[monkeyshine]

Stay Tuned for more info.

[monkeyshine]

Oops. Meant Refugee camp.

[Senator Pardek]

Achmed, did you say the red or the white wire?

[goodnesswins]

SOOOOOO.....it's Sunday, er, Monday there...another day, another explosion......tis getting old....(although I feel sorry for the innocents.)

[Thinkin' Gal]

Large Explosion in Gaza Refugee Camp

Work accident / own goal?

[Governor StrangeReno]

Better throw in a daisycutter just in case

[Faraday]

Did the Palestinians lose to the Paraguayans in the World Cup?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

"Ali, did you say the red wire or the white wi....."

[Sub-Driver]

Jun 9, 2002 Explosion Rocks Refugee Camp, Injures Dozens The Associated Press JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) - A powerful explosion shook a neighborhood in this refugee camp early Monday, destroying one building and damaging nearby homes. At least 25 people were injured, three critically, in the blast, which residents said came from inside the destroyed building. Palestinian officials would not say what caused the blast and tried to prevent journalists from entering the area. Palestinian police worked with flashlights to remove concrete blocks and evacuate the wounded to hospital. A potent smell of gas filled the area. Two floors of the devastated building collapsed on top of each other and rooftops close by also caved in from the blast, which could be heard in nearby Gaza City. Outside al Awda hospital in nearby Beit Lahia people walked outside still dazed from the explosion. Many of the wounded suffered shrapnel wounds from being hit by pieces of flying concrete. AP-ES-06-09-02 1932EDT

[dennisw]

I am second to no one in condemning such Muslim violence. This is truly appalling and upsetting.

[Diogenesis]

"Palestinian officials would not say what caused the blast
and tried to prevent journalists from entering the area."

Why would they not want journalists to see?

Hmmmmmm......

[MadelineZapeezda]

Maybe it was a 'Jim Jones Suicide Bomber Camp'?

[Pharmboy]

From the AP:

Explosion Rocks Refugee Camp, Injures Dozens
The Associated Press

Published: Jun 9, 2002

JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) - A powerful explosion shook a neighborhood in this refugee camp early Monday, destroying one building and damaging nearby homes. At least 25 people were injured, three critically, in the blast, which residents said came from inside the destroyed building.

Palestinian officials would not say what caused the blast and tried to prevent journalists from entering the area.

Palestinian police worked with flashlights to remove concrete blocks and evacuate the wounded to hospital. A potent smell of gas filled the area.

Two floors of the devastated building collapsed on top of each other and rooftops close by also caved in from the blast, which could be heard in nearby Gaza City.

Outside al Awda hospital in nearby Beit Lahia people walked outside still dazed from the explosion. Many of the wounded suffered shrapnel wounds from being hit by pieces of flying concrete.

[God-fearer]

Looks like the one on its way over the green line will not bring Sharon back early like the last one.
Another working accident.
Guess they will have try another one.
And to think of all the uncompensated families ... it is heart breaking.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

I simply can not imagine living in such a small country, with terror happening on a near-daily basis. America has it easy, comparatively. We had a few big bangs, they have death by a thousand paper cuts. If America ever comes to a point where terrorism (not the threat of terrorism, but actual acts of terror) is part of daily life, we're in big trouble.

[ml/nj]

Large Explosion in Gaza Refugee Camp

Is this one under United Nations Administration too?

ML/NJ

[Utopia]

So Arafat finally kept a promise - promising a big explosion ...

[MinuteGal]

Article says a "potent smell of gas" filled the air. So it doesn't sound as if it's a homemade bomb or land mine if this is true. Probably some burkha-babe laundress trying to wash Arafat's socks and everything and everybody got tumble-dried in an unexpected way when they exploded.

Leni

[Southack]

we have simply got to name the device that the Israelis use to remotely detonate Palestinian bombs under construction...

[OldFriend]

Potent felafel?

[TheOtherOne]

More than 30 Palestinians injured in Gaza camp blast
 
06/10/2002
Agence France-Presse
(Copyright 2002)
CORRECTION: ATTENTION - ADDS details on injured, ups damaged houses

GAZA CITY, June 10 (AFP) - More than 30 Palestinians were injured, some seriously, when a violent blast rocked Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources said early on Monday.

Palestinian security sources said the blast, the reason for which was initially unclear, almost totally destroyed a three-storey house in the camp and damaged more than 10 others in the area.

At least 32 people were injured in the explosion, among whom were a number of children, medical sources said.

Ambulances took the wounded, who were said to be in moderate to serious condition, to two hospitals in Gaza City.

According to witnesses in the camp, fires were still raging in the destroyed house, which belonged to the Abu Sharekh family, and the surrounding buildings.

Palestinian police were investigating the circumstances of the blast, security sources told AFP.

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