On August 5, 1993, Hamas militants abducted and later killed Israeli soldier Yaron Chen.

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.

[1] Another soldier reported seeing Chen struggling with three Palestinians who drove a white Fiat car.

[5] Chen's body was found before dawn in the burnt-out charred white Fiat van in the village of Beitunia in the West Bank.

On October 18, 2011, he was released to Gaza as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas.