Wednesday, March 23, 2011

One dead and thirty wounded by a bomb next to the bus station in Jerusalem

Introduced a bomb in a bag next to the bus station in Jerusalem has exploded around two p.m., killing at least one woman and injuring otras30 people. At least two of them remain in serious condition. The bomb has exploded the windows and caused extensive damage to one of the articulated bus line 74 that was close.

Police have described the occurrence of "terrorist attack", although a spokesman for the Israel Embassy in Washington has been quick to rule it a suicide action, as initially thought. After the explosion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has suspended his trip to Russia. Netanyahu has said a few hours after they defend "with an iron will" against the attack.

"Israel will act aggressively, responsibly and wisely," expressed the leader of the Likud, "to preserve the peace and security in the last two years." Both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his prime minister, Salam Fayad, have condemned the attack. The last attack of this kind took place almost seven years and killed two Israeli policemen.

"When we arrived, we met the bus with a hole in the side. Many of the injured were between the stop and the bus. Were remnants of debris embedded in the body, "said Uri Shachar, a member of the leadership of Israeli emergency services, who has detailed that among the injured are children and women." I'm in shock, "The explosion of the device, in a output Jewish quarter of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv direction has led to the city chaos, as has occurred in the vicinity of the Palacio de Congresos and near several bus stops, a means of transport which use much Jerusalemites.

The mayor of the city, Nir Barkat, has already moved to the area. The Israeli security forces have closed the entrances to the city and shake the fence to stop any possible suspect in the attack. Yossi Meier, a student ultra-orthodox two buses traveling 18 years behind the attack. yet he looks a bit dazed.

"He was riding the 24 bus when I heard a loud explosion. My bus door opened and we all ran. I'm in shock, "he told this young New Yorker, dressed in black and twists that adorn the temples. In addition, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews chanting" death to Arabs "while police tried to cut them off." They say this [attack] is because yesterday bombed Gaza and killed several people, but that's not true.

If they could, [the Palestinians] would do it every day, "said Mani meanwhile Friedman, a young ultra-Orthodox student at a religious school in Jerusalem, at the scene of the attack. First bomb on a bus in seven years This is the first explosion on a bus in Jerusalem since the September 22, 2004 a woman blew the load was attached to his body when he was at a standstill.

killing two policemen. after that attack and in July 2008 A Palestinian driving a bulldozer flipped a bus and killed three Israelis and wounded 50. In March of that year, a Palestinian from Jerusalem became a Jewish religious school and shot dead eight students. The last suicide bombing in Tel Aviv took place in April 2006.

A Palestinian blew himself up next to the old station of the Israeli town killing nine people. The attack comes just a day after eight Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip because of Israeli artillery fire, according to Palestinian medical sources reported yesterday. Two of them were under age and belonged to the same family.

More than two dozen Palestinians, many of them young, were injured following a series of attacks perpetrated by the Army, which says responding to Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza. The two children killed in one attack belonged to the Al Hilu and were playing football outside his home, east of Gaza City after three in the afternoon, when they were hit by Israeli artillery, as reported Adha Abu Salmiya, emergency service spokesman in Gaza, was quoted by the Palestinian news agency Maan.

Another three of the Palestinians killed were militants of Islamic Jihad, said the organization. In response, the Palestinian armed faction now has a rocket shot that struck the outskirts of Ashdod, about 40 miles north Gaza. No one was injured. Hours later, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, Silvan Shalom, has warned that the current situation is reminiscent of that which led to the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip in late 2008 and early 2009, which killed 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians.

"We should consider the possibility of recovering this operation," said Shalom to Israel Radio. "I say this despite being aware that something, of course, aggravate the tension in the region," he added.

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