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The 7 April 2011 Hamas school bus attack was an incident in which Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a Kornet anti-tank missile over the border at an Israeli school bus. Hamas claimed responsibility.[1] The fact that the Russian-made Kornet is a laser-guided weapon indicated that the school bus was intentionally targeted.[2]
The missile hit the school bus moments after most of the children had gotten off. The only remaining passenger, 16-year-old boy Daniel Viflic, was critically injured with shrapnel wounds to the head and died from his injuries on 17 April. The driver was lightly injured.[3][4][5][6][7]
The attack was condemned by the United Nations, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. Israel said it would defend itself and that the attack illustrated the character of the Gaza regime. A Palestinian Authority official commented that "the bus wasn't that badly damaged", adding that Israel is racist and apartheid.
Fears that the attack would spark a second Gaza War[2] did not materialize, but the incident opened a several-day stretch of violence in which Palestinians launched over 100 projectiles at Israel and Israeli responses left 19 Hamas militants and two civilians dead.[8]