Blast in Jerusalem Shopping Center

AP | 3/29/02

[kattracks]

Explosion in Jerusalem Shopping Center Injures Dozens of People, Police Say

J 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.

[Mo1]

Fox News is airing this ..

[Gemflint]

Nice catch, Kattracks! Have been up most of the night trying to keep current on events over there. It's going to be a busy day, no doubt...

[Rustynailww]

the palestinians are a people of peace.

[Mo1]

Fox is reporting 1 dead and 10 injuried

[kattracks]

Many Hurt in Jerusalem Market Blast, Police Say

March 29

— JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A suspected bomb rocked a supermarket in a suburb of Jerusalem Friday, causing many casualties, police said.

The police gave no more details of the explosion in the Kiryat Yovel district. Ambulances rushed to the scene.

The blast occurred several hours after Israeli forces entered the West Bank city of Ramallah, nine miles north of Jerusalem, following a Palestinian suicide attack which killed at least 20 Israelis in the city of Netanya Wednesday.

Wednesday's suicide bombing was one of the bloodiest since occupation 18 months ago.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Perhaps the PLO will enjoy what I hope Sharon has in for them; at least at 40-1 kill ratio. That should eliminate the PLO problem and get rid of one more terrorist organization.

[Catspaw]

CNN: it was a female suicide bomber from Arafat's Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigades.

[Gemflint]

According to Haaretz, it was another female suicide bomber:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=146744&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0

Explosion at supermarket in J'lem; dozens injured, two seriously

By Ha'aretz Service

An explosion ripped through a supermarket on Uruguay Street in Jerusalem's Kiryat Yuvel neighborhood Friday, when a female suicide bomber detonated a large device inside the supermarket.

Magen David Adom spokesman Yeruham Mandola said that there were dozens of injuries, including two people who were severely injured.

Seven of the injured were taken to Hadassah University Hospital at Ein Kerem, located within a few kilometers of the blast site. Eight others were taken to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

Jerusalem fire chief Rami Yaffeh said that it appears that at least one unexploded mortar shell is still inside the supermarket.

Israel television said at least one person was killed, but there was no immediate confirmation from authorities.

Rescue and emergency services are on the scene.

[kattracks]

URGENT Explosion Occurs in West Jerusalem, Dozens Injured

JERUSALEM, 29 March, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A suicide bombing attack occurred in a supermarket in West Jerusalem's neighborhood of Kiryat Yuval, injuring dozens of people, two seriously.

The incident took place at about 2:00 p.m. (1200 GMT). Police has sealed off the scene.

According to initial reports, the suicide bomber was a Palestinian woman.

Copyright 2002 XINHUA NEWS AGENCY.

[kattracks]

Bomb blast rips through Jerusalem supermarket, casualties likely

Jerusalem, Mar 29, 2002 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Several people were feared killed or injured on Friday in a bomb blast that ripped through a supermarket in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Yovel.

Israeli radio said several ambulances were at the scene of the apparent suicide attack, which occurred inside the crowded supermarket.

    ez/jim

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Copyright (c) 2002. Agencia EFE S.A.

[Catspaw]

And another attack, this one inside of a synagogue:

(07:50) Two dead in Gaza Strip knife attack
By The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff

Two Israelis were killed in an attack by at least one knife-wielding Palestinian terrorist in the central Gaza Strip community of Netzarim a short time ago.

The terrorists apparently broke into a synagogue during early morning prayers and began stabbing worshippers, Army Radio said.

The terrorists fled, Channel 1 Television reported a few minutes ago.

Large IDF contingents are moving house to house in the settlement searching for the terrorist.

The Jerusalem Post Internet Edition will update this report as further details become available.

[DJ88]

While I was on the road yesterday, I managed to tune into Ollie North's radio show, "Common Sense Radio". He had three questions for his listeners about the response Israel should take in dealing with Arafart:

1. Arrest him and put him on trial.

2. Launch a massive attack on the Palestinians.

3. Turn the other cheek.

Most (about 98%) of the callers went with option #2. They said that the Israeli's have as much right to retaliate with force as the US did after 9/11.

I have to tell you...I agree with Option 2, but it also scares the bejeezus out of me. But I don't think that there is any other option; I certainly don't see Israel turning the other cheek (would we?) or even if they did get Arafat, would that stop the violence?

I think this is rising to a new level that we younguns (me) haven't seen the likes of..and I did NOT like the picture in the paper I saw today of King Abdullah kissing the Iraqi diplomat (?) at the summit yesterday. Not at all.

[Catspaw]

I hope the ID of the bomber as a female was done by visual inspection of her gonads. The suicide bomber in Netanya was dressed as a female.

