2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing

Palestinian terror attack in Israel yes April 2023 2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing the Second Intifada militancy campaign Tel Aviv#Israel center ta 32 03 35 34 46 47 The attack site Israel Tel Aviv, Israel Civilians 2002 01 25 yes 32 03 35 N 34 46 47 E type:event_region:IL inline,title Suicide bombing Suicide belt 1 bomber 24 civilians Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sfRRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=M3ADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6637,1660800 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search 16 December 2014http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3240722,00.html ynet המדרחוב המקולל: 6 פיגועים ב-4 שנים - חדשות ynet 17 April 2006 16 December 2014 On 25 January 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber injured at least 24 civilians in Tel Aviv, Israel. Afterwards, the Palestinian militant organization Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. Background The week before the attack, IDF forces had assassinated four senior members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades during a raid of their hideout in Nablus.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DmNIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z4IMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1394,4319851 The Vindicator - Google News Archive Search 16 December 2014 On 24 January 2002, an Israeli helicopter assassinated Bakr Hamdan in the Gaza Strip, the leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, which Israeli security official said was responsible for "dozens of terrorist attacks carried out against Israeli civilians and soldiers in the Gaza Strip." The attack On 25 January 2002, at 11:15 A.M., a Palestinian suicide bomber carrying hidden explosives attached to his body which were filled with shrapnel, blew himself up in a crowded pedestrian mall adjacent to the old abandoned bus station in Tel Aviv.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zb1BAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yKkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5460,987522 Point Pleasant Register - Google News Archive Search 16 December 2014 At least 24 people were injured in the attack, three of them critically wounded, four were moderately wounded and the rest were lightly wounded. Perpetrators Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the attack in a statement given to the Lebanese TV station Al-Manar. In this statement, they said that the suicide bomber was 17-year-old Safwat Abdurrahman Khalil, a resident of the Palestinian town Beit Wazan near Nablus. Immediately after the attack, Israeli police forces at the site of the attack found an abandoned AK-47 rifle and caught the suicide bomber's partner, who was allegedly supposed to use the rifle in order to increase the number of casualties in the attack. The suicide bomber's partner, who was from Nablus, was reportedly carrying a Koran in which the date and place of the attack were written.http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-1582028,00.html ynet הפיגוע בתל אביב: נעצר שותפו של המחבל המתאבד - חדשות ynet 16 December 2014 Reactions Involved parties Israel: Senior Israeli officials stated that Israeli sees the Palestinian leadership and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as responsible for the attack, whom they said are doing nothing to prevent the attacks. Palestinian territories: The Palestinian Authority issued a statement in which it condemned "any act that harms Israeli civilians". Response In response to the bombing, at nightfall an Israeli F-16 attacked the Palestinian security headquarters in Gaza located near Yasser Arafat's compound. In addition, the F-16 fired two missiles at national security and intelligence buildings in Tulkarm. According to Palestinian medical officials, two Palestinian were injured in the Tulkarm attack.http://news.sky.com/story/78392/israel-strikes-after-bomb Israel Strikes After Bomb Sky News 16 December 2014 In March 2002, the Israeli Arab Nasser Fahemi, a resident of Tira at the time, was tried at the HaShalom court in Kfar Saba for enabling the perpetrators of the 2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing to stay at his home until a vehicle reached his house and transported them to the site of the attack, and for providing them advice on how not to get caught. Fahemi admitted the charges and was sentenced to three years in prison and one year probation.http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2488113,00.html ynet עונשי מאסר לערבים ישראלים המעורבים בטרור - חדשות ynet 16 December 2014 See also List of terrorist incidents, 2002 References 30em Further reading Suicide Bomb Wounds 2 Dozen in Tel Aviv Outdoor Mall - published on nytimes.com on 26 January 2002 24 injured in Tel Aviv suicide bomb attack - published on The Times of India on 25 January 2002 Warplanes avenge Tel Aviv suicide bombing - published on The Guardian on 25 January 2002 Tel Aviv Suicide Bomber Injures 25 - published on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on 26 January 2002 Suicide bomber injure 25 in Tel Aviv mall https://web.archive.org/web/20130420211833/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/102727144.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT 2013-04-20 - published on the Boston Globe on 26 January 2002 Hamas bomber kills himself, injures 24 on a Tel Aviv mall - published on the Reading Eagle on 25 January 2002 Suicide bomber attack wounds 24 - published on The Vindicator on 25 January 2002 Category:Suicide bombings in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Category:Palestinian Islamic Jihad attacks Category:Terrorist incidents in Israel in 2002 Outdoor mall bombing Category:2000s crimes in Tel Aviv Category:January 2002 crimes in Asia Category:January 2002 in Asia Category:Shopping mall bombings in Israel Category:Israeli casualties in the Second Intifada Category:Tel Aviv in the Second Intifada Category:Building bombings in Tel Aviv Category:2002 building bombings Category:Suicide bombings in 2002