Israel's History Of Bomb Blasts

June 5, 2002

2002

5 June: At least 14 are people killed in an attack on a bus at Megiddo junction, near the border with the West Bank. A suspected suicide attacker is believed to have driven up in a car behind the bus and detonated a bomb.

27 May: Two Israelis, including a small child, are killed when a suicide bomber attacks a shopping centre in the town of Petah Tikva.

22 May: Suicide bomber blows himself in Rishon Letzion, near Tel Aviv, killing an elderly man and a teenager.

19 May: Three Israelis killed and nearly 30 injured when suicide bomber disguised in Israeli army uniform blows himself up at market in Netanya.

7 May: Suicide bomber attacks social club in the town of Rishon Letzion, killing 16 people and injuring more than 50.

12 April: A suicide bomb attack at a bus stop in West Jerusalem, kills at least six people and injures about 50 more.

10 April A suicide attack on a bus travelling near the Israeli city of Haifa kills at least eight people and injures dozens more.

1 April: A car bomb explodes in West Jerusalem killing the bomber and critically injuring a policeman inspecting the vehicle.

31 March: Bomber attacks restaurant in Haifa, northern Israel, killing himself and 14 Israeli Jews and Arabs. On the same day, another bomber kills himself and wounds four people in an attack on an office for paramedics at the Jewish settlement of Efrat, south of Bethlehem.

30 March: A suicide attack on a Tel Aviv restaurant leaves the bomber dead and 30 Israelis wounded.

29 March: A woman bomber kills herself and two others at a Jerusalem supermarket.

27 March: In the Israeli resort of Netanya, a bomber blows himself up at a hotel, killing 28 Israelis celebrating Passover.

26 March: Three injured in car bomb blast near a shopping centre in Jerusalem.

22 March: Bomber kills himself and wounds an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint at Salem, on Israel's border with the West Bank.

21 March: At least two people killed and more than 20 injured in suspected suicide bomb attack in the centre of West Jerusalem.

20 March: Seven people killed in a suicide bomb attack on a bus carrying mainly Arab labourers near the northern town of Umm el-Fahem.

9 March: At least 11 people killed and 50 injured in suicide bomb attack on busy cafe in west Jerusalem, near the official residence of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

5 March: One person killed and several others injured in suicide bomb attack on a bus at Afula central bus station.

2 March: Nine people killed including two babies, and 57 injured after suicide bomb attack in an ultra-Orthodox area of Jerusalem.

18 February: Car bomber detonates device at a checkpoint, killing himself and a policeman.

16 February: Two teenagers killed and 30 people injured in suicide bomb attack on a Pizzeria in Karnei Shomron.

15 February: Three soldiers killed after powerful roadside bomb destroys an Israeli tank.

27 January: Two people - one a female suicide bomber - die in an attack in a busy shopping area of central Jerusalem.

2001

2 December: A Palestinian suicide bomber blows up a bus in the northern coastal city of Haifa, killing 15 people and wounding more than 100 others.

1 December: Twelve people, including two suicide bombers, are killed in an attack on a Jerusalem shopping centre.

29 November: At least four people die in a suicide bomb attack on a bus in the northern town of Hadera. Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.

8 November: A Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up in the West Bank town of Baka al-Sharkieh injuring two Israeli border guards.

9 September: Three people are killed in a suicide bombing at a crowded railway station in the town of Naharia. The bomber is the first Israeli Arab to carry out such an attack.

4 September: Bomber disguised as a bearded ultra-Orthodox Jew injures 13 when he blows himself up in central Jerusalem.

7 October: A suicide bomber kills himself and an Israeli kibbutz member at the wheel of a car in the northern town of Beit Shean.

12 August: Suicide bomb attack on restaurant near Haifa. Bomber dies, up to 20 people injured.

9 August: Fifteen people are killed and about 90 others injured in a suicide attack on a busy restaurant in the heart of Jerusalem. Hamas admits responsibility.

2 June: Suicide bomb attack on a disco in Tel Aviv leaves 21 people dead and more than 60 others injured. Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.

28 March: Three people killed and several others severely injured in a nail bomb attack near a bus stop close to the central Israeli town of Kfar Saba. Hamas admits responsibility.

1 March: One person is killed and nine injured in an explosion in northern Israel. A group calling itself The Battalions of Return says it was responsible.

8 February: Two car bomb explosions in the heart of the ultra-orthodox area of West Jerusalem. No-one was killed in the first explosion since the election of right-wing Likud leader Ariel Sharon.

1 January: Car bomb explodes in an ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of west Jerusalem. One woman injured.

2000

28 December: At least one bomb explodes on a bus near Tel Aviv, wounding 13 Israelis.

22 November: Two Israelis killed and 55 wounded by a car bomb that explodes during the rush-hour in northern town of Hadera.

2 November: Two Israelis killed by a powerful car bomb at central Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market, a frequent target of attacks.

Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack - which came more than a month after Palestinians began a new uprising against Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza following the collapse of peace talks.

1998

6 November: A car bomb at the same market kills two suicide bombers from Islamic Jihad and wounds 21.

1997

4 September: Explosion in west Jerusalem kills eight, including three bombers, and wounds more than 170.

30 July: Two militants blow themselves up in the Mahane Yehuda market, killing themselves and 16 shoppers.

31 March: Suicide bomber kills himself and three women at a Tel Aviv cafe.

1996

4 March: Tel Aviv bomb kills 13.

3 March: Suicide bomb on a Jerusalem bus kills 19.

25 February: Suicide bombings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv killed 26. Militant Hamas group claims responsibility.

1995

21 August: Bomb on a Jerusalem bus kills five and wounds 69.

24 July: Unidentified suicide bomber kills six passengers and himself on a bus outside Tel Aviv.

9 April: Islamic Jihad suicide bomber attacks military convoy in Gaza, killing seven soldiers and an American tourist.

22 January: Two Islamic Jihad militants blow themselves up amid a group of soldiers near Netanya, killing 21.

1994

11 November: Islamic Jihad militant sets off bomb near Netzarim settlement in Gaza, killing three officers.

19 October: Hamas militant sets off bomb killing 23 on a Tel Aviv bus.

13 April: Hamas bomb kills five and injures 30 in Hadera north of Tel Aviv.

6 April: Hamas car bomb in Afula kills eight and wounds 44. Hamas says attack was revenge for killing of 29 Palestinians by a settler.

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