Hadera central station suicide bombing

Infobox terrorist attack
title=Hadera central station suicide bombing


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location=Hadera, Israel
target=
date=April 13, 1994
time-begin=9:40 AM
time-end=
timezone=UTC+2
type=Suicide attack
fatalities=6
injuries=30
perps=Hamas, "Operative": Amar Salah Diab Amarna

The Hadera central station suicide bombing was a 1994 Hamas suicide attack against Israel. The attack was exactly one week after Hamas previous attack, the Afula Bus suicide bombing.

Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash built a bomb using two kilograms of home-made acetone peroxide explosive. Twenty-one year old Amar Salah Diab Amarna, a native of Yabed, was selected for the mission. [Katz, 108]

On the morning of April 13, 1994, Amarna boarded the 9:30 bus to Tel Aviv. At 9:40, as the bus was pulling out of the station, Amara placed the bag containing the bomb on the floor of the bus, "where shrapnel could rip through vital arteries in the groin area", and detonated it. [Katz 108-109]

As Israeli rescue workers converged on the scene of the explosion, a second pipe bomb exploded. Hamas later claimed responsibility for the attack [ [http://www.ujc.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=4965 Suicide and Car Bomb Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (September 1993)] ]

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