Word: aviv
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...fear and shock on a massive scale, to instill a sense of helplessness. By that measure, Salah Abdel Rahim Nazal Souwi proved an excellent terrorist. Last Wednesday the 27-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank city of Kalkilya boarded the heavily traveled No. 5 bus in downtown Tel Aviv carrying a 22-lb. package of TNT. At 8:55 a.m., just after the bus passed Dizengoff Square in the heart of the shopping district, he stood up and blew himself, the bus and 21 of its passengers to pieces...
...horror. Only 10 days earlier, Souwi's cohorts in the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, had kidnapped an Israeli soldier, eventually executing him and killing one commando involved in a rescue attempt. Others had sprayed a pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem with machine-gun fire, killing two. Now Tel Aviv, the country's most cosmopolitan and carefree city, where Israelis feel most removed from the conflict with their neighbors, was under attack. The force of Souwi's bomb was so intense that the bus was reduced to fragments. Parts of victims were blown ; through windows. Police officers fainted; reporters sobbed...
Hamas, until now, had been a frightening but amateurish opponent. With its October operations the group graduated to a whole new class. "We now have an internal security problem of emergency proportions," said Joseph Alpher, director of Tel Aviv University's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will have a harder time selling future accords with the Palestinians to anxious Israelis...
Seeking to undermine Israeli-Arab peacemaking, a suicide bomber from the Hamas organization of Palestinian Islamic militants detonated a package of tnt on a crowded bus in normally placid Tel Aviv; 21 people were killed. The especially grisly suicide attack came just days after the bloody denouement of a Hamas kidnapping in which two Israeli soldiers and three Palestinians died. Rabin vowed to crack down on Hamas suspects and urged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to do the same...
Vowing retaliation for Israeli government orders to shoot their leaders on sight, Hamas, the militant Islamic group that blew up a Tel Aviv bus last week, threatened to mar President Clinton's five-country Middle East tour with more violence. Since the bombing, Israeli authorities have rounded up dozens of second- and third-tier Hamas operatives from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including, Rabin disclosed today, two alleged accomplices of the suicide bomber, Salah Abdel Rahim Hassan Assawi. Rabin also pledged to amass a 10,000-member security force for Clinton's arrival in Jerusalem Thursday. In Washington, Secretary...