Ramat Eshkol bus bombing

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Ramat Eshkol bus bombing
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The attack site
Location Ramat Eshkol, Jerusalem
DateAugust 21, 1995 (1995-08-21)
c. 7:45 am (GMT+2)
Attack type
 Suicide bombing
Deaths4 civilians and one police officer (+1 bomber)
Injured100+ (mostly policemen) [1]
Perpetrator Hamas claimed responsibility

A Hamas suicide attack was carried out on a city bus in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of Jerusalem on August 21, 1995. [2] [3]

The Palestinian Islamist militant organization Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. [2] [4]

The attack

Using a bomb designed by Yahya Ayyash, the Palestinian suicide bomber Sufian Jabarin [5] detonated herself at 7:45 am as a commuter bus passed through Ramat Eshkol. [6] Five people (including the bomber) were killed and more than one hundred were wounded. Many of the victims were policemen on their way to work at the national police headquarters and summer students en route to the Mount Scopus campus of Hebrew University. One of the victims was an American teacher from Connecticut [7] who was visiting Israel to gather material for her classes on Israeli history. [2] Another victim was paralyzed from the neck down during the attack and remained attached to a respirator until he died in 2005. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Edgar O'Ballance (27 July 2016). The Palestinian Intifada. Springer. pp. 196–. ISBN   978-1-349-26106-2.
  2. 1 2 3 Schmemann, Serge (22 August 1995). "Bus Bombing Kills Five in Jerusalem; 100 Are Wounded". The New York Times.
  3. ↑ Pedahzur, Ami (2010). The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. Columbia University Press. ISBN   9780231140430.
  4. ↑ Gartman, Eric (2015). Return to Zion: The History of Modern Israel. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN   9780827612457.
  5. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.alqassam.ps. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 August 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ↑ Katz, Samuel, The Hunt for the Engineer, Lyons Press, 2002, ISBN   1-58574-749-1, 197-198
  7. ↑ Mickolus, Edward F.; Simmons, Susan L. (1997). Terrorism, 1992-1995: A Chronology of Events and a Selectively Annotated Bibliography. ABC-CLIO. ISBN   9780313304682.
  8. ↑ "Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles". MFA. 24 September 2000. Retrieved 2011-09-22.

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