At Least 10 Israelis Killed, 50 Injured, in Bus Explosion
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The bus had several Israeli military officials among its passengers |
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM,
August 4 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - At least ten people
were killed and around 50 injured, several of them seriously, when a
bomb ripped through a bus, carrying several Israeli soldiers, in
northern Israel early Sunday, August 4, hours after the Israeli army
dynamited eight Palestinian homes in the West Bank.
The
explosion was claimed by the Ezzedine El Qassam Brigades, the military
wing of the Islamic resistance group Hamas, reported Qatar’s
Al-Jazeera satellite channel.
The
statement by the Brigades did not mention the name of the resistance
fighter who carried out the attack, in a bid to protect his family and
home from Israel’s new policy of exiling the families of resistance
fighters, and dynamiting their homes.
Al-Jazeera’s
correspondent said that the statement of the Brigades in which they
claimed responsibility said that this was the second attack in a
series of revenge attacks that they are planning in retaliation for
the killing of Salah Shehada, who was the military leader of Hamas.
Salah
Shehada was killed along with 16 civilians, 12 of them children, in an
Israeli air strike in densely populated Gaza neighborhood, early
Tuesday, July 23.
One
witness told Israeli public radio the explosion blew apart one side of
the bus near the town of Safad, north of Lake Galilee.
The
explosion occurred at a roadside rest area close to the Jewish holy
site marking the tomb of rabbi Shimoen Bar Yohai, public television
said.
Police
spokesman Ofer Sivan said the blast was a “terrorist attack”
although he said police did not immediately know if the explosion was
caused by a resistance bomber or a bag full of explosives left on the
vehicle, which had stopped near Meron junction, Agence France-Presse
(AFP) reported.
It
was the first bombing in Israel since Wednesday, when the brigades
killed seven people in a bomb attack at occupied Jerusalem’s Hebrew
university.
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