2002 Atzmona attack

Terrorist attack in the Second Intifada yes The attack in Atzmona pre-military training camp the Second Intifada Atzmona 2002 3 7 23:30 GMT+2 Terrorist attack 5 trainees on age 18-19 23 (including four seriously injured) Hamas claimed responsibility An attack took place on the night of March 7, 2002 at the Otzem Pre-Military Preparatory School in the Israeli settlement of Atzmona in the Gaza Strip in which five of the seminary students were killed and twenty-three were injured. Background March 2002 was the deadliest month of the Second Intifada, known in Israel as "Black March". During the month, 135 people were killed in over a dozen attacks, and there was a suicide bombing once every two days on average. In addition to the Atzmona attack, notable attacks during the month included the Yeshivat Beit Yisrael bombing that killed 10 Israeli civilians on 2 March, the Wadi al-Haramiya sniper attack on 3 March that killed 10 Israelis, and the Café Moment bombing that killed 11 Israeli civilians on 9 March. After the Passover massacre on 27 March killed 30 people celebrating the Jewish holiday of Passover, the Israeli government launched Operation Defensive Shield targeting Palestinian militant capabilities in refugee camps and cities in the West Bank that had developed after the Israeli withdrawal after the Oslo Accords.Keinon Herb How Operation Defensive Shield changed Israel's security reality https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-704238 6 January 2024 Jerusalem Post 2022-04-14 Massacre On March 7, 2002, at around 11:30 p.m., a terrorist from the Jebaliya refugee camp, armed with an automatic weapon, entered the Atzmona settlement in the southern Gaza Strip. He entered the settlement from the territory of the neighboring Arab village of Hamuasi, cutting a passage in the barbed wire that surrounded Atzmona. Then he went to the building of training courses for military service (“mekhina kdam-tsvait”).https://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-probe-into-atzmona-attack-uncovers-serious-flaws-1.50896 IDF Probe Into Atzmona Attack Uncovers Serious Flaws Amos Harel, Aliza Arbeli, Yair Sheleg, Ruth Sinai and Baruch Kra. HaAretz March 10, 2002 2015-08-31 2015-09-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20150924222748/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-probe-into-atzmona-attack-uncovers-serious-flaws-1.50896 Having entered a room intended for classes on the study of religious texts, the terrorist opened fire from a Kalashnikov assault rifle at students studying in the building and threw several grenades. After that, he ran out into the street and started shooting at passers-by and houses. He continued until he was eliminated by one of the residents of the settlement, an Israel Defense Forces soldier.http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/E23633414650942385256DCF005B4D16 Chronological Review of Events Relating to the Question of Palestine UNISPAL: Division for Palestinian Rights March 2002 2015-08-31 From the moment the attack began until the militant's death, 10 to 20 minutes has passed, during which time he managed to shoot 9 machine gun magazines and throw 7 grenades.https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/09/world/mideast-turmoil-the-scene-arab-child-of-uprising-grew-up-into-gunman.html Mideast Turmoil: The Scene: Arab Child Of Uprising Grew Up Into Gunman The New York Times March 9, 2002 2015-08-31 2015-11-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20151101124328/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/09/world/mideast-turmoil-the-scene-arab-child-of-uprising-grew-up-into-gunman.html The attack killed five Israelis and injured 23 people were injured, four seriously.http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/terrorism/palestinian/pages/victims%20of%20palestinian%20violence%20and%20terrorism%20sinc.aspx Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism since September 2000 Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2015-08-31 2013-08-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20130821102655/http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/Terrorism/Palestinian/Pages/Victims%20of%20Palestinian%20Violence%20and%20Terrorism%20sinc.aspx The wounded were evacuated to Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva. Circumstances and further events