World News 01-09-2004 Suicide Bombers Return to Israel who: Islamic militants Hamas what: Says latest suicide bombings are "spark out of a volcano that will never be extinguished" where: Israel when: Yesterday snippet: "Sixteen people have been killed in suicide bombings on two buses in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba," says the BBC. "Two bombers also died and dozens of people were injured, some of them seriously, in the blasts that occurred two minutes apart." The bombings, which "killed a three-year-old boy, 10 women and five men, were claimed by Hamas as a revenge attack for Israel`s assassination of its leaders Sheik Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi earlier this year," says The Guardian. Leaflets distributed by Hamas called yesterday`s attacks "a spark out of a volcano that will never be extinguished". "Yesterday`s suicide attack was the first successful one since 10 workers were killed at Ashdod port five months ago," recalls The Independent, "and only the second bombing of any kind inside Israel this year." "Israeli officials said the attacks justified the West Bank barrier and the almost daily raids and incursions into the occupied territories," says The Financial Times. "Ahmed Qurei, Palestinian Authority prime minister, condemned the bombings, saying they gave Israel a pretext to kill militants, step up military raids and continue expansion of Jewish settlements." [... more]

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