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Hadera bus station suicide bombing

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Deaths
  
5 (+1 suicide bomber)

Start date
  
April 13, 1994

Attack type
  
Suicide attack

Non-fatal injuries
  
30

Location
  
Hadera, Israel

Location
  
Hadera

Hadera bus station suicide bombing

Perpetrators
  
One Palestinian suicide bomber (Amar Salah Diab Amarna). Hamas claimed responsibility.

Similar
  
Dizengoff Street bus bombing, 1997 Mahane Yehuda, 1994 London Israeli Em, Jaffa Road bus bombings, Ben Yehuda Street bo

The Hadera bus station suicide bombing was a 1994 Hamas suicide attack on a passenger bus departing from the central bus station in Hadera for Tel Aviv, Israel. Six were killed and 30 injured. The attack came exactly one week after another Hamas attack, the Afula Bus suicide bombing. Both attacks were motivated officially by Hamas as retribution for the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre conducted against Muslim worshippers in February by Baruch Goldstein. The attack took place on the Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day.

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 Ya'bad in the West Bank, was selected for the mission.

On the morning of April 13, 1994, Amarna boarded the 9:30 AM bus to Tel Aviv. At 9:40 AM, as the bus was pulling out of the station, Amarna 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.

As Israeli rescue workers converged on the scene of the explosion, a second pipe bomb exploded. Hamas later claimed responsibility for the attack.

Fatalities

References

Hadera bus station suicide bombing Wikipedia