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Old 09-14-2001, 03:44 AM
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A brief web search provided the following info:


Jerusalem----July 25..... Family and friends buried 18-year-old Yuri Gushchin last night, hours after the PA returned his body to Israeli authorities. Gushchin, whose bullet ridden body was discovered by Palestinians near Beit El yesterday morning, is believed to have been kidnapped and tortured. Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization has claimed responsibility for "the killing of a settler in Ramallah."


Jerusalem-----July 27.....Palestinian terrorists opened fire on an Israeli family last night, killing Ronen Landau, 17, of Givat Ze'ev. Ronen's father and brother just missed the three bullets which entered the car and are presently being treated for shock.


Jerusalem----July 28......The PA launched deadly mortars on Israeli civilian targets last night, again breaking the Tenet Cease-fire agreement.


Jerusalem----July 29......A Palestinian terrorist car bomb partially exploded in an underground residential parking garage in Jerusalem this afternoon. Two Israelis were lightly wounded and others were treated for shock.


Jerusalem----August 1....In the past 24 hours five Israelis were injured by terrorist snipers inside Israel while driving on Israeli roads. Mark and Michelle Kam of Dolev were on their way home with their son Itai, 17, when bullets penetrated their car. They were seriously wounded and taken to hospital.


The Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo came under terror sniper gunfire with two apartments sustaining damage. In the south of Israel over two dozen mortars shells have fallen.


Jerusalem----August 2......An alert and courageous Israeli bus driver averted a terror bombing this afternoon on his bus near the upper Jordan Valley city of Beit She'an. The driver, Menashe Nuriel, who works for the Egged Bus Company, spotted a young Palestinian man carrying a bag onto his northbound bus. According to Army Radio he immediately order the suspicious Palestinian off his bus. When the terrorist was about ten feet from the bus, the driver ordered him to open his bag. As the terrorist then attempted to reach for something under the bag, a possible attempt to detonate the bomb, the driver then grabbed him and threw him into some nearby bushes. The driver screamed to the passengers to open the bus doors to allow waiting soldiers to come to his aid.


A high-powered cellphone-activated bomb was found inside the bag and was neutralized by police sappers who were on the scene within minutes. The large duffle bag, weighing 22 pounds and packed with nails and scrap metal, contained three mortar shells, explosives and a triggering device.


Tel Aviv----August 3......An alert security guard at Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station was responsible this afternoon for preventing a major terrorist attack. The Israeli guard, in performing a routine check of hand bags, alerted police to a Palestinian woman who refused to allow him to check her belongings.


Israel Radio reported that police sappers discovered a bomb inside the woman's belongings consisting of 4 kilograms of explosive materials packed with nails and metal shards.


Jerusalem----August 6.......One Israeli woman was killed this evening and four Israelis were wounded when Palestinian terrorists opened fire on their vehicle between the communities of Alfei Menashe and Karnei Shomron.


Tehiya Lomberg was murdered, her husband, Shimon, and daughter, Tzippi, 14, were seriously wounded, and two other children and a hitchhiker were injured in the attack.


Jerusalem, August 7........An Israeli motorist, Ranem Wahyl, a resident of Taibe, was shot and killed in a terror attack this morning near the northern Samaria community of Alfei Menashe.

An Uzi submachine gun, an assault-rifle, and spent pistol bullet casings were found at the site of the attack, according to Israel Radio.


Jerusalem----August 8.....A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated explosives in his car near an IDF checkpoint in the West Bank this morning, killing the terrorist and lightly wounding a soldier, Israeli Radio reported.


Jerusalem----August 8.......Zohar Shurgi, 40, of Moshav Yafit in the Jordan Valley, was killed last night in a drive-by shooting on the Trans-Samaria Highway between Ariel and the Tapuah junction. Shurgi was married and the father of three children.


Jerusalem----August 9.......A Palestinian suicide bomber targeted a crowded restaurant in central, downtown Jerusalem just minutes ago, claiming at least 18 lives and wounding over 100 people. The restaurant was crowded with lunch time patrons, including several children. Live images on Israel Television illustrate a scene of carnage, with bloody bodies laying on the ground. The terrorist detonated a high-powered device packed with nails and other shrapnel as he walked into the restaurant. Several children and babies were among the dead.


Jerusalem-----August 25.....Three Israeli soldiers were killed and 7 wounded in a attack on an IDF base in Gaza early this morning. Army radio reported that two Palestinians had entered into the IDF outpost in the Gaza Strip and killed a deputy battalion commander and two soldiers with automatic gunfire and hand grenades.


Jerusalem-----August 26...... Four Israelis were killed and two children were wounded in the last 24 hours when terrorists ambushed a family car and a commercial truck.


Jerusalem----August 30.......Palestinian terrorists brutally murdered a 60-year-old Modi'in resident this morning. The Israeli, Amos Tajouri, was shot at point blank range execution style by masked terrorists while eating breakfast in a Na'alin restaurant. The Israeli was a regular visitor to the Palestinian village.


The man reportedly had a number of friends in the village, which falls under Israeli security control, and made almost daily visits to the restaurant. A number of armed Palestinian youths reportedly dragged him out of the restaurant, shot him to death, and threw his body out of the village.


Jerusalem-----September 9......At least three Israelis were killed and dozens were wounded when a suicide bomber exploded in the Nahariya train station this morning.


Earlier in the morning, Palestinian terrorists shot dead two Israelis in an attack on a van carrying teachers to a school in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.


Jerusalem-----September 11......This morning at approximately 00:15, the Ivtan Border Police base near Kibbutz Bachan in central Israel came under hostile gunfire. Two Border Police officers were killed in the attack and one was wounded.


This is the fourth terror incident in this area over the past three months. Killed in the attack was Tzachi David , age 19, from Tel-Aviv. The name of the second Border Police officer has not been cleared for publication.


``We must educate our children on the love of holy war for the sake of God and the love of fighting for the sake of God,''

- Sheik Mohammed Ibrahim al-Madhi said in a mosque sermon broadcast on state-controlled Palestinian TV last month.


I lack the knowledge to evaluate Israel's recent actions. If they are taking this opportunity to undertake what they believe will be more effective anti-terrorism measures, I would be hard pressed to condemn them.



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