[ppi] [ppiindia] renungan: At least 10 dead in Jerusalem terror attack

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At least 10 dead in Jerusalem terror attack
Palestinian sources: Police officer set off blast
Thursday, January 29, 2004 Posted: 2:14 PM EST (1914 GMT)
  
Rescue workers inspect the area near the bombed bus after a suicide 
attack Thursday in Jerusalem. 

 
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- At least 10 people were killed on Thursday when a 
Palestinian policeman got on a passenger bus in Jerusalem and set off 
a blast as the vehicle neared the Israeli prime minister's home, 
according to Israeli officials and Palestinian sources. 

At least 45 people were wounded in the terror attack. Israeli 
officials said the attack proved the need for what Israel calls 
a "security fence," intended to block terrorists from entering the 
country. 

World leaders condemned the attack. 

"Once again, terrorists have killed innocent people and at the same 
time they have struck a blow once more against the aspirations of the 
Palestinian people to have a homeland of their own," U.S. Secretary 
of State Colin Powell said. "This kind of action has got to stop." 

In Brussels, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said, "Once again I 
appeal, to Israelis and Palestinians alike, to rise above feelings of 
anger and vengeance, however natural, and to devote all their 
energies to negotiating a true and lasting peace in which two peoples 
will live side by side, each in their own state." 

The bombing occurred 8:45 a.m. local time in a neighborhood of West 
Jerusalem where Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's official residence is 
located. The Israeli leader was not at home at the time. Also nearby 
is Cafe Moment, where a suicide bomber killed 11 people and wounded 
dozens of others in March 2002. 

The explosion tore apart bus No. 19, traveling from Jerusalem's 
Hadassa Ein Karem Hospital. 

Palestinian security sources said the policeman, Ali Ja'ara, left a 
will with the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the militant offshoot of 
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. In the will, 
Ja'ara said his motive was to "avenge the massacres" being carried 
out by Israel in Gaza. 

The U.S. State Department has designated Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades as 
a foreign terrorist organization. 

On Wednesday, Israeli forces shot and killed eight Palestinians, 
including at least three members of the Islamic Jihad, and wounded 
six others during a raid near Gaza City, Palestinian security and 
medical sources said. (Full story) 

The Israel Defense Forces said its soldiers were returning fire 
toward Palestinians. 

Sharon's adviser Dore Gold said Thursday's suicide attack had been 
planned for weeks and was not in response to the deadly Gaza raid. 

Gold said the attack underscored the need for physical separation 
between Israel and the West Bank. 

"Only the completion of Israel's security fence -- which some are 
trying to stop using the U.N. and the International Court of Justice -
- will finally provide security for Israelis against these kinds of 
attacks," he said. 

Next month, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, 
Netherlands, will debate the legality of the barrier, which 
Palestinians call a "wall" and believe is an Israeli attempt at a 
land grab. 

The suicide attack drew an immediate condemnation from chief 
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat. 

"We always condemn targeting of civilians -- Israeli or Palestinian." 
he said. "This cycle can only end through the resumption of a 
meaningful peace process." 

The violence came as Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group 
Hezbollah conducted a historic prisoner exchange Thursday after years 
of secret negotiations. (Full story) 

Thursday's suicide did not affect the Israel-Hezbollah prisoner 
exchange, which took place in the West Bank, Gaza, and at an airfield 
in Cologne, Germany. As part of the swap, Israel released two top 
Hezbollah leaders and more than 400 other prisoners. In return, 
Hezbollah released an Israeli businessman and the remains of three 
Israeli soldiers. 



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