Suicide bomber kills woman in southern Israel town
Monday, February 4th, 2008 | 
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Posted by John under: Days of Noah
DIMONA, Israel (Reuters) – A Palestinian suicide bomber from the Gaza Strip killed a woman in southern Israel on Monday, the first such attack in the country in a year, but Israeli officials said peace talks would not be derailed.
â€The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
—Genesis 6:11
Police said they prevented a second blast in the shopping centre of the town of Dimona by shooting dead an accomplice, also a Gazan, before he could detonate an explosives belt.
One of the attackers said in a farewell video recording he wanted to strike against what he called Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip, territory controlled by Hamas Islamists opposed to President Mahmoud Abbas’s peace talks with the Jewish state.
“It was like a war. People were running like crazy. I saw a piece of a human being right there, next to my leg,” witness Rosa Enberg told Israel’s Channel Two television.
Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor, widely believed to have produced atomic bombs, is located in a heavily guarded compound on the outskirts of the town.
A Gaza-based source in President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction said the “Army of Palestine” wing of Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades launched the attack along with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Wearing military-style fatigues and clutching an assault rifle, one of the bombers, 20-year-old Loai al-Aghwani, from Gaza City, said in his videotape he hoped his actions would “restore dignity to the Palestinian people.”
Standing in front of an al-Aqsa Brigades banner, Aghwani appealed to Abbas and Khaled Meshaal, a Hamas leader, “to end internal division.”
A Fatah official in the West Bank denied al-Aqsa involvement. The conflicting statements reflected divisions in Fatah as Abbas pursues U.S.-backed peace talks with Israel, the first in seven years.
“Abu Mazen (Abbas) is a moderate who wants peace. We will continue to negotiate with him,” an Israeli official said.
CELEBRATION
Two other militant groups, Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, praised the Dimona bombing as retaliation for Israeli raids. Young supporters of Fatah handed out flowers and candy to passing cars in the Gaza city of Rafah.
Abbas condemned the Dimona bombing but also criticized an earlier military raid by Israel in the occupied West Bank.
Police said the suicide bomber blew himself up in Dimona’s busy commercial centre, killing himself and the Israeli woman, who was not immediately identified.
“The second terrorist was shot in the head as he tried to set off his bomb belt,” said Yossi Porianta, the police chief in Israel’s southern Negev region. The Magen David Adom ambulance service said 10 people were wounded.
A Palestinian suicide bomber last struck in Israel on January 29, 2007, killing three people in the southern resort town of Eilat, on the Red Sea.
Hours after Monday’s bombing, an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip killed Amer Qarmout, a senior commander in the Popular Resistance Committees, which carries out cross-border rocket attacks. The PRC vowed revenge.
Israeli officials said the two bombers might have entered Egyptian territory after the Gaza-Egypt border was blasted open by Hamas last month, and then infiltrated into Israel through its unfenced frontier with Egypt.
Egypt has since sealed the breach. Al-Aqsa Brigades in Gaza denied Aghwani and Musa Arafat, 23, from the Gazan town of Khan Younis, reached Israel from Egypt.
But Arafat’s mother said her son had telephoned her from the Egyptian town of el-Arish.
(Additional reporting by Dan Williams, Adam Entous and Jeffrey Heller in Jerusalem, Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza and Mohammed Assadi and Ali Sawafta in Ramallah, Writing by Jeffrey Heller in Jerusalem, Editing by Adam Entous and Robert Woodward)
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Muslims Against Sharia says Comment posted on February 04th, 2008
Muslims Against Sharia condemn the murderers responsible for the homicide bombing in Dimona as well as degenerate perpetuation of the culture of death in Gaza.
Our prayers are with the victims of this atrocity. We send our condolences to their loved ones.
May the homicide bomber rot in hell for eternity. May his accomplices and animals who celebrated this horrendous act join him soon!
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/02/first-suicide-bombing-in-israel-in-year.html
Remnant says Comment posted on February 05th, 2008
In the last year this has been the only homicide bombing inside the border, compared to the many committed before the fence was up. Coincidence? I think not.
To Muslims Against Sharia:
Thank you for your well wishes, your condemnation of this cowardly attack places you in grave danger as an murtadd, (apostate), by your own religious leaders.
The following I write in love and concern for your soul.
Muslims Against Sharia, is somewhat an oxymoron, while your intentions are good, sadly your prayers fall on ears of stone. The true G_D of Abraham Isaac, and Jacob (His name is not allah) Hears and Sees and Answers prayers. I pray you find the Truth ( Jesus) that sets you free.
In Messiah