There were two attacks that represented new developments in terms of political violence inside Israel in this period . The first Palestinian suicide attack took place on July 6 , 1989 , when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad boarded the Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus 405 . He walked up to the driver and pulled the wheel to the right , driving the vehicle into a ravine , killing 16 people . The end of the intifada also saw the first use of suicide bombing as a tactic by Palestinian militants . On April 16 , 1993 , Hamas carried out the Mehola Junction bombing , in which operative Saher Tamam al-Nabulsi detonated his explosives-laden car between two buses . One person , a Palestinian , other than the attacker was killed , and 21 were wounded
Mehola Junction bombing
Mehola Junction bombing
Palestinian political violence