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Ayat al-Akhras (20 February 1985 – 29 March 2002) was the third and youngest Palestinian female suicide bomber who, at age 17, killed herself and two Israeli civilians on March 29, 2002, by detonating explosives belted to her body. The killings gained widespread international attention due to Ayat's age and gender and the fact that one of the ...
A Palestinian suicide bomber riding a bicycle blew up himself next to a military jeep. Hamas claimed responsibility. [122] Afula mall bombing: May 19, 2003: Afula shopping center: 3: 70: Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility [122] Davidka Square bus bombing: June 11, 2003: Downtown Jerusalem: 17: 100+ Hamas claimed ...
Between 1993 and early August 2002, over 135 Palestinian suicide bombers carried out attacks targeting Israeli civilians and soldiers. [18] The bloodiest suicide attack was the 2002 Passover massacre, when a Hamas-affiliated bomber, disguised as a woman, detonated an explosive device in the dining room of a hotel during seder. The attack killed ...
Wafa Idris (Arabic: وفاء إدريس 1975 – January 27, 2002), a Palestinian Red Crescent volunteer, was the first female suicide bomber in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. She killed herself while committing the Jaffa Street bombing. At the time of her suicide, Idris was a 28-year-old divorcee and lived in the Am'ari Refugee Camp in ...
At age 64 according to her relatives, she was by far the oldest out of the 100 Palestinian suicide bombers from the previous six years. [6] At the time that she killed herself, she was 57 according to Hamas, and her family said she was 64. [6] [8] Her motivation was Israeli attacks on Jabalia Camp. [9]
An Israeli woman critically wounded in a 2001 suicide bombing at a Jerusalem restaurant has died, an Israeli hospital said Thursday. Hana Nachenberg was 31 at the time and was dining with her 3 ...
She was the eighth Palestinian female suicide bomber, but only the second to have left behind children. [2] Riyashi was the first female suicide bomber sent by Hamas whose spiritual leader at the time, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin had initially objected to the involvement of women in such actions, altering this position shortly before his assassination ...
The Maxim restaurant bombing was a Palestinian suicide bombing which occurred on October 4, 2003, in the beachfront restaurant Maxim in Haifa, Israel. Twenty-one civilians were killed and 60 were injured. Among the victims were two families and four children, including a two-month-old baby.