An Israeli woman, wounded in a 2001 Jerusalem bombing, was buried Thursday after spending 22 years in a coma, according to Israeli television footage. Hanna Nachenberg was 31 years old when she was injured in a suicide bombing on 9 August 2001, which killed 15 people (including 8 children) and injured more than 120 others at the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem.
The attack, one of the bloodiest of the second intifada, a Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s, was claimed by Islamic Jihad. Hannah Nachenberg has since been in a coma and was due to celebrate her 53rd birthday in July, according to her father interviewed by the Ynet news site. Hospitalized for three weeks, she died Wednesday night at Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital. "Our daughter passed away after 22 years of heroism," he said.
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Dozens of people attended his funeral on Thursday, according to footage from state broadcaster Kan 11. Hannah's sister spoke of Hannah's daughter, who was with her on the day of the attack. Aged three, she had been miraculously spared.
Interviewed by the Ynet news site, the victim's father said that his daughter, who was due to turn 53 next month, had never regained consciousness and had been hospitalized for three weeks at Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital. In 2017, Jordan refused to extradite a Jordanian woman accused of involvement in the attack and on the FBI's "most wanted terrorists" list. Two U.S. citizens were also killed in the attack.