Attack — Dimona, women workers' bus

Dimona, in the Negev, lives largely off the nuclear research center installed nearby. Each morning, buses carry the city's workers there.

A commando unit crossed the Egyptian border through the desert and intercepted one of these buses, which was transporting female workers. The attackers took the passengers hostage and barricaded themselves in; the assault by Israeli forces put an end to the hostage-taking, but women were killed.

The attack, known in Israel as that of the "mothers' bus," occurred during the first Intifada and struck a civilian population in a development town in the south of the country, far from the front lines.