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The Yeshivat Beit Yisrael massacre was a Palestinian suicide bombing which occurred in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood in downtown Jerusalem on March 2, 2002. Eleven Israeli civilians were killed in the attack, including two infants, three children and two teenagers. Over 50 people were injured in the attack, four of them critically. The bombing took place at the entrance of the Haredi yeshiva "Beit Yisrael" in central Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar mitzva celebration. The suicide bomber detonated the bomb full of shrapnel alongside a group of women with their baby strollers, waiting for the services in a nearby synagogue to conclude. The Palestinian Islamist militant organization al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.〔〔〔〔 ==The attack== The bombing took place on Saturday evening in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood of Jerusalem, a deprived area with harsh living standards. The neighborhood had been targeted in three previous attacks. Shortly after 7 PM, the streets were thronged with worshipers that had finished the sun-down prayers that mark the conclusion of the Shabbat. Near the Mahane Yisrael yeshiva, a religious institution in Beit Yisrael, people had gathered for the bar mitzva celebration of the Hazan family who had come to Jerusalem to celebrate the bar mitzvah of their son Naveh. The Hajabi family were also celebrating their child's bar mitzvah.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Suicide bombing in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood in Jerusalem - 2-Mar-2002 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=9 dead, 51 hurt in Jerusalem bombing )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Focus / Jerusalem's soft underbelly )〕 The bomber blew himself up just as the family and guests began to leave and was standing alongside a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to return from the synagogue. Among the dead were an infant and her six-year-old brother, a mother and her three-year-old son and a 12-year-old boy. The dead included members of the Hajabi and Hazan families. Eight of those killed came from the Nehmad family, who were relatives of the Hajabis. The bombing occurred only meters from the site of a previous car bombing the year before. The blast shook downtown Jerusalem and ignited a nearby car. At the Mahane Israel seminary, a site where up to 1,000 Jews prayed every Saturday evening, a stone wall was splattered in blood. Two babies were taken to the Haddasah hospital, the whereabouts of their parents unknown.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=In Jerusalem, Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 9 )〕 Shlomi, an eyewitness, saw a baby carriage alongside a dead baby and other dead people. Another witness said that she and everyone else in her family had been injured when the bomber attacked. "I was speaking with everyone and when I turned around I saw people flying in the air. My brother fell onto me. I didn't know if my brother was wounded or the blood of other wounded people was on him. All I felt was pain." Eitan of the Magen David Adom recounted, "We arrived at the site and saw scenes of horror: young children, old people, women, lying in the road without hands, without legs, blood everywhere and enormous destruction all about. Only some had the strength to scream or cry. The quiet was the thing I remember most... This was one of the worst attacks I can remember." A woman who was pregnant with twins survived but lost both of her unborn children. Livnat, the sister of Sofia Ya'arit Eliyahu who died in the blast with her seven-month-old son, described her experience. "On Saturday night, we went out for a walk with two baby carriages. Sofia's baby started crying and she bent down to pick him up, while I continued walking with her little girl. We were 10 meters from them when we heard a horrendous explosion ... I looked back and saw only a huge inferno. Sofia and the baby had disappeared." 〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Mother and infant son laid to rest )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yeshivat Beit Yisrael massacre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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