The third HaSharon Mall entrance suicide bombing was a

terror attack Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

carried out on December 5, 2005 in the

HaSharon Mall HaSharon may refer to: *HaSharon Junction, commonly known as Beit Lid Junction, an important road junction in the Sharon region, Israel *HaSharon Park, an Israeli national park See also

*Havatzelet HaSharon, a moshav in central Israel *Hod Ha ...

Netanya Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between Poleg stream and Wingate I ...

, Israel. Five people were killed in the attack. The Palestinian Islamist militant organization Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

The attack

On Monday, 5 December 2005, at around 11:30 am, a Palestinian suicide bomber approached the entrance to the HaSharon Mall in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya; he detonated explosives hidden under his clothes when he approached the guards at the entrance for security inspection. Five people were killed in the attack, and more than 40 injured. The

Palestinian Islamic Jihad The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine ( ar, حركة الجهاد الإسلامي في فلسطين, ''Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn''), known in the West simply as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), is a Palestinian Islamist par ...

claimed responsibility and identified the attacker as Lotfi Abu Saada, from the village of Illar in northern West Bank. In response, Israel killed two senior militants in a Gaza airstrike.Two Gaza militants, one Israeli killed in flare-up
The Star Online, 8 December 2005

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