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Second Intifada

Police and medics surround the scene of a suicide bombing inside Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant, Thursday, August 9, 2001. Fifteen people were killed, and 130 injured. A sixteenth victim died in 2023. (AP/Peter Dejong)
August 9, 2026, 11:17 am
25 years ago, the Sbarro bombing opened a wound in Israel that still hasn’t healed
Suicide attack at Jerusalem pizzeria killed 16, including 8 children; a quarter of a century later, a family reckons with its ongoing fight for justice — and a new wave of grief after October 7
By Ben Sales
US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks during a service for retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court in Washington, December 18, 2023. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
August 4, 2026, 2:23 am
US Supreme Court won’t halt $656 million judgment against Palestinians over terror attacks
Justice Sonia Sotomayor declines to freeze damages, as sought by cash-strapped PA; civil suit was brought on behalf of Americans killed in Second Intifada in Jerusalem
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Yonatan Rom, left, who donated his kidney to Reuven Tam, right, recover together following the transplant at Clalit-Beilinson Hospital on July 14, 2026. Reuven's brother, Eyal Tam, saved Rom's life in a terrorist attack on March 7, 2002. (Courtesy/Clalit-Beilinson Hospital)
July 22, 2026, 1:08 pm
Man donates kidney to brother of man who saved his life in 2002 terror attack
Altruistic organ donation sees survivor of Gush Katif shooting that killed 5 and wounded 23 matched with sibling of commander of emergency response team who neutralized terrorist
By Diana Bletter
Zakaria Zubeidi, 49, a Palestinian prisoner and former a top commander in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades who was released by Israel, January 30, 2025. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
August 12, 2025, 3:56 pm
‘There’s no solution’: Ex-terror chief Zubeidi laments failed Palestinian strategies
Zubeidi, who organized dozens of attacks during Second Intifada and was freed in January truce, says Palestinians must ‘reconsider tools’; doing Ph.D. in Israel studies at Birzeit
By Nava Freiberg
Left: Nael Obeid (social media); Right: A crowd gathers around a bus carrying released Palestinian prisoners as it arrives in the West Bank city of Beitunia, January 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
February 23, 2025, 7:07 pm
Terrorist behind deadly bombing falls to his death a week after release under Gaza deal
Hamas’s Nael Obeid was jailed for 2003 Cafe Hillel bombing in Jerusalem; 7 fatalities included Dr. David Applebaum, hospital emergency room head, and his daughter Nava, on the eve of her wedding
By Charlie Summers
Crowd greets Palestinian prisoners after being released from Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)
February 23, 2025, 12:07 am
Israel delays release of Palestinian security prisoners after hostages freed at propaganda events
Numerous notorious Hamas terrorists slated to be let go, alongside 445 Palestinians detained in Gaza after October 7; longest-serving inmate to be deported
By Charlie Summers
The Israel Prison Service dresses Palestinian prisoners set for release in shirts featuring its logo, a Star of David and the sentence in Arabic: 'We will not forget or forgive,' February 15, 2025. (Israel Prison Service)
February 15, 2025, 1:10 pm
Israel releasing 369 Palestinian prisoners, including 36 serving life terms for terror
Freed detainees dressed in shirts with blue Star of David, writing in Arabic saying we ‘won’t forgive or forget,’ which Gazans then burn; 25, including Ahmed Barghouti, to be deported
By ToI Staff
Ahlam al-Tamimi, during an interview in her home in Amman, Jordan, on March 21, 2017. (AP Photo/ Omar Akour)
February 3, 2025, 2:05 am
Jordan reportedly warns it could extradite Sbarro bombing mastermind to US for trial
In reversal, Amman said to give Hamas one day to find Ahlam Tamimi another home or it will send her stateside, where she is wanted over 2001 Jerusalem attack that killed 16, including 2 Americans
By ToI Staff
People cheer as buses carrying Palestinian prisoners released by Israel arrive in Ramallah in the West Bank on January 25, 2025 (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
January 25, 2025, 5:38 pm
Parades in West Bank, chants in Gaza, Hamas flags in East Jerusalem as terrorists freed
Palestinian crowds hail terror group as Israel frees 200 inmates, including 121 serving life for attacks that killed dozens; one prisoner refuses to leave jail for Gaza, is swapped
By ToI Staff
Emergency services at the scene of a suicide bombing inside Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant, Thursday, August 9, 2001. Sixteen people were killed, and 130 injured. (Courtesy)
November 26, 2024, 4:33 pm
Court puts PA on the hook for huge sums in compensation, damages for terror attacks
Jerusalem District Court has ruled PA must pay NIS 46 million to heirs of 3 Sbarro bombing victims due to stipends it pays to terrorists; and hundreds more suits have been filed
By Jeremy Sharon
Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal at a rally in Hamas's honor in Cape Town, South Africa, October 21, 2015. (AFP/Rodger Bosch)
August 29, 2024, 4:38 am
Top Hamas official Mashaal urges resumption of suicide bombings against Israel
Speaking in Istanbul, Khaled Mashaal says Israel must be met with ‘open conflict,’ calls on Palestinians to join ‘actual resistance against the Zionist entity’
By ToI Staff
A novel written by Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji, titled "A Mask, the Color of the Sky," written while serving three life sentences in an Israeli jail for assisting in a deadly 2004 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)
April 29, 2024, 4:54 am
Palestinian jailed for assisting in deadly 2004 suicide bombing wins top book prize
Convicted of helping terrorist in Tel Aviv market attack that killed 3 in Second Intifada, Basim Khandaqji gets 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for novel written in custody
By AFP and ToI Staff
Metzada Ze'evi, daughter of former tourism minister and IDF general Rehavam Ze'evi who was assassinated by Palestinian gunmen in 2001, on February 9, 2024. (Channel 12 news screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 10, 2024, 7:14 pm
Daughter of minister slain by terrorists backs freeing his killer for a hostage deal
Metzada Ze’evi, whose father Rehavam was murdered in 2001, says Ahmad Saadat should be flown ‘to the hell of Gaza’ if it helps bring back Israeli captives
By ToI Staff
An Israeli soldier gestures from the turret of a Merkava battle tank, as it deploys along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on October 13, 2023 (Aris MESSINIS / AFP)
October 16, 2023, 5:57 am
Hamas does not yet understand the depth of Israeli resolve
Israelis have been hounded by terror whether pursuing peace or rejecting it. After October 7, there is no tolerating a group whose sole strategy is brutality and mass murder
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Paramedics and police at the scene of a Palestinian suicide-bombing that killed 19 and injuring 74 on a bus in Jerusalem, June 18, 2002. (Flash90)
September 30, 2023, 8:37 am
US pro-Palestinian group lauds Second Intifada that ‘renewed flame of resistance’
ADL slams National Students for Justice in Palestine’s post hailing ‘armed struggle,’ says ‘celebration of this period is further evidence of their hateful anti-Zionist agenda’
By ToI Staff
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