Some 35 rockets and mortar shells were fired at Israel during 2017, the largest number of projectiles fired at the country since the conclusion of Operation Protective Edge, waged in the Gaza Strip in 2014, the military said.
In a report summarizing operational incidents in 2017, the IDF said the majority of the attacks occurred following U.S. President Donald Trump's Dec. 6 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
The summary, issued this weekend, stated that 10 of the mortar shells aimed at Israel's south during the latter part of 2017 were fired by Islamic Jihad following the Oct. 30 demolition of a terror tunnel dug under the Israel-Gaza border.
According to the data, the IDF hit 59 terror targets in the coastal enclave during 2017, including training facilities, terrorist infrastructure, lookout posts and weapon-manufacturing mills.
The military described several of the targets it hit in Gaza as "key terrorist infrastructure."
The military dealt with 99 terror incidents across Judea and Samaria during 2017, down from 269 incidents in 2016 and 226 incidents in 2015.
Twenty Israelis were killed and 169 were wounded in terrorist attacks in 2017, the report said. For the sake of comparison, in 2016, 17 Israelis were killed and 263 were wounded in terrorist attacks.
The data further showed that 3,617 Palestinians were arrested across the West Bank in 2017, compared to 3,143 the previous year. Over 10 million shekels ($3 million) earmarked for funding terrorist activity were seized, 42 weapon mills were shuttered and 455 illegal weapons were confiscated in raids on Palestinian villages in the area.
The IDF also released data on Operation Good Neighbors, which extends humanitarian aid to Syrians wounded in the civil war raging off Israel's northern border.
According to the data, 927 Syrians received medical treatment in Israeli hospitals over the course of the year. Some 2,237 boxes of medicine and 400 medical devices were provided to Syrians, and 2,679 Syrian patients were treated in a field hospital established with Israeli assistance at the Israeli-Syrian border.
Israel also supplied Syrian refugees with 143,413 gallons of gasoline, 694 tons of food, 6,351 packs of diapers, 14,138 boxes of baby formula, 13 generators, 174 tons of clothing and 12,329 hygiene products.
