Tel Aviv ROCKS as Bus Slammed by ROCKET !

From the NSP News Service: The National Socialist Party CONGRATULATES Gazan forces for the explosion on a bus in Tel Aviv (sea-side Jew Money Town), as noted in story below. The NSP also urges the government of the United States to stay out of this "crisis," let the chips fall where they may, and remove any American officials or miltary forces from the area, including Egypt. It might well be that, in the final analysis, the Palestinian forces and the freedom fighting group Hamas will do much better against Israeli forces than one would at first imagine. ROCK ON Hamas, and keep up the good fight! Push the Jew pseudo-state of "Israel" into the sea!

Explosion hits bus in Tel Aviv as deadly Gaza crisis rages By NBC News staff and wire reports November 21, 2012, 6:06 am

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Updated at 8:04 a.m. ET: An explosion on a bus in Tel Aviv on Wednesday injured 19 people, three of them seriously, an official told NBC News as the deadly Gaza crisis continued.

The blast happened as Israeli airstrikes continued to shake the Gaza Strip and Palestinian rockets were fired into Israel, amid negotiations about a possible truce.

Tel Aviv police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told the U.K.'s Sky News that the bus blast took place in the heart of the city and that the surrounding area had been cordoned off as police searched for suspects.

"At the moment, we're looking to see exactly what was the cause of the explosion itself," Rosenfeld said, adding it might have been caused by a device left on the bus or taken on by a passenger.

"This was a terrorist attack," Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told Reuters.

The White House condemned the attack as "outrageous." In a statement, it reaffirmed the United States' "unshakeable commitment to Israel's security and our deep friendship and solidarity with the Israeli people."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Cairo on Wednesday, where she was due to meet Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. Speaking earlier in Jerusalem, she assured Netanyahu of "rock-solid" U.S. support for Israel's security and spoke of seeking a "durable outcome" and of Egypt's "responsibility" for promoting peace.

Avital Leibovich, an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson, said on Twitter that the blast happened near her office. "Still looking for the bomber, more police sirens, helicopter still in the air," she tweeted at about 5:43 a.m. ET.

'Hamas blesses the attack'
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri praised the bombing, but stopped short of claiming responsibility.

Nir Elias / Reuters Israeli police survey the scene after an explosion on a bus in Tel Aviv Wednesday.

"Hamas blesses the attack in Tel Aviv and sees it as a natural response to the Israeli massacres...in Gaza," he told Reuters. "Palestinian factions will resort to all means in order to protect our Palestinian civilians in the absence of a world effort to stop the Israeli aggression."

More photos: Explosion hits bus in Tel Aviv

Sweet cakes were handed out in celebration in Gaza's main hospital, which has been inundated with wounded from the round-the-clock Israeli bombing and shelling, Reuters reported. Celebratory gunfire also rang out in Gaza City when local radio stations reported the news.

The last time Israel's commercial capital was hit by a serious bomb blast was in April 2006, when a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 11 people at a sandwich stand near the city's old central bus station.

Egypt's new Islamist government, which is mediating talks, had floated hopes for a cease-fire by late Tuesday between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement controlling Gaza.

But as Clinton arrived in Israel after nightfall Tuesday, Israel stepped up its bombardment from air and sea. At one point, munitions slammed into Gaza at a rate of one every 10 minutes, Reuters said.

Gazan rocket fire waned overnight but resumed before dawn on Wednesday. Israel said early Wednesday that 30 rockets had been fired since midnight. Ashkelon and Saar Hanegev were reportedly hit, but there no reports of damage or injuries.

Oliver Weiken / EPA A Palestinian looks at government offices destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Wednesday.

Medical officials in Gaza said 31 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday. An Israeli soldier and a civilian died when rockets exploded near the Gaza frontier, police and the army said.

So far a total of more than 130 Palestinians and five Israelis have been killed in a week of conflict, according to Reuters and The Associated Press.

The Israel Defense Forces website said Wednesday that the IDF had targeted more than 100 "terrorist sites" overnight, including Hamas' Ministry of Internal Security, a police compound and a "military hideout" used by "senior operatives."

In downtown Gaza City, a strike leveled the empty, two-story home of a well-known banker and buried a police car parked nearby in rubble.

"This is an injustice carried out by the Israelis," the house's caretaker, Mohammed Samara told The Associated Press. "There were no resistance fighters here. We want to live in peace. Our children want to live in peace. We want to live like people in the rest of the world."

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Israel Radio quoted an Israeli official saying a truce was held up due to "a last-minute delay in the understandings between Hamas and Israel."

Hamas leaders in Cairo accused the Jewish state of failing to respond to proposals.

Like most Western powers, Washington shuns Hamas as an obstacle to peace and has blamed it for the Gaza conflagration.

A U.N. Security Council statement condemning the conflict was blocked on Tuesday by the United States, which complained that it "failed to address the root cause" -- the Palestinian rockets.

NBC's Lawahez Jabari, Ian Johnston and Andy Eckardt, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

-- excerpted from sources noted above by NSP News Staff, Karl Wolff III, Director. 1488!