Bus bombing rocks Jerusalem, at least 21 injured
At least 21 people were injured in a bus bombing in Jerusalem, police said, in the first such attack in Israel in years.
At least 21 people were injured in a bus bombing in Jerusalem, police said, in the first such attack in Israel in years.
Photos from the deadly bomb explosion in Jerusalem on March 23, 2011
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Two suicide bombings struck the Jewish State Tuesday, killing at least 15 victims and wounding dozens. The two attacks left the U.S.-backed \”road map\” peace plan in tatters and marked a new surge of deadly violence in the nearly 3-year-old intifada.
Apparently dressed as an Orthodox Jew, the terrorist shoved his way among the many passengers — mostly ultra-Orthodox families returning from the Western Wall — to the center of the elongated bus, where he detonated the bomb he was carrying.
Within a 48-hour span beginning March 17, 12 Israelis were murdered in three suicide attacks, and dozens were wounded. Terrorism was back on the scene, a sad reminder that its apparent absence in recent months was only an illusion born of the army\’s success in preventing attacks.
Rabbi Binny Freedman, the educational director of the international Jewish organization Isralight, was nonchalantly eating his baked ziti in the back of Jerusalem\’s Sbarro\’s pizza store when a suicide bomber detonated his bomb there.
\”It was the loudest explosion I have ever heard, and I am an Israeli army officer who has been under artillery fire,\” Freedman said of the August 2001 incident. \”People started screaming, and then a huge ball of fire swept through the entire front and there were flames everywhere. It was one of the most horrible things I have ever seen. I was coming down the stairs, and I saw a woman lying on the ground, looking at me trying to say something. I kneeled down next to her and I saw the light go out in her eyes. I watched her die. There was a man who had been at the table to my right, and he had been blown back against the wall, and he was lying there without his legs.\”
July 31 was the last day of Ulpan, the six-week Hebrew class at Jerusalem\’s Hebrew University\’s Rothberg School for Overseas Students.