The Hadera bus station suicide bombing was a 1994 Hamas suicide attack on a passenger bus departing from the central bus station in

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for

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, Israel. As a result, five civilians were killed and 30 injured. The attack came exactly one week after another Hamas bus suicide bombing attack in Afula. Both attacks were motivated officially by Hamas as retribution for the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre conducted against Muslim worshippers in February by

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br>''Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism,''

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2005 pp.66-68 The attack took place on the Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day. Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash built a bomb using two kilograms of home-made

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explosive. Twenty-one-year-old Amar Salah Diab Amarna, a native of Ya'bad in the

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, was selected for the mission. On the morning of April 13, 1994, Amarna boarded the 9:30 am bus to Tel Aviv. At 9:40 am, as the bus was pulling out of the station, Amarna placed the bag containing the bomb on the floor of the bus, "where shrapnel could rip through vital arteries in the

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area," and detonated it. As Israeli rescue workers converged on the scene of the explosion, a second

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exploded. Hamas later claimed responsibility for the attack.

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