This is a Timeline of events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict during 2016.
January
1 January
Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit open ground in the Sha'ar Negev area. A Palestinian TV reporter, Anal al-Jadaa, was shot in the leg by a rubber bullet while covering clashes between villagers and Israeli troops at Kafr Qaddum. January 2016 Tel Aviv shooting: An Israeli Arab, Nashat Milhem (29) of Ar'ara, shot dead two Israeli Jews, Alon Bakal (26) and Shimon Ruimi (30), and wounded six others, two seriously, in a pub on Dizengoff Street, Tel Aviv. Milhem hailed a cab and killed its driver, Ayman Shaaban (42), a Bedouin from Lod, after being driven to the north of Tel Aviv. Milhem reportedly had a police record, and suffered from superpower delusions and personality disorders. On 10 January, two days after Milhem was killed in a shoot-out at a mosque in his home town, after relatives tipped off the Shin Bet about his presence in the area, police defined his actions as a terror attack. Mahmoud Kabaha, a Palestinian taxi driver from Barta'a on the Green Line was attacked and beaten by two armed settlers near Mevo Dotan and required hospital treatment. A partial video of the incident was released on 4 January.
2 January
In response to the previous day's rocket's fire, Israel launched four strikes against Hamas facilities: the al-Yarmouk training site in western Gaza City, the Falastin training site east of Beit Hanoun, the former Gaza International Airport near Rafah, and another area in the central Gaza Strip.
3 January
A Palestinian reportedly tried to stab an Israeli at a bus station on Barzani street in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of East Jerusalem. A youth who fled the area was later detained. Two Palestinian 12-year-olds, Shadi Farrah and Ahmad Zatari, were arraigned before the Jerusalem court and charged with attempted murder. They had been arrested on 30 December in possession of knives, and interrogated without the presence of either their parents or a lawyer. The home of Noura Sub Laban in the Oqbit al-Khalidiya area of the Old City of Jerusalem was damaged by Israeli settlers who had taken over the adjoining property some weeks earlier. Six breaches in the wall were made. The home has been in the sights of the Ateret Cohanim organization since 2010. A 19-year-old Israeli soldier was shot and sustained moderate wounds, while stationed outside the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron by a Palestinian gunman. Two suspects, who would also be linked to a shooting attack on 6 November 2015, were arrested some months later. An Israeli soldier suffered a light to moderate leg wound when a Palestinian gunman fired on an Israeli checkpoint south of Hebron. Two Palestinians were shot by Israeli forces in a search-and-arrest raid on the Duheisha Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. The home of Nihad Hanani in Beit Furik was attacked by settlers, believed to be from Itamar, before they were driven off. A Molotov cocktail was found at the scene.
4 January
Two Israelis were initially reported to have been wounded in a stabbing attack on an Israeli police officer near Jerusalem's light rail service. The Palestinian was shot and sustained moderate wounds. According to a spokesperson for the Hadassah hospital, no Israeli was stabbed, though a 15-year-old girl had a very light leg injury and a 29-year-old student hurt himself on falling on the ground. Eleven Palestinians were allegedly shot with live and rubber bullets by Israeli forces in clashes with mourners after the funeral of Ahmad Jamal Taha, shot dead after stabbing an Israeli to death on 27 November 2015. Seven were hit by live fire, and four with rubber bullets.
5 January
Ahmad Younis Kawazba (18) of the village of Sa'ir north of Hebron was shot after stabbing an Israeli soldier at a Gush Etzion checkpoint in the West Bank. The soldier was lightly wounded. Kawazba is the 6th person from Sa'ir to have died since the October 2015 surge in the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Unknown arsonists set fire to Jewish holy texts in a tent that served as a synagogue at an outpost next to the Karmei Tzur settlement in the West Bank. No one was at the site or injured but the books were badly damaged. Police said that the footprints of the suspects were found leading to a Palestinian village near the town of Halhul, the Ynet news site reported. According to Karmei Tzur residents, the suspected arsonists piled up the holy books and set them alight.