- Title: ISRAEL: SUICIDE BOMBERS CAUSE SECURTY ALERT IN ISRAEL
- Date: 2nd November 1995
- Summary: GAZA STRIP AND TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL (NOVEMBER 2, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) GAZA STRIP 1. SLV POLICE/ SLV DAMAGED BUS OFF ROAD (2 SHOTS) 0.12 2. SLV AMBULANCE LEAVES SCENE 0.25 3. SLVWRECK OF SUICIDE BOMBER CAR, VARIOUS HEAVY SECURITY PRESENCE AT SITE 0.34 4. GV HELICOPTER OVERHEAD 0.40 5. SLV ISRAELI TROOPS EXAMINING WR
- Embargoed: 17th November 1995 12:00
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- Location: GAZA/ TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL
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- Country: Israel
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- Story Text: Two suicide car bombers blew themselves up in the Gaza Strip on Thursday (November 2), wounding eight Israelis, a Palestinian security official and Israeli rescue workers said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
The militant Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad had vowed to carry out suicide attacks to avenge the assassination of its Damascus-based leader Fathi Shqaqi. It blamed Israel for his killing last week in Malta.
Israeli security sources confirmed the two bombers were dead and said eight Israelis, including three soldiers, were slightly wounded.
The attacks occurred a few kms (miles) and a few minutes apart.
Four Palestinian policemen were injured in a collision of their vehicles as they tried to respond to the attacks, Israeli officials said.
One of the blasts occurred next to an army jeep and a bus taking Israeli childcare workers from Israel to Gush Katif along a road jointly patrolled by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
The second occurred inside Gush Katif, an Israeli-controlled enclave of Jewish settlements.
Moslem militant Palestinian groups opposed to peace with Israel, including Islamic Jihad, have killed scores of Israelis in suicide bomb attacks since the Israeli-PLO peace deal was signed in September 1993.
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's spokesman Marwan Kanafani said the incident was very regrettable but that it proved Arafat's argument that the escalation in the situation was unnecessary.
Israeli Government Press Office spokesman Uri Dromi said the attack caused some doubt in the Palestinian Authority's capibility to control terrorism.
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