Bus bombing in Petach Tikvah (near Tel Aviv); 3 Israelis killed

Reuters via Fox News Channel | December 25, 2003

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox News just reported a bus boming in Tel Aviv, Israel. News comes from Reuters monitoring of Israeli radio. No word on if it was a remote bomb or suicide bomber.

[Rome2000]

Maybe the IDF will give us a Christmas present and take out Arafat today.

[TomGuy]

10 reported hurt. No deaths reported. [foxnews]

[Tree of Liberty]

From AP: bombing occured at a bus depot just outside Tel Aviv. Reports of 10 wounded. Bombing occured at rush hour.

FNC reporting that the explosion occured in central Israel, not necessarily Tel Aviv. Bomb detonated inside a bus.

[EggsAckley]

Boming ...?

[relee]

Fox news - not in Tel Aviv - in central Israel.

[JohnHuang2]

Hot off the wires:

Blast on Tel Aviv bus, at least 10 hurt-source TEL AVIV, Dec 25 (Reuters) - An explosion tore through a bus outside Tel Aviv on Thursday, causing at least 10 casualties, Israeli security sources said. They said the blast took place aboard a bus at a highway leading out of Israel's coastal metropolis. 12/25/03 11:32 ET

[railsplitter]

pali terrorist vehicle waxed by HE shortly after... purported to contain high value target ( worthless cockroaches )

[Tree of Liberty]

From your fingertips to God's ears.

[yonif]

PING.

I am in Armenia, so bear with me. Will be in Israel on Sat.

Israeli Media reports:

At least 10 casualties.

One report says it was on a bus, another says a bus stop.

Gehaa Junction

This came minutes after, probably not connected (although anti-Israel media will paint it as connected), an Israeli Air Force strike at an Islamic Jihad terrorist car in Gaza, which killed 3 terrorists.

[Tree of Liberty]

Are you sure about the order of events, there? Fox was reporting on the missile strike against the terrorist laden car for about 20 minutes before news of the bus bombing broke.

[StriperSniper]

Busy evening there:

18:32

Gaza IAF air srike death toll rises to five
18:30	Preliminary report: some 10 people hurt in explosion at bus stop near Geha junction, near Petah Tikva
18:29	Report: explosion on bus near Geha junction, east of Tel Aviv
18:27	Sharon backs treasury stance, insisting new coalition parties` requests for budget supplement not top NIS billion
18:24	Sources in Gaza: car targeted in IAF Gaza strike belongs to Islamic Jihad activist
18:05	Three dead in IAF Gaza missile attack; IDF: targets were Hamas militants
18:03	IDF confirms Gaza missile strike is attempt to assassinate leader of terror group
17:53	Witnesses: Israeli helicopters fire two rockets at target in Gaza City

[railsplitter]

gaza strip said to be location of remodeled vehicle containing expired vermin

[yonif]

Let me stand corrected. I will be in Israel Sunday, not Saturday.

[Tree of Liberty]

Thanks for the timeline

[railsplitter]

sequence of events could have happened chronologically as you stated

[yonif]

Strike at Gaza terror car came before the terrorist attack in Israel. It is unrelated, although the media will call it as something that happened because of IDF counter-terror action.

So far says 10 injured, 4 seriously.

So far first report.

[StriperSniper]

Must be a coincidence, the timing is to close for the bus bomber to have been sent as retaliation I would think.

[Ciexyz]

the palis will never, ever stop their terror -- just like the Terminator or the Energizer Bunny -- they're raising their little ones to be creatures of hate, and the Arab world approves. They're creating a sub-culture of monsters dedicated to murder, not to finding a solution.

[railsplitter]

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World - Reuters

Israeli Strike Kills Top Gaza Militant, 4 Others
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli helicopter gunships killed a senior Islamic militant and at least four other people in a missile strike on a car in Gaza City on Thursday, medics said.

They said Meqled Hamid of Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group spearheading a three-year-old uprising against Israel, was killed in the attack.

Ambulances rushed to the scene in Gaza's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said a Jihad militant had been targeted.

"I can confirm that the air force struck a car carrying a senior Islamic Jihad member responsible for the death of Israeli soldiers and civilians," the spokeswoman told Reuters.

"This senior terrorist was in the midst of planning further such attacks in the near future."