Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing

The Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing took place on August 9 2001 in Jerusalem, Israel.

At the time of the massacre, the Jerusalem branch of the Sbarro pizza restaurant chain was located at the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in Israel. Just before 2:00 p.m. on a summer holiday afternoon, when the restaurant was filled with customers and pedestrian traffic outside was at its peak, a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt weighing 5 to 10 kilograms, containing explosives, nails, nuts and bolts, detonated his bomb. In the blast 15 people (including 7 children) were killed, and 130 wounded. Both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad initially claimed responsibility. Several Hamas members were subsequently captured by the authorities, tried, convicted and imprisoned. The bomber himself died in the course of carrying out the attack.

Killed

• Giora Balash, 60, from Brazil
• Zvika Golombek, 26, from Karmiel, Israel
• Shoshana Yehudit Greenbaum, 31, from the United States of America
• Tehila Maoz, 18, from Jerusalem, Israel
• Frieda Mendelsohn, 62, from Jerusalem
• Michal Raziel, 16, from Ramot, Jerusalem
• Malka Chana (Malki) Roth, 15, from Ramot, Jerusalem
• Mordechai Schijveschuurder, 43, from Neria, West Bank
• Tzira Schijveschuurder, 41, from Neria
• Ra'aya Schijveschuurder, 14, from Neria
• Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder, 4, from Neria
• Hemda Schijveschuurder, 2, from Neria
• Lily Shimashvili, 33, from Jerusalem
• Tamara Shimashvili, 8, from Jerusalem
• Yocheved Shoshan, 10, from Jerusalem

See also

• List of massacres committed during the Al-Aqsa Intifada
• Palestinian terrorism
• terrorism against Israelis

External links

• Page by the Israeli MFA (with pictures)
• Arafat closes 'suicide bombing' art show