Jerusalem terror assault sufferer dies after 22 years in coma

A girl has died greater than twenty years after a terror assault left her in a coma.

Hana Nachenberg was 31 and eating at a Jerusalem pizza restaurant together with her three-year-old daughter when a Palestinian suicide bomber walked in and blew himself up.

Fifteen others, together with eight kids, have been additionally killed within the assault, which befell on 9 August 2001.

Some 120 folks have been injured, though Ms Nachenberg’s daughter was unharmed.

According to a report in French newspaper Le Figaro, dozens of individuals attended Ms Nachenberg’s funeral on Thursday, a day after she died at a hospital in Tel Aviv.

Her father instructed the Ynet information website she had “passed away after 22 years of heroism”.

He mentioned she had by no means regained consciousness after the assault, however had been on account of flip 53 subsequent month.

Meanwhile, the household of an Israeli-American woman killed within the assault is attempting to get Jordan to ship the attacker’s confederate to the US for trial.

Ahlam Tamimi was convicted by an Israeli courtroom of selecting the goal and guiding the bomber to the restaurant.

She was given 16 life sentences however was launched as a part of a prisoner swap with the Hamas militant group in 2011, being despatched to Jordan, the place she now lives freely.

The US has charged her with conspiring to make use of a weapon of mass destruction towards Americans, and her identify is on the FBI’s record of most wished terrorists.