Hebrew University Blast Kills At Least 7, Injures More Than 50
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Blast
took place despite intensive security
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JERUSALEM, July 31 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Seven people
were killed and more than 50 wounded in a resistance operation carried
out Wednesday, July 31, in an Israeli university cafeteria in east
Jerusalem, in retaliation to the Gaza massacre which left 17
Palestinians, including 12 children dead early last week, as
Palestinian resistance group Hamas said in a statement.
The
blast in the cafeteria in the law faculty at the Hebrew University of
Mount Scopus occurred even though authorities were on high alert a day
after a Palestinian teenager blew himself up in the first bombing in
Jerusalem in nearly six weeks, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
The
Hamas military wing, Ezzedine Al Qassam, claimed responsibility for
the attack, reported Qatari satellite channel, Al-Jazeera.
Speaking
to Al-Jazeera, Hatem Abdul Qader, member of the Palestinian
legislative parliament, said that Sharon’s hands are filled with the
blood of the dead Israelis. “It is all his fault. After the massacre
in Gaza, this operation was only natural to take place. Sharon and the
Israelis will only dream of peace when it is attained for the
Palestinians,” he said.
Earlier
this week, a Palestinian teenage girl was shot dead and 23 other
Palestinians were injured Sunday, July 28, by Jewish settlers who went
on the rampage through the West Bank city of Al-Khalil, causing
widespread fear and panic among the Palestinian civilians.
This
came just days after the spiritual leader of Hamas said his
Palestinian Islamic resistance movement was ready to declare a
“conditional truce” before Israel launched its deadly raid in
Gaza, in an interview published Wednesday, July 24.
“It
is true ... (that Hamas) was ready to declare a truce, on certain
conditions, not only an Israeli withdrawal” from reoccupied
Palestinian areas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassine told Spain’s ABC
newspaper.
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