Dizengoff Center suicide bombing: Difference between revisions
add those who claimed responsibility & ref |
add details |
||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
A [[Palestinian]] [[suicide bomber]] blew himself up outside [[Dizengoff Center]] in downtown |
A [[Palestinian]] [[suicide bomber]] blew himself up outside [[Dizengoff Center]] in downtown |
||
[[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]], killing 14 Israelis and wounding 130, including |
[[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]], killing 14 Israelis and wounding 130, including |
||
children in costume in honor of the holiday.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1908-2005Mar25.html On Holiday, Israelis Revel in Rare Peace] Washington Post, 26 March 2005</ref>[[Hamas]] and [[Islamic Jihad]] both claimed responsibility for the bombing.<ref>http://www.freelebanon.org/articles/a227.htm</ref> |
children in costume in honor of the holiday.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1908-2005Mar25.html On Holiday, Israelis Revel in Rare Peace] Washington Post, 26 March 2005</ref>[[Hamas]] and [[Islamic Jihad]] both claimed responsibility for the bombing.<ref>http://www.freelebanon.org/articles/a227.htm</ref> |
||
The blast went off just after 4 p.m. outside Dizengoff Center, the largest shopping center in Tel Aviv. Before detonating the bomb, the bomber had tried to enter the shopping center but when policemen stationed at the entrance appeared to be suspicious, he turned toward a group of people near a row of cash machines and set off the explosive device, which was strapped to his body. <ref>http://wc.arizona.edu/~wildcat/papers/89/113/05_2_m.html</ref> |
|||
==References== |
==References== |
||
{{reflist}} |
{{reflist}} |
||
Revision as of 15:37, 10 August 2008
The Dizengoff Center suicide bombing was a terrorist attack on March 4, 1996, on the holiday of Purim.
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up outside Dizengoff Center in downtown Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 14 Israelis and wounding 130, including children in costume in honor of the holiday.[1]Hamas and Islamic Jihad both claimed responsibility for the bombing.[2]
The blast went off just after 4 p.m. outside Dizengoff Center, the largest shopping center in Tel Aviv. Before detonating the bomb, the bomber had tried to enter the shopping center but when policemen stationed at the entrance appeared to be suspicious, he turned toward a group of people near a row of cash machines and set off the explosive device, which was strapped to his body. [3]
References
External links
- Commemorating two Dizengoff Center victims [1]
 | This Israel-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |