High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Operation Determined Path (Hebrew: , Mivtza Derekh Nehosha) was a military operation carried out by the Israel Defense Forces, starting June 22, 2002, following Operation Defensive Shield, with the goal of reaching some of the unreached objectives set forth for Defensive Shield, especially in the northern West Bank. In the two months following Defensive Shield, five IDF officers and soldiers were killed in activity in the Palestinian territories, mostly in attempts to arrest wanted persons. The regular units which participated in Defensive Shield were not rested. Israel suffered 64 major attacks which claimed the lives of 83 civilians. June 18 saw the Patt junction bus bombing in Jerusalem, in which nineteen people were killed. Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, visited, for the first time as PM, the location. That day, he ordered Determined Path. According to a poll, 80% of Jewish Israelis supported it.