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| Hamas have been widely criticized for their campaign of suicide bombings in the 1990s and early 2000s targeting crowds of civilians in Israel. Hamas' Al Qassam "martyrdom operations" were particularly notorious for bombing buses crowded with civilians.<ref name="HRW condemnation">{{cite news | title= Erased In A Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks Against Israeli Civilians: V. STRUCTURES AND STRATEGIES OF THE PERPETRATOR ORGANIZATIONS | url= https://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/isrl-pa/ISRAELPA1002-05.htm | access-date= 1 September 2024 | work= www.hrw.org | publisher= ] | date= October 2002 | location= ] |
Hamas have been widely criticized for their campaign of suicide bombings in the 1990s and early 2000s targeting crowds of civilians in Israel. Hamas' Al Qassam "martyrdom operations" were particularly notorious for bombing buses crowded with civilians.<ref name="HRW condemnation">{{cite news | title= Erased In A Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks Against Israeli Civilians: V. STRUCTURES AND STRATEGIES OF THE PERPETRATOR ORGANIZATIONS | url= https://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/isrl-pa/ISRAELPA1002-05.htm | access-date= 1 September 2024 | work= www.hrw.org | publisher= ] | date= October 2002 | location= ] }}</ref> | ||
| In the ] on 25 January 2006, Hamas' ] ] won the plurality of the vote and the majority of the seats. This made ] the ] and head of Government for the ].<ref name="elections.ps" >{{cite web | url= http://www.elections.ps/template.aspx?id=291 | title= Central Elections Commission | website= www.elections.ps | access-date= 17 January 2022 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090404002945/http://www.elections.ps/template.aspx?id=291 | archive-date= 4 April 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Following this, in April 2006, Hamas announced that they were ending their strategy of suicide bombings.<ref name="Guardian 300" >{{cite news | last1=Urquhart | first1=Conal | title= Hamas in call to end suicide bombings | url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/apr/09/israel | access-date= 25 August 2024 | work= The Observer | publisher= ] | date= 9 April 2006 }}</ref> At the time Khaled Hroub – author of ''"Hamas: Political Thought and Practice"'', and Director of the ] – noted that even within Hamas, suicide bombing had been a controversial tactic.<ref name="Guardian 300" /> | In the ] on 25 January 2006, Hamas' ] ] won the plurality of the vote and the majority of the seats. This made ] the ] and head of Government for the ].<ref name="elections.ps" >{{cite web | url= http://www.elections.ps/template.aspx?id=291 | title= Central Elections Commission | website= www.elections.ps | access-date= 17 January 2022 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090404002945/http://www.elections.ps/template.aspx?id=291 | archive-date= 4 April 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Following this, in April 2006, Hamas announced that they were ending their strategy of suicide bombings.<ref name="Guardian 300" >{{cite news | last1=Urquhart | first1=Conal | title= Hamas in call to end suicide bombings | url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/apr/09/israel | access-date= 25 August 2024 | work= The Observer | publisher= ] | date= 9 April 2006 }}</ref> At the time Khaled Hroub – author of ''"Hamas: Political Thought and Practice"'', and Director of the ] – noted that even within Hamas, suicide bombing had been a controversial tactic.<ref name="Guardian 300" /> | ||
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August 2024 attack in Israel
| Lehi street bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Israel-Hamas war | |
| Location | Lehi street, South Tel Aviv, State of Israel |
| Date | 18 August 2024 (2024-08-18) Sunday night (Israel) |
| Target | unknown |
| Attack type | suspected suicide bombing, possibly botched |
| Weapons | Explosives in a backpack |
| Deaths | 1 (a man in his 50s) |
| Injured | 1 (a 33 year old man) |
| Victims | bomber killed, and one civilian injured. |
| Perpetrators | Al-Qassam Brigades and Palestinian Islamic Jihad jointly claimed the attack. |
| Motive | nationalism |
The Lehi street bombing was an explosion in Lehi street (Template:Lang-he) in Tel Aviv on 18 August 2024. The explosion killed the man carrying the bomb and injured a bystander (a 33 year old man). It was the first suicide bombing claimed by Hamas' Al Qassam since 2008.
Hamas' Qassam Brigades and Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Saraya Al Quds jointly claimed responsibility for the bombing.
The Qassam Brigades, Hamas' militant wing, announced a return to the strategy of suicide attacks (Template:Lang-ar) in Israeli cities, which they had previously abandoned in 2006.
History
Further information: List of Palestinian suicide attacksHamas have been widely criticized for their campaign of suicide bombings in the 1990s and early 2000s targeting crowds of civilians in Israel. Hamas' Al Qassam "martyrdom operations" were particularly notorious for bombing buses crowded with civilians.
In the 2006 Palestinian legislative election on 25 January 2006, Hamas' Change and Reform electoral list won the plurality of the vote and the majority of the seats. This made Ismail Haniyeh the Prime Minister of the State of Palestine and head of Government for the Palestinian National Authority. Following this, in April 2006, Hamas announced that they were ending their strategy of suicide bombings. At the time Khaled Hroub – author of "Hamas: Political Thought and Practice", and Director of the Cambridge Arab Media Project – noted that even within Hamas, suicide bombing had been a controversial tactic.
The Guardian reported that, "Hamas only embarked on suicide bombing campaigns as a response to extreme provocations by Israel, such as the killing of 29 Palestinians in Hebron in 1993. It had been a policy of desperation," they attributed this sentiment to Yihiyeh Musa, a Hamas politician elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council earlier thar year.
