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Series of Suicide Attacks in Israel
Aired May 19, 2003 - 06:32 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The road to peace in the Middle East just got bumpier: a series of suicide bombings, an Israeli boycott of all who see Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon postpones his visit to Washington.
We take you live to Jerusalem and Jerrold Kessel.
And, Jerrold, how much chance does this peace process have with all of this going on?
JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, Carol, Orelon promising -- or she said kind of promising better weather in the days ahead, I don't even think any of the would-be peacemakers can offer that kind of promise that this peace process will get going. Not with -- what the militants are trying to do is knock it right off-course, because we've had a series of suicide bombings -- four in the last 36 hours -- for Hamas, the militant Islamic group claiming responsibility for those attacks.
The latest coming this morning in Gaza outside a Jewish settlement there, and the suicide bomber this time, a young man from a nearby refugee camp, so Hamas said, came not on foot, not by car, but on his bicycle, blew himself up outside the settlement nearby an Israeli army patrol. Three of the soldiers were slightly wounded there.
But this, the latest in the series of Hamas attacks both in the West Bank and yesterday particularly here in Jerusalem, on a bus in East Jerusalem, where the bomber blew himself up on an early-morning commuter bus, killing seven people -- six Israelis and another Palestinian. All of the people, middle-aged or elderly people, heading to their jobs early morning yesterday.
In the wake of those attacks, Israel has blown up the house of one of those bombers in Hebron on the West Bank. He had been responsible for killing a Jewish settler couple on Friday night.
And Ariel Sharon's government, the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon, last night re-imposing a blanket ban on Palestinian travel out of the Gaza and out of the West Bank into Israel. And that mainly affects Palestinians, thousands of Palestinians, who have jobs in Israel, very difficult for them, increases the pressure on ordinary Palestinians, but Israel saying it has no alternative in the wake of this latest series of Hamas bombings -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Jerrold Kessel bringing us up-to-date live from Jerusalem this morning.
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Aired May 19, 2003 - 06:32 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The road to peace in the Middle East just got bumpier: a series of suicide bombings, an Israeli boycott of all who see Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon postpones his visit to Washington.
We take you live to Jerusalem and Jerrold Kessel.
And, Jerrold, how much chance does this peace process have with all of this going on?
JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, Carol, Orelon promising -- or she said kind of promising better weather in the days ahead, I don't even think any of the would-be peacemakers can offer that kind of promise that this peace process will get going. Not with -- what the militants are trying to do is knock it right off-course, because we've had a series of suicide bombings -- four in the last 36 hours -- for Hamas, the militant Islamic group claiming responsibility for those attacks.
The latest coming this morning in Gaza outside a Jewish settlement there, and the suicide bomber this time, a young man from a nearby refugee camp, so Hamas said, came not on foot, not by car, but on his bicycle, blew himself up outside the settlement nearby an Israeli army patrol. Three of the soldiers were slightly wounded there.
But this, the latest in the series of Hamas attacks both in the West Bank and yesterday particularly here in Jerusalem, on a bus in East Jerusalem, where the bomber blew himself up on an early-morning commuter bus, killing seven people -- six Israelis and another Palestinian. All of the people, middle-aged or elderly people, heading to their jobs early morning yesterday.
In the wake of those attacks, Israel has blown up the house of one of those bombers in Hebron on the West Bank. He had been responsible for killing a Jewish settler couple on Friday night.
And Ariel Sharon's government, the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon, last night re-imposing a blanket ban on Palestinian travel out of the Gaza and out of the West Bank into Israel. And that mainly affects Palestinians, thousands of Palestinians, who have jobs in Israel, very difficult for them, increases the pressure on ordinary Palestinians, but Israel saying it has no alternative in the wake of this latest series of Hamas bombings -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Jerrold Kessel bringing us up-to-date live from Jerusalem this morning.
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