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*{{Flagu|Kuwait}} – The Kuwaiti Foreign Minister and acting Premier [[Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah]] stated that he does not support Palestinian suicide bombings against civilians.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFA-Archive/2001/Pages/Tel-Aviv%20suicide%20bombing%20at%20the%20Dolphin%20disco%20-%201-.aspx|work=MFA|title=Tel-Aviv suicide bombing at the Dolphin disco-1-Jun-2001|date=2 June 2001}}</ref> |
*{{Flagu|Kuwait}} – The Kuwaiti Foreign Minister and acting Premier [[Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah]] stated that he does not support Palestinian suicide bombings against civilians.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFA-Archive/2001/Pages/Tel-Aviv%20suicide%20bombing%20at%20the%20Dolphin%20disco%20-%201-.aspx|work=MFA|title=Tel-Aviv suicide bombing at the Dolphin disco-1-Jun-2001|date=2 June 2001}}</ref> |
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*{{Flagu|United States|1960}} – U.S. president [[George W. Bush]] stated that he condemns the attack in the strongest terms and that "There is no justification for senseless attacks against innocent civilians."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.cnn.com/2001-06-01/world/bush.israel.bomb_1_suicide-bombing-heinous-terrorist-attack-tel-aviv?_s=PM:WORLD|work=CNN|title=Israeli police: Four dead in Tel Aviv bombing|date=25 February 2005}}</ref> |
*{{Flagu|United States|1960}} – U.S. president [[George W. Bush]] stated that he condemns the attack in the strongest terms and that "There is no justification for senseless attacks against innocent civilians."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.cnn.com/2001-06-01/world/bush.israel.bomb_1_suicide-bombing-heinous-terrorist-attack-tel-aviv?_s=PM:WORLD |work=CNN |title=Israeli police: Four dead in Tel Aviv bombing |date=25 February 2005 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010200728/http://articles.cnn.com/2001-06-01/world/bush.israel.bomb_1_suicide-bombing-heinous-terrorist-attack-tel-aviv?_s=PM%3AWORLD |archivedate=October 10, 2012 |df= }}</ref> |
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==Aftermath== |
==Aftermath== |
Revision as of 21:22, 19 May 2017
Dolphinarium suicide bombing | |
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Part of the Second Intifada militancy campaign | |
![]() The abandoned ruins of the Dolphinarium in 2012. | |
Location | Tel Aviv, Israel |
Coordinates | 32°04′02″N 34°45′42″E / 32.06722°N 34.76167°E |
Date | 1 June 2001 23:30 pm (GMT+2) |
Attack type | Suicide bombing |
Deaths | 21 victims (+1 bomber) |
Injured | 100+ |
Perpetrators | Islamic Jihad Hamas |
Assailant | Saeed Hotari |
The Dolphinarium discotheque massacre was a Hamas terror attack on 1 June 2001 in which a Hamas-affiliated Islamist terrorist blew himself up outside a nightclub on the beachfront in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 Israelis, 16 of them teenagers.[1][2][3] The majority of the victims were teenage girls, whose families had recently immigrated from the former Soviet Union.
The attack
Suicide bomber Saeed Hotari was standing in line on a Friday night in front of the Dolphinarium, when the area was packed with teenagers (most of them from Russian-speaking families) who were also waiting for admission. Survivors of the attack later described how the young Palestinian bomber appeared to taunt his victims before the explosion, wandering among them dressed in a disguise that led his victims to mistake him for an Orthodox Jew from Asia. Before detonating his bomb, he banged a drum packed with explosives and ball-bearings, while taunting his victims in Hebrew with the words "Something's going to happen".[4] At 23:27, he detonated his explosive device.[5] Witnesses claimed that body parts lay all over the area, and that bodies were piled one above another on the sidewalk before being collected. Many civilians in the vicinity of the bombing rushed to assist emergency services.
The suicide bombing followed a failed attack attempt on the same target five months earlier.[6]
Fatalities
One Israeli soldier and 20 civilians, the majority teenage girls whose parents had made aliyah to Israel from the former Soviet Union, were murdered in the attack:[7]
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Perpetrators
Both Islamic Jihad and a group calling itself "Hezbollah-Palestine" originally claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing, only to later retract the claims.[29] Later on it was revealed that the attack was carried out by Saeed Hotari, age 22, a militant linked to the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas.[30]
Official reactions
- Involved parties
Israel:
- Israeli officials called the attack a "massacre".[31]
Palestinian territories:
- President of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat condemned the attack and called for a cease-fire.[32]
- Supranational
United Nations – U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan stated that he "condemns this indiscriminate terrorist attack in the strongest possible terms." and that the attack "underlines the urgency of breaking the cycle of violence".[33]
- International
Kuwait – The Kuwaiti Foreign Minister and acting Premier Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah stated that he does not support Palestinian suicide bombings against civilians.[34]
United States – U.S. president George W. Bush stated that he condemns the attack in the strongest terms and that "There is no justification for senseless attacks against innocent civilians."[35]
Aftermath
After the attack many in the Israeli public demanded a harsh military retaliation; nevertheless, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to not take any immediate retaliatory actions. US and other governments applied heavy diplomatic pressure on Israel to refrain from action.[32] Nevertheless, the attack was later on noted as one of the reasons cited by the Israeli government for building the Israeli West Bank barrier.[36]
In Ramallah dozens of Palestinians celebrated in the streets and fired in the air as a sign of celebration.[37] The bomber, Saeed Hotari, was praised as a martyr by his father.[38] President George W. Bush demanded that Yasser Arafat condemn the terrorist act.[39] The next day, Israeli-Arabs barricaded themselves in the Hassan Bek Mosque opposite the Dolphinarium site and threw objects at the police.[40]
According to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, an Israeli-based organization with close ties to the IDF, among the materials seized by the IDF in the course of Operation Defensive Shield were two documents issued by the Martyrs' Families and Injured Care Establishment, which is under the authority of the Palestinian National Authority's Ministry of Social Affairs. The documents detail the transfer of $US2,000 to the father of the suicide bomber, who was living in Jordan at that time (18 June 2001). According to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, the transfer was made despite the suicide bomber's Hamas affiliation, despite the father's public support of the suicide bombing attack, and despite Arafat's public condemnation of the bombing.[41]
The Dolphinarium site
Immediately as a result of the bombing, the Dolphinarium discotheque has remained as an abandoned ruin on the Tel Aviv beachfront, covered with graffiti - and has remained as such as of 2016. For years, family members of the victims have unsuccessfully campaigned to permanently preserve the ruined building as a monument to the attack, however, the site is currently up for sale to property developers.[42] Memorial services to the victims of the attack are held every year at the site by friends and family of the victims.[43]
See also
- Civilian casualties in the Second Intifada
- Shevah Mofet - high school in Tel Aviv where seven of the killed teenagers and many of the injured studied
- Israeli casualties of war
- Palestinian political violence
References
- ^ O'Sullivan, Arieh (November 25, 2001). "No. 1 Hamas terrorist killed. Followers threaten revenge in Tel Aviv". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
- ^ Fisher, Ian (January 29, 2006). "In Hamas's Overt Hatred, Many Israelis See Hope". New York Times. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
- ^ Ynet – פיגוע בדולפינריום – , ynet.co.il; accessed 2 September 2015.
