The Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing took place on August 9 2001 in Jerusalem, Israel.
Sbarro is a pizza restaurant located at the corner of King George and Jaffa streets in Jerusalem, one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in Israel. Just before 2 p.m., 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. The bomber also died in the attack. Both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
Murdered
- 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 Jerusalem
- Malka Roth, 15, from 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
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