2 Palestinians dead, 7 troops hurt in bomb attack near J'lem

[Gimel]

Two Palestinians were killed and seven Border Police troops and 12 Palestinians were wounded Wednesday in a bomb attack by a Palestinian terrorist south of the Israeli checkpoint at Qalandiyah, located between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Palestinian Salah Abu Sneneh, 60, was killed in the bombing and his grandson was also seriously wounded, Israel Radio reported. The second Palestinian casuality has not yet been identified.

All of the Israeli casualties were Border Police officers. Hospital officials said two of the wounded are in serious condition, one is in moderate condition and four were lightly hurt.

Casualties were evacuated to Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, and to Shaare Tzedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. The six Palestinian casualties were evacuated to a hospital in Ramallah.

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[Djinn]

1. just curious Gimel

is this attack - on border police not civilians and in the West Bank not Israel - terrorism?

[Gimel]

2. Of course it is

The bomb was intended for a civilian target. The terrorists were stopped at an impromptu road block and dumped the bomb. It went off. It was just north of Jerusalem. They were terrorists. The target was not the Arab man and his grandson, that was accidental. Another Palestinian was killed and 15 Palestinains were wounded. Do you think that the civilian Palestinians wanted to be killed?

The wife of the Arab man killed cannot believe that Palestinians killed her husband. She is sure it must be Israelis.

From the article posted:

Security services are checking whether they were intending to carry out the attack in the center of Jerusalem, however the possibility was also raised that they were intending to carry out the attack in another city in Israel.

[Gimel]

3. Further reports

The bomb was meant for Haifa, according to investigators.

Ha aretz

The terrorist who planned this attack is the same that an Israeli woman has befriended:
Fahima, 28, is accused of being in contact with her ex-boyfriend, Zakariya Zubeidi, the Tanzim commander in Jenin, in a bid to carry out a terror attack.


Ha aretz