In the first few months after winning the election. Hamas said they would only use violent force within the Palestinian territories, they would not use violence against Israel, and they were willing to fee force to prevent other groups attacking Israel - such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Fatah-linked Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - if the other groups did not cooperate with this plan.
This attempted truce was unsuccessful, extreme violence between Hamas and Israel returned by 2008, with Operation Cast Lead, but there were no suicide bombings against civilians in Israel that Hamas directly claimed responsibility for between the 2006 announcement and Lehi street.
In the weeks before the Lehi Street bombing, Israel is thought to have assassinated two of the three top leaders of Hamas. On 31 July 2024 Ismail Haniyeh was killed in a bombing in Iran, that killed Haniyeh and his bodyguard, Israel have not officially claimed the attack but no other assailant has been credibly accused.
In 2014, left wing UK news outlet Novara Media attributed the Qassam Brigades' temporary abandonment of suicide attacks to Mohammed Deif's leadership moving the Brigades towards hostage taking and rocket attacks. By contrast, in 2024 pro-Israel media lobby group CAMERA held Deif personally responsible for the deaths of 80 Israeli civilians, mostly in suicide bombings, when they criticized the way BBC Arabic reported on an Israeli airstrike intended to kill Deif. The airstrike killed over 90 people, and in a biography summary that BBC Arabic aired with their report in the incident they mentioned suicide bombings attributed to Deif but used language CAMERA objected to, allegedly referring to the bombings as "military operations" when CAMERA thought they should be referred to as "terrorist attacks".
Bombing
The bombing occurred on the night of Sunday 18 August 2023, on Lehi street in Tel Aviv.
The bomb exploded, killing the bomber (a man in his 50s from Nablus), moderately injured a bystander (33 year old man), and setting a truck on fire, but doing fairly limited damage. It was initially unclear why the bomb went off when it did. Some sources interpreted this as meaning the bomb had accidentally exploded before racing the intended target, the operation was described as "botched" by Ynet.
Location
There was nothing remarkable about the location, and no intended target more specific than "Tel Aviv" has been identified.
Lehi street
Lehi street shares it's name with the Lehi militant group (Template:Lang-he), a Hebrew acronym for "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel" Template:Lang-he Lohamei Herut Israel), a Zionist militant group, in Mandatory Palestine in the 1940s who were also known as the Stern Gang. The Lehi are commonly regarded as the predecessor to the Likud party, the ruling party in Israel's Knesset during the Israel–Hamas war.
The Lehi controversially, and unsuccessfully, attempted to ally with Germany against the British during World War II. Most Lehi leaders defined their organization as an anti-imperialist movement and stated that their opposition to British colonial rule in Palestine was not based on a particular policy but rather on the presence of a foreign power over the homeland of the Jewish people. When the State of Israel was founded, the Lehi were integrated into the Israel Defense Force along with the Irgun who the Lehi split from in 1940 and other Zionist paramilitaries, including the Haganah, the name of a nearby street running parallel to Lehi street.
See also
- Martyrdom in Palestinian culture
- Religious views on suicide § Islam
- Islamic view of death § Suicide
- History of Hamas
Notes
References
- ^ "Man dies in Tel Aviv blast; authorities suspect botched terror attack". Ynetnews. Ynet. 18 August 2024. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
- كتائب القسام تنقل المعركة إلى قلب إسرائيل وتعلن عودة العمليات الاستشهادية إلى الواجهة [Al-Qassam Brigades transfers the battle to the heart of Israel and announces the return of martyrdom operations to the forefront]. العربي - أخبار YouTube Channel of Al-Araby TV News. 19 August 2024. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
- "After Tel Aviv bombing, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad threaten further attacks in Israel". 20 August 2024. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
- "Erased In A Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks Against Israeli Civilians: V. STRUCTURES AND STRATEGIES OF THE PERPETRATOR ORGANIZATIONS". www.hrw.org. United States of America: Human Rights Watch. October 2002. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- "Central Elections Commission". www.elections.ps. Archived from the original on 4 April 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ Urquhart, Conal (9 April 2006). "Hamas in call to end suicide bombings". The Observer. The Guardian. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- "How a quadriplegic charity worker became the founder of Hamas". ABC listen. 18 October 2023. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
- "Radical Lives: Mohammed Deif". Novara Media. 27 October 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
- Sawer, Patrick; Mulholland, Lilian (24 August 2024). "BBC under fire for describing Hamas suicide bomb attacks as 'military operations'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- "Police confirms Tel Aviv explosion was failed terror attack". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 18 August 2024. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
- "הרוג בפיצוץ בת"א: "הוא נשא מטען, הכיוון שזה פיגוע מאוד רלוונטי"; עובר אורח נפצע בינוני" [Killed in an explosion in Tel Aviv (wiktionary:ת״א): "He was carrying a bomb, the fact that this is an attack is very relevant"; a bystander was moderately injured]. Ynet (in Hebrew). 18 August 2024. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
- "Hamas, Islamic Jihad claim responsibility for bomb blast in Tel Aviv". Reuters. 19 August 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
- "Hamas claims attempted suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, vows to carry out more". The Times of Israel. 19 August 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
- "Hamas claims responsibility for Tel Aviv bomb attack, promises more". Al Jazeera. 19 August 2024.
- "Man killed in Tel Aviv when bomb in his backpack goes off; police probing possible terror". 19 August 2024. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
- Israel Eldad, The First Tithe, p. 84
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