Tel Aviv central bus station massacre

Tel Aviv central bus station massacre
Part of the Second Intifada militancy campaign
The attack site The attack site
Location	Tel Aviv, Israel
Coordinates	32°3′34″N 34°46′42″E
Date	January 5, 2003
Attack type	suicide bombing
Deaths	23 Israeli civilians (+ 2 suicide bombers)
Non-fatal injuries	100+ Israeli civilians
Perpetrators	Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Tel Aviv central bus station massacre was an attack which occurred on January 5, 2003 in which two Palestinian suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 23 civilians and injuring over 100.

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

The attack

On Sunday, 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 Tel Aviv outside the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station. 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 in the West Bank.

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 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 in 6 January 2003
• Carnage on Tel Aviv streets - published on BBC News in 5 January 2003