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Dizengoff Street bus bombing

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “hamas suicide attack on a passenger bus driving down dizengoff street in tel aviv in 1994”. Today it says “hamas suicide attack on a passenger bus driving down dizengoff street”.
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1994 suicide attack against civilians in Tel Aviv, Israel The Dizengoff Street bus bombing was a Hamas suicide attack on a passenger bus driving down Dizengoff Street , Tel Aviv in 1994. At that time, it was the deadliest suicide bombing in Israeli history , and the first successful attack in Tel Aviv. 22 civilians were killed and 50 were injured. The attack was planned by Hamas chief Yahya Ayyash , on the eve of the signing of the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace .1

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hamas suicide attack on a passenger bus driving down dizengoff street in tel aviv in 1994

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hamas suicide attack on a passenger bus driving down dizengoff street

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