Operation Defensive Shield

When

29 Mar 2002 – 10 May 2002

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

32.00° N, 35.35° E

Description

2002 Israeli military operation

Cause

list of Palestinian suicide attacks, Passover massacre

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

2002 Israeli military operation

Operation Defensive Shield was a 2002 Israeli military operation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank during the Second Intifada. Lasting for just over a month, it was the largest combat operation in the territory since the 1967 Arab–Israeli War.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article

• Wikidata: military operations, raids and air strikesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In response to increasingly common attacks by Palestinian militants, Israeli initiates Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorism operation in…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Opération Rempart”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page