Mehola Junction bombing

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Mehola Junction bombing
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The attack site
Location Mehola Junction, West Bank, (Area C)
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Date April 16, 1993
1:00 am (UTC+2)
Attack type
 Suicide bombing
Deaths 2 (the bomber and a bystander)
Injured 7–9
Perpetrators One Palestinian suicide bomber (Shahar al-Nabulsi). Hamas claimed responsibility.

The Mehola Junction bombing (also known as the Beit El bombing, literally, the House of God bombing) was the first suicide car bomb attack carried out by Palestinian militants and took place on 16 April 1993.[1]

Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash rigged a Volkswagen Transporter using three large propane tanks and explosives collected from grenades and other ordnance. The bomb was connected to a detonator switch in the driver's controls.[2]

Hamas operative Saher Tamam al-Nabulsi[citation needed] drove the car to Mehola Junction, a rest area on the Jordan Valley Highway in the West Bank. Just after 1:00 AM, the car exploded between two buses, one civilian and one military.[3] The blast killed al-Nabulsi and Marwan Ghani, a Palestinian from the nearby village of Bardala who worked in a snack bar in Mehola.[3][4] Ghani's brother and eight Israeli soldiers were slightly injured.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Katz (2002), p.74
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jerusalem Post, 18 April 1993, p1.
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