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{{Infobox terrorist attack
|title=Hadera central station suicide bombing
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|location=[[Hadera]], [[Israel]]
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|date=April 13, 1994<br>9:40 am ([[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]]+2)
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|type=[[Suicide attack]]
|fatalities=5 (+1 suicide bomber)
|injuries=30
|perps=One Palestinian suicide bomber (Amar Salah Diab Amarna). [[Hamas]] claimed responsibility.
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The '''Hadera bus station suicide bombing''' was a 1994 [[Hamas]] [[suicide attack]] on a passenger bus departing from the central bus station in [[Hadera]] for [[Tel Aviv]], Israel. Six were killed and 30 injured. The attack came exactly one week after another Hamas attack, the [[Afula Bus suicide bombing]]. Both attacks were motivated officially by Hamas as retribution for the [[Cave of the Patriarchs massacre]] conducted against Muslim worshippers in February by [[Baruch Goldstein]].<ref name="Pape" >[[Robert Pape]] [https://archive.org/details/dyingtowinstrate00pape/page/66 ''Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism,''] [[Random House]] 2005 pp.66-68</ref> The attack took place on the Israeli [[Yom Hazikaron|Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day]].

Hamas bombmaker [[Yahya Ayyash]] built a bomb using two kilograms of home-made [[acetone peroxide]] explosive. Twenty-one-year-old Amar Salah Diab Amarna, a native of [[Ya'bad]] in the [[West Bank]], was selected for the mission.<ref>Katz, p. 108</ref>

On the morning of April 13, 1994, Amarna boarded the 9:30 AM bus to Tel Aviv. At 9:40 AM, as the bus was pulling out of the station, Amarna placed the bag containing the bomb on the floor of the bus, "where shrapnel could rip through vital arteries in the [[groin]] area," and detonated it.<ref>Katz, pp. 108–109</ref>

As Israeli rescue workers converged on the scene of the explosion, a second [[pipe bomb]] exploded. Hamas later claimed responsibility for the attack.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ujc.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=4965 |title=Suicide and Car Bomb Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (September 1993) |access-date=2007-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061201184713/http://www.ujc.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=4965 |archive-date=2006-12-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

''' Fatalities ''' <ref>[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+before+2000/Fatal+Terrorist+Attacks+in+Israel+Since+the+DOP+-S.htm Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (September 1993)]</ref>
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* Bilha Butin, 49
* Rahamim Mazgauker, 34
* David Moyal, 26
* Daga Perda, 44
* Sgt. Ari Perlmutter, 19
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==References==
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==Bibliography==
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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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