GAZA: ISRAELI SOLDIERS THWART ATTEMPTED CAR BOMBING AGAINST THE JEWISH SETTLEMENT OF KFAR DAROM. FOUR SOLDERS WOUNDED.

Record ID: 208350

  • Title: GAZA: ISRAELI SOLDIERS THWART ATTEMPTED CAR BOMBING AGAINST THE JEWISH SETTLEMENT OF KFAR DAROM. FOUR SOLDERS WOUNDED.
  • Date: 28th April 2004
  • Summary: (U3) KFAR DAROM SETTLEMENT, GAZA (APRIL 28, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS: OF SOLDIERS AT BOMBING SITE. (2 SHOTS) 0.13 2. VARIOUS: WRECKAGE AT BOMBING SITE / EVIDENCE BEING EXAMINED. (2 SHOTS) 0.32 3. VARIOUS/CU: OF WRECKED JEEP. (2 SHOTS) 0.53 4. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) LIEUTENANT COLONEL TOMER, ARMY SPOKESMAN, SAYING: "An army unit of the Tzabar battalion succeeded in identifying the car as a car bomb and responding to it rapidly, apparently to kill the terrorist that was inside it before the blast. As a result of that, the car exploded - not on the jeep but near the jeep. Soldiers were lightly to moderately wounded." 1.27 5. LAS/MLV: SOLDIERS STANDING BESIDE WRECKED JEEP. 1.35 (U3) NUSSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA (APRIL 28, 2004) (REUTERS) 6. LV: MILITARY JEEP DRIVING IN AREA. 1.40 7. MLV: DESTROYED BUILDING WITH ISRAELI FLAG FLYING. 1.47 8. LV: SOLDIERS PATROLLING AREA. 1.52 9. LV/PAN: MILITARY JEEP DRIVING IN AREA (AUDIO OF GUNFIRE) / BIRDS SCATTERING. (2 SHOTS) 2.17 10. MV/ZOOM IN/SCU: PEOPLE GATHERED AROUND BOMBER'S FATHER (IN BLUE JACKET) OFFERING CONDOLENCES. 2.27 11. CU : MAN SHOWING PICTURES OF BOMBER. 2.34 12. CU: OF PICTURES. 2.39 13. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DIAB HMAID, BOMBER'S FATHER, SAYING: "Tareq's operation was only a reaction to the terrorist attacks by the Zionist occupiers against our people, against our elderly and women in the homeland and in exile." 2.55 14. WS: OF PEOPLE GATHERED TO OFFER CONDOLENCES. 3.02 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th May 2004 13:00
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  • Location: KFAR DAROM SETTLEMENT AND NUSSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVACYW7IAB5ULHDEF3PLJSTPDOTS
  • Story Text: Israeli forces surround the home of a bomber who
    tried to disguise a car bomb which exploded wounding four
    soldiers.



    Israeli soldiers thwarted an attempted car bombing
    against the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza
    Strip on Wednesday (April 28), military sources said.

    Soldiers in a military jeep gave chase after a
    Palestinian vehicle disguised as an Israeli car decorated
    with an Israeli flag approached the settlement, the sources
    said.

    Suspecting an attack, the soldiers in the jeep opened
    fire at the vehicle and it exploded.

    Four of the soldiers in the jeep were wound, one
    seriously.

    "An army unit of the Tzabar battalion succeeded in
    identifying the car as a car bomb and responding to it
    rapidly, apparently to kill the terrorist that was inside
    it before the blast. As a result of that, the car exploded
    - not on the jeep but near the jeep. Soldiers were lightly
    to moderately wounded," explained Lieutenant Colonel Tomer,
    an army spokesman at the scene.

    The militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the
    attack. It identified the bomber as Tareq Hmaid, 24, from
    central Gaza's Nusseirat refugee camp and said he was
    killed in the blast.

    Israeli military vehicles surrounded the home of Hmaid
    as bulldozers moved into the area shortly after the
    incident.

    Friends and family members gathered to console Hmaid's
    father who said his son was motivated by Israeli attacks
    against Palestinians.

    "Tareq's operation was only a reaction to the terrorist
    attacks by the Zionist occupiers against our people,
    against our elderly and women in the homeland and in
    exile," said Diab Hmaid.

    The attack took place a day after tens of thousands of
    Israelis attended Independence Day celebrations at Gaza's
    Gush Katif settlement bloc to protest against Prime
    Minister Ariel Sharon's plans to evacuate Jewish
    settlements in the Gaza Strip.

    The plan calls for uprooting all Jewish settlements in
    Gaza and four of 120 in the West Bank.

    Palestinians see Sharon's plan as a ruse to annex large
    swathes of West Bank territory they want for a state.

    Sharon's right-wing Likud party will hold a referendum
    on Sunday (May 2) on his Gaza withdrawal plan, which is
    part of a broader scheme of unilateral separation from the
    Palestinians.


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