Israël - Gaza

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Palestinian: 2 Grad rockets fired at Israel
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip reported that two Grad rockets were fired towards Israel. The report was not immediately confirmed by any official source.

Earlier it was reported that a Grad landed south of Ashdod. No injuries were reported. (Elior Levy) (via)

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Terror attack in Jerusalem
Explosion rocks capital near Jerusalem Convention Center, MDA declares dozens injured. Ynet reader: A loud blast was heard in the center of Jerusalem. After a minute many sirens could be heard

A terror attack was committed in Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon as an explosion was heard and many people injured near the Jerusalem Convention Center at around 3 pm.

The Magen David Adom rescue services declared that at least 20 victims were on the scene and ordered everyone in the area to clear out.

A Ynet reader wrote in a Red Mail: "A loud blast was heard in the center of Jerusalem. After a minute many sirens could be heard."

Witnesses reported rescue forces were on the scene. (via)

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Netanyahu holding emergency consultation
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently holding an emergency consultation in his office, following the terror attack in Jerusalem. He has not yet canceled a visit to Russia, on which he is scheduled to depart soon. (Attila Somfalvi) (via)

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Op woensdag 23 maart 2011 16:47 schreef C_N het volgende:
wat over de grat raket in beersheva om 6.30 in de ochtend

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Op woensdag 23 maart 2011 17:04 schreef C_N het volgende:

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nee 6.43 precies ,, wat ik je beloofd had gisteren

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Bomb explodes in central Jerusalem; 1 dead, at least 30 hurt
Blast caused by explosive device placed next to telephone pole; three people seriously wounded; entrance to the city has been closed.

A bomb exploded Wednesday at a crowded bus stop outside the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, just opposite the central bus station. A 59-year-old woman was killed and at least 30 people were wounded in the incident, three of them seriously.

All of the casualties have been evacuated to the Hadassah Hospital in Ein Karem. The Magen David Adom emergency services said that there were no fatalities.

The blast could be heard throughout Jerusalem and blew out the windows of bus No. 74, traveling from Givat Shaul to Har Homa. The explosive device was apparently hidden in a bag next to a telephone pole.

An eyewitness in the area at the time of the explosion told Haaretz that she heard a loud blast close to the central bus station and second later sirens began to wail and security forces rushed to the scene.

Meir Hagid, one of the bus drivers, said he heard a loud explosion as he drove by the site, located near the main entrance to Jerusalem and its central bus station.

"I heard the explosion in the bus stop," he said. He halted his vehicle and people got off. He said nobody in his bus was hurt.

Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich told Channel 2 that the bomb was about one to two kilograms (four pounds) and was planted in a small bag on the sidewalk. He said security services were on alert for additional attacks.

The entrance to the city has been closed. Security forces were combing the area for other suspicious packages or objects.

A Channel 2 reporter said that the Palestinian Red Crescent contacted the emergency services to offer assistance in evacuating the wounded.

The bombing occurred just hours after Gaza militants fired two Grad-type Katyusha rocket at the southern city of Be'er Sheva and a barrage of mortar shells on the western Negev.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled his scheduled trip to Moscow in the wake of the Jerusalem bombing.

Jerusalem has been hit by a number of terror attacks over the last few years, two of them involving tractor drivers that ploughed down a central street.

In the first incident in July 2008, a bulldozer driver hit a bus, pedestrian and cars before he was neutralized by a soldier and civilian who mounted his vehicle and overtook him and then shot and killed him.

The second attack took place three weeks later. Twenty-four people were injured in the attack, one of which moderately to critically wounded. The terrorist hit five cars before he was shot by a civilian and an IDF military border guard officer that were at the scene of the attack.

Three months later, 19 people were injured - two of them critically and four moderately -when an East Jerusalem resident veered off the street onto the sidewalk near the Old City of Jerusalem and crashed into pedestrians. Most of the pedestrians were soldiers. An officer among the group open fire and killed the terrorist.

The capital suffered dozens of suicide bombings that targeted buses and restaurants during the second Palestinian uprising last decade. Jerusalem last experienced a suicide bombing in 2004.
(via)

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Op woensdag 23 maart 2011 19:32 schreef C_N het volgende:
half uur geleden
1 qassam 5 mortieren afgevuurd op Israel ,
de raket en mortieren waren geladen met FOSFOR
news volgd................................

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Op woensdag 23 maart 2011 19:57 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Tijd voor een no-fly-zone.

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Op woensdag 23 maart 2011 20:31 schreef Hans_van_Baalen het volgende:
Hehe ja mooi triest bezig weer he. En ondertussen wel clusterbommen gooien op steden.

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Op woensdag 23 maart 2011 20:43 schreef rakotto het volgende:

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Mhm, in oorlog heb je het recht om ELKAAR te bombarderen ipv 1 kant te bombarderen en als je gebombardeerd wordt zielig te gaan doen.