A 2002 Hamas suicide bombing at the Meron junction bus stop killed six civilians and three soldiers. Through 2020 the opening called Hamas "The Palestinian Islamist militant organization Hamas," which claimed responsibility for the attack. Today the opening calls Hamas only "the militant group Hamas," and Islamist appears nowhere in the article. A reader today learns Hamas is a militant group and not that it is an Islamist one.
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Meron Junction Bus 361 attack was a suicide bombing which occurred on August 4, 2002 on an Egged bus in the Meron junction in northern Israel near Safed . 9 people were killed in the attack and 38 people were injured. The Palestinian Islamist militant organization Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.1
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Hamas suicide bombing in 2002 On August 4, 2022, a bomber with the Palestinian militant group Hamas conducted a suicide bombing aboard an Egged bus at the Meron junction in northern Israel near Safed .In addition to the bomber, 6 Israeli civilians, and 3 Israeli soldiers were killed.Thirty-eight people were injured.Hamas subsequently publicly claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming it was in retaliation for an Israeli airstrike against a Hamas commander and to express displeasure with a UN-sponsored investigation into the Israeli incursion into the Jenin refugee camp that April.Saeb Erakat condemned the attack, and Palestinian minister Nabil Shaath claimed that Palestinians were continuing to try to halt attacks on Israel, despite the Israeli actions.The bus attack occurred a week after the Hebrew University bombing , in which a Palestinian attacker affiliated with Hamas killed 9 people.On 27 August, Israeli authorities arrested 7 Arab-Israelis, all members of the same family, who allegedly assisted the bomber.According to police, the suspects helped store explosives in a nursery school, dressed the bomber as a tourist, and scouted the target.In 2019, Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett signed an order enabling Israel to seize " pay-for-slay " payments from the Palestinian Authority to Arab Israelis convicted on terrorism charges.This order included two prisoners who Israeli claimed assisted the Meron Junction bomber.
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Hamas suicide bombing in 2002 On August 4, 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber from the militant group Hamas conducted a suicide bombing aboard an Egged bus at the Meron junction in northern Israel near Safed .In addition to the bomber, six Israeli civilians, and three Israeli soldiers were killed. Thirty-eight people were injured. Hamas subsequently publicly claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming it was in retaliation for an Israeli airstrike against a Hamas commander and to express displeasure with a UN-sponsored investigation into the Israeli incursion into the Jenin refugee camp that April. Saeb Erakat condemned the attack, and Palestinian minister Nabil Shaath claimed that Palestinians were continuing to try to halt attacks on Israel, despite the Israeli actions. The bus attack occurred a week after the Hebrew University bombing , in which a Palestinian attacker affiliated with Hamas killed 9 people. On 27 August, Israeli authorities arrested 7 Arab-Israelis, all members of the same family, who allegedly assisted the bomber. According to police, the suspects helped store explosives in a nursery school, dressed the bomber as a tourist, and scouted the target. In 2019, Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett signed an order enabling Israel to seize " pay-for-slay " payments from the Palestinian Authority to Arab Israelis convicted on terrorism charges. This order included two prisoners who Israeli claimed assisted the Meron Junction bomber.
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