December 2005 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing

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December 2005 HaSharon Mall bombing
Part of the Second Intifada militancy campaign
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The attack site
Location Netanya, Israel
Coordinates 32°19′35″N34°51′44″E / 32.32639°N 34.86222°E / 32.32639; 34.86222
DateDecember 5, 2005;18 years ago (2005-12-05)
11:30 am (GMT+2)
Attack type
Suicide bombing
Deaths5 Israeli civilians (+1 bomber)
Injured40+ Israeli civilians
Perpetrator Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility

The December 2005 HaSharon Mall bombing was a terror attack carried out on December 5, 2005 in the HaSharon Mall in Netanya, Israel. Five people were killed and over forty injured in the attack.

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The Palestinian Islamist militant organization Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

The attack

On Monday, 5 December 2005, at around 11:30 am, a Palestinian suicide bomber approached the entrance to the HaSharon Mall in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya; he detonated explosives hidden under his clothes when he approached the guards at the entrance for security inspection. Five people were killed in the attack, and more than 40 injured.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility and identified the attacker as Lotfi Abu Saada, from the village of Illar in northern West Bank. [1] In response, Israel killed two senior militants in a Gaza airstrike. [2]

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References

  1. Five killed in Israeli shopping centre blast, The Guardian, 5 December 2005
  2. Two Gaza militants, one Israeli killed in flare-up, The Star Online, 8 December 2005