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{{Infobox terrorist attack
| title            = Passover massacre
| partof           = the [[Second Intifada]]
| image            = Passover massacre II.jpg
| caption          = The dining hall of the Park Hotel one day after the attack
| map              = {{location map|Israel center ta|caption=The attack site}}
| location         = Park Hotel, [[Netanya]], [[Israel]]
| target           = <!-- CITE the target otherwise its POV, OR and Synthesis -->
| coordinates      = {{coord|32|19|57|N|34|51|03|E|display=inline,title}}
| date             = {{start date and age|df=yes|2002|3|27}}
| time             = 19:30&nbsp;pm
| time-begin       = 
| time-end         = 
| timezone         = [[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]]+2
| type             = [[Suicide bomber]]
| fatalities       = 30 civilians (+1 assailant)
| injuries         = 160 civilians
| perps            = 
| perpetrator      = [[Hamas]] claimed responsibility
}}

The '''Passover massacre'''<ref>Sources describing the incident as the "Passover massacre":
* [http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/26/israel.hamas "Alleged Passover massacre plotter arrested"], [[CNN]], 26 March 2008.
* Ohad Gozani, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1389228/Hotel-blast-survivors-relive-the-Passover-massacre.html "Hotel blast survivors relive the Passover massacre"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', 29 March 2002.
* "This reached a peak following the Passover massacre in the seaside resort of Netanya..." David Newman, "The consequence or the cause? Impact on the Israel-Palestine Peace Process", in Mary E.A. Buckley, Mary Buckley, Rick Fawn. ''Global Responses to Terrorism: 9/11, the War in Afghanistan, and Beyond'', Routledge, 2003; {{ISBN|0-415-31429-1}}, p. 158.
* "They faced stiff resistance from Palestinian gunmen who began preparing the camp's defenses as early as the Passover massacre in Netanya..." Todd C. Helmus, Russell W. Glenn. ''Steeling the Mind: Combat Stress Reactions and Their Implications for Urban Warfare'' Rand Corporation, 2005; {{ISBN|0-8330-3702-1}}, p. 58.
* "It can therefore be asked whether the 'human bomb' offensive starting with the Passover massacre on 27 March 2002..." Brigitte L. Nacos, "The Terrorist Calculus Behind 9–11: A Model for Future Terrorism?" in [[C. Augustus Martin|Gus Martin]]. ''The New Era of Terrorism: Selected Readings'', Sage Publications Inc, 2004; {{ISBN|0-7619-8873-4}}, p. 176.</ref> was a [[Palestinian suicide attacks|suicide bombing]] carried out by [[Hamas]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=2003-04-16 |title=Israel seals off territories for Passover |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2951975.stm |access-date=2025-02-11 |work=BBC News}}</ref> at the Park Hotel in [[Netanya]], Israel on 27 March 2002, during a [[Passover seder]]. 30 civilians were killed in the attack and 140 were injured. It was the deadliest attack against Israeli civilians during the [[Second Intifada]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/ten-years-after-passover-bombing-survivors-return-to-netanyas-park-hotel/ |title=Ten years after Passover blast, survivors return to Park Hotel |publisher=The Times of Israel |date=27 March 2012 |access-date=15 October 2017}}</ref> and one of the most severe suicide attacks Israel has ever experienced.{{sfn|Ganor|2015|p=111}}

==The attack==
On the evening of 27 March 2002, the eve of the Jewish holiday of [[Passover]] and during the traditional [[Passover Seder|seder]] meal,{{sfn|Siniver|2023||p=162}}{{sfn|Ganor|2015|p=111}} a Palestinian bomber, Abdel-Basset Odeh, approached the Park Hotel in the Israeli coastal city of [[Netanya]] disguised as a woman after  shaving his mustache and beard and using a wig and makeup.{{sfn|Ganor|2015|p=111}} Carrying a suitcase with a ten-kilogram bomb,{{sfn|Ganor|2015|p=111}} Odeh entered the hotel's dining room, where approximately 250 civilians were celebrating the seder.{{sfn|Falk|Morgenstern|2009|p=75}}[[File:Park Hotel in Netenya, Israel.JPG|280px|thumb|Park Hotel in Netanya. Photo taken in 2012]]

