Jewish Extremists Responsible for School Bomb: Shi

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Jewish Extremists Responsible for School Bomb: Shin Bet

General Avi Dichter, head of the Israeli Security, Shin Bet, said that
Jewish extremists were responsible for planting the bomb which exploded
Tuesday, September 17, in a West Bank school, injuring six Palestinian
children.

The Qatari News Agency quoted the Israeli Radio saying that Dichter said in a
speech at the Israeli Ministerial Council that Jewish members placed the time
bombs near the water pipes which the students use to drink water during their
recess and said that by doing that they aimed to cause the most number of
casualties.

Khalil Al-Tamizi, the head of the education zone in Al-Khalil (Hebron),
accused the settlers and the Israeli occupation army of being behind the
blast.

He added that the location in which the school lies has witnessed military
presence on Monday, September 16, and there were many bombs fired in the
skies, which means that the only people who are able to walk around freely in
the city are the settlers and the Israeli soldiers.

On Tuesday, hours after Israeli tanks raided Gaza Strip, five Palestinian
children were hurt in a bomb attack on their West Bank school.

In the village of Ziff near Al-Khalil in the southern West Bank, a bomb went
off in the toilets of a Palestinian school, wounding the children, witnesses
and security officials said.

A second bomb was found in the school and was neutralized by army sappers.
The school is in an area under Israeli security control, but administered by
the Palestinian Authority.

No group claimed responsibility and no arrests were made, but Israeli public
radio said the army suspected right-wingers from nearby Jewish settlements of
having planted the explosives.

The school headmaster and Israeli military sources have suggested that the
bombs were planted by Israeli militants, BBC News Online reported.

“We are checking to see... whether a Palestinian source, a criminal source or
a Jewish source [was responsible],” police spokesman Gil Kleiman said, BBC
reported, adding that in March, a Jewish vigilante group claimed
responsibility for a bomb explosion at a Palestinian school near Jerusalem
which injured five people.

After Tuesday’s blast, the YESHA Council of Jewish Settlements in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip issued a statement condemning the planting of bombs in
Palestinian schools, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reported.

The first blast took place while the school - located at the Ziff Junction,
south of Al-Khalil - was in session, witnesses said.