by IDF troops of the Nahshon Battalion. In March 2013 he was convicted over his role and sentenced to 30 years in prison. In September 2009, Muhammad Harwish, a senior Hamas militant and a planner of the Passover Massacre, was arrested by the Border Police's elite Yamam counter-terror squad in his home village along with an aide, Adnan Samara. Soccer Championship tournament In 2003, the Palestinian Authority sponsored a soccer tournament, Tulkarm Shahids Memorial Soccer Championship Tournament of the Shahid , describing the perpetrator as a "shahid" ("martyr"). 71% of Palestinians polled about the tournament approved of naming it in honor of the bomber. See also List of massacres in Israel List of terrorist incidents, 2002 List of Hamas suicide attacks Battle of Jenin (2002) Israeli casualties of war Palestinian political violence References External links Passover suicide bombing at Park Hotel in Netanya – 27 March 2002 – published at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs "Alleged Passover massacre plotter arrested", CNN, 26 March 2008. "Hotel blast survivors relive the Passover massacre" The Daily Telegraph 29 March 2002 US President George W Bush "This cold blooded killing must stop", 27 March 2002 Israeli Government spokesman Gideon Meir "Palestinian violence knows no boundaries", 27 March 2002 Suicide bombings in 2002 Israeli casualties in the Second Intifada Suicide bombing in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Terrorist incidents in Israel in 2002 Massacres in 2002 Massacres in Israel Massacres in Israel during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Terrorist attacks attributed to Palestinian militant groups Palestinian terrorism March 2002 crimes March 2002 events in Asia Hamas suicide bombings Islamic terrorist incidents in 2002 Islamic terrorism in Israel Passover