Netanya, The Budapest Sun newspaper reported Thursday April 4, citing Hungarian Embassy officials in Tel Aviv.
The embassy initially estimated that three people of Hungarian descent had died in what Israeli officials have described as the "Passover massacre". However as authorities identified victims in the aftermath of the explosion, the number rose to 15 Hungarian Israeli’s, The Budapest Sun said.
Netanya was established by mainly Hungarian immigrants in the aftermath of World War Two in which an estimated 600,000 Hungarian Jews were killed.
SHOCKED
"The Hungarian Foreign Ministry and public were shocked to hear of the suicide attack on March 27 which killed 21 people and turned the Passover celebration into a period of mourning," said Ministry Spokesman Gabor Horváth, in a statement.
His Ministry "shares the grief of the victims’ families, and rejects such acts in the strongest possible terms." Horváth said that Hungary "resolutely condemns terrorism that kills defenseless people, and considers its explanation with any political reason as unacceptable."
"We expect the Palestinian National Authority to deploy every means at its disposal to take immediate steps to eliminate terrorism," he added.
RESTRAINT
Horváth also urged the Israeli government to "exercise restraint" throughout "these difficult times and not prevent the chance of peace by negotiation."
He stressed that "so many hundreds of deaths have proven that the establishment of peace and a long-term solution to the Middle East crisis is unachievable by a way of terror and violence."
