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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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
See photos from the compelling story As it turns out, Ostrowski-Zak, who is also the mother of an 18-month-old boy, was able to feed the child herself. "That was my first instinct," Ostrowski-Zak ...
A U.S. Navy servicewoman poses as a captured female suicide bomber during the OPFOR exercise in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Female suicide bombers are women who intend to do suicide attack, wherein the bomber kills herself while simultaneously killing targeted people. Suicide bombers are normally viewed as male political radicals but since the 1960s ...