[2] Israel said the yellow color of the bus made it easily identifiable and accused Hamas of "crossing a line.

[3] The only remaining passenger, a 16-year-old boy, Daniel Viflic,[4] was critically injured with shrapnel wounds to the head and died from his injuries on 17 April.

[5] The driver was lightly injured in the leg, and was able to pull the bus over to the side of the road, where he carried Viflic out of the vehicle.

He was airlifted in critical condition to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, where he was placed in the pediatric intensive care unit.

Doctors tried every treatment for cases of severe head trauma such as medication, special respiratory therapy, and attempts to lower his body temperature.

Fears that the attack would lead to a second Gaza War did not materialize,[1] but the incident was followed by a several-day stretch of violence in which Palestinians launched over 100 projectiles at Israel in which no Israelis were killed, and at least 20 Israeli strikes from its army, navy, and air force that left 19 dead and at least 45 wounded in Gaza by the time hostilities had ceased.

[16][17][18][19] Agence France-Presse reported that the interval following the bus attack included "the deadliest 24 hours of violence in the Strip since the end of the Gaza war" two years previously.

[16] The Israeli Air Force bombed two smuggling tunnels in the northern Gaza Strip, injuring four people.

[6] Immediately afterward, an Israeli aircraft fired at the militant squad that had launched the rocket, and confirmed a hit.

An Iron Dome battery intercepted three rockets fired at Ashkelon; a fourth landed in an open field near the city.

Israeli aircraft bombed two Palestinian militant cells east of Khan Yunis as they fired mortars at Israel.