Some 15 Israeli killed, 50 wounded in a Palestinian booby trapped car

The explosion which targeted an Israeli bus in Bardis Hanna area situated between the coastal city of al-Khudeira and Tel Aviv yesterday resulted in 15 killing and more than 50 were reported as wounded with many of them in critical health conditions.

News reports said that a booby trapped car collided an Israeli bus near a camp for the Israeli army known as "al-Thamanoun" to the east of Wadi Ara city resulted in its blowing off and then to complete the burning of the car and the bus.

An eye witness who was at 60 meters distance from the bus station said he had heard an explosion that resulted in the crash of the bus.

Al-Quds groups, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, claimed responsibility for the incident in a telephone call with the French New Agency AFP.

Meantime, the Israeli forces and the settlers continued their compulsory expulsion of the Palestinians from their villages and houses and forced more than 500 Palestinians to evacuate their houses and leave behind their properties in Beit Anoun in the West Bank.

The Israeli daily Maareve said that those Palestinians were obliged to leave their houses because of the acts of killing practiced against them by the settlers of Eitamara village situated near them.

A group of Israeli settlers attacked yesterday the Arab citizens in the al- Labneh al-Sharqeyah village, Nablus district, and opened fire at them, while another Israeli group of settlers set fire in Palestinian cultivated lands and to several cars in the area, situated between Ramullah and Nablus.