The Ramat Gan bus bombing was a
Hamas suicide attack on a crowded No. 20 commuter bus in
Ramat Gan
Ramat Gan ( he, רָמַת גַּן or , ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of the municipality of Tel Aviv and part of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. It is home to one of the world's major diamond exchanges, and man ...
,
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
on July 24, 1995, near the
Israel Diamond Exchange
Israel Diamond Exchange Ltd., located in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel, is the world's largest diamond exchange and the centre of Israel's diamond industry. The exchange is a private company that incorporates about 3100 memb ...
. Six Israelis were killed and 33 were wounded. The bomb contained 33 pounds of TNT packed into a metal pipe.
The perpetrators
Just after 9:00 A.M., a call came in to the
Associated Press
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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"
[
Katz, 190-191]
See also
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Palestinian political violence
Palestinian political violence refers to acts of violence perpetrated for political ends in relation to the State of Palestine or in connection with Palestinian nationalism. Common political objectives include self-determination in and sovere ...
References
External links
Bus attack may speed up peace talks with PalestiniansRemarks by Prime Minister Rabin on Israel Radio and Television on Ramat Gan attack, 24 July 1995.
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