Speaking on Al Jazeera in May 2001 , Daqamseh 's mother said , " I am proud of my son , and I hold my head high . My son did a heroic deed and has pleased god and his own conscience . My son lifts my head and the head of the entire Arab and Islamic nation . I am proud of any Muslim who does what Ahmad did . I hope that I am not saying something wrong . When my son went to prison , they asked him : ' Ahmad , do you regret it ? ' He answered : ' I have no regrets . ' He treated everyone to coffee , honored all the other prisoners , and said : The only thing that I am angry about is the gun , which did not work properly . Otherwise I would have killed all of the passengers on the bus . " The attack carried a resemblance to an incident where an Israeli Army clerk fired on a group of Palestinians in the Hebron vegetable market on 1 January 1997 , wounding seven . He too was found to be mentally unstable by the Israeli authorities . Other media outlets drew parallels with the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre , where an Israeli Army reserve captain killed 29 and injured 125 in a Hebron mosque
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
Island of Peace massacre