Amira Hass ; born 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper "Ha'aretz". She is especially famous for living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reporting on events from the Palestinian perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The daughter of two Holocaust survivors (Bergen-Belsen), Hass was born in Jerusalem.

Rachel Corrie (April 10, 1979 - March 16, 2003) was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. She was killed when she tried to obstruct an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Caterpillar D9 armoured bulldozer operating in Hai as-Salam, a Palestinian area of Rafah, close to the border with Egypt, an area the IDF had designated a security zone. The circumstances of Corrie's death are disputed.

Moshe Ya'alon is a Lieutenant General (res.) on July 9, 2002, and served in that position until June 1, 2005, during which time he led the army’s effort to quell the al-Aqsa Intifada launched in September 2000. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center Institute for International and Middle East Studies. Ya'alon's public pronouncements have been controversial.

Avraham "Avi" Dichter (born 4 December 1952) is an Israeli politician, former head of the Shabak, and member of the Knesset. He is number five on Kadima's list and, as of May 2006, Israel's Minister of Internal Security. Dichter was born in Ashkelon and was a member of Hashomer Hatzair. During his military service, he served in Sayeret Matkal, and refused the offer of his unit commander, Ehud Barak, …

Nayef Hawatmeh (kunya Abu an-Nuf, b. 1935/37 in Salt, Jordan), is a Palestinian politician. His name can be transliterated from the Arabic in many ways; variants include Naif Hawatma, Niaf Hawathme, etc. Hawatmeh hails from a Greek Orthodox Bedouin tribe. He is the General Secretary of the Marxist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) since its formation in a 1969 split from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), …

"'"', born 20 June 1926, died 17 October 2001) was an Israeli general, politician and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party. He was assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), becoming the only Israeli politician to be assassinated during the Al-Aqsa intifada.

Salah Mustafa Muhammad Shahade was the leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, until his assassination by Israel on July 22, 2002. A member of Hamas since the formation of the group in 1987, he quickly became one of its influent leaders and was arrested a few times by Israel or the Palestinian Authority. After Yahya Ayash's death, in 1996, Shahade became the official leader of the group, …

Muhammad Jamal al-Durrah was reported to have been killed by Israeli gunfire on September 30, 2000 near the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip at the beginning of the al-Aqsa Intifada. The report was based on video footage provided by a local freelance cameraman, Talal Abu Rahma, who was working alone for "France 2". The footage shows al-Durrah and his father seeking cover from crossfire between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), …

Adnan Al-Ghoul was the assistant of Mohammed Deif, the leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. He was killed along with Imad Abbas in an airstrike while riding in his car in Gaza on October 21, 2004. Identified by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) as Hamas' top bombmaker, he joined the organisation soon after its creation in 1988. He then served as an assistant to Ezeedeen-al-qassam's top engineer, Yahya Ayyash.

Shalhevet Tehiya Pass (2000 - March 26, 2001) was an Israeli infant victim of a terrorist attack. Shalhevet was shot in the head and killed by a Palestinian sniper while seated in her stroller on the streets of Hebron, where she and her family lived. The bullet which killed Shalhevet then hit the leg of her father, Yitzchak Pass, who was pushing the stroller. Israeli investigators believed the snipers were intentionally targeting the baby.

Hanadi Tayseer Abdul Malek Jaradat, a Palestinian suicide bomber from Jenin, blew herself up on Saturday, October 4, 2003 in an attack on Maxim's restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Twenty-one people of various nationalities were killed and 51 were injured. She was one of the Al-Aqsa Intifada's first female suicide bombers. Jaradat was a lawyer and a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Islamist organization.

Faris Odeh ( November 1985 - November 2000) was shot in the neck by Israeli military forces near the Karni checkpoint in the Gaza Strip while throwing stones in the second month of the Al-Aqsa Intifada. Odeh had been photographed throwing stones at an Israeli tank nine days earlier. Odeh and the now famous image have since become symbols of the Palestinian resistance to the occupation.

Ibrahim Hamed is a Hamas military commander in the West Bank who ordered suicide bombing attacks during the Al-Aqsa Intifada until he was apprehended by Israeli security sources on May 23, 2006.

Said Seyam (also reported as Saeed or Sayed Seyam) is the Interior Minister of the Palestinian government of March 2006. Said Seyam (1975-2005), was a Hamas commander of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas's Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in Khan Yunis. Seyam joined the ranks of Hamas in 1987 and was one of the founder members of its military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

Nidal Fat’hi Rabah Farahat created the Qassam rocket, a homemade weapon produced by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Farahat, a devout Muslim, attended the Shijaha neighborhood mosque in Gaza City. During the First Intifada he took part in Hamas operations. After the Intifada Farahat was arrested following the death of senior Hamas militant Imad Aqel, who was married to one of his sisters, killed while hiding in his house.

Imad Abbas was a senior member of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, until his assassination by the Israeli Defense Forces on October 21 2004, in Gaza City. Abbas joined the ranks of Hamas in 1991, when he was seventeen years old. That year, he participated in an attack that killed two Israeli soldiers near the Karni crossing in the Gaza strip, and so joined Israel's list of wanted members of Hamas.

Fadi Kafisha (died August 31, 2006) was the head of the Tanzim in Nablus. Kafisha was responsible for organizing many suicide bombings and other attacks on Israelis and creating many explosive belts. In 2004 Kafisha was wounded during a confrontation with IDF soldiers and his arm was amputated. His contact in Lebanon working for Hezbollah, Kais Ubaid, sent him an artificial arm from Germany.

Jonathan Pollak (1982-) is an Israeli Anarchist and graphic designer who grew up in Tel Aviv and lives in Jaffa. Pollak was amongst the founders of the radical Israeli group Anarchists Against the Wall, which is one of the most active and militant groups of the Israeli radical left. As early as September 2002 in the village of Jayyous and its struggle to stop the construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier on their land, …

Reem El-Reyashi was the first ever female suicide bomber who carried out an attack on the behalf of Palestinian islamist resistance movement Hamas. On January 14, 2004, the woman entered the Erez Crossing, between the Gaza Strip and Israel, where she walked to a room inside the administration building of the crossing, setting off the explosive belt she wore, killing 4 Israelis, including 3 soldiers and a private security guard.