A PA (Palestinian Authority) school bus traveling from Kalandia collided with a truck near Adam Junction in Shomron on Thursday morning, February 16, 2012, resulting in at least 11 fatalities, apparently children. Magen David Adom declared a mass causality incident and some 50 ambulances and other emergency vehicles responded.
Among the emergency personnel operating on the scene were some 30 Ichud Hatzolah responders, two of whom worked to help put out the burning bus.
At this point the cause of the collision is yet to be determined. The accident did occur during inclement weather. The injured were transported to hospitals in Ramallah.
11:00: Police report the bus slammed into a truck driven by an Israeli Arab. That driver sustained moderate injuries. The bus flipped over and burst into flames.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Good! Listen, what would you rather? Them dying now or them becoming terrorists and killing out hundreds or even thousands later?
Can you imagine the PA if it was a bus full of Jewish kids?!
Baruch heshem they were arabs not yidden
hashem provides the refuah before the makah
Implying that every child on the bus will one day be a murderer and deserve this tragedy for that reason is tantamount to k’fira. All people have choices in life. Even those that have fewer opportunities to choose good based on circumstances beyond their control can’t be evil to that extent. It is evil to celebrate the deaths of children. Clearly and thankfully, the emergency workers in Israel don’t share the deplorable views of some of the comments here. Why God brings tragedy to the world isn’t something that any human can know with certainty barring prophecy. The chillul hashem caused by any person reading these these comments is huge – especially if the reader has a more secular background.
#4 you really made me crack up!!!