An Israeli hospital says a girl critically wounded in a 2001 suicide bombing at a Jerusalem restaurant has died
Israeli consumers cross by the newly re-opened Sbarro pizzeria Monday Sept. 24, 2001, the place a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up final Aug. 9, 2001 killing 15 individuals in Jerusalem. An Israeli hospital says a girl critically wounded in a 2001 suicide bombing at a Jerusalem restaurant has died. Her demise marked the sixteenth fatality from that assault. (AP Picture/Elizabeth Dalziel)
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JERUSALEM — An Israeli girl critically wounded in a 2001 suicide bombing at a Jerusalem restaurant has died, an Israeli hospital mentioned Thursday. Her demise marks the sixteenth fatality from that assault.
Hana Nachenberg was 31 on the time and was eating along with her 3-year-old daughter when the blast occurred, Israeli media reported. She was in a coma for practically 22 years till she died on Wednesday, studies mentioned. Her daughter was not harm within the assault.
On Aug. 9, 2001, a Palestinian bomber walked right into a Jerusalem pizzeria and blew himself up. The assault stays some of the notorious within the Israeli-Palestinian battle and it got here at a time of surging violence between the perimeters throughout the second Palestinian intifada or rebellion.
Aftershocks of the assault, which wounded dozens, nonetheless make information as we speak. The household of an Israeli-American lady killed within the assault is waging a marketing campaign to press Jordan, a detailed American ally, to ship a girl convicted of aiding the attacker to the USA for trial.
Ahlam Tamimi was convicted of selecting the goal and guiding the bomber there and was sentenced by Israel to 16 life sentences. Israel launched her in a 2011 prisoner swap with the Hamas militant group and he or she was despatched to Jordan, the place she lives freely and has been a well-known face within the media.
The U.S. has charged Tamimi with conspiring to make use of a weapon of mass destruction in opposition to People. Her identify was added to the FBI’s record of Most Wished Terrorists.