Tel Aviv: kamikaze esplode
in un supermercato
GERUSALEMME - Un attentato suicida ha devastato un supermercato di Rosh Hàayin, località nel centro d'Israele situata vicino a Tel Aviv. Ci sono almeno un morto, oltre all'attentatore, e dieci feriti. La violentissima esplosione ha interrotto un periodo di relativa calma, rarissimo nei quasi tre anni della rivolta palestinese sospesa dal 29 giugno dopo il cessate il fuoco di tre mesi proclamato unilateralmente dai prinicpali gruppi radicali. Ma Hamas aveva minacciato di voler vendicare la morte di due suoi militanti uccisi in un raid israeliano a Nablus venerdì scorso. In precedenza la radio aveva riferito che secondo i servizi di informazione in questo momento sono in preparazione 21 attentati anti israeliani, un dato in netta crescita rispetto alle scorse settimane.
(12 agosto 2003)
At least 2 Israelis dead in separate blasts in Ariel and Rosh Ha'ayin By Roni Singer, Jonathan Lis and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service
At least one Israeli was killed and two people seriously wounded Tuesday morning in an explosion in Ariel, in the West Bank, that took place about an hour after a suicide bombing killed at least one person and wounded at least 10, four of them seriously, at the entrance to a Rosh Ha'ayin shopping center.
A suicide bomber set off the explosive device strapped to his body when he saw three young Israelis at a bus stop on the road heading from Ariel toward Tel Aviv, said Ariel mayor Ron Nahman. One Israeli and the bomber were killed, and two people were seriously wounded.
Police had earlier said they thought the suspicious-looking bomber may have been shot and that the firing had set off the bomb.
At Rosh Ha'ayin, next to the Green Line, a suicide bomber activated an explosive device strapped to his body at the entrance to a pharmacy called New Pharm. Police said the blast was small, but it led to a fire that burned down several stores.
Police found two corpses in the Neve Afek shopping center, that of a victim and the suicide bomber. The approximately 10 people who were wounded, including four who suffered serious injuries, have been taken to the Sharon anBeilinson hospitals in Petah Tikva, which is west of Rosh Ha'ayin.
This is the first terror attack to take place in Rosh Ha'ayin.
Police blocked the area off and were conducting checks on cars.
A short time earlier, police went on high alert in the Sharon region due to reports of a terrorist infiltrating the region.
Palestinian militant organizations have recently been threatening that they will no longer hold by the cease-fire they had signed. Security services reported Tuesday they had received 21 warnings of terror attacks.
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