[35][36][37] 71% of Palestinians polled about the tournament approved of naming it in honor of the bomber. [38] See also List of massacres in Israel List of terrorist incidents, 2002 List of Hamas suicide attacks Battle of Jenin (2002) Israeli casualties of war Palestinian political violence References ^ Sources describing the incident as the "Passover massacre": "Alleged Passover massacre plotter arrested", CNN, 26 March 2008. Ohad Gozani, "Hotel blast survivors relive the Passover massacre", The Daily Telegraph, 29 March 2002. "This reached a peak following the Passover massacre in the seaside resort of Netanya...
[31] Nasser Yatiya was released in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange in 2011. Muhammad Taher, who prepared the explosive charges, was killed in a clash with Israeli Shayetet 13 naval commandos in June 2003. On 26 March 2008 Hamas commander Omar Jabar, suspected of helping organize the attack, was arrested in Tulkarem by IDF troops of the Nahshon Battalion. [32] In March 2013 he was convicted over his role and sentenced to 30 years in prison. [33] In September 2009, Muhammad Harwish, a senior Hamas militant and a planner of the Passover Massacre, was arrested by the Border Police's elite Yamam counter-terror squad in his home village along with an aide, Adnan Samara. [34] Soccer Championship tournament In 2003, the Palestinian Authority sponsored a soccer tournament, Tulkarm Shahids Memorial Soccer Championship Tournament of the Shahid Abd Al-Baset Odeh [ar], describing the perpetrator as a "shahid" ("martyr").
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