At 19:30 ([[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]]+2) the bomber detonated the explosive device he was carrying. The force of the explosion instantly killed 28 civilians and wounded 140, of whom 20 were injured severely. Two of the injured later died from their wounds. Some of the victims were [[Holocaust survivor|Holocaust survivors]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Patience |first=Martin |date=2007-03-31 |title=Israelis wary of Arab peace plan |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6510799.stm |access-date=28 May 2008 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Morris |first1=Ruth |last2=King |first2=Laura |date=2003-03-31 |title=Bombing in Israeli City Injures 56 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-mar-31-fg-bomb31-story.html |access-date= |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Grant |first=Linda |date=2002-07-06 |title=Defenders of the faith |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jul/06/featuresreviews.guardianreview10 |access-date= |work=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Most of the victims were senior citizens (70 and over). The oldest victim was 90 and the youngest was 20 years old. A number of married couples were killed, as well as a father together with his daughter. One of the victims was a Jewish tourist from Sweden who was visiting Israel for Passover.<ref>[https://archive.today/20071008070814/http://www.irgun.org.il/showPage.asp?pageCode=171 Massacre during Passover Seder in the Park Hotel, Netanya], irgun.org.il; accessed 14 December 2015.</ref>

Seventy-three of the 140 injured in the attack were evacuated to [[Laniado Hospital]] in neighboring [[Kiryat Sanz, Netanya]]. Although established as a regional hospital, Laniado had established a [[trauma center]] and emergency protocol in the wake of [[Palestinian suicide attacks|suicide bombings]] and [[List of terrorist incidents|terrorist attacks]] in the Netanya area during the [[Second Intifada]]. In addition to medical teams, the hospital benefited from the volunteerism of [[Hasidic Jews|Hasidim]] living in Kiryat Sanz, who donated blood, carried stretchers, and otherwise assisted the medical staff.<ref>Marks, Yehudah. "Park Hotel Pesach Massacre: 15 years later". ''[[Hamodia]]'', 6 April 2017, pp. 18–19.</ref>

According to the indictment filed in the Tel Aviv court, the initial plot for the Passover massacre included the use of [[cyanide]];<ref>{{cite news |date=August 2002 |title=מתכנן הפיגוע במלון פארק בנתניה תיכנן גם פיגוע המוני באמצעות ציאניד |trans-title=The planner of the attack at the Park Hotel in Netanya also planned a mass attack using cyanide |url=http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?fbdid=607268 |newspaper=Globes |language=he}}</ref> 4&nbsp;kg of [[cyanide]] had been bought and prepared for a chemical attack.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4879943|title=Park Hotel Bombing Mastermind Also Planned Mass Poisoning|publisher=Haaretz|date=11 February 2005|access-date=5 February 2018}}</ref> Tarak Zidan{{dubious|Who is that? Typical copy-and-paste mess.|date=November 2019}} had been recruited to [[Hamas]], and during 1997 he researched the use of [[chlorine]] and other [[nerve agent]]s to be used in terror attacks. In 2002, 4&nbsp;kg of chlorine had been bought and packed for the attack. For unknown reasons it was not used and passed to {{ill|Abbas al-Sayyid|ar|عباس السيد}} instead.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lebanonwire.com/1005/05102101WI.asp|title=Lessons from Recent Attacks|access-date=14 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324231931/http://www.lebanonwire.com/1005/05102101WI.asp|archive-date=24 March 2014}}</ref>

== Hamas response ==
[[Hamas]] claimed responsibility for the attack. The bomber was identified as Abd Al-Baset Odeh, a 25-year-old from the nearby [[West Bank]] city of [[Tulkarm]]. Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan said that "This is a trial (attempt) to send a letter, to send a message, to all the world that we are trying to fight for our own freedom against a terrorist government in Israel led by Sharon" and that Israelis "have to expect those attacks from everywhere, from every Palestinian group."<ref name="CNN">{{Cite web |date=27 March 2002 |title='Passover massacre' at Israeli hotel kills 19 |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/03/27/mideast/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080404051046/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/03/27/mideast/ |archive-date=2008-04-04 |access-date= |website=[[CNN]]}}</ref> Another Hamas spokesperson [[Abdel Aziz Rantisi]] said "[a]s long as there is occupation, there will be a resistance" and denied that the attack was timed to coincide with the [[Arab Peace Initiative|peace initiative]] of the [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]] government at the [[Beirut Summit]], an initiative rejected by Hamas.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hamas rejects Arab peace overture to Israel, vows to continue attacks |url=http://www.sptimes.com/2002/03/29/Worldandnation/Hamas_rejects_Arab_pe.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304102933/http://www.sptimes.com/2002/03/29/Worldandnation/Hamas_rejects_Arab_pe.shtml |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date= |website=www.sptimes.com }}</ref>

