ISRAEL: Security camera shows explosion of Palestinian suicide bomber at a shopping centre in coastal town of Netanya

Record ID: 398467

  • Title: ISRAEL: Security camera shows explosion of Palestinian suicide bomber at a shopping centre in coastal town of Netanya
  • Date: 5th December 2005
  • Summary: NETANYAH, ISRAEL (DECEMBER 05, 2005) (REUTERS - NO ACCESS ISRAEL) SECURITY CAMERA PLACED OUTSIDE SHOPPING MALL SHOWING EXPLOSION, FOLLOWED BY PEOPLE RUSHING TO SCENE (AUDIO MUTE)
  • Embargoed: 20th December 2005 12:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA1AI9567XTY6JI578NJYEWJGGH
  • Story Text: Explosion caused by a Palestinian suicide bomber in an Israeli coastal town of Netanya on Monday (December 05) was shown on security camera placed outside a shopping mall.
    The bombing, a first such attack on its kind in six weeks, killed five people and wounded more than 40. The force of the blast splattered blood high on the stone and glass facade of the mall and sprayed body parts in all directions. Bodies lay covered with blankets at the entrance.
    In Monday's bombing, a 21-year-old Palestinian was challenged by police when he tried to enter the mall, a frequent target during a five-year-old Palestinian uprising.
    The militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the Netanya attack and released a video showing the purported bomber wielding an assault rifle and a grenade launcher.
    The bombing, the fifth since a truce was declared in February, was certain to draw Israeli reprisals as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pressed on with a re-election campaign in which he can ill afford to look soft on Palestinian militants.
    A new surge of violence would dim any chance for progress on long-stalled peacemaking amid new Israeli calls for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to crack down on militants.
    It was the first such bombing since October 26, when an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber killed six people in Hadera.
    The Israeli military responded to the Hadera bombing and cross-border rocket fire from Gaza with missile strikes that killed senior militants. Islamic Jihad, sworn to Israel's destruction, had vowed revenge.
    The bombing could complicate the run-up to Israeli and Palestinian elections.
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