ISRAEL/WEST BANK/GAZA: TWO PEOPLE INJURED IN SUSPECTED CAR BOMB EXPLOSION IN OR YEHUDA/ ONE PALESTINIAN KILLED AND 14 WOUNDED AFTER ISREALI TROOPS OPEN FIRE AT FUNERAL PROCESSION NEAR KHAN YOUNIS

Record ID: 358816

  • Title: ISRAEL/WEST BANK/GAZA: TWO PEOPLE INJURED IN SUSPECTED CAR BOMB EXPLOSION IN OR YEHUDA/ ONE PALESTINIAN KILLED AND 14 WOUNDED AFTER ISREALI TROOPS OPEN FIRE AT FUNERAL PROCESSION NEAR KHAN YOUNIS
  • Date: 23rd April 2001
  • Summary: OR YEHUDA, ISRAEL (APRIL 23, 2001)(REUTERS) 1. WS/SLV: SCENE; WS ONLOOKERS (3 SHOTS) 0.16 2. VARIOUS: POLICE AT SCENE/ PEOPLE EXAMINING AFTERMATH; DAMAGED CAR/ ONLOOKERS/ EMERGENCY SERVICES AT SCENE (12 SHOTS) 2.19 RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (APRIL 23, 2001)(REUTERS) 3. SCU: SOUNDBITE (Arabic with English translation) PALESTINIAN PRESID
  • Embargoed: 8th May 2001 13:00
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  • Location: OR YEHUDA, ISRAEL/RAMALLAH, WEST BANK/GAZA
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAAJBCD87NHUBAMVSL2EZ5DKIZ6
  • Story Text: A suspected car bomb exploded in the central Israeli
    city of Or Yehuda, an Israeli police spokeswoman said.


    Israel Radio reported two people had been lightly
    wounded in the blast on Monday (April 23) about 10 km (five
    miles) from Israel's main city of Tel Aviv.

    The radio reported the explosion was apparently caused by
    a car bomb placed by Palestinian militants.

    But a police spokeswoman said: "It could be a car bomb,
    but the criminal angle is also being investigated."
    The explosion occurred a day after a Palestinian suicide
    bomber blew himself up in a crowd of Israelis in the town of
    Kfar Saba, killing one Israeli and wounding more than 40 others.

    Tzvika, a witness to the car bomb in Or Yehuda, told Army
    Radio: "I was on the roof of a nearby building behind the
    explosion and I saw a car explode, The cars surrounding it
    also began to blow up."
    Palestinian president Yasser Arafat rebuffed suggestions
    that he was responsible for the latest bomb and the actions of
    the suicide bomber in Kfar Saba on Sunday (April 22).

    "I want to be very clear, we are against any and every
    operation targeting civilians, whether they are Israelis or
    Palestinians," Arafat said through an interpreter.

    Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian teenager on
    Monday and wounded 14 others during a funeral procession near
    the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.


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