Posted on 07/16/2002 6:11:19 AM PDT by Clive
Seven people were killed and at least 20 people were injured when an explosive device was detonated and shots were fired Tuesday afternoon near a bus close to the West Bank settlement of Immanuel.
Magen David Adom officials reported that eight people were in serious condition.
"A roadside device detonated as a bus was passing near the Immanuel settlement, and shooting then followed," said police spokesman Rafi Yaffe.
According to initial reports, the bus was first hit by several roadside devices, and passengers were then fired on as they left the vehicle. The terrorists who fired on the bus were dressed in IDF uniforms.
Channel Two television said that the injured were not only from the bus, but from a vehicle that was driving ahead of it.
The attack took place shortly after 3 P.M., south-west of the West Bank city of Nablus.
The bus attacked was No. 189, and was operating in conjunction with the Dan company. The bus departed from the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, at around 2.15 P.M.
The injured were taken to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Tel Hashomer in Tel Aviv and Meir in Kfar Sava.
The attack was similar to an ambush on a bus outside Immanuel on December 12 last year in which 10 people were killed.
Emergency Numbers: Beilinson Hospital: 1255134 Meir Hospital: 1255199 Tel Hashomer Hospital: 1255131
Yeah...the unending peace of the grave.
Ten dead, 30 wounded as Palestinians open fire on bus Sharon convenes cabinet meeting as violence continues December 12, 2001 Posted: 4:01 PM EST (2101 GMT)
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon convened a cabinet meeting Wednesday after Palestinian gunmen ambushed a bus on the West Bank, killing at least 10 people and injuring 30 others.
Israeli authorities said an explosive was set off near the bus which was traveling to the Immanuel settlement from Tel Aviv. Gunmen then opened fire, police said. Three cars following the bus were also fired on during the incident. Ambulance officials said when they arrived, they were fired on. The Jewish settlement of Immanuel is located northwest of Ariel on the West Bank.
In Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said that two suicide bombers had set off blasts near the Gush Katif settlement. The explosions killed the bombers and lightly wounded four Israelis. They said mortar bombs had been fired at a car north of the settlement but no one was hurt. Ra'an Gissin, an Israeli government spokesman, said the latest attacks "leave us no alternative but to take the necessary steps." He said there would be "quick reaction. No attack will go without a response."
The Palestinian Authority issued a statement late Wednesday condemning the attack on the bus and two suicide bombings. "The Palestinian Authority condemns the military operations carried out on a bus near settlement of Immanuel and in Gush Katif this evening," part of the statement read.
Asked about reports that U.S. Middle East envoy Anthony Zinni had negotiated a 48-hour truce between Israelis and Palestinians, Gissin said Israel was not violating the agreement.
Wednesday's violence was the latest in a cycle of attack and retaliation that began when Palestinian suicide bombers killed 25 Israelis in Jerusalem and Haifa the weekend of December 1-2.
Islam sucks.
You beat me to it...
Palestinians Suffer Under Curfew
Tue Jul 16, 4:58 AM ET
By JAMIE TARABAY, Associated Press Writer
HEBRON, West Bank (AP) - Abdel Wahab Karaki slumps into an armchair as some of the more than 70 children crammed into his family's walled compound squeal past, trapped inside by a seemingly endless Israeli army curfew.
"Every time I think it couldn't get worse, it does," said Karaki, 56, wiping the sweat from his brow. His mother, Behaija, 85, swats at the children with a weak wrist. They giggle and run away, their hair matted and dusty, their knees scuffed and dirty.
The rest of her seven grown sons file slowly into the living room. They've spent days watching television, talking among themselves, hardly moving inside the cramped Hebron home. Anyone caught violating the curfew is ordered back inside by Israeli soldiers patrolling the streets, and could risk being detained.
Most of the men had jobs in Israel as laborers or worked in nearby factories before Israeli security measures prevented them from leaving the West Bank shortly after the current round of violence erupted in September 2000.
Israel said it imposed the restrictions to stop militants from entering Israel and launching attacks, including suicide bombings. The measures have decimated the Palestinian economy and angered Palestinians, who say Israel seeks to punish the population as a whole.
As in other cities and towns in the West Bank, Israeli forces control Hebron and enforce an around-the-clock curfew, confining residents of their homes. The curfew is lifted for a few hours once or twice a week to allow people to buy food.
Israeli forces moved into seven of the eight main Palestinian population centers after back-to-back suicide bombing attacks in Jerusalem killed 26 Israelis last month.
For many in Hebron, home to about 140,000 Palestinians, it's just more of the same. Hebron is the only West Bank city divided into Israeli and Palestinian zones. The center of the city, where about 400 Israeli settlers live, is under Israeli control. The 30,000 Palestinians in the Israeli-controlled zone, including the Karaki family, have been under curfew during most of the 21-month-long conflict.
"We were stuck inside for 220 out of the last 360 days," said Fahmi Wahab, 51. "How do I know? We've got nothing to do but count the days."
The Israeli-controlled zone includes the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a holy site revered by Muslims, Jews and Christians as the traditional burial spot of the biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
There has been near-constant tension in Hebron because of the close proximity of the Israelis and Palestinians who live there, with tensions flaring on both sides even in times of relative peace.
The Karaki clan lives in a walled compound, isolated from the Israeli settlers and the ever-present soldiers. In the back yard, the children can play soccer and tag, screaming as they ran after each other. The ages of the Karaki children range from 34 years to six months. They are the children of Behaija's seven sons. One of her sons has 16 children.
The curfew has frayed already stretched nerves.
"When the children go and play in the back, I lock myself up in another part of the house. I can't stand the screaming," said Behaija Karaki.
Being stuck in the house with screaming kids--wouldn't that make YOU want to go out and kill some Jews?
The "moral equivalence" attempts of the media are becoming more and more desperate.
The ages of the Karaki children range from 34 years to six months.
At what age does a Palestinian cease to be a child?
YEAH! The palestinians wouldnt be blowing up all these innocents if they had any other choice. But, they dont have tanks and planes and all the fancy artillery that Israel has. So they have to use islama-bombs. If we would just give them the proper tools all this suicide bombing would stop. Of course the deaths of innocents wont stop, but the suicides would...thats my point. (/sarcasm)
pro-israel bump
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