Attack
2002 mass shooting
On Thursday, January 17, 2002, a Palestinian gunman, 24-year-old Abdul Salaam Sadek Hassouneh, killed six people and wounded 33 at a bat mitzvah celebration in Hadera, Israel.
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On Thursday, January 17, 2002, a Palestinian gunman, 24-year-old Abdul Salaam Sadek Hassouneh, killed six people and wounded 33 at a bat mitzvah celebration in Hadera, Israel.
The attack took place at 9:45 pm (GMT+2) as guests were departing. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades assumed responsibility for the attack, claiming it was vengeance for the killing of its leader Raed Karmi. An Israeli police spokesman said the man, apparently on a suicide mission, had thrown several grenades into the Armon David wedding hall, where the Bat Mitzvah celebration had taken place, and detonated explosives on himself. The attacker was shot by police. A belt filled with explosives was found on the attacker.
The six people who were killed at the Bar Mitzvah were:
Edward Bakshayev, 48, of Or Akiva
Anatoly Bakshayev, 63, of Or Akiva
Aharon Ben Yisrael-Ellis, 32, of Ra'anana
Dina Binayev, 48, of Ashkelon
Boris Melikhov, 56, of Sderot
and Avi Yazdi, 25, of Hadera.
Aharon Ellis was an American singer who was performing at the Bar Mitzvah. His wife filled a lawsuit in US Federal Court against the Palestinian Authority with which al-Aqsa Martyrs is affiliated. It was alleged that that the perpetrator was a Palestinian Authority officer.
A judgment of $173 million was imposed but the sides signed an agreement in October 2009 with the final sum paid not revealed.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said the attacker, 24-year-old Abdel Salam Hassouna, was from a village near Nablus and launched the attack to avenge the death of Raed Karmi.
After the attack a video made earlier by the attacker was released, in which he is seen declaring: "I am doing this to avenge all the Palestinian martyrs."
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