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Israeli copters fire missiles in Gaza (tohle je normalni titulek ktery napsali normalni novinari- zel redaktori iDnes musi zpatky do skoly)
MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS JERUSALEM, June 12 — Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a car in Gaza City early Thursday, killing at least two people, residents said. It was the second Israeli airstrike in Gaza City in six hours. Two Hamas militants and five bystanders were killed in the first attack, which itself came just one hour after the latest suicide bombing on an Israeli bus in Jerusalem, which killed at least 16 and wounded scores.
THE LATEST attack came just after midnight. The bodies of the dead were taken to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. It was not immediately known who they were. One person was also seriously wounded, doctors said. The Israeli military had no comment. Residents said ambulances raced to the scene in the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City. They said they heard four explosions and saw Israeli attack helicopters flying away from the scene. It was the latest outburst of violence that threatens to derail the U.S.-backed “road map” peace plan, which had created the most hopeful moment in the Middle East in a nearly three-year cycle of attacks and retribution. In the earlier attack, Israeli helicopters attacked a car in Gaza City on Wednesday, killing two senior Hamas militants and five other people. Witnesses said an Israeli Apache helicopter fired two missiles at a car on the main road in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, wounding 10 in addition to the seven killed. Massoud Ramadan, 65, who was wounded in the attack, said after the missiles hit the car, crowds gathered to try to help the casualties, and “another missile attack took place,” causing more casualties. Ramadan said he was hurt in the second attack. Flames leaped from one of the cars, and it was turned into a pile of scorched metal, witnesses said. Among the dead were Hamas activists Tito Massoud, 35, and Soffil Abu Nahez, 29. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Israel retaliates after suicide attack June 11 — Israeli helicopters attacked a car, killing two senior Hamas militants and five others, just one hour after the latest suicide bombing on an Israeli bus in Jerusalem. NBC’s Tom Aspell reports.
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HEART OF JERUSALEM The Israeli helicopter attack followed a suicide explosion that rocked downtown Jerusalem at the end of the workday. The explosion left at least 16 dead and dozens wounded. Paramedics and police reported that 15 people were in serious condition. The strike occurred on Jaffa Street, Jerusalem’s main thoroughfare in the commercial heart of the city, near the Mahane Yehuda outdoor market, which has repeatedly been targeted by Palestinian militants. The attack was carried out by a man dressed as a religious Jew, police said. MSNBC’s Hanson Hosein reported that the Palestinian suicide bomber was from Hebron, about 20 miles away, and that he managed to elude military checkpoints before arriving in Jerusalem. The blast blew out windows and tore a large hole into the left side of the red-and-white bus, peeling back its roof. The bus had just left Jerusalem’s nearby central bus station when the explosion occurred. “I heard a blast.... Then I heard people yelling and running in the direction of the explosion, screaming ‘attack,”’ said Ofir Alon, who witnessed the bombing from a nearby street corner. The wrecked bus after Wednesday's suicide bombing. The bombing “is a message to all the Zionist criminals that they are not safe and that the Palestinian fighters are capable of reaching them everywhere,” said Mahmoud Zahar, a leader of Hamas. A Web site that is linked to the militant group and regularly publishes its official statements said that the Jerusalem bombing was carried out by Hamas’ Izz-el-Deen al-Qassam military wing. Hamas’ spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, told Reuters that the attack was in revenge for Israel’s unsuccessful attempt to assassinate senior Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi on Tuesday. “The response is continuing,” Yassin said. ANGRY REACTIONS
A visibly angry U.S. President Bush condemned the Jerusalem bombing and urged all nations to cut off financial aid to terror groups and “isolate those who hate so much that they are willing to kill.” The increasing cycle of violence threatens to overwhelm a U.S.-backed peace plan referred to as the “road map” to peace launched by Bush and agreed to by the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers only a week ago. “For the people in the world who want to see Mideast peace, I strongly urge all of you to fight off terror,” said the visibly angry president, Bush, who a day earlier upbraided Israel for the attack on Rantisi, as he boarded a helicopter in Chicag