Samaria Car Bomb Intended for Israeli School Bus

September 4, 2024

by: JNS

Wednesday, 4 September 2024 | A car bomb neutralized on Monday near the entrance to the Jewish community of Ateret in the Binyamin region of Samaria was intended to detonate while a school bus was passing by, security officials believe.

According to the Kan News broadcaster, the bomb, which was planted inside a gas cylinder, contained more than 100 pounds [45 kg.] of explosive material.

In addition, an initial probe of the incident shows that the bomb contained a camera facing the road, allowing the terrorists to detonate the explosive device remotely when a bus passed by, Kan reported.

Channel 12 News said the vigilance of a local Israeli resident prevented a “major disaster,” with Israeli security forces neutralizing the heavy bomb before school busses entered the town on Monday morning.

Israel Ganz, the head of the Binyamin Regional Council, which has jurisdiction over the area of Ateret, said on Monday, “The terrorism in Judea and Samaria requires military action just like in Gaza and Rafah.”

On Friday, terrorists linked to Palestinian Authority [PA] chief Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah [leading secular Palestinian political party] faction carried out a double car bombing in the Gush Etzion area of Judea, wounding two Israeli soldiers and a security guard.

Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades warned that it would “pursue the occupier at every intersection, alley and neighborhood, until it is expelled from our land and our holy sites, Inshallah [‘Allah willing’].”

Since January of this year, Judea and Samaria saw more than 500 Arab terrorist attacks each month on average, according to figures published on August 1 by Rescuers Without Borders (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria).

During that time, first responders recorded 3,272 acts of terrorism in the region, including 1,868 cases of rock-throwing, 456 attacks with Molotov cocktails, 299 explosive charges and 109 shootings.

Terrorists have killed 14 people and wounded more than 155 others in Judea and Samaria since the start of the year, the rescue group said.

Posted on September 4, 2024

Source: (Excerpt from an article originally published by the Jewish News Syndicate on September 3, 2024. Time-related language has been modified to reflect our republication today. See original article at this link.)

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