Bus explosions near Israel’s Tel Aviv: What happened, and what we know so far
Starting about 8:30pm (18:30 GMT) on Thursday, explosive devices began detonating inside three buses south of Tel Aviv, according to the Israeli Broadcasting Authority.
The first two bombs went off within minutes of each other, and the third exploded about 15 minutes later. All of the buses were empty.
After searching the area, Israeli responders found more explosives on two other buses that did not detonate. All five bombs were identical and equipped with timers, police said.
Authorities inspect a bus after a device exploded on it in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, Israel
Israeli fanatics ‘more than capable’ of carrying out bombings to provoke response – Bishara
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara has said people should wait before assuming who is responsible for Thursday’s bombings of empty buses near Tel Aviv, given the history of extremism among Israel’s far-right.
“I do not discount the possibility that fanatic Jews have done this in order to get the government to resume the genocide in Gaza,” he said. “They are more than capable of doing that. They killed their own prime minister [Yitzhak Rabin] back in the mid-1990s,” he added.
Israel’s far right Ben-Gvir calls on government to ‘rain hell’ on Palestinians
Without providing any evidence, Israel’s former far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has linked explosions on empty buses in Tel Aviv to the Gaza ceasefire.
In a series of posts on social media, the leader of the hard right political party Jewish Power, asked the Netanyahu government: “When the hell will you realise that you don’t make deals with the devil!”
“When the government signs reckless surrender deals with the enemy instead of raining hell on them, they gain an appetite to increase their attempts to murder Jews wholesale,” he said. “These are exactly the prices we warned about!”
Ben-Gvir has repeatedly called for the Israeli government to “bring down hell” on Hamas in recent weeks.
Three suspects arrested in Israel after Tel Aviv attack
There is a gag order on this but the Israeli media are reporting that three suspects of the Tel Aviv attack were arrested.
One of them was a Jewish Israeli who is accused of transporting those who planted the explosives in the buses in Bat Yam and Holon, right outside of Tel Aviv.
But it is a little bit unclear exactly as to what is going to happen next. They say that the other two suspects are Palestinian.







