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By
Maha Abdul Hadi, IOL Palestine Correspondent
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JERUSALEM, April 26 (IsalmOnline.net) - A radical right-wing Jewish
group that claimed responsibility for recent explosions rocking a number
of Palestinian schools used attractive toy-like explosive devices to
cause large numbers of casualties, a Palestinian human rights
organization said Saturday, April 26.
"An
organization calling itself ‘Revenge of the Babies’ that detonated
explosives at occupied Jerusalem, al-Khalil and Jenin along with other
aggressive activities, planted the load in boxes apparently attractive
to the school pupils," Al-Haqq organization said in a report.
The
members of the organization also put a focus on placing these substances
early in the morning or in the break time where most students gather, in
a bid to left a higher death toll, according to the report.
The
hard-line Jewish group claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a
school in an Arab district east of Occupied Jerusalem in March last year
that left ten school pupils and two teachers wounded.
A
carnage was narrowly averted as two more bombs were found on the scene
and defused, while a fourth explosive device was also discovered in time
in a nearby community clinic.
The
explosives were found to be planted under a tree and alongside an 80-cm
high wall where the students line up to enter their classes.
"The
explosives that left all those casualties were planted in a very
colorful yellowish frame that could make pupils approach them,"
read the Palestinian report.
Another
blast rocked a school in the village of Al-Jarba, 10 kilometers (six
miles) south of Jenin on April 9, leaving 25 pupils injured, four in
serious condition. Investigations indicated
one of the children had found the device, thought to be an Israeli-made
grenade, in the school and that it exploded while he was playing with it
in a classroom.
Last
September, in the village of Zif near al-Khalil (Hebron) in the southern
West Bank, fears of Jewish extremists were again revived when a bomb
went off in the toilets of a Palestinian school, leaving 11 children
wounded, five seriously.
A
second bomb was found in the school and neutralized by army sappers
Supportive
Army
The
Palestinian human rights organization al-Haqq said the criminal acts of
the Jewish settlers and extremist Jewish groups against the Palestinians
were committed under the cover of the Israeli occupation forces.
"The
only response of the occupation forces to these acts, including the
explosions, was just a promise to open an investigation, when rather
means closing it," the organsiation said.
Israeli
military sources did not rule out that the Jenin school blast could have
been the work of Jewish extreme nationalists although the "Revenge
of the Babies" claimed responsibility for it.
The
report also said that most of the attacks on Palestinians were carried
near Israeli military posts or settlements, citing the aggression
against a Palestinian house with the knowledge and protection by the
nearby Israeli soldiers.
It
referred to a recent Israeli Defense Ministry statistical report that
Jewish settlers in Palestinian areas have 100,000 weapons, let alone the
tight security measures around their settlements illegally built on
Palestinian land and the Palestinians once used to stay.
