(Awake, September 16), October 20, 1994, a car bomb exploded in Tel Aviv, Israel tragedy.

1994 10 20, in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel terrorist piece of a car bomb caused the most serious consequences since March 1978, Israeli civilian casualties tragedy, a total of 22 people were killed and 48 people were injured.
nearly 9:00 am, local time on the 20th, one of the main streets in the central business district of Tel Aviv, a youth carrying about 50 kilograms of explosives from the bus station to board a bus was at its peak transit time encounter with another bus when he detonated the explosives, and The strong explosion led to the car, including himself, the vast majority of people were killed. Another a bus and its passengers was hurt.
After the incident, the military organization of the Hamas movement claimed responsibility for the incident, the same day, back home in the United Kingdom and the United States access to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and to the Minister of Police Shahak . The detection and eradication of the foundations of the Islamic extremist organization in order to take extraordinary measures to President Ezer Weizman declared. Israeli indefinitely closed the West Bank and Gaza channels. On the same day, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat angrily condemned this bombing, calling it the "enemies of peace is. Israeli-Palestinian people and his own name to express our most sincere condolences to the families of the innocent victims. U.S. President Bill Clinton also strongly condemn this terrorist act, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, calling Rabin expressed sympathy.