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Events on Friday 10 May 2002 1
2002Passover massacre and Operation Defensive ShieldIsrael launches its largest West Bank offensive since 1967A Hamas suicide bomber killed 30 people at a Passover meal in a Netanya hotel on 27 March 2002, the deadliest attack of the Second Intifada. Two days later Israel began Operation Defensive Shield, reoccupying West Bank cities and besieging Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah. Heavy fighting in the Jenin refugee camp became the subject of lasting dispute.