The New York Times · 12 July 1972

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9 Injured in Explosion at Tel Aviv Bus Terminal

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TEL AVIV, July 11 (AP) — A grenade exploded in the central bus terminal here today, injuring nine persons, none seriously. Soldiers struggled to prevent angry bystanders from attacking Arabs in the area. The explosion, in a men’s room, blew out a wall and window, showering the street with glass and masonry.

Security men and the police surrounded the area and set up road blocks around Tel Aviv. About 100 Arabs were detained for questioning. The blast site was 10 miles from the heavily armed army base where a Japanese, Kozo Okamoto, is being tried for his part in the international airport massacre of May 30.

The explosion was the fourth known act of sabotage in the vicinity of the bus station since the 1967 Middle East war. The worst was in November, 1970, when explosions killed 2 persons and wounded 24. It was the second bus station explosion in Israel in two weeks.

Last week an explosive device went off prematurely in the station in Netanya and wounded an Arab from the occupied West Bank sector of Jordan. Group Takes Responsibility BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 11 (Reuters) — The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said here tonight that it was responsible for the explosion.

A spokesman said it was a reprisal for the death of a commando leader, Ghassan Kanafani, who was killed when an explosion destroyed his car outside his home here Saturday.

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