Solved case · 1995
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A Hamas suicide bombing on a city bus in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of East Jerusalem on August 21, 1995, killed five people, including the bomber, and wounded more than one hundred others.
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Suggest coverage for Ramat Eshkol bus bombingOn the morning of August 21, 1995, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device aboard a commuter bus passing through the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of East Jerusalem. The attack occurred at approximately 7:45 a.m., a time when the bus was carrying many passengers on their way to work or study, including policemen heading to national police headquarters and summer students traveling to the Mount Scopus campus of Hebrew University.
The bombing killed five people, including the bomber, and wounded more than one hundred others. The Palestinian Islamist militant organization Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. According to available reporting, the explosive device used in the bombing was designed by Yahya Ayyash, and the suicide bomber has been identified as Sufian Jabarin.
Among those killed was an American teacher from Connecticut who had traveled to Israel to gather material for classes she taught on Israeli history. Another victim was left paralyzed from the neck down as a result of injuries sustained in the attack. This individual remained dependent on a respirator for the remainder of his life and died in 2005, a decade after the bombing.
The attack took place against a backdrop of a wave of suicide bombings attributed to Hamas and other militant groups in Israel during the mid-1990s, a period marked by ongoing violence connected to the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device on a commuter bus in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of East Jerusalem at approximately 7:45 a.m., killing five people including the bomber and wounding more than one hundred others.
A victim who had been paralyzed from the neck down in the bombing and remained on a respirator died.
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Identified as the suicide bomber who carried out the attack; died in the course of the bombing. No formal legal proceedings are recorded as the individual did not survive the attack.[3]
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