http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2004-08/31/article07.shtml
Scores of Israelis were also wounded (courtesy Al-Jazeera)
Ezzudin Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, claimed Tuesday, August 31, responsibility for two simultaneous bus bomb explosions that killed at least 15 people and wounded over 80 others in southern Israel.
“The two attacks came in retaliation for the crimes of the Israeli occupation forces against Hamas cadres, especially the assassination of its spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin,” the Brigades said in a statement carried by Al-Jazeera.
Palestinian resistance factions declared an “open war” against Israeli occupation forces after the assassination of quadriplegic Yassin