==Official reactions==
Israeli government spokesman [[Gideon Meir]] related to the attack saying "what we had tonight was a Passover massacre" and added "There is no limit to Palestinian barbarism."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/2002-03-28/news/18198244_1_passover-massacre-massive-retaliatory-attack-palestinian-authority |title=Breaking, World, US & Local News|work=NY Daily News|access-date=14 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614052902/http://articles.nydailynews.com/2002-03-28/news/18198244_1_passover-massacre-massive-retaliatory-attack-palestinian-authority|archive-date=14 June 2012}}</ref> Palestinian Authority officials "strongly condemned" the attack.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1389098/Arab-states-agree-peace-plan.html|title=Arab states agree peace plan|date=28 March 2002|work=The Telegraph|access-date=14 December 2014}}</ref> Palestinian President [[Yasser Arafat]] personally ordered the arrests of militants associated with Hamas, [[Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine|Islamic Jihad]], and the [[Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades]] as a response.<ref name=VOA>[http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2002-03/a-2002-03-28-26-Israel.cfm Israel Considers Response to 'Passover Massacre'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913233220/http://voanews.com/english/archive/2002-03/a-2002-03-28-26-Israel.cfm |date=13 September 2008 }}. [[Voice of America]]. 28 March 2008.</ref> During a television broadcast on the Palestinian TV channel, Arafat praised the Palestinian people for the current [[Second Intifada|popular uprising against Israel]], but stressed that "We are against killing civilians on both sides".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/28/world/mideast-turmoil-mideast-bomb-kills-least-19-israel-arabs-meet-over-peace-plan.html|title=MIDEAST TURMOIL: MIDEAST; BOMB KILLS AT LEAST 19 IN ISRAEL AS ARABS MEET OVER PEACE PLAN|work=The New York Times |date=28 March 2002|access-date=14 December 2014|last1=Brinkley |first1=Joel }}</ref>

[[Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah]] condemned it,<ref>{{Cite news |last=MacFarquhar |first=Neil |date=2002-03-29 |title=Mideast Turmoil: Arab League; Arabs Approve an Offer to Israel With Conditions It Has Rejected |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/29/world/mideast-turmoil-arab-league-arabs-approve-offer-israel-with-conditions-it-has.html |access-date= |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> while also commenting that "I will add to this by saying to the Israeli people that if their government stopped its methods of violence and destruction, and agreed to real peace, we will not hesitate in accepting that Israel live in peace with the rest of the nations in the region."<ref name="shadow">{{Cite web |date=28 March 2002 |title=Latest suicide attack overshadows Arab summit |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205172923/http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/stories/s516352.htm |archive-date=5 December 2007 |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=Lateline}}</ref> [[Kofi Annan]], [[United Nations Secretary General]] stated that he condemned suicide bombings against Israeli civilians as morally repugnant.<ref>{{cite web |title=LE SECRETAIRE GENERAL DECLARE QUE L'ATTENTAT D'HIER AU MOYEN-ORIENT NUIT CONSIDERABLEMENT A LA CAUSE PALESTINIENNE |trans-title=SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS YESTERDAY'S ATTACK IN MIDDLE EAST DOES GREAT DAMAGE TO PALESTINIAN CAUSE |url=https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2002/sgsm8179.doc.htm |access-date=14 December 2014 |language=fr}}</ref> President of the United States [[George W. Bush]] condemned the attack and called on [[Yasser Arafat]] and the Palestinian Authority to do everything in their power to stop the terrorist killing.<ref>{{cite news |title=BBC: Bush condemns 'callous' killing |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1897949.stm |access-date=14 December 2014 |work=BBC News}}</ref>

US Secretary of State [[Colin Powell]] stated that the bombing set the peace process back but vowed to continue.<ref name=CNN/>

==Aftermath==
===Diplomacy===
In his response to the [[Arab Peace Initiative]] adopted at the [[2002 Arab League summit|Arab League's summit in Beirut]], [[Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel]] [[Shimon Peres]] noted that "... the details of every peace plan must be discussed directly between Israel and the Palestinians, and to make this possible, the Palestinian Authority must put an end to terror, the horrifying expression of which we witnessed just last night in Netanya."<ref>[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/MFA+Spokesman/2002/Response+of+FM+Peres+to+the+decisions+of+the+Arab.htm Response of FM Peres to the decisions of the Arab Summit in Beirut], Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs; accessed 14 December 2015.</ref>

===Israeli retaliation===
{{Main|Operation Defensive Shield}}
The attack was perceived in Israel as the high point of a bloody month in which more than 135 Israelis, mostly civilians, were killed in terror attacks.<ref>Ophir Falk and Henry Morgenstein:
''Suicide terror: understanding and confronting the threat''</ref><ref>[http://www.btselem.org/statistics/fatalities/before-cast-lead/by-date-of-event List of Second Intifada casualties] B'Tselem (''see the 01.03.2002–31.03.2002 period'')</ref><ref>[http://biu.ac.il/soc/besa/Hillel_Frisch/(De)Fence%20or%20Offense%20pdf.pdf Fence or Offense? Testing the Effectiveness of "The Fence" in Judea and Samaria] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714221558/http://biu.ac.il/soc/besa/Hillel_Frisch/(De)Fence%20or%20Offense%20pdf.pdf |date=14 July 2014 }}, Bar-Ilan University website; accessed 14 December 2015.</ref>

Following the Passover massacre attack the Israeli government declared a state of emergency, ordered the immediate recruitment of 20,000 reservists in an emergency call-up, and in the following day launched the large-scale [[counter-terrorism]] operation [[Operation Defensive Shield]] in the [[West Bank]] which took place between 29 March and 10 May.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harel |first1=Amos |title=The Seventh War |last2=Isacharoff |first2=Avi |publisher=Yedioth Aharonoth Books and Chemed Books |year=2004 |isbn=978-965-511-767-7 |location=Tel-Aviv |pages=274–275}}</ref>

Qeis Adwan, head of the suicide bombing network responsible for the [[massacre]],<ref>"Keis Adwan, the hub of the northern Samaria network, had also lost a number of close associates in Israeli security forces operations (Rubin 2002)". Pedahzur, Ami. Perliger, Arie. "The Changing Nature of Suicide Attacks – A Social Network Perspective", ''Social Forces'' – Volume 84, Number 4, [[University of North Carolina Press]], June 2006, pp. 1987–2008.</ref> was killed by IDF forces on 5 April 2002<ref>{{cite news |title=רשימת המוות של המבוקש קייס עדואן |trans-title=The death list of the wanted man Case Adwan |url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-1815308,00.html |access-date=14 December 2014 |work=ynet |language=he}}</ref> during Operation Defensive Shield, after the IDF and the [[Yamam]] caught him in [[Tubas (city)|Tubas]], some 70 kilometers north of [[Jerusalem]]. An armored [[IDF Caterpillar D9]] bulldozer toppled the house where he was hiding, after he was given a chance to surrender and refused.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/magazine/the-most-wanted-palestinian.html|work=The New York Times|title=The Most Wanted Palestinian|date=30 June 2002|access-date=21 May 2010}}</ref>

===Arrests and killings of perpetrators===
One of the two chief planners of the attack, Qais Adwan, a Hamas member who was involved in numerous attacks in which a total of 77 people were killed, was killed in a shootout with the IDF during Operation Defensive Shield.<ref>{{Cite news |title=רשימת המוות של המבוקש קייס עדואן |trans-title=The death list of the wanted man Case Adwan |url=https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-1815308,00.html |newspaper=Ynet |language=he}}</ref> In May 2002, Israeli forces arrested the other chief planner, {{ill|Abbas al-Sayyid|ar|عباس السيد}}. On 22 September 2005, al-Sayed was convicted of the Passover attack and also of ordering the May 2001 bombing of a [[Netanya]] mall. He received 35 life sentences for each murder victim and additional time for those who were wounded.

Fathi Khatib, who transported the bomber to his target, Mohand Sharim, who financed the operation and helped hide the bomber, Muammar Abu Sheikh, who recruited the bomber to Hamas and transferred the explosive belts used in the attack to an explosives expert for examination, and Nasser Yatiya, who helped transport the explosive belts, were tried and convicted together in an Israeli military court in April 2003 and handed 29 life sentences.<ref>{{Cite news |title=29 מאסרי עולם לחוליה שביצעה הפיגוע במלון "פרק" |trans-title=29 life sentences for the cell that carried out the attack at the Park Hotel |url=https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2565273,00.html |newspaper=Ynet |language=he}}</ref> Nasser Yatiya was released in the [[Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange]] in 2011. Muhammad Taher, who prepared the explosive charges, was killed in a clash with Israeli [[Shayetet 13]] naval commandos in June 2003.