- ^ Chris McGreal,3,000 dead yet peace remains elusive, guardian.co.uk, 29 September 2003.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaaT7vdSXrI#t=120
- ^ "Bloody Terrorist Attack in Tel Aviv – 18 Youth Killed" (in Hebrew). Ynet. June 2, 2001. Retrieved May 4, 2008.
- ^ "List of Victims of the Dolphinarium Terrorist Attack". Embassy of Israel in Washington DC. June 4, 2001. Retrieved January 31, 2009.
- ^ "Maria Tagilchev". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Raisa Nimrovsky". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Anya Kazachkov". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Katherine Kastaniyada-Talkir". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Irina Nepomneschi". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Mariana Medvedenko". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Yulia Nelimov". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Liana Sakiyan". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Marina Berkovizki". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Simona Rodin". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Alexei Lupalo". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Yelena Nelimov". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Irena Usdachi". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Ilya Gutman". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Roman Dezanshvili". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Pvt Diez Normanov". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Ori Shahar". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Yael-Yulia Sklianik". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Sergei Panchenko". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Jan Bloom". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Yevgenia Dorfman". GxMSDev. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ Bomb horror hits Tel Aviv disco Archived May 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, The Jerusalem Post, 4 June 2001.
- ^ "Bomber went to West Bank for a better life". the Guardian. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ Shalom, Silvan. "Q&A with Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom", Haaretz, 8 May 2008.
- ^ a b Deborah Sontag, "Arafat Calls for Cease-Fire, Deploring Tel Aviv Attack", New York Times, 3 June 2001.
- ^ Press Release SG/SM/7829 Archived June 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, domino.un.org, 1 June 2001.
- ^ "Tel-Aviv suicide bombing at the Dolphin disco-1-Jun-2001". MFA. June 2, 2001.
- ^ "Israeli police: Four dead in Tel Aviv bombing". CNN. February 25, 2005. Archived from the original on October 10, 2012.
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- ^ David Rudge, "Bomb horror hits Tel Aviv disco" Archived December 5, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, jpost.com; accessed 2 September 2015.
- ^ "Write better papers, faster!". Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ "Bush to Arafat: You Must Condemn This Terrible Attack" (in Hebrew). Ynet. June 2, 2001. Retrieved May 4, 2008.
- ^ 14 лет со дня чудовищного теракта в тель-авивском "Дольфи" 01.06.2015 22:41, 9tv.co.il
- ^ "The Palestinian Authority's support of Hamas' suicide terrorism". October 2004. Retrieved May 4, 2008.
- ^ [Decided the fate of Tel Aviv Dolphinarium Решилась судьба тель-авивского дельфинария] 27-12-2014, 01:30, ЛЕОНИД РАБИН
- ^ 14 лет со дня чудовищного теракта в тель-авивском "Дольфи" 01.06.2015 22:41, 9tv.co.il
External links
- Tel-Aviv suicide bombing at the Dolphin disco, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs; accessed 2 September 2015
- Dolphin Tragedy – Memorial site
- At Least 17 Dead In Tel Aviv Suicide Bombing, Times Daily, 2 June 2001
- At Least 17 Dead, 86 Wounded In Tel Aviv Beachfront Bombing, The Item, 2 June 2001
- Eyewitness accounts from the scene of the massacre, Ynet, 2 June 2001 (Hebrew)
- Inside the mind of a suicide bomber, ABC News, 6 December 2001
- Devotion, desire drive youths to 'martyrdom', USA Today; 26 June 2001
- Driver of the Dolphinarium attack terrorist – charged with homicide, Ynet, 10 July 10, 2001 (in Hebrew)
- Terrorist incidents in Israel in 2001
- Hamas
- Mass murder in 2001
- Israeli casualties in the Second Intifada
- Massacres in Israel during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Suicide bombing in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Terrorist attacks attributed to Palestinian militant groups
- Terrorist incidents in Tel Aviv
- Palestinian terrorism
- 21st century in Tel Aviv
- Attacks on nightclubs
- June 2001 events