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1989 suicide attack on civilians by Palestinian Islamic Jihad The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 attack ( ) was a suicide attack which occurred on 6 July 1989, and was carried out by Abd al-Hadi Ghanim of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad .. Today: 1989 suicide attack on civilians by Palestinian Islamic Jihad On 6 July 1989, Abd al-Hadi Ghanim, a 25-year-old militant of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad , seized the steering wheel of a crowded Egged commuter bus line No.. We saved the article's opening at 5 moments between 2025 and 2025, and every claim links the exact revision.

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1989 suicide attack on civilians by Palestinian Islamic Jihad The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 attack ( Hebrew : הפיגוע בקו 405 ) was an attack that occurred on 6 July 1989, during the First Intifada , and was carried out by Abd al-Hadi Ghanim, a 25-year-old militant of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad . On a crowded Egged commuter bus line No. 405 en route from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem , Ghanim seized the steering wheel of the bus, running it off a steep cliff into a ravine in the area of Qiryat Ye'arim . Sixteen civilians—including two Canadians and one American—died in the attack, and 27 were wounded. The incident has been described as the first Palestinian suicide attack , despite the survival of the attacker. It had also been described as a "commandeered crash" and an act with "definitional ambiguities", because the attack appeared to have been motivated by personal revenge. Despite this, the act was quickly labelled as terrorism by both sides in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict for political reasons. July 2012. גדות, יפעת (6 July 2009). פיגוע אוטובוס 405 [1989] (in Hebrew). The Cult of Dismembered Limbs: Jewish Rites of Death at the Scene of Palestinian Suicide Terrorism .

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The Tel Aviv-Jerusalem bus 405 attack was a suicide attack carried out by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad member on a crowded bus en route from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem ( Israel ) on July 6, 1989. Sixteen civilians were killed in the attack—including two Canadians and one American—and thirty more were wounded, after the militant seized the steering wheel from the driver and pulled the bus over a steep precipice into a ravine in the area of Qiryat Ye'arim . The attack is regarded as the first Palestinian suicide attack despite its perpetrator, Abd al-Hadi Ghanayem (Age 25), not wearing a suicide belt as in later attacks , a common tactic during the Second Intifada . He also survived the crash as he received medical treatment for his injuries in an Israeli hospital. He was later convicted to 16 life sentences on murder, hijacking and terrorism charges. גדות, יפעת (6 July 2009).

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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 . 16 civilians died in the attack—including two Canadians and one American, and 27 were wounded. The incident is described as the first Palestinian suicide attack despite the fact that the attacker survived. This Week In History: Terror attack on Bus 405, Jerusalem Post גדות, יפעת (6 July 2009). פיגוע אוטובוס 405 [1989] (in Hebrew).

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Suicide attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 attack was a suicide attack on 6 July 1989 carried out by Abd al-Hadi Ghanim 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 . 16 civilians died in the attack—including two Canadians and one American, and 27 were wounded. The incident is described as the first Palestinian suicide attack despite the fact that the attacker survived. This Week In History: Terror attack on Bus 405 , Jerusalem Post גדות, יפעת (6 July 2009). פיגוע אוטובוס 405 [1989] (in Hebrew).

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1989 suicide attack on civilians by Palestinian Islamic Jihad The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 attack ( Hebrew : הפיגוע בקו 405 ) was a suicide attack which occurred on 6 July 1989, and was carried out by Abd al-Hadi Ghanim of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad . On a crowded Egged commuter bus line No. 405 en route from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem , Ghanim seized the steering wheel of the bus, running it off a steep cliff into a ravine in the area of Qiryat Ye'arim . 16 civilians—including two Canadians and one American—died in the attack, and 27 were wounded. The incident is described as the first Palestinian suicide attack despite the fact that the attacker survived. This Week In History: Terror attack on Bus 405 , Jerusalem Post גדות, יפעת (6 July 2009). פיגוע אוטובוס 405 [1989] (in Hebrew).

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