Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing

Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing
Attack site
Location	Jabotinsky Street, Ramat Gan, Israel
Date	July 24, 1995 8:40 am (GMT+2)
Attack type	Suicide attack
Deaths	6 Israeli civilians (+ 1 suicide bomber)
Non-fatal injuries	30 Israeli civilians
Perpetrators	Hamas claimed responsibility

The Ramat Gan bus bombing was a Hamas suicide attack on a crowded No. 20 commuter bus in Ramat Gan, Israel on July 24, 1995, near the Israel Diamond Exchange. Six Israelis were killed and 33 were wounded. The bomb contained 33 pounds of TNT packed into a metal pipe.

Just after 9:00 A.M., a call came in to the Associated Press office in East Jerusalem claiming responsibility for the attack. The caller boasted that a youth from Hamas from the Yahya Ayyash group from the West Bank carried out the attack"