Suicide Bombings
From 1993–2003, 303 Palestinian suicide bombers attacked Israel. More than 80% of all suicide bombings occurred after the year 2000. 55% of all suicide attacks were deemed "successful" – that is, resulted in killing themselves and injuring or killing others. Despite suicide bombings constituting less than 0.5% of Palestinian attacks during Second Intifada (2000–2005), approximately 50% of all Israeli fatalities in this period were killed by suicide bombings.
| Year | Realized suicide bombing attacks | Killed | Wounded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 4 | 38 | 75 |
| 1995 | 4 | 35 | 150 |
| 1996 | 5 | 67 | 161 |
| 1997 | 5 | 24 | 359 |
| 1998 | 2 | 3 | 28 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2001 | 35 | 85 | 323 |
| 2002 | 60 | 220 | 119 |
| 2003 | 26 | 142 | 105 |
| 2004 | 15 | 55 | 172 |
| 2005 | 7 | 23 | 63 |
| 2006 | 4 | 15 | 31 |
| 2007 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2008 | 2 | 1 | 22 |
Between 2000 and 2006, 521 suicide bombing plots were thwarted by the Israeli Defense Forces and 540 Israelis were killed by suicide bombings.
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Famous quotes containing the word suicide:
“However great a man’s fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance—so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamour to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)