1953 in Israel

The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict that occurred during 1953 include:

Notable Palestinian militant operations against Israeli targets

The most prominent Palestinian fedayeen terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1953 include:

• 14 April – Armed Palestinian infiltrators tried for the first time to infiltrate Israel by sea, but were unsuccessful. One of the boats was intercepted and the other boat escaped.
• 25 May – Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, attack an Israeli family in Beit Nehemia, killing a woman and wounding her husband and her two children.
• 7 June – Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, attacked residential areas in southern Jerusalem, killing a youngster and wounding three others.
• 9 June – Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, attacked a farming community near Lod, and killed one of the residents. The gunmen threw hand grenades and sprayed gunfire in all directions. On the same night, another group of terrorists attacked a house in the town of Hadera. This occurred a day after Israel and Jordan signed an agreement, with UN mediation, in which Jordan undertook to prevent terrorists from crossing into Israel from Jordanian territory.
• 10 June – Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, enter kibbutz Mishmar Ayalon and kill a 19-year-old Israeli woman in her sleep.
• 11 June – Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, throw hand grenades into a young couple's home in the moshav Kfar Hess, killing an Israeli woman and severely wounding her husband.[2]
• 2 September – Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, throw hand grenades in all directions in the neighborhood of Katamon, in the heart of Jerusalem. No one was hurt.
• 12 October – Yehud attack: Armed Palestinian Arab militants, who infiltrated to Israel from Jordan, throw hand grenades into a home in the Yehud, killing two young children (a 3-year-old girl and a one-and-a-half-year old boy).

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 1953 include:

• 25 February – Al Burj: An IDF patrol shoot dead and mutilate bodies of five shepherds. Sheep numbering 177 confiscated.[3]
• 28 February – Near Bayt Jibrin: IDF execute five smugglers from the Gaza Strip.[4]
• February – 12 March to 15 infiltrators from the Gaza Strip killed when they trigger a 50 kg TNT booby-trap while trying to steal water pipelines near Yad Mordechai.[5]
• 22 April – IDF snipers in West Jerusalem open fire across the armistice line killing six.[6]
• 11 August – Armoured 7th Brigade kill 6 in a wide-ranging attack around Surif, Wadi Fukin and Beit Aula.[7]
• 28 August – Unit 101's first combat operation. An attack on Bureij refugee camp kills 20 refugees including 7 women and five children.[8]