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Israel''The only way my son feels safe now,,,'
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'The only way my son feels safe now is by holding a gun'
By MATTHEW GUTMAN
Ten-year-old Yisrael Aharon, toy gun stuffed into the front of his sweatpants as he gloomily guarded the entrance of Netanya's open-air market, was the last casualty of a suicide bombing which claimed the life of three civilians.
"It is a tragedy that the only way my Yisrael feels safe is when he is holding that gun, trying to do something active to protect himself," said his mother Miriana, looking down at her son play at guarding the market gate.
The Aharons live on Rehov Ya'alom, two blocks from the bombing. Yisrael was so panicked his mother felt the only way to calm him would be to take him to the scene and "allow him to soak up the experience, to give this event closure."
For the many affected by the bombing and the victims whose flesh became intermingled with fruit shredded by shrapnel, such closure will take much longer to achieve. Hesed Shel Emet workers said it was extremely difficult to distinguish between flesh and fruit.
Despite police requests not to approach the market, hundreds gathered on its edges, sharing stories of near escapes. Luba Gudimov, 48, cheeks blackened by running mascara, described how she sprinted home after she heard the blast. Her vegetable stand was just behind the explosion site.
All she saw was a Thai worker, covered in the gore of the suicide bomber, running through the market.
Eyewitnesses said the blast flung bodies through vegetable stalls. The blast also scattered three-meter panels from the market's roof.
The 170,000 Netanya residents, veterans of 12 terror attacks since the start of the intifada, have adopted a hard-edged practicality.
Shimon Ze'evi owns a kiosk opposite the blast site. His son was wounded in the bombing, yet he thanked God, and credited it "to our luck" that the bombing occurred on a slow Sunday rather than last Thursday, when the market was teeming with shoppers preparing for Shavuot.
"It would have been a sea of blood," Ze'evi said, echoing the sentiments of Mayor Miriam Fierberg, who commended the speedy reaction of the police and rescue units.
Barely half an hour after a Palestinian dressed as a soldier detonated the bomb, all the injured where en route to hospital. Shortly thereafter, sappers finished checking for additional bombs.
It took shoppers a month to return after the Park Hotel bombing on March 27, in which 29 people were killed.
"People just started to come back to the market, business has just started to rebound," said Vitas Safni, 37, who owns a butcher shop. "Who knows how long it will take this time?" http://www.jpost.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid=1021813214677
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By MATTHEW GUTMAN
Ten-year-old Yisrael Aharon, toy gun stuffed into the front of his sweatpants as he gloomily guarded the entrance of Netanya's open-air market, was the last casualty of a suicide bombing which claimed the life of three civilians.
"It is a tragedy that the only way my Yisrael feels safe is when he is holding that gun, trying to do something active to protect himself," said his mother Miriana, looking down at her son play at guarding the market gate.
The Aharons live on Rehov Ya'alom, two blocks from the bombing. Yisrael was so panicked his mother felt the only way to calm him would be to take him to the scene and "allow him to soak up the experience, to give this event closure."
For the many affected by the bombing and the victims whose flesh became intermingled with fruit shredded by shrapnel, such closure will take much longer to achieve. Hesed Shel Emet workers said it was extremely difficult to distinguish between flesh and fruit.
Despite police requests not to approach the market, hundreds gathered on its edges, sharing stories of near escapes. Luba Gudimov, 48, cheeks blackened by running mascara, described how she sprinted home after she heard the blast. Her vegetable stand was just behind the explosion site.
All she saw was a Thai worker, covered in the gore of the suicide bomber, running through the market.
Eyewitnesses said the blast flung bodies through vegetable stalls. The blast also scattered three-meter panels from the market's roof.
The 170,000 Netanya residents, veterans of 12 terror attacks since the start of the intifada, have adopted a hard-edged practicality.
Shimon Ze'evi owns a kiosk opposite the blast site. His son was wounded in the bombing, yet he thanked God, and credited it "to our luck" that the bombing occurred on a slow Sunday rather than last Thursday, when the market was teeming with shoppers preparing for Shavuot.
"It would have been a sea of blood," Ze'evi said, echoing the sentiments of Mayor Miriam Fierberg, who commended the speedy reaction of the police and rescue units.
Barely half an hour after a Palestinian dressed as a soldier detonated the bomb, all the injured where en route to hospital. Shortly thereafter, sappers finished checking for additional bombs.
It took shoppers a month to return after the Park Hotel bombing on March 27, in which 29 people were killed.
"People just started to come back to the market, business has just started to rebound," said Vitas Safni, 37, who owns a butcher shop. "Who knows how long it will take this time?" http://www.jpost.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid=1021813214677
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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