Details: 23 Suicide Bombers from Jenin
Foreign Ministry - April 24, 2002
Of some 100 terrorists who carried out suicide bombings since October 2000,
23 were from Jenin. In addition to the bombers listed below, security forces
intercepted six more suicide attacks which were to have been carried out by
seven terrorists from Jenin. Two of the attacks were to have been carried
out in Jerusalem, two at unknown destinations within Israel, one in Haifa
and one in Jenin.
Ziyad Kilani - Hamas
Mar 1, 2001 - One person was killed and 9 injured when he detonated a bomb
in a Tel Aviv to Tiberias service taxi he was riding in. The taxi was
stopped at a roadblock at the Mei Ami junction in Wadi Ara.
In addition, he carried out a stabbing attack in the Carmel Market in Tel
Aviv and planted a bomb on Allenby Street in Tel Aviv.
Osama Abu Al-Hija and 'Ala Sabbah - Islamic Jihad
May 25, 2001 - 65 people were injured in a car bombing in the Hadera central
bus station.
Jihad Jerar - Islamic Jihad
July 11, 2001 - was captured in Afula while trying to detonate explosives
carried in a bag on his body. None injured.
Nidal Abu Shaduf - Islamic Jihad
Binyamina - July 16, 2001
July 16, 2001 - Two people were killed and 11 wounded, 3 seriously, when the
bomb he carried on his body exploded at a bus stop near the train station in
Binyamina, halfway between Netanya and Haifa.
Morad Nursi - Islamic Jihad
July 22, 2001 - was captured in Haifa while trying to detonate an explosive
belt. None injured.
Mohammed Abu Khader Bisharat - Islamic Jihad
Aug 2, 2001 - captured while trying to board a bus near Beit Shean and
explode it. None injured.
Iz A-Din Al-Masri - Hamas
Aug 9, 2001 - 15 people were killed, including 7 children, and about 130
injured by the suicide bomb he carried in a bag into the Sbarro Pizzeria on
the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem.
Mohammed Nasser - Islamic Jihad
Aug 12, 2001 - 21 people were injured when he detonated his explosive belt
in the Wall Street Cafe in the center of Kiryat Motzkin.
Ahmed Daraghma - Islamic Jihad
Oct 7, 2001 - One person was killed when he detonated a large bomb strapped
to his body near the entrance of Kibbutz Sheluchot in the Beit She'an
Valley.
Samar Shahawana - Islamic Jihad
Bus bombing - Nov 29, 2001
Nov 29, 2001 - Three people were killed and nine others were wounded in the
suicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 823 en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv
near the city of Hadera.
Nimer Abu Sifin - Islamic Jihad
Dec 9, 2001 - About 30 people were injured, most lightly, from the partial
explosion of a bomb near a bus stop at the Checkpost Junction in Haifa. The
terrorist was seriously injured and shot to death. A second explosive device
was found nearby and safely detonated by security forces.
Abd Al-Karim Tahaineh - Islamic Jihad
Bus bombing - March 5, 2001
Mar 5, 2002 - One man was killed and a large number of people injured, most
lightly, when he detonated a bomb on his body in an Egged bus no. 823 as it
entered the Afula central bus station.
Bilal Walid Ali - Islamic Jihad
Mar 7, 2002 - Was captured when he reached Karkur wearing an explosive belt.
A second explosive device was found hidden in a bird cage. None injured.
Rifat Abu Diakh - Islamic Jihad
Bus bombing - March 20, 2001
Mar 20, 2002 - Seven people, four of them soldiers, were killed and about 30
wounded, several seriously, when he detonated an explosive belt in an Egged
bus no. 823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth at the Musmus junction on
Highway 65 (Wadi Ara) near Afula.
Majdi Hanfur - Fatah
Mar 30, 2002 - One policeman was killed and one was injured in Baka
al-Garbiyeh, during an exchange of fire with him and another terrorist who
were trying to cross into Israel to carry out a suicide attack.
Shadi Tubasi - Hamas
Mar 31, 2002 - 15 people were killed and over 40 injured when he detonated
his explosive belt in the Matza restaurant in Haifa, near the Grand Canyon
shopping mall.
Ragheb Jaradat - Palestine Islamic Jihad
Apr 10, 2002 - Eight people were killed and 22 injured in the suicide attack
on Egged bus no. 960, en route from Haifa to Jerusalem, which exploded near
Kibbutz Yagur, east of Haifa.
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