Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing

Name: Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing
Start: 2003

2003 CE.

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On August 19, 2003, Palestinian militant Raed Abdel Hamid Misk, sent by the Hamas cell in Hebron, dressed as a Haredi Jew, boarded a crowded bus with Orthodox Jewish children returning from the Western Wall, and conducted a suicide bombing in the Shmuel HaNavi quarter in Jerusalem. Twenty-three civilians and 1 unborn child were killed, and over 130 were wounded. Many of the victims were children, some of them infants.

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