1969 Jerusalem bombings

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1969 PFLP bombings in Jerusalem
Native nameהפיגוע בסניף שופרסל בירושלים
Location Jerusalem
Date21 February 1969;55 years ago (1969-02-21)
Weapon Explosive device
Deaths2 civilians
Injured9 civilians
Perpetrator PFLP
No. of participants
5

On February 21, 1969, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) carried out a bombing attack on a supermarket in Jerusalem, killing 21-year-old Leon Kanner of Netanya and 22-year-old Eddie Joffe, students at the Hebrew University, and injuring 9.

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Supermarket bombing

The deaths and injuries were caused by a bomb placed in a crowded Jerusalem SuperSol supermarket which the two students stopped in at to buy groceries for a field trip. [1] [2] [3] The same bomb wounded 9 others. [4] A second bomb was found at the supermarket, and defused. [1]

In the investigation that followed the bombings, authorities uncovered an arsenal of PFLP weaponry including explosives. [5]

Bombing of British Consulate

On 25 February 1969 the same PFLP terrorists planted two bombs in a window of the British Consulate in Jerusalem. The bomb exploded in the apartment of a secretary at the consulate, who was not home at the time. There were no injuries, although the room was wrecked. [6] A bombing attempt at the Consulate the previous Friday failed when the bomb was discovered and detonated. [7]

Rasmea Odeh

These two attacks are often cited in connection with Rasmea Odeh, a PFLP activist who confessed to involvement and attained later a degree of notability after she was released from an Israeli prison in a prisoner exchange and violated American immigration laws. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] In 1980, Odeh was among 78 prisoners released by Israel in an exchange with the PFLP for one Israeli soldier captured in Lebanon. [8] [2] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Jerusalem Supersol Re-opens for Business; 2 Young Bombing Victims Are Buried". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 24 February 1969.
  2. 1 2 "Trial set for Jerusalem terror convict who moved to US". The Times of Israel. 3 September 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Palestinian convicted of two bombings back in U.S. court over immigration fraud". Haaretz. 2 September 2014.
  4. ↑ Jillian Kay Melchior (26 February 2014). "Convicted Terrorist Worked as Obamacare Navigator in Illinois". National Review Online.
  5. ↑ "Forty Members of Terrorist Cells Rounded Up in Supermarket Bombing Case". JTA. 4 March 1969. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  6. ↑ "ConsulateBombed". Chicago Tribune. 26 February 1969. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  7. ↑ "Officials Escape Injury in British Consulate Explosion". JTA. 26 February 1969. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  8. 1 2 Michael Tarm (24 October 2013). "Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, Community Activist, Accused Of Hiding Terror Conviction To Gain Citizenship". The Huffington Post.
  9. ↑ "Arab-American activist on trial for allegedly concealing terror role in immigration papers". The Guardian. 5 November 2014.
  10. ↑ "Trial set for U.S.-Palestinian immigrant convicted in Israel deaths; Rasmieh Odeh is accused of hiding she was convicted in Israel for terror attacks from American immigration officials". Haaretz. 3 October 2014.
  11. ↑ Lorraine Swanson (21 October 2014). "Evergreen Park Woman Accused of Hiding Terrorist Past". Evergreen Park, Illinois Patch.
  12. ↑ "Evergreen Park woman Rasmieh Odeh charged with lying about Palestinian terrorist past". ABC13 Houston. 23 October 2013.
  13. ↑ Jason Meisner (22 October 2013). "Feds: Woman hid terror conviction to get citizenship". Chicago Tribune.
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