Ramat Eshkol bus bombing
{{Short description|1995 suicide bombing in Jerusalem, Israel}}
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{{Infobox terrorist attack
| title = Ramat Eshkol bus bombing
| map = {{location map|Israel jerusalem|caption=The attack site}}
| caption =
| location = Ramat Eshkol, Jerusalem
| target =
| date = {{start date|1995|8|21}}
| time = {{circa}} 7:45 am
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| time-end =
| timezone = GMT+2
| type = Suicide bombing
| fatalities = 5 civilians and one police officer (+1 bomber)
| injuries = 107+ (mostly policemen){{cite book|author=Edgar O'Ballance|title=The Palestinian Intifada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nzG_DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA196|date=27 July 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-349-26106-2|pages=196–}}
| perps =
| perpetrator = Hamas claimed responsibility
}}
A Hamas suicide attack was carried out on a city bus in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of Jerusalem on August 21, 1995.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xBt2XShA8rwC&pg=PA103|title=The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism|last=Pedahzur|first=Ami|date=2010|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231140430|language=en}}
The Palestinian Islamist militant organization Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHCPCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT253|title=Return to Zion: The History of Modern Israel|last=Gartman|first=Eric|date=2015|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=9780827612457|language=en}}
The attack
Using a bomb designed by Yahya Ayyash, the Palestinian suicide bomber Sufian Jabarin{{cite web |url=http://www.alqassam.ps/arabic/upload/qassamion_5.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.alqassam.ps |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825092611/http://www.alqassam.ps/arabic/upload/qassamion_5.pdf |archive-date=25 August 2013 |url-status=dead}} detonated herself at 7:45 am as a commuter bus passed through Ramat Eshkol.Katz, Samuel, The Hunt for the Engineer, Lyons Press, 2002, {{ISBN|1-58574-749-1}}, 197-198 Five people (including the bomber) were killed and more than one hundred were wounded. Many of the victims were policemen on their way to work at the national police headquarters and summer students en route to the Mount Scopus campus of Hebrew University. One of the victims was an American teacher from Connecticut{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UIBzCC0c2McC&pg=PA858|title=Terrorism, 1992-1995: A Chronology of Events and a Selectively Annotated Bibliography|last1=Mickolus|first1=Edward F.|last2=Simmons|first2=Susan L.|date=1997|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313304682|language=en}} who was visiting Israel to gather material for her classes on Israeli history.{{cite news|last=Schmemann|first=Serge|title=Bus Bombing Kills Five in Jerusalem; 100 Are Wounded|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/22/world/bus-bombing-kills-five-in-jerusalem-100-are-wounded.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|newspaper=The New York Times|date=22 August 1995}} Another victim was paralyzed from the neck down during the attack and remained attached to a respirator until he died in 2005.{{cite news |url= http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+before+2000/Fatal+Terrorist+Attacks+in+Israel+Since+the+DOP+-S.htm|title = Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles | publisher = MFA| date=24 September 2000 | access-date= 2011-09-22}}
References
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{{Terrorist attacks against Israelis in the 1990s}}
{{Palestinian militancy attacks in the 1990s}}
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Category:Suicide bombings in Jerusalem
Category:Suicide bombings in 1995
Category:Hamas suicide bombings of buses
Category:Terrorist incidents in Asia in 1995
Category:Islamic terrorist incidents in 1995