page_title: 2007 in Israel
section_title: Israeli–Palestinian conflict
hierarchical_section_title: 2007 in Israel / Events / Israeli–Palestinian conflict
caption_attribution_description: President George W. Bush waves to photographers as he stands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007, at the Annapolis Conference in Annapolis, Maryland.
context_page_description: Events in the year 2007 in Israel.
context_section_description: The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 2007 include:
  January 19 – Israel releases $100 million in frozen assets to Chairman Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority, in order to bolster Abbas's position and keep money out of the hands of the Hamas government.
  June 7–15 – Battle of Gaza: Hamas takes control of the entire Gaza Strip after numerous gun battles, and establishes a separate government while Fatah remains in control of the West Bank. This in practice divides the area administered by the Palestinian Authority into two. Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and the more moderate Fatah party advocate a Palestinian Arab state alongside Israel, while Prime Minister Ismail Haniya and the Islamist Hamas party reject Israel's right to exist.
  June 25 – Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert meets with Middle East leaders President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak, President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas and King Abdullah II of Jordan in a summit in 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.
  July 20 – Israel has begun releasing 250 Palestinian Arab prisoners associated with Fatah as a goodwill gesture to the Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.
  August 6 – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrives in the historic town of Jericho, administered by the Palestinian Authority, becoming the first Prime Minister of Israel to visit the West Bank or Gaza Strip in more than seven years. Olmert meets with Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority.
  November 19 – Israel releases 450 Palestinian Arab prisoners as a goodwill gesture to the Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, ahead of the 2007 Mideast peace conference with the Palestinian Authority.
  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 Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets
  The most prominent Palestinian militant acts and operations committed against Israeli targets during 2007 include:
  January 29 – Eilat bakery bombing: A Palestinian Arab 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.
  May 2 – Hamas and 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.
  September 10 – Two Qassam rockets are fired from Beit Hanun at the Zikim Army Base in Israel located near the Gaza Border. One of them lands safely in the Negev, but the other lands near unfortified barracks (Zikim military base) at the base where Israeli recruits were sleeping. This resulted in at least 66 wounded, with at least 10 moderately to seriously. 69 soldiers were wounded by the rocket, 60+ of them had only light-to moderate shrapnel wounds, but four of them were injured seriously. One of the four had to have his leg amputated, and another was in a critical condition. Both Islamic Jihad and PRC claimed responsibility.
  Notable Israeli military operations against Palestinian militancy targets
  The most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 2007 include:
  April 7 – Israeli helicopters fire at least two missiles into the northern Gaza Strip. The missile killed a Palestinian militant "while mounting
caption: Israel participates in the Annapolis Conference, November 27, 2007
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