ON THIS DAY IN 2002, CORBYN'S MATES...

The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade murdered a police officer in a suicide attack in Jerusalem.  The bomber was driving towards the city centre when he was pulled over at a police checkpoint.  It was around 20:45 as the young policeman approached the vehicle and asked the driver for his documents.  It was at this point the terrorist detonated his bomb, killing the 19-year-old and injuring three of his colleagues.

The bomber was thought to be en route to a busy city centre target where his device could have killed many civilians.  The dead policeman was Tomer Mordechai, a trainee sent to reinforce the regular police at the height of the Second Intifada.  His commander gave a eulogy at his funeral: "Your determination, willingness to sacrifice and courage saved the lives of many Israeli citizens.  We resolve to continue in your path, the path of bravery".  Mordechai was buried in his native Tel Aviv, survived by his parents and sister.

Tomer Mordechai

In 2004 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn praised the leader of al-Aqsa in two early day motions in the House of Commons.  He described Marwan Barghouti as an "ambassador of peace", despite Barghouti's conviction for five murders and various other terrorist offences in Israel.

ON THIS DAY IN 2002, CORBYN'S MATES...

The Fatah-linked Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade unleashed the first ever female Palestinian suicide bomber - 28-year-old divorcee Wafa Idris.  She detonated a 22-pound bomb outside a shoe store in the centre of Jerusalem, killing an 81-year-old man and injuring more than 100 others.

Idris had been a volunteer for the Palestine Red Crescent, a humanitarian group.  She had no known previous links to militant groups, but the suicide attack turned her into a cult hero across the Arab world.  A football tournament in the West Bank was later named after her.  Following her death, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs unleashed three more female suicide bombers in the same year.

The elderly man killed in Idris's attack was Pinhas Tokatli, an amateur painter who was on his way home after buying paints.  He left a wife and four children.

Two years after Mr Tokatli's murder, a backbench Labour MP praised Al-Aqsa leader Marwan Barghouti as an "ambassador for peace".  That same year Barghouti was tried and sentenced to five life terms in Israel for various terrorist offences.  That backbench MP was Jeremy Corbyn.  In the years following Barghouti's arrest and incarceration Corbyn supported at least five early day motions in the House of Commons calling for his release.  On his website he referred to Barghouti as an "iconic figure".

Wafa Idris, the first female Palestinian suicide bomber