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.
| 1969 PFLP bombings in Jerusalem | |
|---|---|
| Native name | הפיגוע בסניף שופרסל בירושלים |
| Location | Jerusalem |
| Date | 21 February 1969 |
| Weapon | Explosive device |
| Deaths | 2 civilians |
| Injured | 9 civilians |
| Perpetrator | PFLP |
No. of participants | 5 |
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]
References
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