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1995 in Palestine
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1995
Events in the year 1995 in Palestine.
Incumbents
President of Palestine – Yasser Arafat
President of the Palestinian National Authority – Yasser Arafat
Government of Palestine – 1st Government of Palestine
Events
22 January – Beit Lid massacre: 19 Israelis, mostly soldiers, are killed and 62 others are injured when two Palestinian suicide bombers detonated themselves at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/bus-stop-bombers-kill-19-in-israel-1569204.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/bus-stop-bombers-kill-19-in-israel-1569204.html May 1, 2022 subscription live Bus stop bombers kill 19 in Israel – News The Independent UK January 23, 1995 September 9, 2011
15 February – South Africa recognizes the State of Palestine.Identical letters dated 2 April 2024 from the Permanent Representatives of Mauritania, Saudi Arabia and Uganda to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, the President of the General Assembly and the President of the Security Council https://undocs.org/en/A/78/846 9 April 2024 5 May 2024 United Nations 5 May 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240505115728/https://undocs.org/en/A/78/846 live
9 April – Kfar Darom bus attackhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1995/04/10/NEWS16316.dtl https://archive.today/20121216121031/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1995/04/10/NEWS16316.dtl dead December 16, 2012 Terror deals a blow to Mideast peace. U.S. student dies after attack on bus. Fletcher Elaine Ruth 10 April 1995 San Francisco Chronicle 15 December 2010
24 July – Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing1992-1995: A chronology of events, Edward F. Mickolus and Susan L. Simmons, p.845
21 August – Ramat Eshkol bus bombingSchmemann Serge Bus Bombing Kills Five in Jerusalem; 100 Are Wounded https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/22/world/bus-bombing-kills-five-in-jerusalem-100-are-wounded.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm The New York Times 22 August 1995
24 September – The first signatures of the Oslo II Accord is signed in Taba, Egypt by Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.The Israeli–Palestinian Interim Agreement – Main Points. Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 28 September 1995
28 September – The Oslo II Accord is officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington, DC by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and witnessed by US President Bill Clinton, which includes provision for the transfer of control of Bethlehem, Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilya, Ramallah, Tulkarm and some 450 villages to the Palestinian Authority.
26 October – Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shaqaqi in his hotel in Malta.
1 November – Kyrgyzstan recognizes the State of Palestine. 100 countries recognized the State of Palestine by the end of 1995.
12 December – The city of Nablus passes from Israeli to Palestinian Authority control.
21 December – The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian Authority control.
Deaths
26 October – Fathi Shaqaqi, 44, Palestinian physician, militant leader and the founder and Secretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
See also
1995 in Israel
References
1995 in
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