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January 19 – Israel releases $100 million in frozen assets to
Palestinian National Authority, in order to bolster Abbas's position and keep money out of the hands of the Hamas government.[1]
January 29 –
suicide bomber from the Gaza Strip infiltrates the northern suburbs of Eilat, Israel. Upon seeing the police approaching, he ducks into a neighbourhood bakery and detonates his bomb, killing the three men employed there – all Israeli Jews.[2]
May 2 –
Islamic Jihad launch at least 18 rockets into Israel, damaging a road, hitting a car in a commercial center of Sderot
, killing an Israeli woman and lightly wounding 2 others.
May 21 – A man is killed in Sderot after a rocket landed near the car in which he was sitting.
Palestinian National Authority and appoints Salam Fayyad in his place. The legality of this move is disputed by Hamas, which continues to recognise Haniyeh as prime minister, and Haniyeh continues to exercise prime ministerial authority in the Gaza Strip.[3]
June 25 –
Sharm el-Sheikh aimed at boosting Abbas' leadership of the Palestinian Authority and isolating Hamas after their takeover of Gaza. Olmert announces that he will release 250 Palestinian political prisoners as a gesture of goodwill.[4]
November 27 – The Annapolis Conference is held in Annapolis, the capital of the US state of Maryland. The conference marks the first time a two-state solution is articulated as the mutually agreed-upon outline for addressing the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The conference ends with the issuing of a joint statement from all parties.
Notable deaths
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September 25 –
Palestinian Arab politician, negotiator in the Peace Process, stomach cancer