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Bombing in Nairobi, Kenya

1980 Nairobi hotel bombing
Part of terrorism in Kenya
class=notpageimage\| The attack site in Nairobi, Kenya
Location	Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
Coordinates	1°16′42″S 36°48′57″E / 1.278295°S 36.815795°E / -1.278295; 36.815795
Date	31 December 1980; 43 years ago (1980-12-31)
Attack type	Bombing
Deaths	20
Injured	87
Assailant	Qaddura Mohammed Abd Al-Hamid

On 31 December 1980, New Year's Eve, a bomb exploded in The Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. It partially destroyed the hotel, killing 20 people and wounding another 87.

The owner of the hotel was a prominent member of the local Jewish community, and it has been suggested that the attack was in retaliation for Kenya providing support to rescue the Israeli hostages in Uganda during Operation Entebbe four years earlier. Among the dead were at least four Kenyans, two Americans, two British children, a Danish employee of KLM, a Frenchman, and a Belgian child. The bomber was said by the Kenyan government to be a Moroccan with a Maltese passport named Qaddura Mohammed Abd Al-Hamid, identified as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who departed on a flight to Saudi Arabia on the day of the bombing.

References

^ Laing, Aislinn (21 September 2013). "Nairobi assault: Kenyan terrorist attacks since 1980". The Telegraph. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
^ "20 killed in bomb attack on Norfolk". mobile.nation.co.ke. Daily Nation. 15 September 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
"Bomb likely cause of New Year's Eve blast". UPI. 1 January 1981.
^ "Terrorist Incidents against Jewish Communities and Israeli Citizens Abroad, 1968-2003". International Institute for Counter-Terrorism. 20 December 2003. Archived from the original on 26 March 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
^ Rubin, Barry; Rubin, Judith Colp (2015). Chronologies of Modern Terrorism. Routledge. p. 195. ISBN 9781317474654.
"Feds Have Older Kenya Bombing To Explain". New York Daily News. 12 August 1998.
"Suspected hotel bomber escapes". UPI. 4 January 1981.
"Kenya says Palestinian responsible for hotel blast". UPI. 7 January 1981.

v t e Prominent Palestinian militancy attacks in the 1980s
Within Israel	Misgav Am hostage crisis (April 7, 1980) Murder of Danny Katz (December 8, 1983) Egged bus 300 hostage crisis (April 12, 1984) Night of the Gliders (November 25, 1987) Mothers' Bus attack (March 7, 1988) Kidnapping and murder of Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon (February 16, 1989) Death of Binyamin Meisner (February 24, 1989) Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack (July 6, 1989)
Worldwide	Antwerp summer camp attack (July 28, 1980) Paris synagogue bombing (October 3, 1980) Norfolk Hotel bombing (December 31, 1980) Vienna synagogue attack (August 29, 1981) Antwerp synagogue bombing (October 20, 1981) Berlin restaurant bombing (January 15, 1982) Assassination attempt of the Israeli ambassador in London (June 3, 1982) Goldenberg restaurant attack (August 9, 1982) Pan Am Flight 830 (August 11, 1982) Great Synagogue of Rome attack (October 19, 1982) Frankfurt airport bombing (June 19, 1985) Madrid airline office attacks (July 1, 1985) Kuwait City bombings (July 11, 1985) Copenhagen bombings (July 22, 1985) Rome Café de Paris attack (September 16, 1985) Achille Lauro hijacking (October 7, 1985) Rome and Vienna airport attacks (December 27, 1985) Pan Am Flight 73 hijacking (September 5, 1986) Neve Shalom Synagogue attack (September 6, 1986) City of Poros ship attack (July 11, 1988) Nicosia Israeli Embassy bombing (May 11, 1988) Khartoum attacks (May 15, 1988)
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