8 Terror Attacks You Should Know About
Netanya, 2002 — Hamas:
On Passover eve, March 27, 2002, the Park Hotel in Netanya organized, as it did every year, a grand passover meal in their “celebrations room”. Two-hundred and fifty guests were expected to arrive, the majority of which were elders who could not prepare a meal for themselves. Around 7:15PM, a terrorist entered the hotel and detonated his explosive belt in the center of the room. Nineteen people were killed on the spot, and 11 others later died of their wounds. Another 160 people were injured in the attack. Abdel Basset Odeh, 25 years old from Tulkarm, was identified as the suicide bomber. Hamas took responsibility for the attack.
In 20 years, there have been more than 150 suicide-bombing attacks in Israel, in addition to countless rocket attacks, stabbings and car rammings. Though there has been an improvement in the last years, recent events have proved that the will to perpetrate such attacks still exists.
Here are 8 suicide bombings that prove beyond doubt why the IDF must continue to do whatever necessary to prevent these attacks in the future.