Israel – three Israelis were killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car at the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Kedumim, located west of Nablus.
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The vehicle blew up next to the Kedumim gas station. The three Israeli casualties had apparently picked up the suicide bomber, who was likely dressed as an observant Jew, as he was hitchhiking on the road. He then exploded in their car killing all four.
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It was later learned that the car had “four” occupants. Details were a while in coming because of the flames that engulfed the car, which burned for a long time before anyone was allowed to go near it. Identifying the victims was therefore a difficult task.
The occupants were the owners, Rafi and Helena HaLevy, both 60, of Kedumim; Reut Feldman, 20, from Herzliya; and Shaked Lasker, 16, in addition to the terrorist.
The murderer, who was dressed as a religious Jew, apparently entered the car near Karnei Shomron, possibly together with the other two hitch-hikers, and the car drove east towards Kedumim.
Just outside Kedumim, the terrorist detonated his explosive, which was estimated at 10 kilograms, and all inside were killed instantly.
Rafaela Segal, a resident of Kedumim said, “I live opposite the gas station were it all happened, and we heard a tremendous explosion; the walls shook… We saw a car burning.” Pieces of the car flew dozens of meters from the force of the blast.
A Kedumim resident who was driving a car behind them later said, “I saw the car veer strangely, then stop abruptly, and then, within seconds, there was a tremendous explosion.” Another neighbor said that the HaLevys had acted heroically, refusing to drive the car into the community when they understood the terrorist’s intentions. “They
bodily prevented many other people from being killed,” she said.
the cycle has started
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Israeli aircraft fired a missile at an empty training camp belonging to Islamist group Hamas early on Friday in the central Gaza Strip, Hamas sources said.
They said the camp had been evacuated and there were no reports of injuries.
Army Radio said police suspect three Israelis, two women and a man, gave a ride to a Palestinian in their car, and the Palestinian blew himself up, killing all four. The report said the Palestinian was dressed as an ultra-Orthodox Jew.
The Israeli military said the vehicle had Israeli license plates, and there were at least three bodies inside. They were burned so badly that identification was difficult, the military said.
The Israeli rescue service said the car was destroyed by the blast and there were several bodies inside. Medics could not immediately approach the car because it was still burning nearly an hour after the blast.
Daniella Weiss, head of the Kedoumim local council, said the Israeli dead were an elderly couple from the settlement and a young Israeli girl they picked up as a hitchhiker.
those heartless palestinians
they pick him for a hitch and in return he blows himself up
and here is the response from the hamas “goverment”
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Islamic militant group Hamas, which has been under Western pressure to renounce violence and recognise Israel or face big cuts in vital direct aid to the Palestinian government it now controls, said that it understood the attack.
“It was a natural response to the Israeli crimes, to the continued Israeli killing, incursions and arrests,” said Hamas lawmaker Mushir al Masri. “Our Palestinian people have the right to defend themselves.”
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can this get any sicker?