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TEXASGRANDMA
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It breaks my heart that people are so filled with hate for others. So many have no respect for life. So very sad.
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Luk 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
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Kindgo
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22 dead, 100 hurt in double suicide bombing in Tel
Aviv ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
By Haim Shadmi and Jonathan Lis, Ha'aretz Correspondents, Ha'aretz Service and Agencies
At least 22 people were killed and 100 others were wounded in a double suicide bombing at around 6:30 P.M. Sunday evening at the Old Central Bus Station in south Tel Aviv.
The two suicide bombers blew themselves up within less than a minute of one another, at the corner of G'dud Ha'ivri and Neve She'anan streets in south Tel Aviv.
"It seems according to evidence in the area that we are talking of two suicide bombers. Two explosions happened in parallel streets... It's a place where there are many foreign workers," Tel Aviv police chief Yossi Sedbon told Army Radio.
Dr. Yona Tannenbaum, the head of Abu Kabir Forensics Institute, said that the majority of the victims were Israeli, despite the attack occurring in an area frequented primarily by foreign workers.
Police spokesman Gil Kleiman said that the explosive devices used by the bombers were loaded with metal shards in order to maximize the destruction.
"From the extent of the damage on the scene... they were very strong explosive devices. In each case metal fragments were added to the explosives to increase the amount of death," he said.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claims attack
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, took responsibility for the attack. In a statement claiming that it was behind the bombings, the group identified the two bombers as Nablus residents Burak Hilsa and Samar A-Nuri.
"The two martyrs managed to cross all the Zionist army roadblocks and reached the heart of Tel Aviv. One blew his pure body up at the old central bus station, and the other blew himself up in another nearby street," the message said.
The statement said that it was a double martyrdom operation that killed the highest number of "the Zionist occupiers on the land of Palestine."
The group vowed to continue suicide bombing attacks, adding that the attacks "would be a revenge for the massacres carried out by Sharon against our innocent people."
Initially, a reporter for Lebanon's Al-Manar television station said that Islamic Jihad had phoned him to take responsibility for the attack, but an official in the Palestinian militant group said there had been no official statement.
Israel seeks to reassure fearful foreign workers
Channel Two television reported that foreign workers in Israel illegally had been wounded in the attack but were hiding for fear of deportation.
Television stations read police announcements in English, assuring illegal foreign workers that they would not be deported if they sought treatment or searched for friends and relatives in hospital.
Interior Minister Eli Yishai ordered immunity from prosecution for all foreign workers caught up in the attack, through injury to themselves or their families.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was to convene a security meeting at 11:30 P.M. with Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and the heads of the security establishment at 11:30 P.M.
The attack was the first suicide bombing in an Israeli city since November, when a suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing himself and 11 passengers.
On July 17 2002, two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the entrance to the Neve Sha'anan Quarter, killing three people and wounding 40 others. On January 25, 2002, 32 people were wounded in a suicide blast on Neve Sha'anat Street.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/Flash1.html
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Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.
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Mideast 20 Dead In Tel Aviv Suicide Attack
VOA News
05 Jan 2003, 18:34 UTC
Rescue workers carry wounded woman to ambulance
At least 20 people died and 80 were wounded, some critically, after two suicide bombers blew themselves up in central Tel Aviv late Sunday.
The explosions occurred during the evening rush hour at the old central bus station in the center of Tel Aviv, in the same area where a suicide bombing occurred in August. Rescue efforts were hampered by the narrow streets of Tel Aviv's older quarter where the explosion occurred.
The radical Palestinian group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attacks, which came three weeks before Israel's January 28 general election.
The United States condemned the attacks. White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said President George W. Bush will not be deterred by those who want to derail the peace process.
The last bombing in an Israeli city was on November 21, when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing himself and 11 passengers.
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