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{{Infobox terrorist attack
| title            = Abduction and killing of Yaron Chen
| image            = Yaron Chen.jpg
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| native_name      = חטיפת ירון חן ורציחתו
| caption          =
| location         = Rama intersection near [[Ramallah]], [[West Bank]]
| target           =
| date             = {{start date and age|1993|8|5}}
| native_name_lang = heb
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| time-end         =
| timezone         =
| type             = Abduction, Shooting attack
| fatalities       = 1 Israeli soldier (Yaron Chen)
| injuries         =
| perp             = [[Hamas]] claimed responsibility
| weapons          =
}}
On August 5, 1993, [[Hamas]] militants abducted and later killed Israeli soldier Yaron Chen.
== The attack ==
On Thursday, August 5, 1993, the 20-year-old private Yaron Chen, who was on his way home from a military base, was hitchhiking at the Rama intersection near [[East Jerusalem]]. Chen was picked up by a white [[Fiat]] van with an [[Israeli license plate]].<ref name="independent1">{{cite news|author=Sarah Helm |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/three-soldiers-die-in-west-bank-attacks-1459648.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714140533/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/three-soldiers-die-in-west-bank-attacks-1459648.html |archive-date=2014-07-14 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |title=World News &#124; Latest World News and Events |work=The Independent |date=August 7, 1993 |accessdate=November 9, 2011}}</ref> Another soldier reported seeing Chen struggling with three Palestinians who drove a white Fiat car.<ref>{{cite news|title=Palestinians gun down soldiers at army outpost|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZA0kAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_tAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5222,3137366 |publisher=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |date= August 6, 1993|accessdate=June 21, 2014}}</ref>
Chen was shot dead shortly afterwards while struggling with his abductors.<ref>Islamic terror abductions in the Middle East, Shaul Shay, Sussex Academic Press, 2007, pp. 31–32.</ref><ref>Terrorism, 1992–1995: a chronology of events and a selectively annotated bibliography, [[Edward Mickolus|Mickolus, Edward F]], Susan L. Simmons, ABC-CLIO, 1997, p. 461.</ref>
Hamas publicized its abduction and killing of Chen.<ref>The Road to Martyrs' Square: A Journey Into the World of the Suicide Bomber, Anne Marie Oliver, Paul F. Steinberg, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 34–5.</ref> Chen's body was found before dawn in the burnt-out charred white Fiat van in the village of [[Beitunia]] in the [[West Bank]].<ref name="independent1"/>
==Conviction of assailant; release in Shalit exchange ==
{{Main|Gilad Shalit prisoner swap deal}}
Fahed Sabri Barhan al-Shaludi was originally sentenced to a [[life sentence]].  On October 18, 2011, he was released to [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]] as part of the [[Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange]] between Israel and Hamas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shabas.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/09ED13AD-30EB-4F28-8FEA-7A9EDB0F9119/0/listeng1.xls |title=שרות בתי הסוהר |publisher=Shabas.gov.il |accessdate=June 21, 2014}}</ref><ref>Names of prisoners in Shalit deal trickle through Arab media, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4134795,00.html</ref>
==See also==
*[[2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers]], by Hamas
*[[Abduction and killing of Nachshon Wachsman]], by Hamas
*[[Killing of Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon|Kidnapping and murder of Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon]], by Hamas
*[[Abduction and killing of Nissim Toledano|Kidnapping and murder of Nissim Toledano]], by Hamas
*[[List of kidnappings]]
*[[List of solved missing person cases: pre-2000|List of solved missing person cases]]
==References==
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{{Terrorist attacks against Israelis in the 1990s}}
{{Palestinian militancy attacks in the 1990s}}
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[[Category:1990s missing person cases]]
[[Category:1993 in Israel]]
[[Category:August 1993 events in Asia]]
[[Category:Deaths by firearm in the West Bank]]
[[Category:Missing person cases in Israel]]