Decade later, Sbarro attack still haunts victims

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Decade later, Sbarro attack still haunts victims
'Israeli society has repressed attack, but in my family death is inseparable part of life,' says orphan who lost five family members
Omri Efraim
Published: 08.10.11, 12:06 / Israel News




Shvuel Schijveschuurder would not recognize the junction of King George and Jaffa streets in Jerusalem – the scene of the Sbarro terror attack, which claimed the lives of 15 people and injured 132 during the height of the 2001 al-Aqsa intifada.

The Sbarro restaurant is gone, in its place a coffee shop and even a light train rail. But on the 10-year anniversary of the awful attack, Schijveschuurder says he is still haunted by the images of that day. Schijveschuurder was just 17 when a suicide bomber wearing a vest filled with nails waged one of the deadliest terror attacks in Israeli history, killing his parents – Mordechai and Tzira – and three of his brothers and sisters – Hemda, Yitzhak, and Raya.

"I am still in a battle of survival and a battle of the soul, and I don't need anniversaries to remember," Shvuel told Ynet. "It accompanies me all the time. I am like a wounded animal. There was no choice but to go on living, but I am always tight as a spring. There is no calm or quiet. I am also very sad that in the end, the one who did this is a human. God is not responsible for good and evil, it is humans' choice."

To residents of Jerusalem passing through the junction, the attack is a faraway memory best set aside in hopes of better times. "We're not afraid," they said.

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[Ruby the Liberal]

2. Why way that post deleted? It was nothing but photos/ages of the victims im memorial?

:wtf:

[oberliner]

3. From the forum rules: "Do not embed graphics or photographs of any kind into your messages"

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[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Seriously?

Sad - given that it was a -memorial- thread and 5 of 7 family members lost their lives. Regardless of how one feels about the conflict, the barbarianism in this world has GOT to STOP.

Well, I opened a new thread to remember them in context with the others who we would never dare diss in memorium.

*sigh*