Hamas publicly declared that the attack was one of 5 planned to retaliate for the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in which the Hebron settler Baruch Goldstein machine-gunned 29 Muslims at prayer and wounded a further 125 . Hamas , after conducting a second attack on April 13 , the Hadera bus station suicide bombing , Hamas desisted from undertaking the other three it had planned , when Israel quickened its schedule for withdrawing its military from the Gaza Strip soon after
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
Afula bus suicide bombing