Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing

Infobox terrorist attack
title=Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing


caption=
location=Jabotinsky Street, Ramat Gan, Israel
target=
date=July 24, 1995
time-begin=8:40 AM
time-end=
timezone=UTC+2
type=Suicide attack
fatalities=5
injuries=30
perps=Hamas, unnamed operative

The Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing was a 1995 Hamas suicide attack against Israel. [Katz, 190-191]

"Just after 9:00 A.M., a call came in to the Associated Press office in East Jerusalem claiming responsibility for the attack, boasting that 'Youth from Hamas from the Yehiya Ayyash group from the West Bank carried out the attack" [Katz, 191]

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* [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/21154/edition_id/24/format/html/displaystory.html Bus attack may speed up peace talks with Palestinians]
* [http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Foreign%20Relations/Israels%20Foreign%20Relations%20since%201947/1995-1996/Remarks%20by%20Prime%20Minister%20Rabin%20on%20Israel%20Radio%20an Remarks by Prime Minister Rabin on Israel Radio and Television on Ramat Gan attack, 24 July 1995.]