2002 January 17 A gunman belonging to the al-Aqsa Brigades shoots dead six people and wounds 30 others at a Jewish girl's bat mitzvah party in the northern Israeli town of Hadera. The military wing of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) threaten to assassinate Yasser Arafat and his aides if they do not release PFLP leader Ahmed Saadat, who Arafat had arrested. Israel accuses Saadat of being behind the killing in October of the Israeli tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi.