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|location=[[Ramat Eshkol]] neighborhood of [[Jerusalem]]
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|date=August 21, 1995<br>7:45 am ([[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]]+2)
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|type=[[suicide bombing]]s
|fatalities=4 civilians and one police officer (+1 bomber)
|injuries=100 + mostly policemen<ref name="O'Ballance2016">{{cite book|author=Edgar O'Ballance|title=The Palestinian Intifada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nzG_DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA196|date=27 July 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-349-26106-2|pages=196–}}</ref>
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The '''Ramat Eshkol bus bombing''' was a [[Hamas]] [[suicide attack]] on a city bus in the [[Ramat Eshkol]] neighborhood of [[Jerusalem]] on August 21, 1995.<ref name=nyt19950822/><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xBt2XShA8rwC&pg=PA103|title=The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism|last=Pedahzur|first=Ami|date=2010|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231140430|language=en}}</ref>

The Palestinian Islamist militant organization [[Hamas]] claimed responsibility for the attack.<ref name=nyt19950822/><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHCPCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT253|title=Return to Zion: The History of Modern Israel|last=Gartman|first=Eric|date=2015|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=9780827612457|language=en}}</ref>

== The attack ==
Using a bomb designed by [[Yahya Ayyash]], the female Palestinian [[suicide bomber]] Sufian Jabarin<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130825092611/http://www.alqassam.ps/arabic/upload/qassamion_5.pdf</ref> detonated herself at 7:45 AM as a commuter bus passed through [[Ramat Eshkol]].<ref>Katz, Samuel, ''The Hunt for the Engineer,'' Lyons Press, 2002, {{ISBN|1-58574-749-1}}, 197-198</ref> Five people (including the bomber) were killed and more than one hundred were wounded. Many of the victims were policemen on their way to work at the [[Israel Police|national police]] headquarters and summer students en route to the [[Mount Scopus]] campus of [[Hebrew University]]. One of the victims was an American teacher from [[Connecticut]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UIBzCC0c2McC&pg=PA858|title=Terrorism, 1992-1995: A Chronology of Events and a Selectively Annotated Bibliography|last1=Mickolus|first1=Edward F.|last2=Simmons|first2=Susan L.|date=1997|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313304682|language=en}}</ref> who was visiting Israel to gather material for her classes on Israeli history.<ref name=nyt19950822>{{cite news|last=Schmemann|first=Serge|title=Bus Bombing Kills Five in Jerusalem; 100 Are Wounded|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/22/world/bus-bombing-kills-five-in-jerusalem-100-are-wounded.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|newspaper=The New York Times|date=22 August 1995}}</ref> Another victim was paralyzed from the neck down during the attack and remained attached to a respirator until he died in 2005.<ref name=mfa>{{cite news |url= http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+before+2000/Fatal+Terrorist+Attacks+in+Israel+Since+the+DOP+-S.htm|title = Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles | publisher = MFA| date=24 September 2000 | access-date= 2011-09-22}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Terrorist attacks against Israelis in the 1990s}}
{{Palestinian militancy attacks in the 1990s}}

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