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  29 people dead, hundreds wounded

Today (17 March 2013) Israel marks 21 years since the terrorist bombing of its embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina and remembers the 29 people killed and the hundreds who were wounded. The attack, carried out by Hizbullah under Iranian sponsorship, was one of the most horrific attacks on a diplomatic mission.

  
The aftermath of the bombing

At 14:45 on March 17, 1992 a powerful bomb shattered the building of the Israel Embassy in Buenos Aires, taking the lives of 29 innocent people, among them three Israeli embassy personnel, six local embassy employees, and scores of Argentineans, including elderly residents of a nearby nursing home and schoolchildren on a passing bus. In one moment, the embassy and the nearby church were literally wiped off the map.

To date, no one has been brought to justice for these attacks.

  
The remains of the embassy

On March 17, 2000, a memorial was inaugurated on the site of the former embassy.

A marble monument, a replica of the column of the original embassy building, stands today in the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, in memory of those who died on that fateful day in 1992, bearing the verse of the prophet Amos: "I will raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old."