During the 2002 Mombasa attacks , suicide-bomber terrorists struck the entrance of the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel . Fifteen people were killed , three of them Israelis , when a car bomb exploded outside the lobby of the hotel . Terrorists also fired two hand-held rockets at an Israeli airliner , which had just lifted off from Moi International Airport in Mombassa with 264 passengers on board . Israel then evacuated its citizens from Kenya
2002 Mombasa attacks
2002 Mombasa attacks
Israel–Kenya relations