[kattracks]

Female suicide bomber blows herself up at Jerusalem supermarket, dozens injured, police say.

JERUSALEM, Mar 29, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at the entrance to a Jerusalem supermarket on Friday afternoon, killing herself and injuring dozens, police and rescue workers said.

There were unconfirmed reports that at least one person was killed in addition to the bomber.

The blast occurred at a strip mall in Kiryat Yovel, a working class Jewish neighborhood in southeastern part of the city.

"I got there two minutes afterwards. It was a horrible scene," said Moshe, a witnesses who spoke to Israel Radio. He said two dead bodies were at the entrance, apparently those of the bomber and a guard who tried to stop her.

"I understood that the guard did not let the terrorist in, and they were blown up together," said Moshe, who gave only his first name.

Another witness, Hanna Cohen, said she was about to enter the store when there was "was a huge blast, and I saw people flying all around, arms and legs."

Dozens were hurt, including many inside the supermarket, according to police and rescue workers. "There are many casualties," said Yeruham Mandola, spokesman for the Magen David Adom rescue service.

Israel Radio said the Al Aqsa Brigades, a militia linked to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility.

Palestinian militants have carried out dozens of bomb attacks during the 18 months of Mideast fighting. There have been about 50 suicide bombings during the Palestinian uprising, and Friday's attack was the second such attack carried out by a woman.

EDs: UPDATES with police saying bombing was carried out by female suicide bomber.

Copyright 2002 Associated Press, All rights reserved

[Semper Paratus]

Isreal should be ready because Palestine is now going to dumpt their inventory of suicide bombers all at once!

[MeekOneGOP]

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=146744&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0
Jerusalem fire chief Rami Yaffeh said that it appears that at least one unexploded mortar shell is still inside the supermarket.

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One killed, 17 wounded in explosion at J'lem supermarket

One person was killed and 17 were injured, six of them seriously, in a suicide bombing in a supermarket on Uruguay Street in Jerusalem's Kiryat Yuvel neighborhood Friday afternoon.

The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Police said a female suicide bomber detonated a large device inside the supermarket.

Seven of the injured were taken to Hadassah University Hospital at Ein Kerem, located within a few kilometers of the blast site. Eight others were taken to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

Jerusalem fire chief Rami Yaffeh said that it appears that at least one unexploded mortar shell is still inside the supermarket.

Rescue and emergency services are on the scene.

_{By Ha'aretz Service}

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[grimalkin]

Updated 3/29 14:45 Israel time - At 1:55 p.m. a female suicide bomber exploded an artillery shell near the door of a crowded supermarket in the Kiryat Yovel district of Jerusalem. A security guard identified her and prevented her from entering the center of the store. There are deaths and 17 injuries, one critical. Arafat's Fatah took credit for the blast.

Israeli police responded to stones thrown from the Temple Mount on Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall by entering the Temple Mount compound and evacuating the rioters.

An Israeli officer was killed and 3 soldiers wounded as IDF forces re-entered the Palestinian city of Ramallah early Friday and moved into the government compound where Yasser Arafat has his headquarters. 3 Palestinians were killed and 40 wounded.

This morning, the government declared Arafat and the Palestinian Authority as "enemy" and initiated operations throughout the West Bank and Gaza, including a callup of 20,000 reserve soldiers.

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.

[rocknotsand]

Where's the nation called Palestine. Its not on the map and I have an old map. I see Jordan and Syria and Lebanon though. Its a propaganda term. I think you are refering to those Jordanian Refusees.

But the Jordanians refused to give their kin immigrant status and the Lebanese exiled them in the end too. Are they the murder SOBs who are led by the senile towel head with the big nose and bigger smell? Hashouri I think her name is.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

One killed, 17 wounded in explosion at J'lem supermarket
Fire chief believes there are unexploded devices inside the building.

[DJ88]

Maybe the media has never told anyone this, or I missed it. But did you know that the families of these "suicide bombers" receive monetary compensation?????? Depending on the AMOUNT of people/destruction that they have caused. Unbelievable. Why don't we find these families and put THEM on trial?

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.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Suicide Bombing Attack in Jerusalem Supermarket; At Least One Israeli Killed

29-03-2002, 11:49

A huge blast hit an Israeli supermarket in Jerusalem Friday noon. Israel television said at least one person was killed and scores were injured, six of them seriously.

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...

[DJ88]

Well...jeez...I hope they get it OUT. I'm sure they will not allow people inside.

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.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Arafat ready to die -  - Palestinian minister Shaath

    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))

[leadpenny]

Martin Fletcher, NBC, just reported that a supermarket guard spotted her and pushed her back outside where she triggered herself into eternity. My words.

