Just before 14:00, exactly 20 years ago today, a suicide bomber stepped into a Pizza place in #Jerusalem.
He ordered pasta.
Then he detonated a bomb hidden inside a guitar case and all hell broke loose.
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The results were catastrophic.
15 were killed, 7 of them children.
One family in particular, was destroyed in a split second.
43 year old Mordechai Schijveschuurder, his wife Tzira, 14 year old daughter Raya, 4 year old son Avraham and 2 year old daughter Hemda. Killed.
2 other children from the Schijveschuurder family were critically injured.
The Palestinian Authority refrained from arresting the ones responsible. Eventually, all behind the attack were arrested by Israel.
Ahlam Tamimi, disguised as a Jewish tourist, escorted the suicide bomber into the restaurant.
She was sentenced for 16 life sentences but was released in an exchange a deal in 2011.
In a later interview she tells about how it feels to be involved in such brutality. Watch:
The mastermind behind the attack, and the man who built the bomb, was Hamas operative Abdullah Barghouti. Barghouti was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 67 life sentences - the most severe penalty in Israeli legal history.
Barghouti was found to be directly responsible for the killing of 66 Israelis.
According to data we have, up to 2015 Abdullah Barghouti had received a monthly salary from the Palestinian Authority in the total sum of 70,000 USD.
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