ISREAL: Security camera shows explosion of Palestinian suicide bomber.

Record ID: 398469

  • Title: ISREAL: Security camera shows explosion of Palestinian suicide bomber.
  • Date: 6th December 2005
  • Summary: NETANYAH, ISRAEL (DECEMBER 05, 2005) (REUTERS - NO ACCESS ISRAEL) SECURITY CAMERA PLACED OUTSIDE SHOPPING MALL SHOWING EXPLOSION CAUSED BY SUICIDE BOMB; PEOPLE RUSHING TO SCENE AS SMOKE RISES (AUDIO MUTE)
  • Embargoed: 21st December 2005 12:00
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  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA8NFRPZHCOHI2WCT22K6PT6WW2
  • 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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