A pipe bomb exploded in a trash can near the central bus station in the Israeli town of Hadera, north of Tel Aviv, on Wednesday morning. No injuries were reported, according to Radio Israel.
It said the bomb exploded at an intersection of the city's main street, one block from the central bus station, scene of other attacks in the past.
The radio quoted the police as saying that it a mortar shell was used in the making of the bomb. Police were looking for other bombs in the area.
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, as well as 521 killed.
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
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