Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2014

This is a list of individual incidents and statistical breakdowns of incidents of violence between Israel and Palestinian dissident factions in 2014 as part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
2,314 Palestinians were killed and 17,125 injured by Israeli operations in 2014, a rise from 39 deaths and 3,964 injuries caused in the previous year, according to UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Over the same period 87 Israelis were killed, and 2,629 injured. The majority of casualties occurred during the Gaza War, but 58 Palestinians were killed and 6,028 injured in the West Bank, the highest figure since 2007. Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians, mostly settlers, and security forces resulted in 12 fatalities, compared to 4 the previous year. In 2014, the Israeli military administration in the West Bank demolished 493 structures and homes of 969 Palestinians; 97 buildings in East Jerusalem; the homes of 208 Palestinians in East Jerusalem; and an average of 9 Palestinian buildings per week.
According to the United States Human Rights Report for the year, the most significant human rights abuses across the occupied territories by multiple actors consisted of excessive use of force against civilians, including killings; arbitrary arrest and associated torture and abuse, often with impunity.' The Report states also that Palestinian detainees suffered abuses, particularly during arrest and interrogation, properties were confiscated or demolished, and limitations were placed on freedom of expression, assembly, and association. In addition, severe restrictions were imposed on Palestinians' internal and external freedom of movement.
In January 2014, six Palestinians (two in Gaza; four in the West Bank), five of whom were civilians, were killed by Israeli forces. 219 Palestinians, of whom 216 were civilians and 43 children, suffered injuries (41 in Gaza, 178 in the West Bank). Throughout the same period, there were no Israeli fatalities, and nine people, of whom eight civilians, were injured. Two civilians, of whom was a 16-year-old boy, were shot dead by Israeli forces allegedly without warning for being too close to the border perimeter. 22 Palestinian civilians were injured (16 by live fire) in demonstrations, in which stones were thrown, east of Jabaliya. The protests were related to Israeli restrictions on access to land.
There were 29 attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in their occupied territories, resulting in eight Palestinians injured, and nearly 1,000 trees and eighteen vehicles vandalized. Settler violence from Yitzhar, Bracha, and Shilo outposts in the Nablus Governorate were particularly notable.
Seven clashes between school children and IDF forces deployed near Palestinian schools, involving stone-throwing near school entrances led to military responses using tear gas, rubber-coated metal bullets, and child arrests were registered for early January, especially near the Al Khadr school in Bethlehem. 106 Palestinian buildings were demolished by Israeli forces in the West Bank, and 183 Palestinians suffered displacement. During 434 search operations on the West Bank, 491 Palestinians were detained. On 31 January airstrikes, mostly in Beit Lahiya, killed approximately 1,200 heads of livestock on farms in the Gaza, including 150 cattle, 400 rabbits, 600 pigeons and 60 hens, while damaging five homes, two schools, and educational centre and an office.
Three Palestinian civilians (two in Gaza; one in the West Bank) were shot dead by Israeli forces, while 221, of whom 219 were civilians and 53 children, were injured (40 in Gaza and 181 in the West Bank). In the same period, no Israelis were killed, and six were injured, of whom five were civilians. Twenty three incidents settler-related incidents, dix involving injuries to a person, and seventeen resulting in damage to Palestinian properties were registered. Three settlers were injured, and one settlement was damaged. Over January and February, the Israeli Air Force, conducted 23 airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, mostly on military sites over Gaza City, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, in response to mortar and rocket fire. This was one more than the total number of such strikes throughout 2013. Three of these involved targeted killing airstrikes, killing one alleged militant and injuring two, with one civilian bystander killed in collateral damage, and three civilians, including an eleven-year-old boy. Through January to February, five civilians were killed and 79 injured by IDF operations in the Gaza Strip, including four children and three suffered injuries related to airstrikes. The Israeli government demolished 17 Palestinian dwellings, of which nine in Jerusalem. 236 IDF searches were conducted in the West Bank, and 295 Palestinians were detained.
Eleven Palestinians (including seven civilians) were killed and 236 (seventeen in Gaza, 219 in the West Bank), of whom 234 were civilians, and 68 children, were wounded, in clashes with Israeli forces in March 2014. There were no Israeli fatalities; five soldiers were injured. Nine Palestinians were injured in settler attacks, 24 Palestinian properties were damaged, as opposed to one incident where settler property was damaged. Another eleven Gaza residents were injured by the explosion of military ordnance. New settlement activities on land claimed as Palestinian private property took place this month in the northern Jordan Valley. Fifteen dunams of private Palestinian land, declared for Israeli military use in the 1990s and lying next to the Ro'i settlement; an Israeli settler began to farm fifty dunams of Palestinian land he fenced off in Khan al-Ahmar east of Jerusalem, between the settlements of Ma'ale Adumim, Kfar Adumim and Anatot.
