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Suicide Bomb Attack in Israel Wounds 29 as NYC Mayor and Mayor- Elect Tour Jerusalem

Aired December 09, 2001 - 15:46   ET

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CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: In the Middle East, there's been another suicide bomb attack against Israeli targets today. Twenty- nine people were wounded at a bus stop, and at the same time the present and future mayors of New York were in Jerusalem where they toured the sites of several recent suicide bombings and showed support for anti-terrorism efforts.

Here's CNN's Chris Burns with more.

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CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The mayor and mayor-elect of New York City and the governor of New York State visit Jerusalem's Ground Zero with the city's mayor Ehud Olmert.

Under heavy police guard, they pay their respects at the site where a triple bombing killed 11 young Israelis. They tour blast victims in a hospital. Laya Nathan (ph), a volunteer medic, was treating the wounded when she was injured in the second bombing.

"All of my clothes were on fire and God saved me" she says. The visit underlines the harder U.S. line against terrorism since the September 11th attacks in the United States, even if Palestinians make up most of the 1,000 people who have died in the 14-month-old uprising against Israeli occupation.

RUDOLPH GIULIANI, MAYOR OF NEW YORK: The more that countries and people embrace freedom, democracy and the rule of law, then we'll see an end to violence. The more they move in the direction of supporting, defending, and extending terrorism, the more of this we're going to see.

BURNS: At the bombing site, the mourning goes on by day and by night. Some come to pray. Some come to cry. The wreaths and bouquets multiply around the flames kept alive in honor of the dead.

One week after, here at Jerusalem's Ground Zero, are victims, survivors, loved ones who've come to face their fear, face their sorrow with a lot of courage and more than a little defiance.

Shrapnel tore into the back of Yohi Azarowyl (ph) who left a hospital to mourn a friend who didn't survive.

"It helps me to come back here" says Azarowyl (ph). "It helps me to fight back, to combat that fear."

Nahman Rosenberg (ph), a New York native, had just packed up his vans when the blasts went off where they had been playing.

NAHMAN ROSENBERG: Why do I come back tonight? I'll be honest with you. I'm a human being and I have fears, but at a time like this, I can not afford to be fearful.

BURNS: But fear endures among many here. The suicide attacks weren't the last, nor is the suffering on both sides of the conflict.

Chris Burns, CNN, Jerusalem.

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