Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing

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Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing
Location Haifa
Date March 5, 2003
Attack type suicide attack
Deaths 17
Injured 53
Perpetrator(s) Hamas

The Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by Palestinian group 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 Daliyat al Karmel
  • Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa
  • Smadar Firstatter, 17, 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

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