The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam organization (the military wing of the Hamas movement) took responsibility for the attack. The terrorist was identified as 19-year-old (according to other sources, 17-year-oldDavid M. Rosen. Farhat, Maryam Mohammad Yousif (aka Umm Nidal) (born 1950) // Child Soldiers: A Reference Handbook. — ABC-CLIO, 2012. — P. 154. — ISBN 978-1-59884-526-6.) Muhammad Fathi Farhat, a native of Gaza. The day after the Atzmona massacre, the Israel Defense Forces carried out major operations in the Gaza Strip in search of other militants. IDF operations killed 16 Palestinians in two villages near Khan Younis in the southern part of the strip, including the head of the area's security agency, General Ahmad Mufrij, who became the highest-ranking Palestinian security official killed since the start of the Al-Aqsa intifada. Four more Palestinians were killed by fire from Israeli ships and helicopters in a police station north of Gaza. It subsequently turned out that the ideological training of the future suicide bomber was conducted by his own mother, Maryam Muhammad Yusif Farhat, now better known as Umm Nidal. On the eve of the terrorist attack, she filmed a video with Muhammad in which she blessed his future actions and which was made public after his death. In addition to Muhammad Farhat, two more sons of Umm-Nidal died in the process of preparing hostile actions against Israel - the eldest son, Nidal, during the preparation of a terrorist attack (he and five other Hamas members worked on the creation of an unmanned aerial vehicle filled with explosiveshttp://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/the-bloody-legacy-of-the-mother-of-martyrs.html 'The Mother of Martyrs' Leaves Bloody Legacy Shlomi Eldar. Al-Monitor March 19, 2013 2015-08-31 2015-03-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20150323052640/http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/the-bloody-legacy-of-the-mother-of-martyrs.html), and third son Ruad in a car carrying a Qassam missile and fired upon by Israeli soldiers. During the first intifada, Farhat hid one of the commanders of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Imad Akel, in her home for 14 months. Muhammad Farhat, who witnessed Akel and his associates preparing actions against the Israelis, became his student and member of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades at the age of seven. Later in an interview, Maryam Farhat talked about how she fostered a love of jihad in her sons, who fully joined the military wing of Hamas.Michael P. Arena, Bruce A. Arrigo. The Terrorist Identity: Explaining the Terrorist Threat. — New York University Press, 2006. — P. 148. — ISBN 978-0-8147-0715-9. In September 2002, the IDF destroyed the Farhat family's home in Gaza as part of efforts to prevent future terrorist attacks. In 2006, Umm Nidal, after the death of Ruad, who declared that she wanted to see her other four sons as martyrs, was elected as a deputy of the Palestinian Legislative Council from Hamas. During Operation Iron Swords, more than 20 years after the attack, the Israeli military killed in Gaza two senior Hamas militants it stated were involved in planning the attack in Atzmona. Mohammed Dababish was killed on November 13, 2023, and Wissam Farhat was killed on December 3, 2023.IDF eliminates Hamas commander integral in October 7 attack, 2014 war See also Israeli casualties of war List of massacres in Israel List of terrorist incidents, 2002 Palestinian political violence References 31.7887 N 35.2223 E source:wikidata title Category:Israeli terrorism victims Category:Deaths by firearm in the Gaza Strip Category:Massacres in 2002 Category:Islamic terrorist incidents in 2002 Category:Israeli casualties in the Second Intifada Category:March 2002 crimes in Asia Category:March 2002 in Asia Category:21st-century mass murders in the Gaza Strip Category:2002 in the Gaza Strip Category:2002 crimes in Palestine Category:Terrorist incidents in Palestine Category:Terrorist incidents in Asia in 2002 Category:2002 mass shootings in Asia Category:Mass shootings in Palestine Category:School shootings in Israel Category:School massacres in Palestine Category:Attacks on schools in 2002 Category:Attacks on schools in the Gaza Strip Category:Spree shootings in Asia Category:Massacres in the Gaza Strip Category:2002 murders in Asia Category:Hamas attacks Category:School shootings in Palestine