2007 in Palestine
overview of Palestine-related events during the year of 2007
Events in the year 2007 in Palestine.
Incumbents
President – Mahmoud Abbas (PLO)
Prime Minister – Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas) until 14 June
Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (in the West Bank) – Salam Fayyad (Third Way)
Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (in the Gaza Strip) – Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas) (in rebellion against the Palestinian National Authority.)
Government of Palestine – 10th Government of Palestine (until 17 March), 11th Government of Palestine (from 17 March to 14 June), 12th Government of Palestine (starting 14 June)
Events
January 19 – Israel releases $100 million in frozen assets to President of the Palestinian National Authority 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.
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.
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. President Mahmoud Abbas and the more moderate Fatah party advocate a Palestinian Arab state alongside Israel, while Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and the Islamist Hamas party reject Israel's right to exist.
June 14 – President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas dismisses Ismail Haniyeh as Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority and appoints Salam Fayyad in his place.
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