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According to assessments reported in Hebrew media, some 35 people are still considered missing after a missile strike on a residential building in Bat Yam. Rescuers are racing against time to extract the missing amid fears that the building could collapse.

New details were revealed on Sunday about the miracle that occurred at the Bat Yam bus terminus explosions last Thursday. United Hatzalah volunteers and security forces escaped death when they left the scene of the explosion just minutes before the third bomb exploded. Shmuel Malka, director of United Hatzalah in Bat Yam, said to Kol Barama Radio that he arrived with a team of volunteers at the scene of the first explosion on Menachem Begin Street within minutes. While they were scanning the buses at the terminal, another explosion was heard in the nearby parking lot. The team went to...

The bomb that was used to blow up a Dan bus in Bat Yam last month was remarkably similar to the bomb that was used in the Boston Marathon terror attack in April of last year. The bomb that exploded last month on an evacuated public bus in central Israel closely resembled the type used in the Boston Marathon attack. The explosive in Bat Yam was enclosed in a pressure cooker and was activated by a cell phone, according to the Shin Bet security service.  ... The bomb, which was placed in a black backpack with wires sticking out,...

Both the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups welcomed Sunday’s attack on a bus in the central Israeli city of Bat Yam. Neither group, however, claimed responsibility for the bombing, in which one officer was lightly wounded. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement quoted by the Palestinian Authority-based Ma’an news agency that the organization welcomed the attack, which he said was a "response to the crimes of the occupation." A source with the Islamic Jihad group told Ma’an he hoped the attack "could usher the resumption of suicide attacks." He added that the attack was "a sign that...

Passengers on a bus in Bat Yam where a bomb exploded Sunday afternoon attributed the fact that no one was killed to a miracle. Police said that based on their initial investigation, the explosion on the number 240 bus from Bnai Brak to Bat Yam was due to a bomb placed by Arab terrorists. One person – a police bomb squad officer – was injured as he approached a suspicious package on the bus. A spokesperson for the Dan Bus Company said that there twelve passengers on the bus when a passenger alerted the driver that there was a suspicious...

Last Update: 08/10/2003 23:10 Sharon: Left-wing is collaborating with the Palestinians By Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondent Prime Minister Ariel Sharon harshly criticized the Labor Party and the Israeli left wing on Wednesday evening and charged them with collaborating with the Palestinians in an effort to topple the government. Sharon made his remarks in Bat Yam during a Likud event supporting the party's candidate for in the coastal city. In response to recent critical remarks emanating from the left, Sharon said that "there are recent cynical political attempts on the part of the Labor Party and the left to topple the...