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watch One-Minute World News Last Updated: Saturday, 4 October,
2003, 22:11 GMT 23:11 UK Eyewitness: 'Dead children and babies'
Israeli Police and forensics experts stand outside the Maxim
restaurant, Haifa, 4 October 2003 The restaurant was popular
with both Jews and Arabs Witnesses have described a scene of
carnage in a Haifa restaurant after the suicide bomber struck on
Saturday.  At least three children were among the 19 Israelis
killed in the attack, which also left up to 50 people injured.
The attack - claimed by Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad
- ripped apart a popular seafront restaurant where Jews and
Arabs had worked together and lived together for decades.  The
Maxim restaurant, run jointly by a Christian Arab and a Jewish
family, was packed with families having lunch when the female
suicide bomber from the West Bank town of Jenin blew herself up.
"Suddenly we heard a tremendous explosion. We saw smoke pour out
of the restaurant,