In the first quarter of 2014, sixteen clashes, involving Israel search and arrest operations and forced entry into schools, resulting in injuries from tear gas and damage to school property were registered by UNICEF.
Furious Palestinian leaders complained that the deaths raised to sixty the number of Palestinians killed by the IDF since the American-sponsored 2013–14 Israeli–Palestinian peace talks began in mid-2013.
284 Palestinians (including 281 civilians, 92 of whom were children), were injured in clashes with Israeli forces. An Israeli settler was killed by Palestinians near Hebron. Fifteen Israelis were injured, including six civilians. 196 Palestinian children were held in detention over April, and 90 were displaced by house demolitions, which spoked in this month with 87 demolitions in Area C. Many of the structures torn down were built with funds from foreign donors. On 6 April, the Israeli Civil Administration declared 1,000 dunums of land in Area C in the Bethlehem Governorate, as Israeli government property, forbidding access by Palestinians to the area.
The majority of the 87 demolitions this month took place in Area C, a third in the Jordan Valley, and several affected three Bedouin communities: Al Jaw'wana, Humsa al Buqai', Tell al Khashabah and the community of Jabal al Baba community. These led to 171 people being left homeless, half of them children. Four Palestinian structures were demolished in East Jerusalem, displacing eight people.
In May, two Palestinians were killed on the West Bank, and 266, of which 246 were civilians, were injured, twenty in the Gaza Strip. OCHA documented a total of 27 incidents involving settler violence in the West Bank. Thirteen Palestinians, including eight children, were hurt in conflicts with settlers or due to use of live ammunition by Israeli forces intervening between the two. There were no Israeli fatal casualties, but 68 were injured, 28 of whom were civilians. At least 355, mainly olive, trees were uprooted by settlers. Five settler attacks took place in the vicinity of the Bat Ayin settlement in the Bethlehem Governorate. On 15 May 2014, fifty grape-trees and five olive trees belonging to a Beit Ummar family, were cut down by settlers.
The IDF conducted 767 raids in the West Bank and East Jerusalem between 1 June and 31 August 2014, following the abduction of three Israeli teenagers. Seven people were killed during confrontations with IDF soldiers conducting search operations. For the period May–June the number of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces totaled 100.
According to Shin Bet, in July 2014 Palestinians carried out a record number of attacks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem against settlers and Israeli forces: in 507 incidents, 90% involved the throwing of firebombs, compared to 100 such incidents in May. According to OCHA, these clashes were triggered by the Israeli crackdown in the West Bank after the abduction of three Israeli youths.
According to B'Tselem, in the roughly three-week period since the opening of hostilities (July 7) to month's end, Israeli fire wounded at least 577 Palestinians in the West Bank, 388 being shot with live fire rounds, and most were hit in the lower torso and limbs. Palestinians report that 0.22-inch-caliber bullets apparently ruled out for dispersing demonstrations or public disturbances, and snipers, were being used.
Tensions in East Jerusalem began to rise in late October, as the number of Palestinian Jerusalemites injured by Israeli forces since 1 July rose to 1,333 (among which 80 children), while four had been shot dead. In the same period, three Israelis were killed and 65, of whom 33 were civilians, suffered injuries from Palestinians. Seventeen incidents of Palestinians throwing stones in the West Bank and East Jerusalem at Israeli vehicles and buses were reported, occasioning five injuries while Israeli authorities demolished 33 structures in the West Bank and east Jerusalem through 28 October to 4 November for lack of permits, bringing the overall number of demolitions of Palestinian property this year to 552 by 3 November.
Mahmoud Abbas responded to the security closure of the Temple Mount, stating that "harming the places sacred to Muslims and Christians is a red line", that he would "not permit this line to be crossed," and that the closure was a "declaration of war". His call to Palestinians to protect the Temple Mount from visits by Jews "by any means" has been widely viewed in Israel as incitement to violence. Israeli prime minister Netanyahu characterized Abbas' call as part of "a wave of incitement by radical Islamic elements and by Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas)".
Abbas' Fatah Party called for Friday, 31 October 2014, to be a "Day of Rage" in Jerusalem. The protests on 31 October and on 1 November were not notably large and there was little violence.
Weeks of unrest and high tension ensued after the visit on 2 November by Moshe Feiglin to the Temple Mount, after Prime Minister Netanyahu called for restraint and Jordan warned that attempts to alter the status quo of the Haram al-Sharif would imperil the Jordan-Israel peace agreement.
During the first three weeks of the month, Israeli police and soldiers detained some 380 Palestinians, adding to more than 5000 in prison, and another 200 in "administrative detention". From the 4–10 November, four Israelis were killed and 23 injured by Palestinians, while in East Jerusalem, 328 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli police. Israeli authorities demolished or confiscated 26 Palestinian buildings in East Jerusalem and Area C of the West Bank for lack of permits, causing the displacement of 90 people. From 22 October - 10 November, 22 homes were demolished in east Jerusalem alone.