Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing

Infobox terrorist attack
title=Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing


caption=The wreckage of the bus after the bombing
location=Haifa
target=bus
date=March 5 2003
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time-end=
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type=suicide attack
fatalities=17
injuries=53
perps=Hamas

The Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by Palestinian group Hamas. It occurred on March 5, 2003 when a Hamas member from Hebron detonated a bomb hidden underneath his clothes on a bus carrying many children and teenagers on their way back home from school. The bus exploded on Moria Ave., near the neighborhood of Carmeliya, in Haifa. 17 people lost their lives, and 53 were wounded.

Fatalities

*Anatoly Biryakov, 20, from Haifa
*Asaf Tzur, 16, from Haifa
*Avigail Lietel, 14, from Haifa
*Be'eri Ovad, 21 , from Rosh Pina
*Daniel Harush, 16 , from Safed
*Elizabeth (Liz) Katzman, 17, from Haifa
*Eliyahu Laham, 22, from Haifa
*Kmer Abu Khamed, 12, from Daliyat al Karmel
*Mark Takash, 54, from Haifa
*Meital Katav, 20, from Haifa
*Miriam Atar, 27, from Haifa
*Moran Shushan, 20, from Haifa
*Motti Hershko, 41, from Haifa
*Smadar Firstatter, 17, from Haifa
*Tal Kehrmann, 17, from Haifa
*Tom Hershko, 16, from Haifa, and his father
*Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa

ee also

*List of Hamas suicide attacks

External links

* [http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2004/1/Suicide%20bombing%20of%20Egged%20bus%20No%2037%20in%20Haifa%20-%205-Ma Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs]
* [http://www.take-a-pen.org/english/Articles/Art04102003.htm Children as victims of Palestinian terror]
* [http://www.tal-smile.com/BusGalery/index.htm Pictures of the bus after the attack]
* [http://www.liz17.com Memorial site of Liz Katzman]
* [http://www.tal-smile.com Memorial site of Tal Khermann]