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
17:09
Fatah military wing claims responsibility for attack near Immanuel (Army Radio)
Yasser's group.
NEVER.
How mature are a people who think they can loose five wars, never negotiate a peace, and then get everything back?
Someone who claims to know told me that if Israel closed out the West Bank Arabs, Israel's economy would collapse. Apparently, most of Israel's menial dirty work is done by Arabs, same as Mexicans do most of it in the American southwest.
IOW, Israelis are stuck with the Arabs so long as the Israelis refuse to clean their own toilets, or wash their dishes, or dig their ditches, etc.
Americans complain about "illegals," but then refuse to do sweaty dirty work for low wages. Instead, they hire the "illegals" they complain about.
I guess it's the same in Europe. And the same in Israel.
No nation can close its borders until it assumes the burdens of self-sufficiency.
LOL...WHAT Palestinian economy? Do the peasants under Yasser's dictatorship manufacture anything? Do they own media outlets, such as radio or TV stations? Have they EVER? I know Yasser controls all radio and TV stations....can anyone tell me what PRIVATE INDUSTRY exists in the PA controlled territory? Oh, specifically, I want to know all about Palestinian owned industry, not foreign owned.
What about thse folks who manufacture the souvenier "martyr" necklaces and trading cards?
There is also some agriculture... the Israelis have worked jointly with Arab farmers in producing a huge crop of citrus, etc.
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Tue Jul 16,11:52 AM ET |
A blood-stained stretcher lies on the ground as an Israeli policeman guards the site of an attack after Palestinian gunmen ambushed an Israeli bus near Emmanuel, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank July 16, 2002 killing at least seven people and wounded another 20 before a high-level meeting on Middle East peace in New York. The incident was the most serious attack on Israelis since the Israeli military reoccupied seven Palestinian cities in the West Bank last month after 26 people were killed in back-to-back Palestinian suicide bombings in Jerusalem. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh |
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Tue Jul 16,11:58 AM ET |
Israeli policemen and investigators check the site of an attack after Palestinian gunmen ambushed an Israeli bus near Emmanuel, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on July 16, 2002, killing at least seven people and wounded another 20 before a high-level meeting on Middle East peace in New York. The incident was the most serious attack on Israelis since the Israeli military reoccupied seven Palestinian cities in the West Bank last month, after 26 people were killed in back-to-back Palestinian suicide bombings in Jerusalem. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen |
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Tue Jul 16,12:01 PM ET |
A body lies on the ground after Palestinian gunmen ambushed an Israeli bus near Emmanuel, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank July 16, 2002 killing at least seven people and wounded another 20 before a high-level meeting on Middle East peace in New York. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh |
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Tue Jul 16,11:44 AM ET |
Israeli investigators check a bus that was ambushed by Palestinian gunmen near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank July 16, 2002, killing at least seven people and wounding another 20. A group linked to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement claimed responsibility for the attack Hizbollah's al-Manar television said. Photo by Laszlo Balogh/Reuters |
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Tue Jul 16,11:16 AM ET |
Israeli policemen investigate the site of an attack after Palestinian gunmen ambushed an Israeli bus near Emmanuel, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, killing at least seven people and wounding another 20, July 16, 2002. The incident was the most serious attack on Israelis since the Israeli military reoccupied seven Palestinian cities in the West Bank last month after 26 people were killed in back-to-back Palestinian suicide bombings in Jerusalem. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen |
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Tue Jul 16,11:16 AM ET |
Israeli police and investigators stand at the site of an attack after a Palestinian gunmen ambushed an Israeli bus near Emmanuel, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, July 16, 2002, killing at least seven people. A group linked to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement claimed responsibility for the ambush, Hizbollah's al-Manar television said. Photo by Laszlo Balogh/Reuters |
---> The Pallies are asshole lying losers just like their Arab bruthas who Israel demolished in 4 wars. In an ideal world Pallie morons would be given all the modern weaponry they wanted. Would be given time to train......a few months. Then would take on the IDF. Now who do you think would win????
AND WOULD these lying Muslims accept the result and shut up?
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