Egged bus 36 bombing

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Egged bus 36 bombing
Location	Vicinity of Kfar Darom
Date	April 9, 1995 11:45 AM – (UTC+2)
Attack type	Suicide attack
Deaths	9
Injured	50
Perpetrator(s)	Hamas, Khaled Mohammed Khatib, Imad Abu Amouna

Egged bus 36 bombing was a 1995 Hamas suicide attack against Israel.

1 Initial attack
2 Subsequent attack
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Initial attack

On the morning of April 9, 1995, Khaled Mohammed Khatib, a construction worker from Nueirat refugee camp, waited on the main highway running from Ashkelon to the settlements in the Gaza Strip. At 11:45 AM, he rammed Egged bus 36. At the moment he rammed the bus, he flipped a trigger switch in the steering column, detonating a bomb in his car.^[1]

Nine people were killed and another twenty wounded. Among the dead was Alisa Flatow, an American student visiting Israel.

[edit] Subsequent attack

Later that day, Imad Abu Amouna used a suicide car-bomb against an Israeli convey up the road near Netzarim. Imad Abu Amouna was an Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant who had grown tired of waiting for his "martyrdom operation" and instead volunteered with Hamas.

Nobody was killed, but thirty soldiers were wounded. The bomb used by Amouna was designed by Yahya Ayyash.^[1]