But I think I may have seen the terrorist coming apart,” he said. Because of the proximity of the military base, soldiers immediately flooded the area to secure it for fear of a second explosion and troops ran to guard the footbridge over the highway between the bus shelter and the hospital grounds. Niram Poskowitz, a 26-year-old soldier, said he had just finished training as a reservist and was being picked up by his girlfriend. He waved at two other women soldiers he knew to join them in the car, but only one made it as the bomb detonated “There was smoke everywhere and it was a blur.

It was still spattered with blood last night as police continued packing up limbs. Ninety minutes later a leg still lay on the ground and a dismembered limb could be seen dangling from the bus shelter roof. It blew human remains 20 feet upwards to the underside of the roof of the bus shelter beside the Route 44 highway, which runs besides the base. The German Colony is a mildly bohemian district of the city with bars and caf? The Caf?illel attracted clients who have become increasingly reluctant to visit the city centre since the beginning of the intifada three years ago.As ambulances took the injured to hospitals, police and emergency workers cleared the area in front of the caf?he earlier suicide bomb near Tel Aviv, which left at least 14 wounded, was detonated at the bus stop used by soldiers going on leave from Tzrifin, one of the biggest military bases in the country, and by patients and families using the nearby Asaf Harofeh Hospital. Bolts and pellets smashed through metal and glass in cars across the street from the cafe. One young woman was killed by a bolt from the nail-bomb as she walked along the pavement some 25 yards away from the cafe.

I saw things that just can’t be described, there are no words,” said a witness The security guard was almost certainly among the dead. The Jerusalem bomber was stopped by a security guard as he approached the caf?nd detonated the explosion blowing in the windows on the main street, killing six or seven bystanders and injuring dozens of others ­ 40, by some estimates “I arrived just a few moments after the blast. Israeli sources said the death toll in Jerusalem stood at six and could not confirm reports that those who died near Tel Aviv had risen to eight. In the second, nearly five hours hours later, another Palestinian bomber struck at the Caf?illel, a new and popular venue in the heart of Jerusalem’s German Colony Hamas claimed responsibility for both bombings.