Two separate suicide bombings took place in April 1994 , carried out by Palestinian militants inside Israel and launched by Hamas ' Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades in retaliation for the massacre carried out by Goldstein . A total of 8 Israeli civilians were killed and 55 wounded in the attack , which took place in Afula on April 6 , at the end of the forty-day mourning period for Goldstein 's victims . Six more were killed and 30 injured in Hadera bus station suicide bombing a week later . Those were the first suicide bombings carried out by Palestinian militants inside Israel . According to Matti Steinberg , then Shin Bet head 's advisor on Palestinian affairs , Hamas had until then refrained from attacking civilian targets inside Israel , and the change in this policy was a result of Goldstein 's massacre
Hadera bus station suicide bombing
Hadera bus station suicide bombing
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre