Café Apropo bombing

Café Apropo bombing

Café Apropo bombing
Location	Tel Aviv, Jerusalem
Date	March 21, 1997
Attack type	suicide bombings
Death(s)	3
Injured	48
Perpetrator(s)	Hamas claimed responsibility

The Café Apropo bombing was a Palestinian suicide bombing which occurred on March 21, 1997 in a coffee shop in Tel Aviv. 3 women were killed in the attack and 48 were injured.

The attack

The attack occurred on a Friday, on the eve of the Purim holiday, at around 13:40, when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated an explosive device which was concealed in a handbag in the entrance to the coffee shop "Apropo" in Tel Aviv. The force of the explosion killed three young women in their early 30s, one of them was three months pregnant.

Aftermath

The attack remembered amongst the Israeli public, in part, due to a picture taken of a six months old infant girl in a clown costume whom survived the attack because she was saved by her mother whom protected her with her body from the force of the blast.

Following the attack, the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate found for the first time clear evidence which proved that the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was encouraging and initiating militant attacks on Israeli civilians within Israel in order to advance the negotiations with Israel.

Eight years after the attack, in October 2005, Israel captured the Palestinian militant Ibrahim Animat, the leader of Hamas's "Surif squad", which was responsible for the 1997 Café Apropo bombing attack, as well as other attacks against Israeli targets.

a monument has been placed near the site of the attack which was created by the artist Eliezer Weishoff. The monument depicts three roses which were cut off.

References

External links

• Apropo Cafe Bombing Memorial - Israel Public Art Catalog
• Tel Aviv Suicide Bombing Kills Four - published on Times Daily on Mar 22, 1997
• Senior Hamas fugitive nabbed - published on Ynet on October 11, 2005

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