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.

External links

• Suicide bombing at Cafe Moment in Jerusalem, March 9, 2002 - published at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• No Man's Land, Ari Shavit, The New Yorker
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