List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2001

''Note: This compilation includes only those attacks on Israelis that resulted in casualties and no Palestinian deaths are recorded. Numerous other attacks which failed to kill, maim, or wound are not included.''

Criticism
Amongst other things, the Israeli government has been criticized for characterizing Palestinian non-combatants/protestors as "terrorists"- armed Palestinian fighters.

Total Death Toll in 2001: 2011
MDT stands for Monthly Death Toll and the number after denotes how many Israeli nationals were killed by attacks this month.

January (MDT: 6)

 * January 14: a settler murdered.
 * January 17: Ofir Rahum, a 16-year-old Israeli youth is seduced by a Palestinian woman and murdered by her accomplices.
 * January 23: Mordehai Dayan, 27, & Etgar Zeitouny, 34, both of Tel Aviv, were abducted from a restaurant where they had been eating and shot to death in Tul Karem.
 * January 25: an Israeli killed in a shooting attack in Atarot (a suburb of Jerusalem).
 * January 29: an Israeli killed in a drive-by shooting north of Jerusalem.

February (MDT: 13)

 * February 1: two Israelis murdered in different places in the West Bank while driving in their cars.
 * February 5: an Israeli soldier killed by sniper fire.
 * February 11: an Israeli settler killed by gunfire while driving.
 * February 14: 8 Israeli soldiers run down by a Palestinian driving a bus.
 * February 26: a body of an Israeli found. Autopsy and investigation revealed it was most likely he was murdered by militant Palestinians.

March (MDT: 8)

 * March 1: an Israeli killed in a suicide bombing in a service taxi.
 * March 4: 3 elderly Israelis killed in a suicide bombing in downtown Netanya. Hamas claimed responsibility.
 * March 19: a settler killed in a gunfire attack while driving.
 * March 26: a 10-month-old settler babygirl, Shalhevet Pass, killed by deliberate sniper fire in Hebron.
 * March 28: two Israelis killed in a suicide bombing. Hamas claimed responsibility.

April (MDT: 7)

 * April 1: an Israeli soldier killed in a firefight near Nablus. An Israeli woman stabbed to death on a Haifa street.
 * April 2: an Israeli soldier killed by a sniper while guarding a Jewish religious shrine in Nablus.
 * April 3: eight people are lightly injured by a bomb late at night on Yisod HaMaaleh Street in Hod HaSharon.
 * April 3: 15-month-old Ariel Yered, a resident of the southern Gaza Israeli settlement of Atzmona was critically injured in a mortar attack. His mother was moderately wounded. They were in their back yard when rockets landed during the afternoon hours.
 * April 21: a mutilated body of an Israeli found near Ramallah, militants suspected.
 * April 22: a Kfar Saba doctor of American origin killed by a suicide bomber. 60 people are wounded, Hamas claimed responsibility.
 * April 28: an Israeli soldier off-duty killed and 4 women injured in a drive-by shooting in the Galilee. An Israeli woman stabbed to death in, Galilee.

May (MDT: 19)

 * May 1: a settler is killed by gunfire while driving.
 * May 8: a guard of an Israeli settlement killed.
 * May 9: two 14-year settler boys Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran were stoned to death.
 * May 10: two Romanian workmen are killed in a bomb attack in Gaza.
 * May 14: A 22-year-old Israeli was wounded in a shooting attack in the vicinity of Kohav HaShachar.
 * May 14: Gunmen fire from Beit Jala into the settlement of Gilo wounding four Israelis.
 * May 15: an Israeli young woman is killed by gunfire while driving.
 * May 18: 5 Israelis killed in a suicide bombing in Netanya. Over 100 are wounded, Hamas claimed responsibility. An Israeli soldier off-duty is killed by gunfire while driving.
 * May 23: an Israeli is killed while driving from a road-side ambush.
 * May 25: a burnt body of an Israeli is found near Tulkarem.
 * May 29: an Israeli settler is killed by gunfire while driving, Fatah claiming responsibility. Two other Israelis were killed north of Jerusalem.
 * May 31: an Israeli settler shot and killed in a drive-by shooting.

