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CNN Sunday Morning

Israel Launching Attacks on Palestinian Areas

Aired March 10, 2002 - 11:05   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Well Israel is one of the countries that Cheney plans to visit, and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today said his nation is at war.

Israel has been launching attacks today on Palestinian areas, following a night of deadly terror. As we told you earlier, a suicide bombing killed at least 11 Israelis at a Jerusalem cafe last night. Our Mike Hanna has details on that.

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MIKE HANNA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Distraught faces reflect the bitter knowledge, it could have been me, it could have been you, it could have been any of the many for whom the Cafe Moment was a refuge, a place to sit and drink coffee and have normal conversations amidst abnormal times.

David and Ariel Myron embrace in the place where so many Israelis died, mourning the dead, but also expressing relief that they escaped the terror attack alive and uninjured.

The two brothers had come to the restaurant, after attending a Peace Now demonstration outside the prime minister's residence, virtually across the road. The bomb leaving unshattered Ariel's belief that peace with Palestinians can not be achieved through the use of force.

ARIEL MYRON: Unless we're prepared to wipe out an entire people, then - which I don't think that we should or can do, then violence will continue to breed violence, and it's got to stop somewhere and it's not going to stop with more violence.

HANNA: Others here do not agree.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Their mentality is strength. If you show that you're strong, they go back. If you show that you're weak, they attack you more and more.

HANNA: This terror attack appears to confirm a deeply disturbing trend. In recent days, there was an attack on a fashionable late night Tel Aviv restaurant, followed by a failed bombing attempt in a trendy Jerusalem suburb. Both these targets well away from areas that had been the focus of suicide attacks in the past, areas that Israelis had thought to be safe are no longer so. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a matter of luck. It's like Russian roulette here, you know. One day you're out. The other day you're dead.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't know what to say.

HANNA: The question on the minds of all, in the shadow of funeral notices on the wall, how many more candles will be lit in the rubble of yet another attack. Mike Hanna, CNN, Jerusalem.

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