot in their car by Palestinian gunmen while driving on Highway 60 between the Rimonim Junction and the Jewish community of
Kochav Hashachar. The man was moderately hurt from shrapnel wounds to his legs and a bullet in the shoulder, and the woman was lightly hurt from blows as result of the vehicle overturning. The victims jumped out of their car into a ditch after one of the assailants' automatic rifles jammed, where they used a cellphone to call for help. The vehicle veered off the road and plunged down an embankment.
Magen David Adom paramedics treated them at the scene before evacuating them to
Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem. Both the husband and wife sustained gunshots to their legs, and managed to drive themselves to
Soroka Hospital in
Beersheba. The woman gave birth by Cesarean section to a healthy baby boy, and received treatment for her wounds. A second car was also fired at in the same attack, but none of its passengers were injured. The attack took place close to where the
August 2010 West Bank shooting occurred. The military wings of
Fatah (the party of Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas) and
Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The groups declared in a statement that "the attack was carried out to mark the 15th anniversary of the killing of the Islamic Jihad's founder
Fathi Shaqaqi." However, some members of both organizations denied having any knowledge of the statement. In October, the
Israel Security Agency arrested three members of
Fatah al-Intifada, a
Fatah splinter group, on suspicion of carrying out the attack. The suspects told investigators that they were given $25,000 with which to buy weapons and that they planned on carrying out more attacks. The suspects were charged in a military court on 29 November. ==Rocket attacks==