Grim first: Woman bomber kills Jerusalem man

■ 81-year-old Israeli killed, at least dozen wounded

By GREG MYRE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Grim first: Woman bomber kills Jerusalem man — Staten Island Advance, 28 January 2002 — Staten Island Advance · Staten Island, NY · 28 January 2002

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JERUSALEM — A Palestinian woman launched a bomb attack yesterday on a busy Jerusalem street, killing herself and an 81-year-old Israeli man and wounding at least a dozen people. She was believed to be the first female suicide bomber since fighting began 16 months ago.

Israeli police were hesitant to call her a suicide bomber, saying it wasn’t clear if the woman intended to kill herself or if the bomb exploded prematurely as she walked along Jaffa Street, the main commercial strip in west Jerusalem.

Today, meanwhile, a Palestinian was shot dead in the Ramat-Gan suburb of Tel Aviv after running down and injuring an Israeli policeman,officials said. Three civilians were hospitalized from shock, ambulance officials said. Israeli officials believe the same man earlier ran a car through an army roadblock outside the West Bank city of Qalqilya, moderately injuring a soldier.

In Lebanon, the Al-Manar television station run by the militant Hezbollah movement said the Jerusalem bomber was Shinaz Amuri, a female student at Al-Najah University in the West Bank town of Nablus.

Israel accused Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat of “encouraging terrorism” and said it was prepared to respond to the bombing — the third major attack in an Israeli city in a week. The blast next to a shoe shop blew out shop windows, set a store on fire and left victims sprawled on the pavement amid shards of glass, pieces of fruit, shoes and storefront mannequins.

“It sounded like half the street exploded,” said Hama Gidon, a clothing store worker who was slightly injured. “All the mannequins went flying and I did too. People were falling, glass was flying everywhere.” More than 100 people were treated on the spot or taken to hospitals, though most suffered only from shock.

Three people were seriously hurt and nine had moderate injuries, officials said.

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Date and publication rest on the collector's slide label; no masthead, folio or printed dateline appears on this clipping, and nothing on it contradicts the label. Adjudicated against the printed page: Nothing printed identifies the paper or the date. Checked head and foot at 5x: the top rule carries only the headline 'Grim first: Woman bomber kills Jerusalem man' and a bulleted deck; the foot runs straight into body type. No masthead, folio, running head, p Unresolvable from this scan. Nothing contradicts the label; the Jaffa Street bombing was Sunday 27 January 2002, so a Monday 28 January paper fits, but fitting is not proof.

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Standard AP wire news. The word “Palestinian” is used throughout, uniformly, as an adjective of nationality and of threat; there is no competing ethnonym on the page.

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"Grim first: Woman bomber kills Jerusalem man," Staten Island Advance, 28 January 2002. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2002-131. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2002-131