Posted on 03/29/2002 2:24:17 AM PST by kattracks
Explosion in Jerusalem Shopping Center Injures Dozens of People, Police SayJ E R U S A L E M, March 29 —
An explosion went off in a Jerusalem shopping center Friday afternoon and dozens of people were injured, police and rescue workers said.
The blast occurred at a strip mall in Kiryat Yovel, a working class Jewish neighborhood in southeastern part of the city, police reported.
Dozens were hurt, according to initital reports from Israeli rescue services reaching the scene.
Copyright 2002 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
And I'm tired of CNN telling us that all the Palestinians have is "rocks" to throw. They obviously have more than that. Even CNN can't dumb this down anymore.
| Suicide Bombing Attack in Jerusalem Supermarket; At Least One Israeli Killed | ||
| 29-03-2002, 11:49 | ||
Israeli police said a Palestinian female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Jerusalem's neighborhood of Kiryat Yovel supermarket. Israel Radio reported that mortar shells that were part of the bomb remained in the supermarket after the attack. Fatah's al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for this bombing attack. CONTINUE... |
What a way to start Black Friday. I'm Catholic, and most people call it "Good Friday", but old traditional Catholics refer to it as Black. With good reason.
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BEIRUT, March 29 (Reuters) - Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat is ready to die in a confrontation with Israeli forces
who smashed their way into his compound in the West Bank,
Palestinian Planning Minister Nabil Shaath said on Friday.
"He is calm, he is steadfast, he is sure, not afraid of
death. He never was," Shaath told Reuters television in Beirut,
adding that he was in touch by telephone with Arafat.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, calling Arafat an
enemy, said he had decided to send troops to Ramallah, blaming
the Palestinian leader for failing to prevent attacks against
Israelis during the past 18 months of an uprising against
occupation.
Five Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed in
gunbattles on Friday after about 100 tanks and armoured
personnel carriers entered Ramallah. Israeli armour surrounded
Arafat's office and took over at least one building inside the
compound.
The raid came a day after an Arab summit in Beirut backed a
Saudi peace initiative offering Israel normal ties with Arab
states in exchange for its withdrawal from occupied Arab land
and allowing the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Shaath said Israeli forces were killing civilians on the
street. "It is like a duck shoot," he said, adding that he would
try to join Arafat in the West Bank on Friday.
He said Israeli "tanks and and heavy armoured cars are just
three yards below his (Arafat's) office...".
((Beirut editorial +9611 983885, fax +9611 983889,
beirut.newsroom@reuters.com))
Fine by me .. One less Murdering Terrorist the World has to deal with
Maybe someone should explain to CNN that rocks don't blow up
All Palestinian factions unite against Israel, Arafat says Israeli army attacking his HQ with tanks, missiles, Sharon considers him an enemy.
JERUSALEM - GAZA CITY & RAMALLAH, West Bank - A Palestinian man was killed in clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian gunmen in Ramallah Friday after Israel tanks and armoured vehicles stormed into the West Bank town, Palestinian security officials said.
The man was identified as Ala Daraghme, 22, who they said was shot dead in clashes in the Al Tireh district in the north of the town, around a mile (1.6 kilometres) from Yasser Arafat's West Bank headquarters.
A Palestinian knifed to death two Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip early Friday, an Israeli military source said.
They were attacked in the Netzarim settlement in the centre of the Strip, the source said, adding that the killer was a farm labourer who worked in the settlement.
Their death brought to 1,627 the overall death toll for the 18-month-old Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation.
All the various Islamic and nationalist Palestinian factions on Friday decided to "unite to defend the Palestinian people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip," an official of the radical Islamic group Hamas reported after a meeting
Arafat said on Friday that Israel was attacking his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah with "tanks and missiles," in an interview with Qatar's Al-Jazeera television.
Israel is "attacking the headquarters of the Palestinian leadership with tanks and missiles and some of our premises have been destroyed," Arafat told the satellite channel by telephone.
"They (Israelis) want me to become a prisoner or fugitive, or (they want me) dead. But I tell them no, I'll be a martyr, a martyr, a martyr," he said.
"May God grant me martyrdom," Arafat said, vowing that the Palestinian people would "not kneel" to Israel.
His words came just hours after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared that both he and his government now viewed the Palestinian leader as "an enemy who must be isolated".
Speaking at a press conference following an all-night emergency cabinet session, Sharon said Israeli troops were already in Ramallah "in the area of the Mukhatar", the official name for Arafat's residence.
"We've done everything possible to arrive at peace but all we have had until now has been terror, terror and more terror. No sovereign government can accept such events," he said. "We are in a war where the targets are women, children, babies and old people. We know that sometimes in war civilians are killed but in this war, the targets are civilians and we are seeing whole families destroyed," he said.
"This is why we see Arafat as an enemy, so he is going to be isolated."
Israel would take "all the necessary measures to act and destroy the infrastructure of every terror element that exists", he said, adding that the cabinet had approved the immediate call-up of 20,000 reserve soldiers in order to be carry out such measures.
Speaking at the same press conference, Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer said, however, that Israel had "no interest in reconquering or re-occupying the Palestinian territories.
It was not the Palestinian people who were "the enemy" but terror, he stressed.
"The only thing that interests us is to fight against the infrastructure of terrorism in the territories. This war has no geographical boundaries or borders," Ben Eliezer added.
"We are calling a large number of people into this action which will be concentrated in Ramallah, which is the capital of terror," he said.
But speaking in the televised interview, Arafat hit back saying Israel was invading Palestinian-ruled areas "in response to the Arab summit, which endorsed the peace initiative of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz" in Beirut Thursday.
"This is the Israeli answer to any attempt to bring peace, because they don't want peace," he said.
"Is occupation not ... terrorism? Is the use of F-16s and the bombing of civilians not ... terrorism?" asked Arafat in response to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's accusations of terrorism against the Palestinians.
Israeli tanks have deployed throughout Ramallah, fully occupying the West Bank town and surrounding Yasser Arafat's headquarters, Palestinian security sources said Friday.
Heavy clashes are taking place at various locations.
An army bulldozer smashed a hole in the wall of Arafat's compound in the north of the town but had not entered, the same sources said.
Pass the barf-bag, would ya?
- Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are reportedly marching throughout the territories in support of Arafat.
- There are mass demonstrations in various Arab countries. An official PA spokeman called for "demonstrations of rage" outside Israeli and American embassies in the Arab world.
The major/elite American media will continue to be dumb as long as the viewer is as equally dumb and allows it to be. For the same reason you NEVER hear the major media in America report what Arafat preaches to his people in Arabic after showing a clip of him claiming to want "peace" in English. Just the peace stuff. Never the parts of him telling the Palestinians to destory Jews.
Didn't the leaders of the Taliban say the same thing, just before they ran for their lives and sent their followers to die in their place?
Ask CNN why the Arabs didn't let Arafat broadcast his speech at the summit??? and why 50% of the Arab leaders didn't attend the summit ..
Cause THEY knew there would be trouble
What does that tell you?
They aren't allowed to drive but they can carry a bomb. Allah's an odd duck
They'll be sending in the children next.
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| The Kiryat Yovel neighborhood in Jerusalem where a female suicide bomber blew herself up Friday afternoon in a supermarket. (Photo: Ha'aretz) |
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