WEST BANK/JERUSALEM: ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN REACTION TO THE SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ON A JERUSALEM RESTAURANT WHICH CLAIMED AT LEAST 18 LIVES

Record ID: 400089

  • Title: WEST BANK/JERUSALEM: ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN REACTION TO THE SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ON A JERUSALEM RESTAURANT WHICH CLAIMED AT LEAST 18 LIVES
  • Date: 9th August 2001
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (AUGUST 9, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS: PEOPLE CROWDED AROUND THE SITE OF EXPLOSION 0.06 2. VARIOUS: RESCUE TEAMS CLEANING THE RESTAURANT FROM DEBRIS (6 SHOTS) 0.38 3. SV/WS: PEOPLE AROUND THE SITE OF EXPLOSION (2 SHOTS) 0.49 4. SVSCU: : (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI SPOKESMAN DORE GOLD SAYING: "Yasser Arafat utte
  • Embargoed: 24th August 2001 13:00
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  • Location: RAMALLAH, WEST BANK/JERUSALEM
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA3TP5DJSH696PS1GQXWC362J8D
  • Story Text: A Palestinian suicide bomber has killed at least 18
    people, including six children, and wounded scores of other
    people in a fast-food restaurant packed with families on
    Thursday.



    The blast ripped the Sbarro pizzeria apart while it
    was packed with families during the lunch hour rush, leaving
    the restaurants facade covered with blood, glass and pizza
    boxes.

    Bodies were sent hurtling through the air and left strewn
    over the pavement.

    "Yasser Arafat utterly failed to fulfil the terms of the
    cease fire. As a result we have 18 Israelis dead and nearly
    70 wounded today," said Israeli spokesman Dore Gold.

    The Islamic Jihad group claimed responsibility for the
    attack in a statement faxed to Reuters in Beirut.

    Palestinian leaders blamed the attack on Israeli Prime
    Minister Ariel Sharon's tough policies, and Sharon was due to
    meet his defence minister to consider a response. He has
    ordered military strikes after such attacks in the past.

    "It is the responsibility of Sharon. He provoked it. He
    wanted it and he waited for it. This is ideal atmosphere for
    Sharon. His policy was dependent on one thing - he wanted to
    suppress the Palestinian people and to close the door of any
    negotiation and any political solution," said Palestinian
    Minister of Information Yasser Abed Rabbo.

    It was the worst single incident since a Palestinian
    suicide bomber killed 21 people, mainly young Israelis, at a
    Tel Aviv disco on June 1.

    Prior to Thursday's violence, at least 513 Palestinians,
    132 Israelis and 13 Israeli Arabs had been killed since last
    September.




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