June (MDT: 30)

 * June 1: Dolphinarium massacre: 21 Israeli young people murdered and over 120 wounded by a Hamas militant suicide bombing at a disco near the Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv.
 * June 5: Infant Yehuda Shoham was critically injured in an Arab stone-throwing attack near his home in Shilo. The baby died of his injuries.
 * June 12: Murder of Georgios Tsibouktzakis: Greek Orthodox churchman is murdered in an Arab drive-by shooting on the Maaleh Adumim road.
 * June 14: an Israeli intelligence official is murdered by one of his informants.
 * June 18: two Israelis were murdered in various locations by Fatah gunfire.
 * June 20: an Israeli is ambushed and murdered.
 * June 22: two soldiers killed in a suicide explosion of a jeep that signaled for help.
 * June 28: a woman murdered and another injured in a drive-by shooting.

August (MDT: 30)

 * August 5: a pregnant Israeli settler woman is murdered in a gunfire ambush.
 * August 6: an Israeli businessman killed in Amman, Jordan.
 * August 7: an Israeli Arab killed because of suspected collaboration with Israel. An Israeli is killed while driving.
 * August 9: 15 people die and 130 are injured in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility. An Israeli student killed in a shooting attack north of the West Bank.
 * August 25: 3 Israeli soldiers killed in an attack against an Israeli outpost. The DFLP claimed responsibility. 3 Israeli civilians killed by gunfire while driving near Jerusalem.
 * August 26: an Israeli settler is invited to an Arab village and then killed.
 * August 27: an Israeli settler is killed in a roadside ambush.
 * August 29: an Israeli fuel truck driver is killed near Nablus.
 * August 30: an Israeli is killed in the restaurant owned by his Arab friends.

September (MDT: 13)

 * September 6: an Israeli officer shot and killed in an ambush while driving off-duty to a wedding. Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility.
 * September 9: 3 people die in a suicide bombing in Nahariya. A teacher and a school janitor killed in a shooting attack while driving in a van to school in Jordan Valley.
 * September 11: an Israeli soldier and an Israeli border police serviceman killed in an attack on a border police base.v
 * September 12: an Israeli woman killed while driving.
 * September 15: a Jerusalem resident killed in a drive-by shooting.
 * September 16: an Israeli soldier killed while arresting Palestinian militant leaders.
 * September 20: a settler woman is killed, and her husband injured while driving. Their three children were also riding in the car, but were not hurt. Fatah claimed responsibility.
 * September 28: an Israeli woman killed in a shooting attack in Jordan Valley.

October (MDT: 14)

 * October 2: an Israeli soldier off-duty and her boyfriend killed in a Palestinian infiltration of a Gaza settlement.
 * October 4: 3 people killed when a gunman opens fire in the central bus station in Afula. 13 people are injured, Fatah claimed responsibility.
 * October 5: an Israeli settler killed in a machine gun ambush.
 * October 7: an Israeli farmer killed in a suicide bombing north of Jordan Valley.
 * October 17: Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi is assassinated by the PFLP.
 * October 18: an Israeli tourist is killed while driving in a jeep in the Judean desert.
 * October 28: 4 people killed and 40 wounded when Palestinian policemen attack a crowded bus stop in Hedera. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. An Israeli soldier killed in the Galilee in a drive-by shooting. Tanzim claimed responsibility.

November (MDT: 14)

 * November 2: An Israeli soldier killed in a roadblock near Ramallah. Fatah (Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade) claimed responsibility.
 * November 4: two Israeli teenagers killed when fire opened by a Palestinian gunman in Jerusalem. 45 people are injured.
 * November 6: an Israeli officer is shot in an ambush.
 * November 9: an Israeli settler woman is killed while driving in West Bank.
 * November 11: an Israeli man, the security coordinator of a Sharon-plain settlement killed.
 * November 24: an Israeli soldier killed in a mortar attack in Gaza, the Hamas claiming responsibility.
 * November 27: two Israeli young women killed when the central bus station in Afula is attacked. 50 people are injured. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility. An Israeli settler killed in a grenade attack in Gaza. Hamas claimed responsibility.
 * November 29: 3 people are killed and 9 wounded in a suicide bombing of a bus near Hadera. Both Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility. A soldier is killed and another wounded in a shooting incident on the Green Line.