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To: Ish who wrote (200432)	11/6/2001 3:14:16 PM
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There is no justification for targeting innocents. * * * Gunman kills two in attack on Jerusalem bus By Etgar Lefkovits November, 05 2001 JERUSALEM (November 5) - A Palestinian gunman opened fire on an Egged bus at Jerusalem's French Hill intersection just after 3:45 yesterday afternoon, killing a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl returning home from school and wounding nearly 50 others. The terrorist, who managed to empty a full M-16 magazine at the No. 25 bus, was shot dead by a border policeman stationed at the bus stop across the street. Shoshana Ben-Yishai, of Beitar Ilit, was buried last night in Jerusalem. Ben-Yishai, who also held US citizenship, was on her way home from the Beit Shulamit School in Jerusalem's Neveh Ya'acov, where she boarded the bus. The name of the boy, from the Ramot neighborhood, had not been released by press time, pending family notification. Two of the wounded, one a 14-year-old girl who was shot in the head, remained in serious but stable condition in Hadassah-University Hospital, Ein Kerem. At press time 13 others were still in the hospital. Jerusalem police chief Cmdr. Mickey Levy told reporters the gunman was a 24-year-old member of Islamic Jihad from Hebron. Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the attack in faxes sent to news agencies, and named the gunman as Hatem Yaein Shuweiki. Hamas also took credit for the attack, though this was discounted by police. As the bus pulled up to the intersection and waited for the light to turn green, the gunman, positioned at the side of the road, opened fire. "I saw the terrorist standing on the street. He was shooting and shooting and shooting. I began reciting the Shema Yisraelâ" said teacher Mazal Amsalem, who was on her way home from her school in Neveh Ya'acov. "People on the bus were in utter shock, in panic. I shouted at everyone to hit the floor." Other passengers talked of a living through a nightmare of bullets. "It was just shooting and shooting and shooting," a teenage girl sobbed, a second before she was rushed to the hospital to be treated for shock. A border policeman and policewoman who were on routine duty across the street, opened fire, along with a civilian passerby, and killed the gunman. Eyewitnesses also reported they saw two other people racing away from the scene on foot in the direction of nearby Shuafat. But police said last night a police video showed there was only one gunman, and the two men seen fleeing were probably not involved. Levy said the intersection, which has been a target of previous terror attacks because of its proximity to the West Bank, is under 24-hour police surveillance. He said some 180,000 Arab workers from outside Jerusalem enter the city every day, most of them via the northern rim. For this reason as many as 60 percent of Jerusalem police forces are situated in this area. Levy said the policemen were positioned at the bus stop across the street because more people are there. In the last attack at the intersection in March, a Hamas suicide bomber blew himself up next to another Egged bus next to the bus stop, wounding 30. In February, a man was seriously wounded in a drive-by shooting at the intersection. "It is impossible to encircle the intersection, with its many lanes, with policemen," said Insp.-Gen. Shlomo Aharonishky. As the wounded were being taken to hospitals, an elderly woman who had been on the bus was sitting on the ground with her hand on her chest, shaking as medics took her pulse. A group of 10 teenagers from Beit Shulamit, the school Ben-Yishai attended, sobbed on the ground. The Palestinian leadership condemned the shooting. In a statement, it said it had ordered PA security officers to hunt down the masterminds of the attack and arrest them. jpost.com * * *