On 26 March 2008 Hamas commander Omar Jabar, suspected of helping organize the attack, was arrested in [[Tulkarem]] by IDF troops of the [[Nahshon Battalion]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7315168.stm|work=BBC News|title=Israel Passover bomb suspect held|date=26 March 2008|access-date=26 March 2010}}</ref> In March 2013 he was convicted over his role and sentenced to 30 years in prison.<ref>{{cite web |date=8 April 2013 |title=30 שנות מאסר לאחרון המעורבים בפיגוע במלון פרק |trans-title=30 years in prison for the last person involved in the Park Hotel attack |url=https://news.walla.co.il/item/2631477 |access-date=29 August 2020 |publisher=walla.co.il |language=he}}</ref>

In September 2009, Muhammad Harwish, a senior [[Hamas]] militant and a planner of the Passover Massacre, was arrested by the Border Police's elite [[Yamam]] [[counter-terror]] squad in his home village along with an aide, Adnan Samara.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-nabs-hamas-man-allegedly-tied-to-park-hotel-massacre-1.7842 |title=Israel Nabs Hamas Man Allegedly Tied to Park Hotel Massacre |publisher=Haaretz |date=15 September 2009 |access-date=15 October 2017}}</ref>

=== Soccer tournament ===
In 2003, the [[Palestinian Authority]] sponsored a soccer tournament, ''Tulkarm Shahids Memorial Soccer Championship Tournament of the Shahid {{ill|Abd Al-Baset Odeh|ar|عبد الباسط عودة}}'', describing the perpetrator as a "[[Martyr (shahid)|shahid]]" ("martyr").<ref>{{cite web |author=Marcus |first=Itamar |title=Football tournament honors suicide terrorists |date=21 January 2003 |url=http://www.palwatch.org/pages/news_archive.aspx?doc_id=594 |access-date=24 May 2010 |publisher=Palestinian media watch}}</ref><ref name=Cole2007p186>Cole, Leonard A (2007). ''Terror: How Israel has Coped and What America Can Learn''. [[Indiana University Press]]. p. 186; {{ISBN|978-0-253-34918-7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/terrorhowisraelh0000cole|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/terrorhowisraelh0000cole/page/186 186]|title=Terror: How Israel Has Coped and What America Can Learn|last=Cole|first=Leonard A.|date=2007-05-23|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253000019|language=en}}</ref> 71% of Palestinians polled about the tournament approved of naming it in honor of the bomber.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nysun.com/editorials/palestinian-poll/77925/ |title=Palestinian Poll |access-date=4 February 2009 |archive-date=5 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005151901/http://www.nysun.com/editorials/palestinian-poll/77925 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Palestinian suicide attacks]]
* [[List of massacres in Israel]]
* [[List of terrorist incidents in 2002]]
* [[List of Palestinian suicide attacks|List of Hamas suicide attacks]]
* [[Battle of Jenin (2002)]]
* [[Israeli casualties of war]]
* [[Palestinian political violence]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

== Bibliography ==

* {{Cite book |title=Suicide Terror: Understanding and Confronting the Threat |publisher=Wiley |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-470-08729-9 |editor-last=Falk |editor-first=Ophir |location= |editor-last2=Morgenstern |editor-first2=Henry}}
* {{Cite book |last=Ganor |first=Boaz |url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/global-alert/9780231172134 |title=Global Alert: The Rationality of Modern Islamist Terrorism and the Challenge to the Liberal Democratic World |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-231-53891-6 |location=New York}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Companion-to-the-Israeli-Palestinian-Conflict/Siniver/p/book/9781032249018?srsltid=AfmBOopGWVNEf14__LcSfzP7lIz9YmpO5mWbE94WOdz673A6k29oyX2j |title=Routledge Companion to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2023 |isbn=978-1-032-24901-8 |editor-last=Siniver |editor-first=Asaf |location=Abingdon and New York}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090612102025/http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/mfaarchive/2000_2009/2002/3/passover%2Bsuicide%2Bbombing%2Bat%2Bpark%2Bhotel%2Bin%2Bnetanya.htm Passover suicide bombing at Park Hotel in Netanya – 27 March 2002] – published at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
* [http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/26/israel.hamas/ "Alleged Passover massacre plotter arrested"], [[CNN]], 26 March 2008.
* [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/29/wmid229.xml "Hotel blast survivors relive the Passover massacre"]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' 29 March 2002
* [https://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/36617000/rm/_36617637_mideast22_bush_vi.ram US President George W Bush "This cold blooded killing must stop", 27 March 2002]
* [https://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/36613000/rm/_36613629_mideast19_meir_vi.ram Israeli Government spokesman Gideon Meir "Palestinian violence knows no boundaries", 27 March 2002]

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