Solved case · 1994
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A 1994 Hamas suicide bombing on a bus departing Hadera's central bus station for Tel Aviv killed five civilians and injured 30.
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Suggest coverage for Hadera bus station suicide bombingOn April 13, 1994, a suicide bombing occurred on a passenger bus departing the central bus station in Hadera, Israel, bound for Tel Aviv. Five civilians were killed and 30 others were injured in the attack. The attack occurred on the Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day.
The bombing came exactly one week after another Hamas bus suicide bombing in Afula. According to Hamas's stated rationale at the time, both attacks were carried out as retribution for the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, in which Baruch Goldstein killed Muslim worshippers in February of that year.
The explosive device used in the attack was built by Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash, using approximately two kilograms of home-made acetone peroxide explosive. The individual selected to carry out the bombing was Amar Salah Diab Amarna, a 21-year-old from Ya'bad in the West Bank.
On the morning of the attack, Amarna boarded the 9:30 am bus to Tel Aviv. At approximately 9:40 am, as the bus was pulling out of the station, he placed the bag containing the bomb on the floor of the bus — positioned so that shrapnel could strike the groin area, where major arteries are located — and detonated it.
As Israeli rescue workers arrived at the scene of the explosion, a second pipe bomb detonated. Hamas subsequently claimed responsibility for the attack.
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre occurs; Hamas later cites this as motivation for the Hadera and Afula bombings.
A Hamas bus suicide bombing occurs in Afula, one week before the Hadera bombing.
A suicide bomber detonates a bomb aboard a bus departing Hadera's central bus station for Tel Aviv at approximately 9:40 am, killing five civilians and injuring 30. A second pipe bomb detonates as rescue workers arrive at the scene. Hamas later claims responsibility.
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Identified by Wikipedia as the 21-year-old suicide bomber from Ya'bad, West Bank, who carried out the bombing; killed in the attack, not subject to prosecution.[2]
Identified by Israeli authorities as responsible for the attack; he was the Hamas bomb-maker who built the device used in the 1994 Hadera bus station bombing. He was assassinated by Shin Bet via a booby-trapped mobile phone on 5 January 1996, before ever being prosecuted.[2]
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