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The 2008 Dimona bombing was a Palestinian suicide attack carried out in Dimona, Israel on February 4, 2008 by Hamas.[2] It is believed that Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip ordered the operation without informing the Hamas politburo in Damascus.[1]
2008 Dimona bombing | |
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Location | Dimona, Israel |
Coordinates | 31°03′52.23″N 35°02′03.57″E |
Date | February 4, 2008 |
Attack type | suicide attack |
Deaths | 1 Israeli civilian (+ 2 bombers) |
Injured | 9 Israeli civilians |
Perpetrators | Two Palestinian assailants, working in a Hamas cell under Izzedine al Qassam Brigades commander Ahmed Jabari.[1] |
On February 4, 2008, a Palestinian militant detonated an explosives belt at a shopping centre in Dimona, Israel.
The Israeli police managed to shoot dead an accomplice who was wounded in the first blast before he could detonate his own belt.[3]
One Israeli woman was killed in the attack while nine other people were injured (one of them critically).[3] It was the first 'successful' suicide attack against Israeli civilians since the Eilat bakery bombing on January 29, 2007.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine initially claimed responsibility, but the two Gazans they named as the attackers did not match the bodies found at the scene. Hamas claimed responsibility on February 5, naming the perpetrators as Muhammed Herbawi (محمد الحرباوي) and Shadi Zghayer (شادي الزغيّر), both from the Palestinian city of Hebron in the West Bank, the place which they are believed to have traveled from.[2][4][5] Israeli intelligence believes the attack was ordered by Izzedine al Qassam Brigades commander Ahmed Jabari with the support of Gaza-based Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar; Jabari contacted an ally in Hebron's Qawasameh clan—Ayoub Qawasmeh—who recruited the eventual perpetrators from a local Hamas soccer team. Scott Atran states that the Hamas politburo in Damascus was not informed of the attack.[1] Israel demolished Herbawi and Zghayer's homes, while "the Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades website went down for three days, presumably the result of an electronic attack after its bogus claim."[2]
On July 26, 2008, IDF and Israeli police forces killed Shihab Natsheh (25), a Hamas member from Hebron. Natsheh, according to the IDF, was the explosives engineer who prepared the demolition charge used to carry out the Dimona suicide bombing.[6][7]
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