The Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing was a terrorist attack on a civilian bus in Haifa by a member of the militant organization Hamas.[1] [edit] Attack The attack occurred on March 5, 2003, when a suicide bomber from Hebron detonated a bomb hidden underneath his clothes on a bus carrying many children and teenagers on their way home from school.[2] The bus exploded on Moriah Boulevard, near the neighborhood of Carmeliya in Haifa. Seventeen people were killed and 53 were wounded.[3] Police said the bomb, strapped to the bomber's body, was laden with metal shrapnel in order to maximize the number of injuries.[4] The bombing followed several weeks of violence in the occupied territories in which more than 40 Palestinians hae been killed in Israeli army incursions into the Gaza Strip.[5] Spokesmen from Hamas and Islamic Jihad praised the attack. "We will not stop our resistance," said Abd al-Aziz Rantisi of Hamas. "We are not going to give up in the face of the daily killing of Palestinians."[3]
[edit] Victims - Anatoly Biryakov, 20, from Haifa
- Asaf Tzur, 16, from Haifa
- Avigail Lietel, 14, from Haifa
- Be'eri Ovad, 21 , from Rosh Pina
- Daniel Harush, 16 , from Safed
- Elizabeth (Liz) Katzman, 17, from Haifa
- Eliyahu Laham, 22, from Haifa
- Kmer Abu Khamed, 12, from Daliyat al Karmel
- Mark Takash, 54, from Haifa
- Meital Katav, 20, from Haifa
- Miriam Atar, 27, from Haifa
- Moran Shushan, 20, from Haifa
- Motti Hershko, 41, from Haifa
- Smadar Firstatter, 17, from Haifa
- Tal Kehrmann, 17, from Haifa
- Tom Hershko, 16, from Haifa, and his father
- Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa
[edit] See also [edit] External links [edit] References - ^ Suicide bombing of Egged bus No. 37 in Haifa, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, January 21, 2004.
- ^ Mother tells of last call as families mourn bus bomb children, The Guardian, March 7, 2003.
- ^ a b Israel attacks Gaza as bus bomb kills 15, The Guardian, March 6, 2003.
- ^ Haifa suicide bombing
- ^ Spectre of suicide bomber returns to Israel as 15 die in bus attack, The Independent, March 6, 2003
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