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Monday, November 1, 2004
THREE KILLED IN TEL AVIV MARKET BOMBING
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (ANS) -- Three people - two women and one man – all in their 20s - were killed and more than 30 were wounded - five seriously - when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up at a dairy deli in the busy Carmel Market in central Tel Aviv just after 11:20am on Monday, November 1. (Pictured: The bomb was detonated in a shop in a busy Tel Aviv market -- Picture from BBC website).
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack, identifying the bomber as 18 year-old Amar Alfar from the Askar refugee camp in Nablus.
According to a story released by the ICEJ News Service in Jerusalem, “Security officials said the bomber managed to arrive in the east Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis on Sunday night planning to carry out the attack in the capital.”
Their story continued, “According to Deputy Defense Minister Ze'ev Boim the initial working assessment of the security forces was that the terrorist entered Israeli territory through a gap in the security fence north of Jerusalem where construction has been halted pending numerous High Court challenges.
“Daunted by tight security across the capital, the bomber is thought to have secured a ride to Tel Aviv to carry out the bombing there, with press reports indicating Monday afternoon that the police has chased-down the car believed to have transported him and arrested two suspects.”
From his bedside in a Parisian army hospital, ailing PA leader Yasser Arafat condemned the blast and "the killing of civilians on both sides," according to his spokesman.
But Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that the attack that it proved "that there will been no change in the Palestinian Authority until the PA starts taking serious steps to eliminate terror, dismantle terrorist organizations and put an end to incitement."
Sharon continued in an address to lawmakers from his governing Likud faction in the Knesset, "The State of Israel has not stopped and will not stop its war on the murderous terrorism operating against us. Words, promises and half-hearted condemnations will not suffice. We demand full implementation of the Palestinian commitments."
The ICEJ story concluded by saying, “The bombing was the first suicide attack in Israel since September 22, when a Palestinian woman bomber blew herself up at a central intersection in Jerusalem, killing two border policemen just three weeks after a double suicide blast killed 16 in near simultaneous bus bombings in the Negev town of Be'er Sheva.”
Dan Wooding is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS). Wooding is the co-host of the weekly radio show, "Window on the World" and was, for ten years a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. Wooding is the author of some 42 books, the latest of which is his autobiography, "From Tabloid to Truth", which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, go to www.fromtabloidtotruth.com.
danjuma1@aol.com.
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