Following a 4 October suicide bombing in Maxim restaurant , Haifa , which claimed the lives of 21 Israelis , Israel claimed that Syria and Iran sponsored the Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah , and were responsible for the terrorist attack . The day after the Maxim massacre , IAF warplanes bombed an alleged former Palestinian training base at Ain Saheb , Syria , which had been mostly abandoned since the 1980s . Munitions being stored on the site were destroyed , and a civilian guard was injured
suicide bombing in Maxim restaurant
Maxim restaurant suicide bombing
Second Intifada