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Also, the Aboussouans's children did not die, only the parents (the wife was a Lorenzo). The three sons survived. Sami, one of the sons, later wrote his memoirs of the event in an article.
I'm currently researching the incident in depth. Would appreciate any information anyone may have.
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ضحايا التفجير الارهابي: ميري مسعود – جورجيت خوري - محمد صالح أحمد - صبحي الطاهر – عباس عوضين – نظيرة لورينزو – ميري لورينزو – عاشور عبدالرازق جمعة – اسماعيل عبدالعزيز – امبر لورينزو – رؤوف لورينزو وجميع أفراد عائلة أبو صوان من رجال ونساء وأطفال.
Both Abu Suwan and Lorenzo family believed that staying in the Samiramis Hotel would be a safe place during the Zionist gangs attacks on the Qatamon neighborhood and other Arab nearby areas in west Jerusalem in order to control and expel its habitants. Haganah terrorists blew the hotel up with two bombs on January the fifth, 1948. Killing 24 Palestinians, leaving the two families under the collapse of the hotel. This incidence forced the other Palestinian families evacuate their residences to the east side of the city.
The Palestinian victims of the terrorist attack:
Mary Masoud - Georgette Khoury- Subhi El-Taher- Abbas Awadin - Nazira Lorenzo - Mary Lorenzo- Mohammed Saleh Ahmed- Ashur Abed El Razik Juma- Ismail Abed El Aziz- Ambeer Lorenzo- Raof Lorenzo, Abu Suwan family, all members, husband, wife, and their children. Besides those killed, 16 more were wounded, among them women and children.
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