On this day—October 19, 1994 A Hamas suicide bomber boarded the No. 5 bus on Dizengoff Street in central Tel Aviv during the morning rush and detonated 20 kilograms of TNT packed with nails and screws. The blast lifted the bus off its chassis, melted its frame, and scattered body parts into trees and onto rooftops. Twenty-two civilians were killed and dozens more were wounded, many severely burned or maimed. The dead ranged from young people in their early 20s to elderly passengers in their 70s and 80s. Survivors later described the street as a ribbon of horror, the copper smell of blood in the air, and bodies and fragments strewn across the pavement. It was the deadliest suicide bombing in Israeli history up to that point and the first successful large-scale attack of its kind inside Tel Aviv. The bomb was built by Yahya Ayyash, known as “the Engineer,” who had been dissatisfied that an earlier attack he planned had killed only six people. The bomber, Saleh Abdel Rahim al-Souwi, had recorded a martyrdom statement the day before. Hamas claimed responsibility and framed the attack as retaliation amid the early Oslo process, just days before Israel and Jordan initialed a peace treaty.