Israel - A bomb explodes on railroad tracks as a train passes, no injuries reported

Terrorist bomb. Gideon Levy, the Haaretz Pink Flamingo who has never seen a PLO terrorist atrocity of which he did not approve, has the nerve to complain in Sunday's opinion column about how the Palestinians are being inconvenienced and radicalized by around the clock Israeli Army curfews and that Palestinian children were killed when they mistakenly ventured outside while curfew was still in force. I say Tough luck. As long as the Palestinians support violence, atrocities, and genocide of Jews, they're going to living under curfew conditions. Its just too bad an Extreme Leftist like Levy can't bear to tell them its time for them to grow up and start behaving like rational and decent human beings --- in a word like adults. The more Arab terrorism like this continues the longer Israel will stay right where it is.

I guess it's not as easy to blow up a train as it is a bus.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- A bomb exploded under a moving passenger train in central Israel on Sunday, damaging one car but causing no serious injuries, police said. A Palestinian near the blast was held for questioning, but authorities said they were not certain the explosion was the work of militants.

Authorities said the bomb appeared to have been planted on the tracks overnight just north of the town of Lod. It was not clear if the device was on a timer or was detonated by remote control as the train passed.

Meanwhile, Israeli officials said the army would dismantle 10 illegal Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank on Sunday but did not say which of them would be demolished.

In the West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli soldiers continued to search the ruins of the Palestinian government building that troops blew up Sunday to end a four-day siege of the fortress-like facility. No bodies were found in the ruins, although Israel had said it believed about 15 Palestinian gunmen were holed up inside.

A former Palestinian cabinet minister was allowed into the building Friday to negotiate the surrender of the men but emerged saying he found no one there. Palestinian officials and residents in the area subsequently said they did not think any Palestinians were in the buildings at the time of the controlled explosion.

The army said it found two hang-gliders, one of them motorized, an army spokesman said. Palestinian militants have used hang-gliders in the past to carry out attacks on Israel.

International observers videotaped the work and interviewed area residents, who were cleaning up shattered glass and picking pieces of metal pipes out of flower beds 150 yards away. Dust and shattered glass coated classrooms, desks and textbooks in a Japanese-funded elementary school nearby.

Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer had announced the plan Saturday to tear down the settlement outposts, but did not release details.

``Israel will close illegal settlements in the West Bank that are built without permission,'' said Arthur Lenk, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, told The Associated Press. ``The defense minister made clear that illegal settlements ... should not be there and won't be there.''

Peace Now, an Israeli group opposed to Israel's settlements, said about 40 illegal outposts have been established since Prime Minister Ariel Sharon came to power last year. Sharon for decades had been a leading proponent of settlements. Palestinians want all settlements removed from the West Bank and Gaza, contending all the land in both regions is part of what will become a Palestinian state.

Most of the unauthorized outposts consist only of a few mobile homes set on West Bank hilltops.

Israel has almost 150 government-authorized settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where about 210,000 Israelis live. The government has also set aside additional land for the existing settlements to grow, though the Defense Ministry must approve any new outposts.

The settlers claim that the new outposts are merely extensions of existing settlements.

In the West Bank city of Ramallah, Israeli troops searching for Palestinian militants ordered all the men in the al-Amari refugee camp to come out of their homes for interrogation, the army and Palestinian witnesses said.

The army ordered reporters watching from the edge of the camp to leave the area.

The Israeli military, which currently controls seven of the eight major Palestinian cities and towns, has often conducted mass roundups of men and boys for questioning.

Also in Ramallah, Israeli troops stopped two Palestinian ambulances and found 27 people packed inside -- ten of them suspected of involvement in shooting or bombing attacks, a military source said.

While Palestinian officials deny ambulances are used for moving militants about, the army says it is a matter of routine.

The ongoing army operation in the West Bank is keeping about 700,000 Palestinians under round the clock curfew, which is lifted only periodically and for short periods to allow the people to buy food and conduct necessary business.

The operation, launched a week-and-a-half ago, was in response to two suicide bombings inside Israel that killed 26 civilians.

In the southern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian policeman was wounded in the shoulder when Israeli tanks fired machine-guns as they entered Palestinian-controlled territory near the border with Egypt, Palestinian witnesses and a hospital official said.

Army bulldozers demolished two police facilities and flattened three farms, the witnesses said. The army had no immediate comment.