High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Hebrew University massacre was a Hamas terror attack which occurred on 31 July 2002 in a cafeteria at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The attack killed 9 people, mainly American students, and injured about 100. It was carried out by an East Jerusalem-based Hamas cell whose members are serving multiple life sentences in Israeli prisons for that attack and others.