Word: scopus
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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MIDDLE EAST Death Comes Even to the Safe Places A bomb planted by Islamic militants devastated a crowded cafeteria at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, killing seven people (of whom five were U.S. citizens) and wounding more than 80. The Mount Scopus campus had been one of the few places in which Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs still mixed, and students had felt safe there. Hamas said the attack was revenge for the assassination of one of its leaders, and the deaths of 14 other people, in Gaza. In response, Israel sent tanks and troops into Nablus...
...caption should have more precisely explained the situation shown in the photograph: "Israeli right-wing student activists hold up their hands, painted in red as a symbol of bloodshed, at a demonstration supporting the cancellation of chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat's lecture at the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem...