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Attack on the Israeli embassy in London
Israeli embassy in London
The attack site
Location	London, United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°30′10.44″N 0°11′20.76″E / 51.5029000°N 0.1891000°E / 51.5029000; 0.1891000
Date	July 26, 1994
Target	Israeli embassy
Attack type	car bomb
Injured	20

The 1994 London Israeli Embassy attack was a car bomb attack on July 26, 1994 against the Israeli embassy building in London. 20 civilians were injured.

The attack

A car packed with 20 to 30 pounds of explosives parked in front of the embassy blew up minutes after the driver left it. The blast, which caused widespread damage, was heard over a mile away. Apart from damage to the embassy building, shop windows were blown out. The attack took place one day after King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin met in Washington to discuss a Jordan-Israel peace treaty.

Aftermath

The Israeli Ambassador and British intelligence experts blamed pro-Iranian extremists, allegedly linked to Hezbollah. Thirteen hours later another car bomb exploded outside Balfour House, the headquarters in London of the main Jewish organisations, injuring six.

Five Palestinians were arrested in London in January 1995 in connection with the bombings. In December 1996, two of them, both Palestinian science graduates educated in the UK, Jawad Botmeh and Samar Alami, were found guilty of "conspiracy to cause explosions" at the Old Bailey. They were sentenced to 20 years in jail, and lost their appeal in 2001.

Botmeh was released from prison on 5 August 2008.

References

1. 1994: Israel's London embassy bombed
2. Bombing in London Hits Israeli Embassy

v t e Prominent terrorist attacks against Israelis in the history of the Arab–Israeli conflict – the 1990s
1990	Cairo bus attack (February 4) Assassination of Meir Kahane (November 5) Ein Netafim ambush (November 26)
1992	Night of the Pitchforks (February 14) Buenos Aires Israeli embassy bombing (March 17) Murder of Helena Rapp (May 24) Abduction and killing of Nissim Toledano (December 13)
1993	Mehola Junction bombing (April 16) Abduction and killing of Yaron Chen (August 5)
1994	Afula bus bombing (April 6) Hadera bus station bombing (April 13) London embassy bombing (July 26) Abduction and killing of Nachshon Wachsman (October 14) Dizengoff Street bus bombing (October 19) Netzarim Junction bicycle bombing (November 11) Afula axe attack (November 30)
1995	Beit Lid bombing (January 22) Kfar Darom bus attack (April 9) Ramat Gan bus bombing (July 24) Jerusalem bus 26 bombing (August 21)
1996	First Jaffa Road bus bombing (February 25) ‡ Second Jaffa Road bus bombing (March 3) Dizengoff Center bombing (March 4) Murder of Yaron and Efrat Ungar (June 9)
1997	Island of Peace massacre (March 13) Café Apropo bombing (March 21) Mahane Yehuda bombings (July 30) Ben Yehuda Street bombing (September 4)
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