What makes Arafat any different from Milosovic?
Ans. Arafat kills Jews: Internationally accepted.
Milosovic was killing Musloms; internationally not accepted.
Islamic Jihad, Fatah take responsibility for bus bombing
Police and security forces at the scene of the bus bombing.
(Photo: Baz Ratner)
The Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa Brigade - a militant splinter group of Fatah - have claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing on a bus close to an IDF training camp near the city of Hadera in which three people were killed and nine others wounded Thursday night. The suicide bomber, who was also killed in the attack, boarded the bus in the northern Arab village of Umm al Fahm.
The explosion took place on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv. The Egged bus company said that the bus had been mostly empty at the time of the explosion.
Two of those killed in the attack were Inbal Weiss, 22, from Zichron Ya'acov and Ichiav Alshayd, 28, from Hadera. The name of the third fatality has not yet been released. The nine wounded - one in moderate condition and eight suffering from light injuries - were taken to Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera.
Palestinian sources reported that Samer Abu Suleiman, a member of the Islamic Jihad from the West Bank village of Silat al-Khartiya, near Jenin, had executed the attack. Sources suspect that Suleiman slipped into Israel near Um el Fahm from the Jenin area.
"The terrorist sat in the centre of the bus and blew himself up in the middle of the journey," said Avi Zohar, director-general of the Magen David Adom ambulance service. "The terrorist's body is completely crushed and destroyed."
The driver of the bus, who was lightly injured in the attack, said that the bomber - who was dressed in "tailored clothes" - had waved goodbye to two people before boarding the bus.
Government spokesman Avi Pazner blamed Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat for the attack. "These terrorist attacks are the means by which the Palestinian Authority undermines the peace mission of General Zinni," Pazner said. "This is a very serious escalation, the responsibility for which is entirely on the Palestinian Authority."
Police set up roadblocks on roads across the north of Israel, Channel One reported. |
