The following is a timeline of events during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2017.
January 1 January A Palestinian youth in Hizma, was shot in the head with a rubber coated steel bullet during clashes with Israeli forces in the village.'Israeli forces shoot Palestinian with rubber bullet to the head during clashes', Ma'an News Agency 1 January 2017.
2 January Israeli bulldozers demolished 11 residential structures in the Bedouin West Bank community of Khan al-Ahmar, leaving 87 Palestinians, mostly women and children, homeless.'Israeli forces demolish 11 Bedouin residential structures, 87 left homeless', Ma'an News Agency 3 January 2017. The UN condemned the demolition, stating that in the whole village, the homes of 140 people are under threat, after a long legal battle between the Israeli government and villagers to enforce a previous demolition order for the village, which previously reached Israel's High Court.Lizzie Dearden, 'Israel orders demolition of Palestinian village in West Bank,' The Independent, 23 February 2017.
3 January Shooting terror attack in downtown Haifa. An Arab-Israeli, a resident of Halissa neighborhood, killed a Jewish man and injured another. Israeli forces demolished some 15 structures, barns, homes and the hamlet's school, in Khirbet Tana, near Beit Furik in the Jordan Valley.'Israeli forces demolish homes, school in Bedouin village in the Jordan Valley', Ma'an News Agency 3 January 2017. According to initial Israeli reports 2 Palestinian motorcyclists were severely injured, and another lightly injured, at an Israeli flying checkpoint between Jenin and the al-Jalama checkpoint in a vehicular ramming attempt in which 2 Israeli border police also sustained injuries. Two Palestinian motorbikes were involved. The initial report was later revised defining the incident as an accident.'2 Palestinian motorcyclists severely injured in accident at Israeli army checkpoint', Ma'an News Agency 3 January 2017. It was later reported by Palestinian media that a teen, Sharif Khanfar, was apparently riding on a Vespa motorcycle with three friends when they were arrested for allegedly attempting to hit the Israeli soldiers, and that they were injured when struck by an Israeli jeep. Khanfar later required surgery which led to the amputation of his leg below the knee. Many circumstances regarding the event, according to the boy's lawyer, remain unclear.'Palestinian teen undergoes leg amputation 'after being hit by Israeli jeep', Ma'an News Agency 3 January 2017
4 January 2 Palestinian homes, extending over 500 metres, built 15 years earlier without an Israeli license and owned by Adnan Shweiki in Shuafat, East Jerusalem were demolished by Israeli bulldozers. 18 people, of whom 10 were children, were dispossessed of their dwelling.'Israeli forces demolish 2 homes in Jerusalem, displacing 18 Palestinians', Ma'an News Agency 4 January 2017. Israeli forces on Wednesday demolished two Palestinian-owned homes in the neighborhood of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem. The owner of one razed house, Amer Ubeido, stated his family had lived in the house for 16 years and that all efforts to obtain an Israeli permit had failed.'Israeli forces demolish 2 Palestinian homes in Beit Hanina', Ma'an News Agency 3 January 2017.
5 January A tentative terror attack in Beersheba: A Bedouin man tried to grab the gun of a security man and beat him up. The suspect was arrested. According to Palestinian sources Israeli naval forces sunk the boat of a Gaza fisherman, Muhammad al-Hissi (33), who subsequently went missing off the coast of Beit Lahiya. Israeli sources stated that they were escorting boats that deviated from the prescribed fishing zone when an Israeli vessel collided with one, causing it to sink.'Gaza fisherman goes missing after encounter with Israeli navy', Ma'an News Agency 5 January 2017. He was declared dead, after search efforts failed to retrieve his body, on January 7.'Gaza fisherman who collided with Israeli ship declared dead', Times of Israel 7 January 2017. The Palestinian Ministry of Health stated that a car in which its deputy Minister Asaad al-Ramlawi was riding came under Israeli fire as it drove past al-Ram. Israeli sources stated no Israeli forces were present, and suggested the damage was due to local stone throwers.'PA claims Israeli forces open fire at Palestinian deputy minister's car', Ma'an News Agency 5 January 2017.
6 January A Palestinian was seriously injured while walking along a road near the settlement of Ariel when he was struck by an Israeli car. The identity of the driver is unknown.'Israeli settler runs over, seriously injures Palestinian man south of Nablus', Ma'an News Agency 6 January 2017.
