Ramat Eshkol bus bombing

The Ramat Eshkol bus bombing was a Hamas suicide attack on a city bus in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel on August 21, 1995.

The Palestinian Islamist militant organization Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

The attack

Using a bomb designed by Yahya Ayyash, a Palestinian female suicide bomber detonated herself at 7:45 am as a commuter bus passed through Ramat Eshkol.^[1] Six people (including the bomber) were killed and more than one hundred were wounded. Most 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 who was visiting Israel to gather material for her classes on Israeli history.^[2]

Fatalities

The following people died in the attack:^[3]

• Rivka Cohen, 26, of Jerusalem^[4]
• Hannah Naeh, 56, of Jerusalem^[5]
• Joan Davenney, 46, of Connecticut^[6]
• Police Chief Superintendent Noam Eisenman, 35, of Jerusalem^[7]
• Yona Peter Malina, 38 - severely wounded during the attack. He died of huis injuries on May 30, 2005.^[8]

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