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Ramat Eshkol bus bombing 
The attack siteLocation Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel Date August 21, 1995
7:45 am (GMT+2)Attack type suicide bombings Death(s) 4 civilians and one police officer (+1 bomber) Injured 100 + mostly policemen Perpetrator(s) Hamas claimed responsibility The Ramat Eshkol bus bombing was a Hamas suicide attack on a city bus in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel on August 21, 1995.
The Palestinian Islamist militant organization Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
The attack
Using a bomb designed by Yahya Ayyash, a Palestinian female suicide bomber detonated herself at 7:45 am as a commuter bus passed through Ramat Eshkol. [1] Six people (including the bomber) were killed and more than one hundred were wounded. Most 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 who was visiting Israel to gather material for her classes on Israeli history.[2]
Fatalities
The following people died in the attack:[3]
- Rivka Cohen, 26, of Jerusalem[4]
- Hannah Naeh, 56, of Jerusalem[5]
- Joan Davenney, 46, of Connecticut[6]
- Police Chief Superintendent Noam Eisenman, 35, of Jerusalem[7]
- Yona Peter Malina, 38 - severely wounded during the attack. He died of huis injuries on May 30, 2005.[8]
References
- ^ Katz, Samuel, The Hunt for the Engineer, Lyons Press, 2002, ISBN 1-58574-749-1, 197-198
- ^ Bus bombing kills five in Jerusalem; 100 are wounded
- ^ "Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles". MFA. 24 Sep 2000. http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+before+2000/Fatal+Terrorist+Attacks+in+Israel+Since+the+DOP+-S.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
- ^ Rivka Cohen (Hebrew)
- ^ Hannah Naeh (Hebrew)
- ^ Joan Davenney (Hebrew)
- ^ http://www.ezy.co.il/uploads/168/19950821%2026%202.JPG
- ^ Yona Peter Malina (Hebrew)
Prominent terrorist attacks against Israeli targets in the history of the Arab–Israeli conflict – the 1990s 1990 Assassination of Meir Kahane (November 5)1992 Night of the Pitchforks (February 14) – Attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires (March 17) – Murder of Helena Rapp (May 24)1993 Mehola Junction bombing (April 16) – Murder of Yaron Chen (August 5)1994 Afula Bus suicide bombing (April 6) – Hadera central station suicide bombing (April 13) – Attack on the Israeli embassy in London (July 26) – Kidnapping of Nachshon Wachsman (October 14) – Dizengoff Street bus bombing (October 19) – Netzarim Junction bicycle bombing (November 11) – Afula axe attack (November 30)1995 Beit Lid massacre (January 22) – Kfar Darom bus attack (April 9) – Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing (July 24) – Jerusalem bus 26 bombing (August 21)1996 First Jerusalem bus 18 suicide bombing (February 25) ‡ – Second Jerusalem bus 18 suicide bombing (March 3) – Dizengoff Center suicide bombing (March 4)1997 Island of Peace massacre (March 13) – Café Apropo bombing (March 21) – Mahane Yehuda Market Bombings (July 30) – Ben Yehuda Street Bombing (September 4)‡ indicates the terrorist attack which caused the greatest amount of Israeli casualties during the 1990s
1980s
Full list of Palestinian suicide attacks • Full list of Lebanese rocket attacks on Israel
2000sCategories:- Palestinian suicide bomber attacks against buses
- Terrorism in Jerusalem
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- History of Jerusalem
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