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Israel attempts to kill Hamas member in Damascus using car bomb?
A member of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas escaped unhurt on Monday when a bomb blew up his car in the Syrian capital Damascus, a Palestinian source said.
"This is the second incident in which an explosion targets a Hamas member," the source said. He said the bomb, placed under the driver's seat, blew up shortly after the unnamed member and his daughter had parked the car and left it.
The Syrian interior ministry accused Israel's secret service Mossad of being behind the attack on what it said was a member of the Hamas movement.
The silver sports utility vehicle was quickly removed by security and rescue teams who were collecting shrapnel scattered on the street in the Mazza area of the city, they said.
Residents said the car had Syrian licence plates.
"The explosion was so strong that the door blew open in my house and windows were shattered in the whole building," resident Isam Abd al-Wahid told Reuters.
One wounded
One passer-by was slightly injured and treated in hospital.
The blast occurred near a hospital and a petrol station which was not damaged.
A Hamas official was killed when a bomb ripped through his car in Damascus on 26 September.
The explosion, blamed on Israel, killed Izz al-Din Subhi Shaikh Khalil, 42, and wounded three bystanders.
Syrian authorities and Hamas blamed Israel for that attack.
In 2003, Israeli jets bombed what it said was a training camp used by a Palestinian group in Syria.
There was no information as to the intended target but Khalid Mishaal, the head of Hamas' political wing is based in the city.
Agencies
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/27EFDAFC-4493-4613-97A2-2F2509D51B54.htm
A bomb in September killed Izz el-Deen al-Sheikh Khalil, 42, a Hamas official and an Israeli television station, citing unidentified security sources, said Israel was behind the attack.
The official Syrian news agency SANA confirmed the car belonged to a Palestinian but gave no details on who he was.
"The car belongs to a Palestinian citizen which indicates an act of sabotage against our Palestinian brothers in Syria," SANA quoted an interior ministry source as saying.
There was no immediate comment from Israel on the blast. Israeli security officials vowed in September to hit Hamas leaders in Palestinian areas and abroad in response to twin bus bombings in that killed 16 people in southern Israel.
Residents in Damascus said the car had Syrian license plates. The vehicle was quickly removed by security and rescue teams who were collecting shrapnel scattered on the street in the Mazze area, they said.
Another official source said three passers-by were wounded.
"The explosion was so strong that the door blew open in my house and windows were shattered in the whole building," resident Issam Abdul Wahid told Reuters.
"There was nobody in the car. I was extinguishing it and there was nobody in it," he added.
The blast occurred near a hospital and a petrol station which was not damaged.
The blast was the second such incident in the Syrian capital in less than three months. A Hamas official was killed when a bomb ripped through his car in Damascus on September 26. Syrian authorities and Hamas blamed Israel for that attack.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7077215
The Syrian interior ministry accused Israel's secret service Mossad of being behind the attack on what it said was a member of the Hamas movement.
The silver sports utility vehicle was quickly removed by security and rescue teams who were collecting shrapnel scattered on the street in the Mazza area of the city, they said.
Residents said the car had Syrian licence plates.
"The explosion was so strong that the door blew open in my house and windows were shattered in the whole building," resident Isam Abd al-Wahid told Reuters.
One wounded
One passer-by was slightly injured and treated in hospital.
The blast occurred near a hospital and a petrol station which was not damaged.
A Hamas official was killed when a bomb ripped through his car in Damascus on 26 September.
The explosion, blamed on Israel, killed Izz al-Din Subhi Shaikh Khalil, 42, and wounded three bystanders.
Syrian authorities and Hamas blamed Israel for that attack.
In 2003, Israeli jets bombed what it said was a training camp used by a Palestinian group in Syria.
There was no information as to the intended target but Khalid Mishaal, the head of Hamas' political wing is based in the city.
Agencies
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/27EFDAFC-4493-4613-97A2-2F2509D51B54.htm
A bomb in September killed Izz el-Deen al-Sheikh Khalil, 42, a Hamas official and an Israeli television station, citing unidentified security sources, said Israel was behind the attack.
The official Syrian news agency SANA confirmed the car belonged to a Palestinian but gave no details on who he was.
"The car belongs to a Palestinian citizen which indicates an act of sabotage against our Palestinian brothers in Syria," SANA quoted an interior ministry source as saying.
There was no immediate comment from Israel on the blast. Israeli security officials vowed in September to hit Hamas leaders in Palestinian areas and abroad in response to twin bus bombings in that killed 16 people in southern Israel.
Residents in Damascus said the car had Syrian license plates. The vehicle was quickly removed by security and rescue teams who were collecting shrapnel scattered on the street in the Mazze area, they said.
Another official source said three passers-by were wounded.
"The explosion was so strong that the door blew open in my house and windows were shattered in the whole building," resident Issam Abdul Wahid told Reuters.
"There was nobody in the car. I was extinguishing it and there was nobody in it," he added.
The blast occurred near a hospital and a petrol station which was not damaged.
The blast was the second such incident in the Syrian capital in less than three months. A Hamas official was killed when a bomb ripped through his car in Damascus on September 26. Syrian authorities and Hamas blamed Israel for that attack.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7077215
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The car was quickly removed by security teams who collected debris on the street in the Mazze area, reports said.
One passer-by was reported to have been injured by shrapnel and a resident of the area hurt by flying glass.
It is the second explosion in the Mazze district since April, when four people died after a group of attackers blew up a bomb under a car and shot at police.
The Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan has blamed Israel for the blast. "The group who carried out this act deals with Mossad, or perhaps it is Mossad itself," he is quoted as saying by the official Syrian news agency.
"The explosion was so strong that the door blew open in my house and windows were shattered in the whole building," one resident told the Reuters news agency.
The eyewitness said nobody had been inside the car as the emergency services doused the flames in the burning vehicle.
The Syrian government initially claimed international terrorists were behind the attack in April - but later said it had been the work of a small, isolated local group.
In September, a bomb killed a member of the Palestinian militant organisation Hamas in Damascus, in an attack officials blamed on Israel.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4092775.stm