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53 injured in today's suicide blast: Jerusalem
Fifty-three people were injured and several were believed to have been killed in a suicide bombing in west Jerusalem. There was no immediate confirmation of any Israeli deaths. Three of the injured were in serious condition. The blast gutted the Freimann and Bein shoe shop, just metres from the Sbarro pizzeria on Jaffa Road where 15 people were killed plus the bomber in a Hamas suicide bombing on August 9. Shop-fronts were shattered, their glass and metal framework blown down the street as rescue workers rushed in to evacuate the injured, many of them covered in blood.
The Palestinians do seem to be trying to get up to one a day. It also looks like they had one of those "we've got to get our numbers up" meetings. Keeping Israel provoked keeps the Arab yokels stirred up. It's reached the point now where it's out of Arafat's hands - he's become "irrelevant" to his own.
Hezbollah's television station Al Manar said that the suicide bomber responsible for the attack was 20-year-old Shinaz Amuri, a female student from Nablus. The dead Israeli was identified as 81-year-old Pinchus Toktaly, a tour guide. This was first suicide attack carried out by a woman. She studied at the A-Najach University in Nablus, defined as a "hothouse for suicide bomber" by the Shin Bet security services. At least six of the 120 suicide bombers who have carried out attacks against Israeli targets were students at the university, which is also considered a Hamas stronghold. No group took immediate responsibility for the blast, and Hamas leader in Gaza, Mahmoud Al Zahar, refused to say whether his organization was behind the bombing. Of the wounded, two were in serious condition, four sustained moderate wounds and the rest light injuries.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-01-27 |
