3 Israelis Injured in Car Bombings in Jerusalem, GiloTwo car bombs exploded separately in Jerusalem and the Gilo Jewish settlement on the outskirts of Jerusalem Monday morning, lightly wounding three Israelis, Israel's Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby told Xinhua.Both incidents took place in rush hour Monday morning, said Ben- Ruby, adding that the bombs were obviously "nationalistic," or related to the Palestinians. The bombing at a shopping center in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill lightly wounded a woman, and the other in Gilo wounded two other persons. Both Jewish neighborhoods were set up on Palestinian land occupied by Israel after the 1967 Mideast War, which was never recognized by the international community. Ben-Ruby said that the police suspected that the same cell was responsible for both incidents. It were the latest bombing attacks in the great Jerusalem area since a Palestinian suicide bomber blasted himself up and killed 15 Israelis at a restaurant in downtown Jerusalem last month. It was not immediately clear whether the incidents would affect the planned meeting between Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on this weekend. It was also not known whether Israel would take further retaliation attacks against the Palestinians. The violence between the two sides has rocked the region for more than 11 months, during which over 700 people, most of them Palestinians, have been killed. |
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