1982 Berlin restaurant bombing

1982 Berlin restaurant bombing
1982 Berlin restaurant bombing
Location	West Berlin, West Germany
Date	15 January 1982
Attack type	Bombing
Weapons	IED
Deaths	1
Injured	46

On 15 January 1982, a bomb exploded in the Jewish Mifgash-Israel restaurant in West Berlin, West Germany, killing a child and wounding 46 people.^[1]^[2] Responsibility was claimed by Palestinian nationalists under the names "People's Federation for a Free Palestine" and the "Arab May 15 Organization for the Liberation of Palestine" in two separate claims.^[3] Six Palestinian suspected members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) were detained by police but released.^[3] Mohammed Rashid of the 15 May Organization who led the bombing of Pan Am Flight 830 on 11 August 1982 later reportedly provided information to investigators about the attack.^[4] Yehuda Zvi Blum, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, said that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was responsible for the attack.^[5]

References

^ "Terrorist Incidents against Jewish Communities and Israeli Citizens Abroad, 1968-2003". International Institute for Counter-Terrorism. 20 December 2003. Archived from the original on 26 March 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
^ Rubin, Barry; Rubin, Judith Colp (2015). Chronologies of Modern Terrorism. Routledge. p. 196. ISBN 9781317474654.
^ ^a ^b "Berlin Police Question 6 Palestinians on Blast". The New York Times. 17 January 1982.
^ "Airline bomber convicted in 1982 Pan Am attack set to be released from federal prison". NY Daily News. AP. 16 March 2013.
^ Herf, Jeffrey (2016). Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989. Cambridge University Press. p. 407. ISBN 9781107089860.

[1] "Terrorist Incidents against Jewish Communities and Israeli Citizens Abroad, 1968-2003". International Institute for Counter-Terrorism. 20 December 2003. Archived from the original on 26 March 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2018.

[2] Rubin, Barry; Rubin, Judith Colp (2015). Chronologies of Modern Terrorism. Routledge. p. 196. ISBN 9781317474654.

[NYT-3] "Berlin Police Question 6 Palestinians on Blast". The New York Times. 17 January 1982.

[4] "Airline bomber convicted in 1982 Pan Am attack set to be released from federal prison". NY Daily News. AP. 16 March 2013.

[5] Herf, Jeffrey (2016). Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989. Cambridge University Press. p. 407. ISBN 9781107089860.

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v t e Prominent Palestinian militancy attacks in the 1980s
Within Israel	Misgav Am hostage crisis¹ (April 7, 1980) Murder of Danny Katz (December 8, 1983) Egged bus 300 hostage crisis² (April 12, 1984) Night of the Gliders¹ (November 25, 1987) Mothers' Bus attack³ (March 7, 1988) Kidnapping and murder of Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon² (February 16, 1989) Death of Binyamin Meisner² (February 24, 1989) Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack² (July 6, 1989)
Worldwide	Antwerp summer camp attack (July 28, 1980) Paris synagogue bombing (October 3, 1980) Norfolk Hotel bombing (December 31, 1980) Vienna synagogue attack (August 29, 1981) Antwerp synagogue bombing (October 20, 1981) Berlin restaurant bombing (January 15, 1982) Assassination attempt of the Israeli ambassador in London (June 3, 1982) Goldenberg restaurant attack (August 9, 1982) Pan Am Flight 830 (August 11, 1982) Great Synagogue of Rome attack (October 19, 1982) Frankfurt airport bombing (June 19, 1985) Madrid airline office attacks (July 1, 1985) Kuwait City bombings (July 11, 1985) Copenhagen bombings (July 22, 1985) Rome Café de Paris attack (September 16, 1985) Achille Lauro hijacking (October 7, 1985) Rome and Vienna airport attacks (December 27, 1985) Pan Am Flight 73 hijacking (September 5, 1986) Neve Shalom Synagogue attack (September 6, 1986) City of Poros ship attack (July 11, 1988) Nicosia Israeli Embassy bombing (May 11, 1988) Khartoum attacks (May 15, 1988)
¹ Attacks launched from Lebanon ² Attacks launched from the Gaza Strip ³ Attacks launched from Egypt 1970s 1990s

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