Ramat Gan bus bombing
1995 suicide attack
32°05′03″N 34°48′12″E / 32.08417°N 34.80333°E / 32.08417; 34.80333
c. 8:40 am (GMT+2)
Attack type
The Ramat Gan bus bombing was a Hamas suicide attack on a crowded No. 20 commuter bus in Ramat Gan, Israel on July 24, 1995, near the Israel Diamond Exchange. Six Israelis were killed and 33 were wounded. The bomb contained 15 kilograms (33 lb) of TNT packed with nails into a metal pipe.[1]
The perpetrator
Just after 9:00 am, a call came in to the Associated Press office in East Jerusalem claiming responsibility for the attack. The caller boasted that a youth from Hamas from the Yahya Ayyash group from the West Bank carried out the attack" [2][3]
See also
- Palestinian political violence
References
- ^ 1992-1995: A chronology of events, Edward F. Mickolus and Susan L. Simmons, p.845
- ^ Katz, Samuel (2002). The Hunt for the Engineer. Lyons Press. ISBN 1585747491. Katz, 190-191
- ^ "BOMBING OF TEL AVIV BUS KILLS 5 ISRAELIS, INJURES 33". Washington Post. 2024-01-06. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
External links
- Bus attack may speed up peace talks with Palestinians
- Remarks by Prime Minister Rabin on Israel Radio and Television on Ramat Gan attack, 24 July 1995.
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Prominent political violence against Israelis in the history of the Arab–Israeli conflict – the 1990s
- Cairo bus attack (February 4)
- Assassination of Meir Kahane (November 5)
- Ein Netafim ambush (November 26)
- Night of the Pitchforks (February 14)
- Buenos Aires Israeli embassy bombing (March 17)
- Murder of Helena Rapp (May 24)
- Abduction and killing of Nissim Toledano (December 13)
- Mehola Junction bombing (April 16)
- Abduction and killing of Yaron Chen (August 5)
- Afula bus bombing (April 6)
- Hadera bus station bombing (April 13)
- London embassy bombing (July 26)
- Abduction and killing of Nachshon Wachsman (October 14)
- Dizengoff Street bus bombing (October 19)
- Netzarim Junction bicycle bombing (November 11)
- Afula axe attack (November 30)
- Beit Lid bombing (January 22)
- Kfar Darom bus attack (April 9)
- Ramat Gan bus bombing (July 24)
- Jerusalem bus 26 bombing (August 21)
- First Jaffa Road bus bombing (February 25) ‡
- Second Jaffa Road bus bombing (March 3)
- Dizengoff Center bombing (March 4)
- Murder of Yaron and Efrat Ungar (June 9)
- Island of Peace massacre (March 13)
- Café Apropo bombing (March 21)
- Mahane Yehuda bombings (July 30)
- Ben Yehuda Street bombing (September 4)
Attacks launched from the West Bank Attacks launched from the Gaza Strip Attacks launched from Lebanon Attacks launched from Jordan Attacks launched from Egypt
‡ indicates the attack which caused the greatest amount of Israeli casualties during the 1990s