The
2008 Dimona bombing was a
suicide attack carried out by the militant organizations
al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in
Dimona,
Israel on February 4, 2008.
The attack
On February 4, 2008, a Palestinian militant detonated an
explosives belt at a
shopping centre in
Dimona,
Israel.
The Israeli police managed to shoot dead an accomplice which was wounded in the first blast before he could detonate his own belt.
One Israeli woman was killed in the attack while nine other people were injured (one of them critically). It was the first 'successful' suicide attack against Israeli civilians since the
Eilat bakery bombing on January 29, 2007.
The perpetrators
The perpetrators were identified as Luay Laghwani (aged 22) and Musa Arafat, both from the city of
Khan Yunis. They are believed to have travelled either from the
Gaza Strip through the
Sinai, or from the Palestinian city of
Hebron in the
West Bank.
The victim
The sole person killed in the attack was 73-year-old Lyubov Razdol'skaya (). Along with her husband, Edward Gedalin (), she moved from
Tbilisi,
USSR to Israel in 1990. Both worked in the
GSSR Academy of Sciences Institute of Physics. After moving to Israel they worked in the physics department of
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and retired in 2002. Gedalin himself was critically injured...
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