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Gunmen kill 4 Israelis in bus station attack
At least two Palestinian gunmen opened fire and killed four Israelis Thursday at a bus station in Beit Shean, Israel, before being shot dead, according to police. At least 24 Israelis were wounded in the terror attack, rescue officials said, four of them seriously. Police said the Palestinian gunmen drove up to Beit Shean's central bus station in a car and opened fire at people standing at a bus stop. Israeli soldiers at the bus stop returned fire. Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the shooting in a call to the Reuters news agency. The caller said the attack was in revenge for the killing of two militant leaders — one from Al Aqsa and another from the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas — in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday. Israel has denied being involved in those deaths. Since the credit's claimed by al-Aqsa, it's probably just a coincidence that this particular atrocity happened to occur the same day the Atrocity of the Month® was supposed to happen, in a town snugged up against the Jordanian border... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-11-28 |
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