Terrorists Kill 1, Injure 4

Terrorist acts over the weekend took the life of an 11-year-old boy on an Egged bus, injured four other passengers and did serious damage to a citrus packing plant near Gaza and an electric power station in Nablus. On Thursday, a homemade bomb exploded in the crowded Hamishbar department store on Allenby Road, causing minor damage but no casualties.

The bus bomb victim was Ronny Kosnitzky of Eilat who was fatally injured while travelling from Eilat to Zichron Yaacov Friday to attend a seder at his grandparents’ home. His mother, Dina, 32 and sister, Orly, 12, were injured as were two other passengers when the bomb exploded in the baggage compartment shortly before the bus reached Zichron Yaacov. Police are trying to assemble composite pictures of three Arab passengers who left the bus when it stopped at Hadera. They are suspected of leaving behind the bomb concealed in a valise.

Earlier, a group of masked terrorists attacked two guards at an Israeli -owned citrus packing plant near Gaza, placed explosives and set fire to the building destroying its machinery. Damage was estimated at IL 2 million. The terrorist scrawled a message on the walls saying that they had acted on behalf of the Palestinian liberation forces. Part of Nablus on the West Bank was blacked out last night after a barrel of fuel exploded setting fire to the local power station. Police are trying to determine whether the explosion was the work of terrorists.

The department store in Tel Aviv was jammed with Passover shoppers mainly women and children, when a bomb exploded on a table of blankets on the third floor of the store. Police said the bomb consisted of two lighter fluid containers filled with explosives activated by a timing device. The store remained open but the third floor was closed to shoppers. In Jerusalem a time bomb that could have done severe damage in the city’s downtown district was dismantled by police bomb squad experts four hours before it was set to explode.