Twenty years ago today, 11 people were killed and 188 injured two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the crowded Ben Yehuda Street mall at 11:30 P.M. on a Saturday night. Five of the victims were children:
Assaf Avitan, 15
Israel Ya'akov Danino, 17
Golan Turgeman, 15
Adam Weinstein, 14
Ido Cohen, 17
A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later.
But the Palestinian Press Agency Safa which is a mainstream Palestinian news site not associated with Hamas also celebrates this attack, along with another attack from December 1, 1993 murdering 2 Israelis, Shalva Ozana and Yitzhak Weinstock, who were on the side of a road because of engine trouble.
Safa is proud of terror attacks murdering Israeli civilians:
Martyrdom operations in December constituted one of the most important forms of resistance, and established a more mature stage in the history of the Palestinian struggle, and caused dozens of Israeli deaths and injuries.These operations have become the most prominent weapon in the face of the treacherous Israeli military machine, and the continuous crimes of the occupation against the Palestinian people.
There is a nostalgia being shown here, where Palestinians are longing for a time when they were killing Israeli civilians every week.
