Israeli woman seriously wounded in 2001 bomb attack dies

A Israeli woman who was seriously wounded in a suicide bombing in a Jerusalem restaurant in 2001 has died, after spending nearly 22 years in a coma. Her death is the 16th fatality of the attack.

Israel's media reported that Hana Nachenberg, 31, was dining with her three-year-old daughter at the time of the blast. She was in a coma until she died on Wednesday, a medical source said. The mother said her daughter was not hurt in the attack.

Fifty people, including eight children, were killed and more than 120 people were wounded in what was one of the deadliest attacks of the second Palestinian intifada or uprising. The terror attack was later claimed by the Islamic Jihad militant group.

Nachenberg's father, Yitzhak, said that she never regained consciousness and died after being hospitalized for the past three weeks in Tel Aviv.

Our daughter died after 22 years of heroism, he said.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a well-known incident that took place during a time of intense violence between the sides, which was during the second Palestinian intifada or uprising.

The bombing still makes news today. The family of a Jewish-American girl killed in the attacks is waging a campaign to press Jordan, a close American ally, to send a woman convicted of aiding the attacker to the United States for trial.

Ahlam Tamimi, convicted of choosing the target and guiding the bomber there, was sentenced to 16 life sentences. Israel released her in a 2011 prisoner swap with the Hamas militant group, where she lives freely and has been a well-known figure in the media.

Tamimi has been charged by the United States with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. She was added to the list of the most wanted terrorists by the FBI.