Tel-Aviv central bus station massacre

Tel-Aviv central bus station massacre
Part of the Second Intifada militancy campaign

The attack site


The attack site
Location Tel-Aviv, Israel
Date January 5, 2003
Attack type suicide bombing
Deaths 23 Israeli civilians (+ 2 suicide bombers)
Injured 100+ Israeli civilians
Perpetrator(s) Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Tel-Aviv central bus station massacre was a terrorist attack which occurred on January 5, 2003 in which two Palestinian suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station in Tel-Aviv, Israel, killing 23 civilians and injuring over 100.

After the attack, the Islamist Palestinian militant organization Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

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The attack

On Sunday, 5 January 5 2003, two Palestinian suicide bombers blew themselves up within 500 meters from each other, only 30 seconds apart, in a crowded area in central Tel Aviv outside the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station. 23 civilians were killed in the attack and more than a 100 were injured.

Fatalities

  • Staff Sgt. Mazal Orkobi, 20, of Azor[1]
  • Mordechai Evioni, 52, of Holon[2]
  • Moshe (Maurice) Aharfi, 60, of Tel-Aviv[3]
  • Igor Zobokov, 32, of Bat Yam[4]
  • Lilya Zibstein, 33, of Haifa[5]
  • Amiram Zmora, 55, of Holon[6]
  • Meir Haim, 74, of Azor[7]
  • Hannah Haimov, 53, of Tel Aviv[8]
  • Boris Tepalshvili, 51, of Yehud[9]
  • Sapira Shoshana Yulzari-Yaffe, 46, of Bat Yam[10]
  • Ramin Nasibov, 25, of Tel-Aviv[11]
  • Ilanit Peled, 32, of Azor[12]
  • Andrei Friedman, 30, of Tel-Aviv[13]
  • Avi Kotzer, 43, of Bat Yam[14]
  • Viktor Shebayev, 62, of Holon[15]
  • Ion (Nelu) Nicolae, 34, of Romania[16]
  • Mihai Sabau, 38, of Romania[17]
  • Li Peizhong, 41, of China[18]
  • Steven Arthur Cromwell, 43, of Ghana[19]
  • Krassimir Mitkov Angelov, 32, of Bulgaria[20]
  • Ivan Gaptoniak, 46, of Ukraine[21]
  • Guo Aiping, 47, of China[22]
  • Zhang Minmin, 50, of China – died of her injuries on January 13, 2003.[23]

The perpetrators

After the attack the Al-Jazeera network stated that the Palestinian militant organization Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack and said that the perpetrators were Boraq Abdel Rahman Halfa and Saber al-Nour from the city of Nablus in the West Bank.

References

  1. ^ Staff Sgt. Mazal Orkobi
  2. ^ Mordechai Evioni
  3. ^ Moshe -Maurice- Aharfi
  4. ^ Igor Zobokov
  5. ^ Lilya Zibstein
  6. ^ Amiram Zmora
  7. ^ Meir Haim
  8. ^ Hannah Haimov
  9. ^ Boris Tepalshvili
  10. ^ Sapira Shoshana Yulzari-Yaffe
  11. ^ Ramin Nasibov
  12. ^ Ilanit Peled
  13. ^ Andrei Friedman
  14. ^ Avi Kotzer
  15. ^ Viktor Shebayev
  16. ^ Ion Nicolae
  17. ^ Mihai Sabau
  18. ^ Li Peizhong
  19. ^ Steven Arthur Cromwell
  20. ^ Krassimir Mitkov Angelov
  21. ^ Ivan Gaptoniak
  22. ^ Guo Aiping
  23. ^ Zhang Minmin

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