2023 in the State of Palestine

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in the State of Palestine

• 1 January – Two Palestinians are killed and three more injured during confrontations with Israeli soldiers who storm Kafr Dan to demolish the homes of two Palestinians killed in a shootout at a checkpoint in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank several months ago.[1]
• 12 January – A Palestinian man opens fire on Israeli soldiers in Qalandia, West Bank, and is shot dead. In a separate incident, a Palestinian man is killed by Israeli soldiers after stabbing to death an Israeli settler at a farm.[2]
• 14 January – Two Palestinian Islamic Jihad members are killed by Israeli soldiers during a raid in Jaba, West Bank.[3]
• 26 January – 2023 Jenin killings: At least nine Palestinians are killed and 16 more injured during a raid by Israeli soldiers in Jenin, and the ensuing gunfight with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.[4]
• 27 January – 2023 Neve Yaakov shooting: Seven people are killed in a mass shooting by a Palestinian man in the Israeli settlement of Neve Yaakov, in occupied East Jerusalem. The man is shot and killed by Israeli police after attempting to flee.[5] In response to rockets fired by Palestinian militants into southern Israel, Israeli Air Force jets launch airstrikes on an underground rocket manufacturing site and a military base used by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.[6]
• 28 January – A Palestinian civilian home is set on fire by Israeli settlers. The occupants were not there at the time of the attack.[7]
• 29 January – An 18-year-old Palestinian man is shot and killed by a group of Israeli settlers near the settlement of Kedumim, in the occupied West Bank.[8] The Israeli military claim the man was armed, though Wafa reports that the circumstances around the killing are unclear.[9]
• 6 February – Five Palestinians are killed and three more injured during a raid by Israeli soldiers and subsequent gunbattle at a refugee camp near Jericho, in the occupied West Bank.[10]
• 22 February – 2023 Nablus clash: Israeli troops conducting a counterterrorism operation clash with Palestinians in Nablus, West Bank, killing nine Palestinians and injuring 97 others, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.[11]
• 26 February – 2023 Huwara shooting: A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills two Israelis in Huwara, Nablus Governorate, West Bank. During revenge attacks by Israelis, a Palestinian is shot and killed and 98 others are injured, many of whom during arson attacks.[12]
• 28 February – An Israeli-American man is killed during a drive-by shooting at a highway in the city of Jericho, in the West Bank.[13]
• 6 March – Five Palestinians are injured by Israeli settlers attacking a family on a street in Huwara, in the West Bank. At least twenty-five Palestinians are injured by tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during the attack.[14]
• 7 March – At least six members of the Jenin Brigades are killed by Israeli soldiers during a raid in Jenin, West Bank. Among those killed is the killer of two Israeli settlers last month.[15]
• 9 March – Three Palestinian fighters are killed by Israeli special units during a shootout in Jenin.[16]
• 10 March – A Palestinian man is shot dead by an Israeli settler near a farm in Karnei Shomron, in the West Bank. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claims that the Palestinian man was armed at the time.[17]
• 12 March – Israeli soldiers kill three Palestinian gunmen near Nablus, West Bank, after coming under fire.[18]
• 16 March – Two militants including Islamic Jihad and Hamas commanders and two civilians are killed and five others are injured during a raid by Israeli security forces in the Jenin refugee camp, in the West Bank.[19]
• 3 April – A Lions' Den militant and a Fatah member are killed during a raid by Israeli soldiers in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. Two other Palestinians are arrested and dozens more are hospitalized due to tear gas.[20]
• 7 April – Two British-Israeli women are killed and their mother is injured in a drive-by shooting at their vehicle near the Hamra settlement in the West Bank.[21]
• 10 April – A 15-year-old Palestinian boy is killed by Israeli soldiers in Jericho.[22]
• 11 April – A Palestinian Authority member and another Palestinian man are killed by Israeli soldiers in Elon Moreh, in the occupied West Bank.[23]
• 4 May – The Israel Security Agency kills three Palestinian men in Nablus, West Bank. The men were allegedly responsible for the murders of a mother and her two daughters in April in Efrat, West Bank.[24]
• 6 May – Two Palestinian men, members of the Tul Karm Battalion, are killed during a raid by the Israeli Defense Forces in Tulkarm in the West Bank.[25]
• 9 May – The Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, killing three senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders and at least ten civilians, including four children. At least another 20 people are injured in the attack, which the Palestinian Authority calls a "horrific massacre".[26] Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declares a "special situation" in the home front with border crossings and schools closed, and gatherings of over 10 people banned in open places.[27][28]
• 10 May –
  • Israel launches an airstrike in the Gaza Strip, killing seven people, including four members of the Marxist–Leninist PFLP. In another raid, two Islamic Jihad Movement militants are killed by Israeli security forces in Qabatiya, in the occupied West Bank.[29]
  • Palestinian militants fire more than 260 rockets into Israel from Gaza in response to yesterday's airstrikes. Most of the rockets are intercepted by the Iron Dome.[30]
• 11 May – An Israeli airstrike kills two commanders of Islamic Jihad. Meanwhile, the total death toll of the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza of the past two days increases to 26. A rocket is launched from Gaza to Rehovot, killing a person and wounding five more.[31]

• 5 February – May Sayegh, 82, poet and political activist.[32]
• 22 February – Ahmed Qurei, 85, politician, prime minister (2003–2006).[33]
• 9 April – Baker Abdel Munem, 80, diplomat.[34]
• 20 April – Salma Khadra Jayyusi, 95, poet and anthropologist, founder of PROTA.[35]
• 2 May – Khader Adnan, 45, hunger striker.[36]
• 9 May – Jamal Khaswan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Al-Wafa Hospital.[37]

• Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2023