This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.On 11 May 1988, the Israeli Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus was targeted by a car bomb.
[2] The driver of the car had tried twice to park outside the four-story embassy but was told by the police that he had to move.
When they asked for his identification, he sped away, but collided with another car at an intersection and the dynamite exploded.
[2] According to the Cyprus Interior Minister Christodoulos Veniamin, it was "clear the embassy was the intended target of the car bomb.
Terror has become part of our life.″[3] The Israeli Embassy in Nicosia had previously been bombed twice, in 1979 and in 1984, causing no casualties.