Matza Restaurant Suicide Bombing
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The Matza restaurant suicide bombing occurred on March 31, 2002, when a
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suicide bomber A suicide attack (also known by a wide variety of other names, see below) is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators knowingly sacrifice their own lives as part of the attack. These attacks are a form of murder–suicide that is ofte ...
detonated his bomb inside the Matza restaurant in
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, near the Grand Canyon shopping mall, killing 16 people and injuring over 40. Reporting has described the cafe as both "Arab-owned" and "owned by Israeli Jews, but run by Palestinian citizens of Israel".


The perpetrators

The military wing of
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claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that it was in retaliation for Israeli raids on Palestinian cities and towns, including
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where the then President of the
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, was under siege.Israel vows to avenge bombings
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, April 1, 2002.
A Hamas spokesman stated that the suicide bomber was a 22-year-old Palestinian named Shadi Tubasi. Tubasi came from a refugee camp near
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area that had recently been invaded by Israeli forces.


See also

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References

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