8 January Fadi Ahmad Hamdan al-Qunbar (28) of the East Jerusalem suburb of Jabel Mukaber drove his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers at Armon Hanatziv killing 4 and injuring 13 others, 3 seriously. The driver was shot dead while reversing on injured people. The fatalities were Yael Yekutiel (20) of Givatayim, Shir Hajaj (22) from the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, Shira Tzur (22) from Haifa and Erez Orbach (20) from the settlement of Alon Shvut. The attack was claimed by an unknown Palestinian group called "The Martyr of Baha Alyan Collective", citing political motives. Israeli reports stated that his mother and 12 other kin would be stripped of their residency rights, and that their house was to be demolished. 'Palestinian shot dead after driving truck into Israeli soldiers, killing 4,' Ma'an News Agency 8 January 2017 . According to OCHA, in the wake of the attack, Israel demolished 4 structures in Jabal Mukaber area of East Jerusalem, and gave warning notices to the extended kin of the culprit regarding dozens of their homes which lack Israeli permits.Protection of Civilians Report 27 December 2016 – 9 January 2017 OCHA 12 January 2017
10-23 January Overview During this period, 3 Palestinians were shot dead and 26 Palestinians were wounded, among whom 12 children, during clashes throughout the West Bank. 10 were wounded when protests erupted at the razing of a home in Al-Ram. 44 Palestinian structures were demolished for lacking Israeli building permits in Area C and East Jerusalem, leaving 17 Palestinians without homes. Near Jericho (Al Jiftlik-Abu al 'Ajaj) and Nablus (Tell al Khashabeh), 19 structures, 15 built with humanitarian funds, were razed. The destruction of a road at Al Buweib near Hebron affected the livelihoods of an estimated 3,000 Palestinians. Following a ramming attack on 8 January, 11 structures were demolished in the area he came from in Jabel Mukaber, East Jerusalem.45 people were affected by the demolition. A further 80 buildings containing 240 families were issued with demolition notices on the same grounds in this suburb. 199 search and arrest operations by Israeli forces led to the arrest of 288 Palestinians. Settlers vandalized 56 Palestinian trees in raids on 2 Palestinian groves in Beit Lid and Turmus Ayya. They also beat up a Palestinian working his land at Burqa, Nablus. Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians in Gaza and off the Gaza coast on at least 38 occasions for allegedly violating the Israeli-imposed Access Restricted Areas (ARA) leading to the wounding of 5 people, 3 of whom were fishermen and one a 10-year-old girl. On six occasions, 11 Palestinians trying to enter Israel or sail beyond the restricted zone. Several Israeli vehicles were damaged as a result of 17 incidents of Palestinian stone-and Molotov cocktail throwing. Stones thrown at the Jerusalem Light Rail train running through the Palestinian area of Shuafat also caused some damage.Protection of Civilians Weekly Report | 10 – 23 January 2017 OCHA 26 January 2017
10 January Israeli forces shot dead 2 Palestinians The first, Muhammad al-Salihi (32), a corn-cob peddler, was shot dead during an Israeli predawn raid on the Far'a al-Faraa Refugee Camp in the Tubas Governorate area of the West Bank. According to his mother, the incident occurred when he protested loudly at the incursion into their home. He was shot from 6 to 11 times. According to Israeli reports he was shot outside his home, in the yard, when he advanced towards troops with a knife in his hand. In a follow-up report, Gideon Levy stated that blood was visible on the floor inside the house and that according to Salihi's mother, a widow they were woken by sounds the son took to be those of burglars. An altercation ensued, the son yelled ‘God is great’, at which he was shot several times. The knife shown in the Israeli photo, she added, is of one the house was not furnished with. Their house was reportedly raided in order to secure access to, and arrest, a neighbour in a nearby house 'Israeli forces kill Palestinian man during predawn raid in al-Faraa,' Ma'an News Agency 10 January 2017 . The second incident occurred when IDF troops shot dead a 17-year-old boy during clashes in Tuqu' village (Bethlehem). Stones and Molotov cocktails were thrown during the clashes. Israeli forces destroyed part of an 11-km water pipeline servicing 4 Bedouin communities in the northern Jordan Valley sector of the West Bank. The villages affected were al-Ras al-Ahmar, al-Hadidiya, Khirbet Makhul, and Khirbet Humsa. The infrastructure had been built four years earlier with funding supplied by the NGO Action Against Hunger' Israeli forces destroy water pipeline serving Bedouin villages in northern West Bank ,' Ma'an News Agency 10 January 2017.
12 January 8 Palestinian structures, including businesses, spread over 1.2 acres in Jabal Mukabir were bulldozed by Israeli forces for lack of Israeli permits ' Israel increases demolition orders in Jabal al-Mukabbir in wake of truck attack,' Ma'an News Agency 12 January 2017 . Palestinians in Isawiya hurled rocks at a force of the Israeli Police and Border Guard, aiding civilian vehicles after a car crash. No one was injured. Palestinians hurled a Molotov cocktail on the fence of the Israeli settlement of Beit El. Israeli soldiers chased their vehicle and lost them. Four suspects were arrested on 30 January.
13 January 2 Palestinians, Abd al-Khaliq Barnat and Ashraf Abu Rahma suffered injuries during clashes with Israeli forces at the weekly Bilin protest march near Ramallah in the West Bank was treated on the scene by Palestinian medical crews after sustaining an unidentified injury. '2 Palestinians injured, tens suffer tear gas inhalation during protests in Bilin,' Ma'an News Agency 13 January 2017 .
14 January According to Palestinian sources a Gazan youth was injured by Israeli troops while collecting firewood near the border barrier outside Beit Lahiya.'Israeli forces injure Palestinian youth in northern Gaza Strip,' Ma'an News Agency 14 January 2017 .
15 January The ground floor home of Muhammad Muheisin, which is beneath 5 floors of apartments taken over by Israeli settlers in Silwan in 2014, was subject to a raid by settlers and reportedly damaged.'Settlers attack Palestinian house in Silwan, damage property,' Ma'an News Agency 15 January 2017. Israeli border police arrested 4 masked settlers from the outpost of Geolat Zion, after observing them waving clubs and hurling stones at Palestinians farming in the vicinity of near Turmus Ayya. An indictment was laid against the four for "racially-motivated assault with intention to harm" on January 23 'Israeli settlers indicted for assaulting Palestinian farmers ,' Ma'an News Agency 23 January 2017.
16 January As part of a plan to connect Israeli settlements with a new road, Israeli forces started uprooting hundreds of olive trees on what are described as private Palestinians lands at the villages of Izbat al-Tabib, Nabi Ilyas, and Azzun in the West Bank district of Qalqiliya. 'Palestinian, Israeli activists detained as Israeli forces uproot hundreds of olive trees,' Ma'an News Agency 16 January 2017.