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{{short description|1993 Palestinian suicide car bomb attack in the West Bank}}
{{Infobox terrorist attack
|title=Mehola Junction bombing
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|location=[[Mehola]] Junction, occupied [[West Bank]]
|coordinates = {{coord|32|22|14.72|N|35|30|29.12|E|display=inline}}
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|date=April 16, 1993<br>1:00 am
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|timezone=[[UTC]]+2
|type=[[Suicide bombing]]
|fatalities=2 (the bomber and a bystander)
|injuries=7–9
|perps=One Palestinian suicide bomber (Shahar al-Nabulsi). [[Hamas]] claimed responsibility.
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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.<ref name=Levittp11>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CG-AjU3rraQC&q=suicide+bombings+first+civilians+israel&pg=PA12|pages=11–12|title=Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad|author=Matthew Levitt and [[Dennis Ross]]|edition=Illustrated|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2007|isbn=9780300122589}}</ref>

Hamas bombmaker [[Yahya Ayyash]] rigged a [[Volkswagen Transporter]] using three large [[propane]] tanks and explosives collected from [[grenade]]s and other ordnance. The bomb was connected to a detonator switch in the driver's controls.<ref>Katz (2002), p.74</ref>

Hamas operative Saher Tamam al-Nabulsi{{Citation needed| date=September 2011}} drove the car to [[Mehola]] Junction, a [[rest area]] on the [[Highway 90 (Israel–Palestine)|Jordan Valley Highway]] in the [[West Bank]]. Just after 1:00 AM, the car exploded between two buses, one civilian and one military.<ref name=AP>{{cite news|newspaper = Sarasota Herald-Tribune| author = Associate Press|date=17 April 1993|title=Suicide car bomb kills 2 near West Bank restaurant|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2G4fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=l3sEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6767,1277511}}</ref> The blast killed al-Nabulsi and Marwan Ghani, a Palestinian from the nearby village of [[Bardala]] who worked in a snack bar in Mehola.<ref name=AP/><ref name=JP>Jerusalem Post, 18 April 1993, p1.</ref> Ghani's brother and eight Israeli soldiers were slightly injured.<ref name=AP/><ref name=JP/>

==References==
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*{{cite book |author=Katz, Samuel|title=The Hunt for the Engineer|publisher=Lyons Press|year=2002|isbn=1-58574-749-1}}{{refend}}

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