Bus blown up in terrorist attack in Jerusalem

[Melech 9,900]

Police confirmed that a bus explosion in the industrial area of Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood early Monday evening that wounded 21 people, including one critically, was the result of a bomb, but still stopped short of declaring it a terrorist attack.

Remarkably, no deaths were reported following the carnage on the major thoroughfare of Bar-Am Street, where two Egged buses and a third vehicle were reduced to exposed charred iron and ash.

After initial confusion over the cause of the fire, Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a forensics team, aided by bomb disposal experts at the site, confirmed the fires were ignited by an explosive device.

Rosenfeld said police were reluctant to confirm the explosion was formally a terrorist attack until an investigation by police and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) was officially finalized.

At the scene of the attack, less than 30 minutes following the explosion, Daniel Katzenstein, an EMT and spokesman from United Hatzalah, said reports of the fires were first received at approximately 5:45 p.m.

“When the first call came in, it was involving two buses, and we immediately declared it a mass casualty incident,” he said, while standing a few meters from the burnt buses, and a third charred blue vehicle that caught fire.

“We got there when the buses were fully engulfed, and it was not clear if the fire was from an explosion or some kind of [malfunction]. Volunteers from around the area rushed to the scene and three people were seriously wounded – one of them in critical condition, and the two others in moderate-to-serious condition – with 17 others in light condition.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the explosion and fires to a stunned crowd during a speech he delivered in Binyamina on Monday evening, marking 85 years to the founding of the Irgun.

“We will find whoever prepared and dispatched the explosives, as well as those who helped them,” he said." 

http://m.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Initial-report-Jerusalem-bus-explodes-on-way-to-Hebron-451611#article=6017NzFGNTY0MEM3NDA1Q0Q4QkM3OTc1QkEzQjc2Rjc3OEM

Disgusting. Happy no one died
 

[PartySick 172,483]

Glad no one died...this kind of stuff is so pointless

[Dolev 867]

Shows that we still cannot trust Palestinians. Sad

[Cocaine Heart 4,768]

4 minutes ago, Dolev said:

Shows that we still cannot trust Palestinians. Sad

How ignorant can you be 

[lego 44,165]

18 minutes ago, Cocaine Heart said:

How racist can you be 

Fixed. 

[Dolev 867]

29 minutes ago, Cocaine Heart said:

How ignorant can you be 

 

10 minutes ago, YourSweet666 said:

Fixed. 

Call me whatever you want. I don't trust people that dedicates thier lives to hate me and are just now celebrating this barbaric attack by handing sweets in Gaza because other humans were injured. I am far from being a fan of my govrenment policy but too much Palestinians are hateful and being led by terror groups to ignore it.

[lego 44,165]

1 minute ago, Dolev said:

 

Call me whatever you want. I don't trust people that dedicates thier lives to hate me 

 

How are you any different? 

[lego 44,165]

3 minutes ago, Dolev said:

and are just now celebrating this barbaric attack by handing sweets in Gaza because other humans were injured.

 

You mean something like this?

 

 

 

 

 

[Ambrosia 3,775]

Hey guys... I can understand the sensitivity of such topics, but please try not to get personal or go after each other.  I understand it can be difficult to not let emotions cloud our thoughts, but please try to simply stick with commenting on the topic and not each other! 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

1 hour ago, Cocaine Heart said:

How ignorant can you be 

 

1 hour ago, YourSweet666 said:

Fixed. 

He's not wrong though. These activities lead to distrust. They don't necessarily have xenophobic contexts. It's less about an ethnicity and more about "us vs. them".

It's a vicious cycle, one that both sides continue to perpetuate.

[Dolev 867]

7 hours ago, YourSweet666 said:

 

How are you any different? 

You don't know me neither you will. Keep these ugly generalization to yourself.

7 hours ago, YourSweet666 said:

 

You mean something like this?

 

 

 

 

 

1. Israelis clapping when Iron Dome intercept a qassam rocket fired towards them.

2. A disgusting event the took place a few months ago with many of its participants being arrested after it. Oh, the difference

3. A violent minority the exists literally everywhere in our world. The fact you use them to excuse Islamic extremists who are undeniably much, much more speaks volumes.

[lego 44,165]

5 hours ago, Dolev said:

You don't know me neither you will. 

 

It's all in the way you talk.

 

5 hours ago, Dolev said:

Keep these ugly generalization to yourself.

Says someone who just wrote this

13 hours ago, Dolev said:

Shows that we still cannot trust Palestinians. Sad

 

5 hours ago, Dolev said:

1. Israelis clapping when Iron Dome intercept a qassam rocket fired towards them.

2. A disgusting event the took place a few months ago with many of its participants being arrested after it. Oh, the difference

3. A violent minority the exists literally everywhere in our world. The fact you use them to excuse Islamic extremists who are undeniably much, much more speaks volumes.

 

The hasbara excuses are very weak. "When iron dome intercepts..."

You can't honestly believe that? You must be smarter than that? 

So couple of guys giving candy represent all Palestinian people, but these Israeli extremists celebrating baby burned alive and deaths of civilians - don't represent your nation. Right.

And even the government is right-wing terrorist government who ignores settlers' price-tag violence, whose ministers call for genocide of Palestinians, raping and killing their mothers and "the little snakes they give birth to". But they don't represent all Israelis either, right?

It's so funny how you think you're better than them.