A Palestinian launched an attempted suicide bombing against Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, seriously injuring himself but causing no other casualties, Israeli military sources said.
An army spokesman told Israel Radio that “a cart filled with explosives was detonated Sunday morning close to an IDF armored personnel carrier near Dahaniye in the southern Gaza Strip.”
The driver of the cart, who jumped off as he detonated the explosives, was seriously injured,” he added.
No soldiers were injured in the attack, he said.
This is the first suicide attack since Palestinians and Israeli signed a US brokered ceasefire on Wednesday.
Since the outbreak of the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict last September, CNN reports that Palestinians have killed approximately 112 Israelis with weapons ranging from stones and knives to machineguns and car bombs. Israeli military sources have reported well over 600 injuries to Israelis of Jewish descent.
In the same time period, according to CNN, Israeli soldiers and armed Jewish settlers have killed 13 Arab Israelis and 458 Palestinians with weapons ranging from machineguns and tanks to US-made Apache helicopter gunships and F-16s.
According to Amnesty International, nearly 100 of the Palestinians killed were children.
In addition, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society has reported over 14,000 Palestinians wounded.
Jewish author Noam Chomsky, who according to a New York Times Book Review article is “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” has been quoted as saying: “State terrorism is an extreme form of terrorism, generally much worse than individual terrorism because it has the resources of a state behind it.” – Albawaba.com
