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Israeli troops kill a 15-year-old boy and wound four others at a refugee camp near Hebron, where they are looking for the rock thrower who killed a soldier yesterday.
2020-05-13

Two Palestinian attackers stab passers-by at the Old City's Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem, Israel, killing two and injuring one; the attackers are shot and killed by two Israeli Border Police officers.
2015-12-23

A Palestinian man injures an Israeli civilian and a soldier in a stabbing attack before the attacker is shot and killed by security forces in the city of Hebron.
2015-12-9

The Palestinian Ministry of Health says a 21 year-old man has died in clashes with Israeli Army soldiers.
2015-11-26

40 year old Rabbi Ya’akov Litman and his 18 year-old son are shot dead by a Palestinian gunman, south of Hebron.
2015-11-13

Israeli forces shoot and kill a 72-year-old woman in Halhul, a town near Hebron. The soldiers say she attempted to wound them with her car. Her son denies this, saying his mother was on her way to lunch with her sister. Later, three Israelis are shot and wounded, one seriously, in two incidents in Hebron.
2015-11-6

Israeli border police shoot dead a 17-year-old girl after she approached them with a knife in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
2015-10-25

Israel and the Palestinian militant organization Hamas begin a major prisoner swap, in which the captured Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners held in Israel. Among the prisoners released are 280 prisoners serving life sentences for planning and perpetrating terror attacks.
2011-10-18

The Cabinet of Israel approves a prisoner swap deal with Hamas for the release of the Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been held in captivity for five years. In exchange, Israel agrees to release a thousand Palestinian prisoners held in Israel, among them hundreds of prisoners serving multiple life sentences for planning and perpetrating murderous attacks against Israeli civilians.
2011-10-11

The Palestinian cabinet moves its weekly meeting from Ramallah to Hebron in a symbolic protest at the decision by Israel to add Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem to its list of national heritage sites.
2010-03-1