Avram Horowitz
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When these Aussie fools on here defend the bombings, this is what they defend. I hope they realize this.
On August 19, 2003, a Hamas suicide bomber sent out by the organization's Hebron cell disguised himself as a Haredi Jew and detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus traveling through Jerusalem's Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood. He blew himself up after entering the back door. The double-length bus was crowded with Orthodox Jewish children returning from a visit to the Western Wall. The huge explosion killed 7 children and 16 adults, among them an eight-months-pregnant woman, and injured more than 130 people. The bomb was spiked with ball-bearings designed to increase injuries on the crowded bus. Hamas said the bomber was a 29-year-old mosque preacher from the city of Hebron.
Because so many of the dead were young children, the media dubbed it the "children's bus."
Deaths
Avraham Bar-Or, 12, of Jerusalem. Binyamin Bergman, 15, of Jerusalem Yaakov Binder, 50, of Jerusalem Feiga Dushinski, 50, of Jerusalem Miriam Eisenstein, 20, of Bnei Brak Lilach Kardi, 22 (eight months pregnant), of Jerusalem Menachem Leibel, 24, of Jerusalem Elisheva Meshulami, 16, of Bnei Brak Tehilla Nathanson, 3, of Zikhron Ya'akov Chava Nechama Rechnitzer, 19, of Bnei Brak Mordechai Reinitz, 49, of Netanya Issachar Reinitz, 9, of Netanya Maria Antonia Reslas, 39, of the Philippines Liba Schwartz, 54, of Jerusalem Hanoch Segal, 65, of Bnei Brak Goldie Taubenfeld, 43, of New Square, New York Shmuel Taubenfeld, 3 months, of New Square, New York Rabbi Eliezer Weisfish, 42, of Jerusalem Shmuel Wilner, 50, of Jerusalem Shmuel Zargari, 11 months, of Jerusalem Fruma Rahel Weitz, 73, of Jerusalem – died of her wounds on August 23 Mordechai Laufer, 27, of Netanya – died of his wounds on September 5 Tova Lev, 37, of Bnei-Brak – died of her wounds on September 12
The Islamist militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Israeli response following the attack was swift, the Israeli Air Force struck in the heart of Hebron before the Israeli Army entered the city and killed or arrested several individuals who they said were involved in the planning and preparation of the attack.
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