5 December 2005 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing

The third HaSharon Mall
entrance suicide bombing
Part of the Second Intifada militancy campaign
The attack site
Location Netanya, Israel
Date December 5, 2005
11:30 am (GMT+2)
Attack type
 suicide bombing
Deaths 5 Israeli civilians (+ 1 bomber)
Non-fatal injuries
 40+ Israeli civilians
Perpetrators Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility

The third HaSharon Mall entrance suicide bombing was a suicide bombing carried out on December 5, 2005 in the HaSharon Mall in Netanya, Israel. Five people were killed in the attack.

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]

Fatalities

See also

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
  3. ↑ "Daniel Golani". GxMSDev. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "Alexandra Garmitzky". GxMSDev. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "Haim Amram". GxMSDev. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Keinan Tsuami". GxMSDev. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  7. ↑ "Elia Rosen". GxMSDev. Retrieved 13 December 2014.

Coordinates: 32°19′35″N 34°51′44″E / 32.3265°N 34.8622°E / 32.3265; 34.8622

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