Haifa bus 37 massacre

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The Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing was carried out by Hamas. It occurred on March 5, 2003 when a Hamas member from Hebron detonated a bomb hidden underneath his clothes on a bus carrying many children and teenagers on their way back home from school. The bus exploded on Moria Ave., near the neighborhood of Carmeliya, in Haifa. 17 people lost their lives, and 53 were wounded.

[edit] Fatalities

• Kmer Abu Khamed, 12, from Dalyat al Carmel
• Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa
• Smadar Firstatter, 14, from Haifa
• Avigail Lietel, 14, from Haifa
• Asaf Tzur, 16, from Haifa
• Daniel Harush, 16 , from Safed
• Tom Hershko, 16, from Haifa, and his father-
• Motti Hershko, 41, from Haifa
• Tal Kehrmann, 17, from Haifa
• Elizabeth (Liz) Katzman, 17, from Haifa
• Meital Katav, 20, from Haifa
• Moran Shushan, 20, from Haifa
• Anatoly Biryakov, 20, from Haifa
• Be'eri Ovad, 21 , from Rosh Pina
• Eliyahu Laham, 22, from Haifa
• Miriam Atar, 27, from Haifa
• Mark Takash, 54, from Haifa

[edit] See also

• List of Hamas suicide attacks

[edit] External links

• Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Pictures of the bus after the attack
• Children as victims of Palestinina terror *Memorial site of Liz Katzman
• Memorial site of Tal Khermann