Israel has blamed Palestinian militants for a coordinated triple bus bombing in Bat Yam, a suburb of Tel Aviv. Three buses were destroyed, and a fourth bomb was defused, with Israeli officials claiming the attacks were intended for rush-hour mass casualties.

Three buses exploded near Tel Aviv on Thursday in what Israeli police are calling a suspected coordinated terror attack, according to the country's Police Spokesperson's Unit. The buses where the bombs exploded were empty and in separate parking lots about 500 meters apart from each other,

A series of explosions Thursday on three parked buses has rattled central Israel in what authorities suspected was a militant attack. No injuries were reported. The explosions happened on a day when Israel was already grieving after Hamas returned the bodies of four hostages from Gaza as part of a ceasefire deal.