Café Moment bombing
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The Café Moment bombing was a Palestinian terrorist attack in a coffee shop
Coffee shop
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 in downtown Jerusalem, Israel, on March 9, 2002, in which 11 civilians were killed and 54 wounded.

The attack

On Saturday, March 9, 2002 shortly before 22:33 pm, a Palestinian suicide bomber enters the "Café Moment" coffee shop
Coffee shop
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 in Jerusalem at the corner of Aza and Ben-Maimon streets about 100 metres from the prime minister
Prime Minister of Israel
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's residence. At 22:33 pm (GMT
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+2) the suicide bomber detonates the powerful explosive device hidden underneath his clothes. The force of the blast, which completely destroyed the restaurant, immediately killed 11 civilians and injured 54 people, 10 of them in severe condition.

Fatalities

  • Limor Ben-Shoham, 27, of Jerusalem
  • Nir Rahamim Borochov, 22, of Givat Ze'ev
  • Danit Dagan, 25, of Tel-Aviv
  • Livnat Dvash, 28, of Jerusalem
  • Tali Eliyahu, 26, of Jerusalem
  • Uri Felix, 25, of Givat Ze'ev
  • Dan Imani, 23, of Jerusalem
  • Natanel Kochavi, 31, of Kiryat Ata
  • Baruch Lerner-Naor, 28, of Eli
  • Orit Ozarov, 28, of Jerusalem
  • Avraham Haim Rahamim, 29, of Jerusalem

  • Perpetrators

    After the attack, the Palestinian Islamist militant organization Hamas
    Hamas
    Hamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades...

     claimed responsibility for the attack.

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