List of Palestinian suicide attacks

List criteria and key

The criteria used for this list: attacks committed by Palestinian militant groups or individuals against either civilians or security forces, in which the perpetrators allegedly intended to die during the attack.

Colour key
Suicides are outnumbered by other deaths.
Equal number of suicides and other deaths, including incidents with zero deaths in total.
Suicides outnumber other deaths.
The numbers of suicides is unclear from available sources.

1980s and 1990s

First uprising 9 December 1987 – 13 September 1993

Name Date Location Suicides Other Deaths Injured Notes Ref.
Bus 405 suicide attack 6 July 1989 Near Kiryat Yearim 0[a] 16 17 Carried out by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Mehola Junction bombing 16 April 1993 Mehola junction 1 Palestinian 1 Palestinian 10 injured:

1 Palestinian

8+ IDF soldiers 		Hamas claimed responsibility. Carried out together with Palestinian Islamic Jihad. [1]
Beit El car bomb 4 October 1993 Near Beit El   0 29 Hamas member Sulayman Zidan was responsible. [2][3]

After the second uprising

See also: 2006 Palestinian legislative election

2017 bombing of Rafah crossing

See the main article: 2017 Rafah crossing bombing

The 2017 Rafah crossing bombing suicide bombing at Rafah crossing, by an attacker whose nationality is unconfirmed. In addition to the attacker, the bombing killed one Palestinian Hamas government border guard and severely injured another. A second attacker was injured but survived.

2024 - during the Israel–Hamas war

Name Date Location Suicides Other Deaths Injured Notes Ref
Lehi Road bombing, Tel Aviv 18 August 2024 Tel Aviv 1[b] 0 1 Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. Israel confirmed it was a terrorist attack involving a powerful explosive. [4]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ the sole attacker survived, but was taken prisoner.
  2. ↑ Presumed intentional, and claimed by Al-Qassam and Saraya Al-Quds as a "martyrdom operation", but the bomb appears to have exploded sooner than planned.

References

  1. ↑ "Suicide car bomb kills 2 near West Bank restaurant". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Associated Press. 17 April 1993.
  2. ↑ Levitt, Matthew (2004). "Hamas from Cradle to Grave". Middle East Quarterly: 3–15.
  3. ↑ "Archives - Philly.com". articles.philly.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Hamas claims Tel Aviv bomb explosion as suicide attack". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2024-08-21.