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July 17, 2002 7 ISRAELIS KILLED IN AMBUSH ON BUS

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“7 ISRAELIS KILLED IN AMBUSH ON BUS.  DISGUISED PALESTINIANS SET BLAST NEAR SETTLEMENT, THEN OPEN FIRE.”

Emmanuel, West Bank—Springing a deadly ambush, Palestinian gunmen set off an explosion near an Israeli bus as it approached a Jewish settlement in the West Bank today, then opened fire on panicked passengers trapped inside, killing at least seven and wounding 16, according to witnesses and Israeli police.  The attack near the Emmanuel settlement was the first against Israelis in nearly a month, since Israeli military forces reoccupied seven of the eight largest Palestinian cities in the West Bank in retribution for a spate of suicide bombings and assaults in early June.  It came hours before representatives of the “quartet”—the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations—met in New York to discuss moving forward on the Bush administration’s latest Middle East peace initiative.

The armored bus, Dan 189, was carrying about 30 passengers between Bnei Brak, a town on the Eastern edge of Tel Aviv, and the settlement of Emmanuel, 14 miles inside the West Bank.  It was rounding a small hill about 400 yards from the settlement’s gated entrance when the assailants electronically detonated an explosive device propped against a light pole at the edge of the road, according to police officials.  The blast blew out some of the small ventilation windows about the bus’s bulletproof plate-glass windows.

Source:  Washington Post. John Ward Anderson and Molly Moore, July 17, 2002.

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