The Tel-Aviv central bus station massacre was a terrorist attack which occurred on January 5, 2003 in which two Palestinian

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 suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station

Tel Aviv Central Bus Station

Tel Aviv Central Bus Station, known as the New Central Bus Station , is the main bus station of Tel Aviv, Israel...

 in Tel-Aviv, Israel

Israel

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, killing 23 civilians and injuring over 100.

After the attack, the Islamist Palestinian militant organization Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

The attack

On Sunday, 5 January 5 2003, two Palestinian suicide bombers blew themselves up within 500 meters from each other, only 30 seconds apart, in a crowded area in central Tel Aviv outside the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station

Tel Aviv Central Bus Station

Tel Aviv Central Bus Station, known as the New Central Bus Station , is the main bus station of Tel Aviv, Israel...

. 23 civilians were killed in the attack and more than a 100 were injured.

Fatalities

Staff Sgt. Mazal Orkobi, 20, of Azor Mordechai Evioni, 52, of Holon Moshe (Maurice) Aharfi, 60, of Tel-Aviv Igor Zobokov, 32, of Bat Yam Lilya Zibstein, 33, of Haifa Amiram Zmora, 55, of Holon Meir Haim, 74, of Azor Hannah Haimov, 53, of Tel Aviv Boris Tepalshvili, 51, of Yehud Sapira Shoshana Yulzari-Yaffe, 46, of Bat Yam Ramin Nasibov, 25, of Tel-Aviv Ilanit Peled, 32, of Azor

Andrei Friedman, 30, of Tel-Aviv Avi Kotzer, 43, of Bat Yam Viktor Shebayev, 62, of Holon Ion (Nelu) Nicolae, 34, of Romania Mihai Sabau, 38, of Romania Li Peizhong, 41, of China Steven Arthur Cromwell, 43, of Ghana Krassimir Mitkov Angelov, 32, of Bulgaria Ivan Gaptoniak, 46, of Ukraine Guo Aiping, 47, of China Zhang Minmin, 50, of China – died of her injuries on January 13, 2003.

The perpetrators

After the attack the Al-Jazeera network stated that the Palestinian militant organization Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack and said that the perpetrators were Boraq Abdel Rahman Halfa and Saber al-Nour from the city of Nablus

Nablus

Nablus is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, approximately north of Jerusalem, with a population of 126,132. Located in a strategic position between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a Palestinian commercial and cultural center.Founded by the...

 in the West Bank

West Bank

The West Bank ) of the Jordan River is the landlocked geographical eastern part of the Palestinian territories located in Western Asia. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan...

.

External links

• Suicide bombing near old central bus station in Tel-Aviv - published at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Suicide bombers kill 23, wound 100 in Tel Aviv - published on Chicago Tribune
  Chicago Tribune
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   in January 6, 2003
• 2 bombers kill 23 in Tel Aviv suicide attacks - published on the Washington Times in January 6, 2003
• Suicide bombings kill 23 in Tel Aviv - published on CNN
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   in 6 January 2003
• Carnage on Tel Aviv streets - published on BBC News
  BBC News
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  in 5 January 2003