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2005 – August 31: Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Kumi from Gaza City dispatched a suicide bomber to Be’er Sheva central bus station, wounding 50 Israelis (two critically) in the first post-disengagement attack.
On 1 November 2024, a concrete canopy at Novi Sad train station collapsed, killing 16 people. Among the victims was 27-year-old Stefan Hrka. His mother, Dijana Hrka, began a hunger strike calling for accountability for her son’s death.
2008 – March 6: Alaa Abu Dheim, 26, from Surif near Hebron. Massacred eight students at Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem with an AK-47, firing over 500 rounds in the library before being killed.
Serbia shares deep cultural and religious ties with Russia: Orthodox heritage, WWII alliance, and dependence on Russian gas. But behind the history, Moscow’s leverage is economic, not emotional.
After the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Serbia found itself isolated, vilified by the West for its role in Bosnia and Kosovo, and scarred by NATO’s 1999 bombing of Belgrade. The scars left by the 1990s still define Serbian politics today.
Shani Louk, 22, German-Israeli tattoo artist.
Noya Dan, 12 years old: Killed during an attempted abduction, along with her grandmother, on the Nir Oz Kibbutz. Terrorists set the house they were hiding on fire.
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46 U.S. citizens were murdered on October 7th.
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was also known as the “Father of Global Jihad.”
Founded in 1959 by Yasser Arafat, Fatah embraced secular nationalism, seeking a Palestinian state via diplomacy and guerrilla tactics. It led the PLO, which was internationally recognized as Palestine’s representative in 1974.
Around 6 million Palestinians live abroad: With nearly 800,000 in North America, 400,000 in Europe, and 50,000 in Australia.
Gaza’s terror tunnels, built by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, serve as tools for militancy, smuggling, and attacks.
Palestinian women joined radicalism in the 1960s via the PLO’s secular terrorist movement.
While conventional bombings had been ongoing for decades, suicide bombings emerged in the 1990s - driven by groups like Hamas and PIJ opposing peace talks.
Hamas, founded in 1987, emerged as the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist movement started in Egypt in 1928.
Hamas Charter (1988), Art. 13: “There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are a waste of time.”
Starting early: In 1937, the British Peel Commission proposed partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.
In Jordan: The PLO's growing presence in the late 1960s led to tensions with King Hussein.
The Ottoman Empire ruled Gaza and the West Bank from 1517 to 1917.