Sha'ar HaNegev school bus attack

Sha'ar HaNegev school bus attack
The attack aftermath
Sha'ar HaNegev school bus attack is located in the Gaza Strip
Sha'ar HaNegev school bus attack
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The attack site
Native nameהמתקפה על אוטובוס התלמידים בשער הנגב
LocationNegev, Israel
Coordinates31°28′12″N 34°31′40″E / 31.47000°N 34.52778°E / 31.47000; 34.52778
Date7 April 2011; 13 years ago (2011-04-07)
TargetSchoolbus
Attack type
Laser guided missile attack
Weapons9M133 Kornet anti-tank missile
Deaths1 child
Injured1 civilian
PerpetratorAl-Qassam Brigades

The Sha'ar HaNegev school bus attack was a missile attack on 7 April 2011, in which Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip fired a Kornet laser-guided anti-tank missile over the border at an Israeli school bus, killing a schoolboy.[1]

Hamas claimed the bus was traveling on a road used by Israeli military vehicles and it did not know that schoolchildren were on board.[2] Israel said the yellow color of the bus made it easily identifiable and accused Hamas of "crossing a line."[2]

The missile hit the bus after all but one of the children had been dropped off.[3] The only remaining passenger, a 16-year-old boy, Daniel Viflic,[4] was critically injured with shrapnel wounds to the head and died from his injuries on 17 April.[5] The driver was lightly injured.[6][7][8][9] Another mortar barrage was timed to coincide with the arrival of the paramedics, which delayed the evacuation.[citation needed]

The attack was condemned by the international community.

  1. ^ School bus attack may spark Gaza war, The Australian, 9 April 2011
  2. ^ a b "Hamas says didn't mean to target Israeli school bus". Reuters. 9 April 2011
  3. ^ "Teen critically injured in attack on Negev bus", Ynet Israel News, 7 April 2011
  4. ^ "Daniel Viflic, 16, injured in Hamas bus attack, dies", Jerusalem Post
  5. ^ "Teen wounded in Hamas strike on school bus dies", Haaretz
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  7. ^ IDF chief urges calm in south, Israel News 8 April 2011
  8. ^ "Israeli boy Daniel Viflic dies after rocket hits bus", BBC News 18 April 2011
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference apr12jp was invoked but never defined (see the help page).