CHRONOLOGY - Suicide bombings in Israel since September 2000 | |
LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - A bomb blast tore through a cafeteria at Jerusalem's Hebrew University on Wednesday, killing at least seven people and injuring 50. Police described the explosion as a Palestinian attack. Following is a chronology listing most suicide bombings since the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip began in September 2000. 2000: Oct 26 - Suicide bomber strikes near an Israeli army post in the Gaza Strip, wounding a soldier. - - - - 2001: March 28 - Suicide bomber kills himself and two Israeli teenagers in Newe Yamin, near central city of Kfar Saba. April 22 - Suicide bomber kills doctor and wounds 41 people in rush-hour attack in Kfar Saba. May 18 - Suicide bomber kills five people and wounds about 60 at crowded Netanya shopping mall. June 1 - Twenty-two people killed in suicide bomb blast among teenagers waiting to enter Tel Aviv nightclub. July 16 - Suicide bomber from Islamic Jihad group kills two Israeli soldiers at bus stop in Israeli town of Binyamina. Aug 9 - Suicide bomber kills himself and 15 others in pizza restaurant in Jerusalem in revenge for Israeli missile strike. Sept 9 - Israeli Arab blows himself up at railway station in Nahariya, northern Israel, killing three people. Nov 29 - Suicide bomber blows himself up on bus in Hadera, killing three Israelis. Dec 1 - Ten Israelis killed and more than 150 hurt in double suicide bombing and car bomb in central Jerusalem. Dec 2 - Suicide bomber kills 15 people and wounds 40 on bus in Haifa. - - - - 2002: Jan 27 - First Palestinian woman suicide bomber, Wafa Idrees, 28, from Al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah, kills two people and wounds 111 on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem. Feb 16 - Suicide bomber kills two Israelis and wounds 20 people in shopping centre in Jewish settlement of Karnei Shomron. March 2 - Suicide bomber kills nine people, including five children, in ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of Jerusalem. March 9 - Suicide bomber kills 13 people and wounds more than 50 in crowded Moment Cafe in Jerusalem near Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's residence. March 20 - Suicide bomber kills at least six and wounds 27 on bus near Israeli Arab town of Umm al-Fahm. March 27 - Suicide bomber kills 29 people and wounds more than 100 in lobby of seaside hotel in resort town of Netanya. March 31 - Suicide bomber kills 15 people, wounds 44 in restaurant run by Israeli Arabs in northern Israeli port Haifa. Six people are wounded at Jewish settlement of Efrat in West Bank in second suicide attack. April 10 - Suicide bomber kills eight Israelis and wounds 12 on bus crowded with commuters near Haifa. April 12 - Female suicide bomber kills six people and wounds nearly 100 at Jerusalem's main outdoor Mahane Yehuda market. May 8 - Suicide bomber kills 15 Israelis, wounds 60 at snooker club in Rishon Letzion south of Tel Aviv. May 19 - Suicide bomber blows himself up in a market in Netanya, killing three other people and wounding at least 35. June 5 - Seventeen people killed and dozens wounded at the Megiddo road junction in northern Israel when a car bomb explodes next to a passenger bus on its way to Tiberias. Islamic Jihad says it was behind the suicide bombing. June 18 - Suicide bomber blows himself up on a bus packed with schoolchildren and office workers in Jerusalem, killing 19 and wounding more than 50. June 19 - Suicide bomber kills seven Israelis and wounds 35 at a Jerusalem bus stop. July 17 - Two suicide bombers kill at least three other people and wound 40 in Tel Aviv's foreign worker neighbourhood. July 31 - Bomb blast tears through a cafeteria at Jerusalem's Hebrew University near Arab East Jerusalem. At least seven are killed.