One woman has died and 39 are injured in a terrorist bombing at a bus station in central Jerusalem. Here's part of a report from YNet News:
One attack victim, 29-year old Yair Zimerman, arrived at Shaare Zedek Hospital for tests and shared details of the blast with reporters.
"I was on bus route 75. The bus stopped at the station and there was a very loud blast. I told the driver to drive forward a little, because something had exploded. I am an MDA volunteer and immediately called the paramedics and told them," he said.
"I began treating people. There was one who couldn't be treated on the scene and another two in severe condition." Zimerman said.
"I heard a loud blast. I looked out the window and saw smoke rising up, and a yeshiva student running around with his legs on fire. People were trying to help him put out the fire." he said. "I saw people lying on the ground and then rescue forces started pouring in. They were at the scene within a few minutes, evacuating victims…it was all very scary."
A few days ago, a barrage of 50 rockets was fired from Gaza into southern Israel. Before that, grad rockets from Gaza hit the city of Be'er Sheva and, just yesterday, Ashdod.
The attack in Jerusalem has already been praised by the Gaza based Popular Resistance Committee and, more significantly, by the Islamic Jihad, which hasn't claimed responsibility for the bus bombing but has stated it fired the rockets into Ashdod. Their spokesperson said they have "entered a new phase of bombing targets farther away, where thousands of Israelis live."
When the Israeli response comes, to these and the dozens of other rocket attacks in recent months, to the brutal slayings of children and their parents in Itamar, to Hamas's stated goal of destroying Israel, will it really be that difficult for the world to understand that the Israelis need to defend themselves?
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