[Mo1]

- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is ready to die in a confrontation with Israeli forces

Fine by me .. One less Murdering Terrorist the World has to deal with

[Razwan]

Israel better do something, and do it soon

[Mo1]

And I'm tired of CNN telling us that all the Palestinians have is "rocks" to throw

Maybe someone should explain to CNN that rocks don't blow up

[Nix 2]

This is from Mid-East online. Notice how conveniently they didn't mention that the settlers were knifed in a Synagogue.

OY!!!!

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.

[DJ88]

Oh well, they've gotten past that now. Now they are saying it's because SHARON wouldn't let ARAFART attend the summit. Yeah, uh-huh. And Andrea Yates was mentally ill.

Pass the barf-bag, would ya?

[Gemflint]

According to KOL-Israel's latest article:

- 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.

[zandtar]

Even CNN can't dumb this down anymore

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.

[zandtar]

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is ready to die in a confrontation with Israeli forces

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?

[Mo1]

Now they are saying it's because SHARON wouldn't let ARAFART attend the summit.

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

[DJ88]

Yeah, I know. Thank goodness for FR.

[Mo1]

FOX News is reporting the Israel just open fired on Arafat's office

[DJ88]

Also...heard this little tidbit from Ollie North...even his fellow ARABS didn't want him there. He never even received an invitation.

What does that tell you?

[DJ88]

Ok...guess it's time to turn on the TV. Thanks, Mo1.

[AppyPappy]

another female suicide bomber:

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.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Kiryat Yovel neighborhood in Jerusalem where a female suicide bomber blew herself up Friday afternoon in a supermarket.  (Photo: Ha'aretz)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Female suicide bomber kills herself, two others at Jerusalem supermarket, police say -AP Breaking News
JASON KEYSER, Associated Press Writer
(03-29) 04:38 PST JERUSALEM (AP) -- A female suicide bomber detonated explosives at the entrance to a Jerusalem supermarket Friday afternoon, killing herself and two other people, police and rescue workers said. At least 19 peopl...

[TomGuy]

They'll be sending in the children next.

They are in training.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Bomb carnage in Jerusalem mall
Dozens of casualties are reported after a bomb blast in Jerusalem, as Israeli forces smash their way into Yasser Arafat's West Bank compound.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP OF JRL113--This undated but recent family handout photograph shows 18-year-old suicide bomber Ayat Ahkras from the Dheisheh refugee camp, on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Ahkras killed herself, two others and injured about 20 people when she detonated her explosives outside a Jerusalem supermarket Friday March 29, 2002. (AP Photo/HO)

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[Oldeconomybuyer]

A woman looks at a body at the entrance of a supermarket after an explosion in Jerusalem, March 29, 2002. A suspected woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a suburb of Jerusalem, injuring at least eight people, witnesses said. REUTERS/str

Israeli police search the scene where an 18-year-old female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at the entrance to a Jerusalem supermarket Friday March 29, 2002, killing herself, two others and injuring about 20 people. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

[texasbluebell]

and I did NOT like the picture in the paper I saw today of King Abdullah kissing the Iraqi diplomat (?) at the summit yesterday. Not at all.

I just saw old footage from a few months ago, of Abdullah warmly kissing Arafat. Very creepy.

[My Identity]

Still wondering if the only way to honorably "solve" the Arab-Israeli conflict is to use "ethnic cleansing" (by which I mean the polite, but forceful relocation of all Palis to Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and/or Saudi Arabia -- not genocide which is how some on the left use it).

I think this is justified, even required, by the almost 10 years of official "judeo-nazi" indoctrination by the PA of the Pali masses. The current wave of suicide bombers is unprecedented, and is the direct (and obviously planned) result of brainwashing that started with Pali children as young as 1st and 2nd grade. What unspeakable, vomitous horror.

Nothing less than the equivalent of an "Allied invasion of Germany" will suffice to rid the world of this monstrosity. Eject all Palis, round up their leaders (including "clerics" and "teachers"), put them on trial for crimes against humanity, and then hang them in public.

[Jn316]

I think even more dangerous then children trained to be bombers is children taught hatred of the Jews.

[MaxwellWolf]

I think solution to this muslim madness was shown to us by hindus in Gujarat. Hindus killed twice as many muslims as hindus victims of the train fire and that took care of the muslims. Unless we and Israelis are willing to do the same the problem will never be rectified. You don't hear of any more hindus being killed by muslims in India. If somebody had told me six month ago that I would be learning a lesson from a third world country (India) I would have dismissed the person as completely insane.