Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing

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Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing
Location Jabotinsky Street, Ramat Gan, Israel
Date July 24, 1995
8:40 AM – (UTC+2)
Attack type Suicide attack
Deaths 5
Injured 30
Perpetrator(s) Hamas

The Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing was a 1995 Hamas suicide attack against Israel. [1]

"Just after 9:00 A.M., a call came in to the Associated Press office in East Jerusalem claiming responsibility for the attack, boasting that 'Youth from Hamas from the Yehiya Ayyash group from the West Bank carried out the attack" [2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Katz, 190-191
  2. ^ Katz, 191

[edit] References

  • Katz, Samuel (2002). The Hunt for the Engineer. Lyons Press. ISBN 1585747491. 

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