Shortly before 13:00 on Thursday, 19 September 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the front part of a crowded bus in the heart Tel Aviv's business district.

[3]The Israeli government accused Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian leadership of involvement in the Second Intifada militancy campaign and in illegal arms trafficking.

After an emergency meeting of the security cabinet, convened in wake of the bombing, Israel launched a military operation in the West Bank in which tanks and armored vehicles began a siege on the compound of Yasser Arafat in Ramallah.

Jesner sustained a critical head injury, and his parents signed their consent to detaching him from life support and donating his organs.

[7][8] The story was widely reported due to the circumstances and Jesner's organ being donated to a child on the opposite side of the conflict.