Protests began when Ariel Sharon visited Temple Mount in the Old City Jerusalem with 1,000 Israeli police in what Palestinians saw as a blatant attempt to provoke them.
[citation needed] Badran took part in orchestrating the 2001 bombing of Sbarro Pizza in Jerusalem,[6] which led to the death of 15 Israelis and injured 130 others.
The attack, which took place on August 9 at 2:00pm, was carried out by a lone suicide bomber who transported an explosive device, enhanced with screws and nails, in a guitar case and entered the crowded restaurant filled with mothers and children.
[7] Just before midnight on Friday June 1, a suicide bomber stood in line with a large group of teenagers waiting to get inside a disco.
[8][citation needed] On March 27, 2002 a suicide bomber entered the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya where 250 guests were celebrating the Passover Holiday.
[citation needed] On March 31, 2002, in the crowded Matza restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, a suicide bomber set off an explosion, killing himself and at least 14 other people.
[3] According to the IDF, Badran has been active in sending money transfers totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars to Palestine in an effort to fund the Hamas terror network in and around Nablus in the Northern West Bank.