A woman injured in a suicide attack at a Jerusalem pizzeria dies after 22 years in a coma

June 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –

An Israeli woman who was seriously injured in a suicide attack carried out in a pizzeria in Jerusalem in August 2001, in the middle of the Second Intifada, has died this Thursday after 22 years in a coma, as confirmed by her family.

The woman, Chana Nachenberg, was 31 years old at the time of the attack, which left 15 dead — including seven children — and around 130 injured. Nachenberg’s two-year-old daughter – who has become the sixteenth fatality – was unharmed in the attack, carried out with an explosive that had nails to act as shrapnel.

The victim’s father, Yitzhak, has stressed that his daughter has died “after almost 22 years of heroism.” “His daughter, our granddaughter, is 24 and a half years old now. My daughter should have turned 53 in a month,” he said, as reported by The Times of Israel.

The attack was executed by Izeldín Shuheil al Masri with the collaboration of Ahlam Tamimi, who chose the location of the attack. The woman was sentenced to 16 life sentences, although she was released in 2011 in a prisoner exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

After her release, Tamimi moved to live in Jordan, which has rejected US requests for her to be extradited to the North American country to answer for her responsibility in the attack because several of the victims were Americans. The FBI has placed her on their most wanted list.