death to the muslim scum.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/12/israel.blast/index.html
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- A suicide bomber killed two women and himself Tuesday
during the evening rush hour outside a shopping mall in Netanya and wounded
90, Israeli ambulance services said.
The blast occurred on a pedestrian crosswalk at 6:45 p.m. (11:45 a.m. ET).
Five were wounded seriously, three were wounded moderately, the rest
lightly, according to the emergency services.
More than 30 ambulances reached the center of Netanya within 12 minutes of
the explosion, said Azi Zohar of Israel Emergency Services.
"We are used to that," he said. "We hope it will be the last."
Sources within the militant group Islamic Jihad told CNN they were
responsible for the blast, and that the bomber was from the West Bank
village of Atil.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said Palestinians condemned the
attack.
"We believe whoever carried it out aims to sabotage the efforts being
exerted to revive the peace process and to have a smooth and peaceful
disengagement from Gaza," Erakat told CNN.
Ra'anan Gissin, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said
the blast underscored "one simple lesson" about how to deal with terrorism.
"With terrorists, you don't talk, you don't sign deals," he told a reporter.
"With terrorists, you fight."
In a statement from New York, a spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan said "he is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify
terror."
"Now and in the days ahead, it is critical that all measures be taken to
ensure that such attacks do not reoccur, and that the admirable restraint
recently observed be maintained so that the violence does not escalate," the
statement said.
In Washington, the White House too joined in condemning the attack.
"Terrorists are seeking to derail the peace efforts in the Middle East, and
all parties must step forward to combat terrorism," White House spokesman
Scott McClellan told reporters.
"The Palestinian Authority needs to act to dismantle terrorist organizations
and to stop attacks from happening in the first place."
Netanya is north of Tel Aviv and only a few miles from the West Bank. It's
been the target of a number of suicide bombings and attacks in the past. One
of the worst is known as the Passover suicide blast, which happened March
27, 2002.
In that incident, a suicide bomber walked into the seaside Park Hotel and
made his way toward a dining room, where police say 227 people were eating
their Seder meal. Twenty-nine of them died and more than 150 were wounded.
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