A day after the attack, Abu Abbas, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Front announced from Beirut that the terrorist attack in Nahariya had been carried out "to protest the signing of the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty" at Camp David the previous year.
Den po útoku prohlásil vůdce Palestinské osvobozenecké fronty Abú Abbás v Bejrútu, že teroristický útok v Nahariji byl proveden „na protest proti podepsání dohod z Camp Davidu“ o rok dříve.