Matza restaurant suicide bombing

Template:Pp Template:Short description Template:Infobox terrorist attack The Matza restaurant suicide bombing occurred on March 31, 2002, when a Palestinian Hamas suicide bomber detonated his bomb inside the Matza restaurant in Haifa, Israel, near the Grand Canyon shopping mall, killing 16 people and injuring over 40.<ref name="NYT20020401">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Reporting has described the cafe as both "Arab-owned" and "owned by Israeli Jews, but run by Palestinian citizens of Israel".<ref name="NYT20020401"/><ref name="Guardian-israel9">Template:Cite news</ref>

The perpetrators

The military wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that it was in retaliation for Israeli raids on Palestinian cities and towns, including Ramallah where the then President of the Palestinian National Authority, Yasser Arafat, was under siege.<ref name="NYT20020401"/><ref>Israel vows to avenge bombings, The Guardian, April 1, 2002.</ref> A Hamas spokesman stated that the suicide bomber was a 22-year-old Palestinian named Shadi Tubasi. Tubasi came from a refugee camp near Jenin area that had recently been invaded by Israeli forces.<ref name="Guardian-israel9"/><ref name="NYT20020401"/>

See also

• Palestinian political violence
• Israeli casualties of war