JERUSALEM: ISRAELI POLICE FIND IDENTITY CARD OF PALESTINIAN SUICIDE BOMBER WHO KILLED TWENTY PEOPLE ON JERUSALEM BUS

Record ID: 400074

  • Title: JERUSALEM: ISRAELI POLICE FIND IDENTITY CARD OF PALESTINIAN SUICIDE BOMBER WHO KILLED TWENTY PEOPLE ON JERUSALEM BUS
  • Date: 19th August 2003
  • Summary: (W8) JERUSALEM (AUGUST 19, 2003) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SCENES) 1. VARIOUS OF DESTROYED BUS 0.05 2. VARIOUS OF EMERGENCY WORKERS COLLECTING UP STROLLERS /PUSHCHAIRS 0.12 3. WIDE OF ENTRANCE TO BUS 0.17 4. VARIOUS OF ISRAELI SECURITY CLEANING AREA 0.25 5. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIAN SUICIDE BOMBER'S IDENTIFICATION CARD 0.32
  • Embargoed: 3rd September 2003 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVADU2M8VBS1JJRI8SDY5EK86TV9
  • Story Text: A Palestinian suicide bombing blew apart a
    bus packed with ultra-Orthodox Jews returning from a holy
    shrine in Jerusalem on Tuesday (August 19), killing at
    least 20 people including children.




    The militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements both
    said they were behind the blast, which also wounded about
    80 people and further frayed a U.S.-backed peace plan that
    is dependent on the seven-week-old ceasefire holding.

    Severed arms, legs and a lower torso lay scattered
    across the street, and a dead woman lay with her chest
    blown out. The acrid smell of burnt flesh filled the air.

    Rescue workers collected a long line of white body bags
    on a traffic island before piling them into ambulances.

    Many had been hit by ball bearings packed into the bomb for
    deadly effect.

    The explosion struck another heavy blow to the three-month
    truce declared on June 29 by Islamic militants
    spearheading a nearly three-year-old Palestinian uprising
    for an independent state.

    The ceasefire is widely considered crucial to a U.S.-backed
    "road map" to peace which outlines reciprocal steps to end
    the violence and establish a Palestinian state
    by 2005. He promised to launch an investigation.

    The United States also condemned the blast and demanded
    a Palestinian crackdown on militant groups. Abbas, whose
    peacemaking efforts are supported by Washington, has said a
    crackdown would risk a civil war.

    A handover agreement would be a significant move
    forward along the road map underpinned by the truce, which
    frayed last week when Palestinian suicide bombers killed
    two Israelis after deadly Israeli military swoops against
    militants.

    Long pieces of twisted poles stuck out of the top of
    the bus. A silver-coloured car smashed into the back of the
    bus, leaving its doors hanging open and the bonnet open.

    A videotape released by Hamas in the West Bank city of
    Hebron showed a man who named himself as Raed Abdel-Hamid
    Mask and said he would carry out the suicide bombing to
    avenge Israel's killing of one of the group's members.
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