Posted on 06/19/2002 11:00:33 AM PDT by thatcher
Jun. 19, 2002
SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS AT LEAST 6 IN JERUSALEM
By THE JERUSALEM POST STAFF
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A suicide bomber blew himself up shortly after 7:00 p.m. near a hitchhiking stop in the French Hill neighborhood of northern Jerusalem killing six people and wounding some 40 others.
Two of the fatalities died in surgery after the attack.
Four of the wounded are listed in critical condition, according to Magen David Adom Spokesman Yerucham Mendola.
The Fatah's "Raed Karmi Branch" of the Aksa Martyrs Brigades took responsibility for the attack, in a statement sent to press agencies.
Karmi was a terrorist killed in an IDF targeted interception several months ago.
The area has been closed to traffic as sappers search for other bombs, and drivers are requested to clear the roads for EMS and crews and security forces.
The head of the bomber, first thought to be have been a woman, was found layng on a hill above the scene of the blast, according to reports of remains found by investigators.
A police source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the bomber got out of a red Audi, broke past a group of security forces, and set off the explosives. The car sped away, disappearing into Palestinian neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, the source added.
A Border Policeman who chased the man was wounded in the explosion, a police sources told a radio interviewer.
"The Palestinian wave of terror continues to be unleashed against Israel's civilian population," said David Baker, a spokesman in the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
The area, a busy intersection adjacent to the Arab neighborhood of Shuafat, has been the scene of numerous terror attacks since the onset of fighting with the Palestinians.
The heavily guarded, combined hitchiking point and bus station, is heavily used by the city's residents as well as commuters to Samaria cummunities and the city of Ma'ale Adumim to the east.
The blast comes one day after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 19 people on a bus in southern Jerusalem, the deadliest bombing in the city in six years.
Hospital emergency numbers:
Jerusalem Bikur Holim Hospital: 125-5123
Jerusalem Hadassah University-Hospital, Ein Kerem: 125-5122
Jerusalem Hadassah University-Hospital, Mt Scopus: 125-5121
Jerusalem Sha'are Tzedek hospital: 125-5125
No area code is necessary when calling the these numbers.
Jerusalem Municipality: 106, 125-5023
Overseas callers need to dial Israel's country code 972 before the direct numbers.
Israel should expel every Pali from East Jerusalem, force them to the east, build a wall between Jerusalem and the psychotic sub-human Palis, and kill every one of them that approaches within 50 yards of the wall. Divide the buildings in the old Arab section of the city among the victims of the terror bombings
Jun. 19, 2002
IDF Troops Take Up Positions In Palestinian Cities
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By Margot Dudkevitch
Large numbers of IDF tanks and troops entered the cities of Jenin, Kalkilya and Nablus before daybreak Wednesday, and arrested more than a dozen terror suspects in raids throughout the West Bank.
Helicopters flew overhead as soldiers entered Nablus, coming in many directions, witnesses said. Military sources said three suspects were arrested in the city and that then the troops withdrew.
However, soldiers took up positions in Jenin and Kalkilya, two other cities from where terror attacks are frequently launched.
In Jenin the troops came under gunfire, and at least one explosive was detonated, but there were no reported casualties.
Tanks moved into the Jenin refugee camp as attack helicopters fired from above, witnesses said.
Both Jenin and Kalkilya were placed under curfew.
In all the IDF arrested eight suspects in the sweeps in these three cities.
Six terror suspects were held in the Hebron area, including one from Hamas, the Islamic group that claimed responsibilty for Tuesday's deadly bus bombing in Jerusalem in which 19 Israelis died.
Wednesday's military action came as the government issued a statement after a late night security cabinet meeting. It said there would be "a change in the way Israel responds to murderous acts of terror."
The statement said Israel would respond by "capturing Palestinian Authority territory. These areas will be held by Israel as long as terror continues."
"Israel will shortly take Palestinian territory as outlined above," noting that "additional acts of terror will lead to taking of additional areas." Unlike earlier statements, the Israeli government did not characterize its planned incursions as short-term. Even a six-week invasion in late March, Operation Defensive Shield, was described as limited to destruction of terror capabilities, not holding on to territories.
Unfortunately, they would be considered martyrs which they, of course, welcome.
There really is only one way to deal with this situation. Israel needs to create a 5 mile "no mans land" between the West Bank/ Gaza and Israel. Anyone in the "no man's land" is shot on sight.
After the next attack (and there will be another, we know that), push them back another 5 miles.
I agree wholeheartedly. I never knew what true hatred in my heart felt like until 9/11. I know it well now. I hate mohommedans with every bone in my body. It is pure hatred, warranted and well justified.
These people hate us and I shall hate them right back.
No mohommedan will ever be my friend or my brother. They are a scourge upon the earth and upon civilized man.
They will never do the right thing, i.e. to do whatever it takes to protect its people and that include the expulsion of the PLO to start with. Nothing new there; that was what Jordan did in 1970. But again, Israel won't do it.
It rather prefers to sacrifice its tiny population. And it has the audacity to keep calling for other Jews to move to Israel ... to be sacrificed. I'd say Jewish organisations should publicly call for a halt to Jewish immigration ... until the Israeli gov't expels the PLO. That should put real pressure on Israel to do the right thing.
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