Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad Claim Responsibility for Sunday’s Suicide Bombing in Tel Aviv
AP News: “The militant groups claiming the blast said they intended to launch more.”
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups have taken responsibility for Sunday night’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. In a joint statement, the terrorist groups described the attack as a ‘martyrdom operation’ carried out in a busy neighborhood of south Tel Aviv, media outlets report Monday morning.
A security camera captured the explosion caused by a would-be suicide bomber in Tel Aviv.
You can see from the blast that a mass casualty event was avoided. The bomb detonated early and the would-be bomber only managed to kill himself. pic.twitter.com/yH6L76h7xP
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) August 19, 2024
The bombing failed to cause the intended devastation as the suicide bomber appeared to have exploded before he could reach the targeted area — injuring a passerby. “A man who was carrying the bomb was killed and a passerby was injured in the incident late on Sunday, according to police at the scene in Israel’s commercial capital,” Reuters reported.
🚨 A miracle in Tel Aviv, Israel.
A suicide bomber had a failure and luckily blew himself up when no one was near.It was determined a terror attack by local police.
It has been 18 years since the last suicide bomber in Tel Aviv. pic.twitter.com/I8kcIhX2hm
— Era Gigman (@idan_bg) August 19, 2024
The Times of Israel reported:
The Hamas terror group on Monday claimed responsibility for an explosion in Tel Aviv the day before, saying it was a suicide bombing conducted as a joint operation with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and vowing further such attacks.
The claim of responsibility came hours after the police and the Shin Bet security agency confirmed that the blast was an intended terror attack.
The man behind the planned attack was walking down Lehi Road in south Tel Aviv on Sunday evening when the bomb he was carrying in his backpack detonated, killing him instantly and moderately wounding a passerby.
The terror attack appears to be Hamas’s response to President Joe Biden’s generous ceasefire deal announced on Friday. The explosion took place shortly ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s arrival in Israel. He is expected to press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the terms jointly set by the Biden administration, Qatar and Egypt.
“The blast happened on Lehi Street in southern Tel Aviv, about an hour after the US secretary of state landed in the city to push for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal,” the BBC reported.
Blinken: We're close to a deal!
Hamas: Nope.
Blinken: The deal isn't dead!
Hamas: ::sends suicide bomber to Tel Aviv::
Blinken: We can still make a deal!The WH is trying to delay action beyond the DNC. In doing so, it's telegraphing weakness to Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 19, 2024
Rejecting the diplomatic efforts to reach a truce in Gaza, the terrorist groups vowed to carry out more such attacks against Israeli civilians, the Associated Press reported Monday:
The blast, which came as mediators were working on a cease-fire agreement in the devastating Israel-Hamas war, was a stark reminder of the rash of Palestinian suicide bombings that killed hundreds of Israelis during the second intifada two decades ago. The militant groups claiming the blast said they intended to launch more.
https://twitter.com/JoeTruzman/status/1825482419732103401?t=P3x6AJ13bu-lrnVMBu63vw&s=19
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So they can randomly bomb innocents, but when Israel hits active military sites/depots (that’s “dee-po” for Kamala), that the terrorists put in schools and hospitals, only Israel is wrong.
Yeah, no antisemitic bias here. Just another day in Jihadville…
msm headline:
israelis give backpack to unsuspecting palestinian
Good first start but needs more. “Palestinian student murdered in Tel Aviv” or, alternatively, “IDF kills Palestinian student.”
500 Palestinian tourists killed in Israeli bomb blast.
The Gaza Ministry of Health reported that 500 Palestinian tourists sightseeing in Tel Aviv today were killed when the backpack one of the tourists was carrying mysteriously exploded. Unnamed officials in the Palestinian government stated that they suspect an IDF intelligence operation was responsible for the blast.
An IDF spokesperson was quoted as saying “well, we only found two arms and two legs so we’re not sure where the 500 number is coming from…and one of the arms had a detonation trigger in its hand…but whatever.”
Witnesses say that just before the blast, the Palestinian who’s backpack exploded shouted “Silence! I kill you!”
They should ban backpacks since they kill.
They haven’t quite figured out that suicide bombers by definition don’t learn from experience.
The bomber’s intended target was the Rashbi Synagogue in South Tel Aviv. A rabbi at that synagogue told Behadrei Haredim:
“At 8:00 PM, in the middle of evening prayers at the Rashbi Synagogue, we heard a powerful explosion, the like of which we’ve never heard before. The synagogue’s windows shattered. We quickly went outside to understand what had happened; we saw fire and smoke, and a strong smell of burning was in the air. A few minutes later we saw the news reports that a person carrying a bomb exploded.
“On the security cameras spread along the street one clearly sees the terrorist walking along the street with the bomb in his backpack, and when he gets to a distance of ten meters from the synagogue the bomb suddenly explodes.
“The great miracle is that he walked a long distance, but exploded precisely as he was approaching the area of the synagogue, and miraculously there were no people in the street, apart from one passerby who was injured, and we are praying for his speedy recovery.
“I must point out that at the Rashbi Synagogue, named after Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai [2nd century CE], to whose merit we attribute the miracle and the protection, the largest summer study program in the city takes place every day, and particularly at that time of day, when the place is packed by worshipers and students. Just this past Wednesday the rabbi of Bnei Brak, Rabbi Masoud Ben-Shimon, came to the study program’s opening ceremony, and said one thing: ‘You should know that this study program protects the entire Tel Aviv’.
“At the time people didn’t attribute any particular significance to these words, and thought that this was just an expression of encouragement. But thank God, everyone now understands that the power of the Torah is what protects the Jewish people. This could, God forbid, have been a mass killing; the explosion was so powerful, and the pressure wave was so strong that it’s clear that it was likely to cause a large number of casualties.
“All that is left to us is to thank God, that the merits of the synagogue and study hall were the ones that stopped the cursed terrorist. With God’s help we will organize a large feast as a thanksgiving for what happened, and will acknowledge the great miracles by reciting Nishmat Kol Hai [a longish praise that begins with the words ‘Let the soul of every living thing bless Your Name…’]”
(My own translation. Pictures of the study hall and of the damage outside at the link.)