Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack

Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack

The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 attack was a suicide attack on 6 July 1989 carried out by Abed al-Hadi Ghaneim of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. On a crowded Egged commuter bus line No. 405 en route from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem (Israel), Ghanim seized the steering wheel of the bus, running it off a steep cliff into a ravine in the area of Qiryat Ye'arim.^[1] 16 civilians died in the attack—including two Canadians and one American, and 27 were wounded.^[2]

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