Ramat Gan bus bombing

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 33 pounds of TNT packed into a metal pipe.[1]

Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing
Attack site
LocationAbba Hillel Street, Ramat Gan, Israel
DateJuly 24, 1995
8:40 am (GMT+2)
Attack type
Suicide attack
Deaths6 Israeli civilians (+ 1 suicide bomber)
Injured30 Israeli civilians
PerpetratorsHamas claimed responsibility

Fatalities
  • Mordechai Tuvya, 38
  • Nechama Leibowitz, 61
  • Zehava Oren, 60
  • Rachel Tamari, 65
  • Moshe Shkedi, 75
  • Zvia Hacohen, 62.[2]

The perpetrators

Just after 9:00 A.M., 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" [3]

gollark: Maybe I should run anti-nobody adverts on osmarks internet radio™ to gather popular support.
gollark: Refusing to provide people the information necessary to make informed choices about privacy or whatever when you gather it so that you can indulge your bizarre habit isn't very good *either*.
gollark: Which is also pretty bad.
gollark: > Would you have if you didn't run out of infodata?> no.
gollark: Well, you seem to *generally* not stop if asked, you said so.

See also

References
  1. 1992-1995: A chronology of events, Edward F. Mickolus and Susan L. Simmons, p.845
  2. 1992-1995: A chronology of events, Edward F. Mickolus and Susan L. Simmons, p.845
  3. Katz, Samuel (2002). The Hunt for the Engineer. Lyons Press. ISBN 1585747491. Katz, 190-191
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