Dolphinarium Discotheque Suicide Bombing

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing was a terrorist attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on June 1, 2001 in which a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a discotheque on a beachfront in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 teenagers and injuring 132. Suicide bomber Saeed Hotari blew himself up at the entrance to the disco about 23:30 on a Saturday night, when the area was packed with youngsters waiting for admission. It was the second attack in five months on the same target. Survivors of the attack later described how the young Palestinian bomber appeared to taunt his victims before the explosion, wandering among them dressed in clothes that led some to mistake him for an orthodox Jew from Asia, and banging a drum packed with explosives and ball bearings, while repeating the words in Hebrew: "Something's going to happen". Both Islamic Jihad and a group calling itself Hizbullah-Palestine originally claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing, only to later retract the claims.