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Suicide Bombing Kills 7 in Jerusalem
Aired February 22, 2004 - 11:02 ET
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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: At least seven people are dead after a suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Police say the bomb exploded on a crowded bus at the height of rush hour. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports from Jerusalem with details. The attack also wounded more than 50 people.
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BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Yet another bloody Sunday in Jerusalem. A suicide bomber blew himself up on the number 14 bus at the height of the rush hour on a busy road in Jerusalem.
NADIA METAR, WOMEN IN GREEN: We are sick and tired of scraping up Jews from these streets of Israel!
WEDEMAN: The bombing, claimed by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of Yasser Arafat's Fattah movement, comes less than a month after a similar bombing killed 11 people not far from the site of Sunday's blast. A statement from the al-Aqsa Brigades said the attack was its answer to an Israeli incursion into Gaza earlier this month, in which more than a dozen Palestinians, mostly armed militants, were killed. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei was quick to condemn Sunday's attack.
AHMED QOREI: We refuse such kinds of acts that target the civilian, whether Palestinian or Israeli, this is against the interest of the Palestinian people.
WEDEMAN: One Israeli official at the scene brushed aside Qorei's statement.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: The Palestinian prime minister today talks about the Palestinian national interest. When is he going to talk about the Palestinian moral interest? When morally they reject these kinds of attacks. When that happens, maybe then there will be a solution against the vicious attacks against Israelis.
WEDEMAN: The attack comes one day after the International Court of Justice in The Hague begins hearings on the legality of Israel's controversial security barrier, a barrier, Israel says, is intended to prevent suicide bombers from reaching Israeli towns and cities. And the bomb went off just minutes after Israeli crews began dismantling a five mile or eight kilometer section of the barrier that looped around the Palestinian town of Baka al-Shakiria, severely restricting the access of more than 7,000 local inhabitants to the rest of the West Bank. WEDEMAN (on-camera): Israel will not be attending the hearings in The Hague. Sunday's bombings confirmation enough for many Israelis that the security barrier, regardless of the international court's eventual ruling, must be completed.
Ben Wedeman, CNN, Jerusalem.
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Aired February 22, 2004 - 11:02 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: At least seven people are dead after a suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Police say the bomb exploded on a crowded bus at the height of rush hour. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports from Jerusalem with details. The attack also wounded more than 50 people.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Yet another bloody Sunday in Jerusalem. A suicide bomber blew himself up on the number 14 bus at the height of the rush hour on a busy road in Jerusalem.
NADIA METAR, WOMEN IN GREEN: We are sick and tired of scraping up Jews from these streets of Israel!
WEDEMAN: The bombing, claimed by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of Yasser Arafat's Fattah movement, comes less than a month after a similar bombing killed 11 people not far from the site of Sunday's blast. A statement from the al-Aqsa Brigades said the attack was its answer to an Israeli incursion into Gaza earlier this month, in which more than a dozen Palestinians, mostly armed militants, were killed. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei was quick to condemn Sunday's attack.
AHMED QOREI: We refuse such kinds of acts that target the civilian, whether Palestinian or Israeli, this is against the interest of the Palestinian people.
WEDEMAN: One Israeli official at the scene brushed aside Qorei's statement.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: The Palestinian prime minister today talks about the Palestinian national interest. When is he going to talk about the Palestinian moral interest? When morally they reject these kinds of attacks. When that happens, maybe then there will be a solution against the vicious attacks against Israelis.
WEDEMAN: The attack comes one day after the International Court of Justice in The Hague begins hearings on the legality of Israel's controversial security barrier, a barrier, Israel says, is intended to prevent suicide bombers from reaching Israeli towns and cities. And the bomb went off just minutes after Israeli crews began dismantling a five mile or eight kilometer section of the barrier that looped around the Palestinian town of Baka al-Shakiria, severely restricting the access of more than 7,000 local inhabitants to the rest of the West Bank. WEDEMAN (on-camera): Israel will not be attending the hearings in The Hague. Sunday's bombings confirmation enough for many Israelis that the security barrier, regardless of the international court's eventual ruling, must be completed.
Ben Wedeman, CNN, Jerusalem.
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