June 28, 2004

One adult and one child were killed when a rocket fired by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza strip detonated in a nursery school in Sderot.

 

 

 

February 22, 2004

A Fatah attack on a bus in Jerusalem killed eight and wounded sixty more. Eleven of those wounded were school children.

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April, 2003

An explosion at a high school in Jenin, West Bank injured nearly thirty students. A radical Jewish group – Nikmat Olelim or “Revenge of the Infants” claimed responsibility for the incident, saying the bomb was placed to avenge the murders of Jewish children by Palestinian terrorists.

 

 

 

November, 21, 2002

A terrorist bomber killed eleven people and injured almost fifty others in Israel when he blew himself up on a bus crowded with school children. The terrorist group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

 

 

 

October 2002

During a series of sniper attacks in the Washington , D.C. area, the Beltway snipers killed ten people and wounded three others, causing significant panic in the region as well as a coordinated response by public safety and school personnel. On October, seventh, 2002, a thirteen year old boy was shot and wounded as he arrived at Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, Maryland. The shooting rampage ended when John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were arrested and charged with some of the attacks. In March, 2004, Muhammad was sentenced to death after his conviction on terrorism statutes. Malvo was sentenced to life in prison.

 

 

 

September 5, 2002

Fatah terrorists fired shots from a crowded school towards a patrol of Israeli soldiers. One soldier was killed and another wounded.