'The place was destroyed and there were body parts everywhere'

[Behind the Aegis]

Witnesses at the site of the Monday suicide bombing in Eilat recounted scenes of blood-stained pavements, smoke and scattered body parts.

"We were sitting and drinking coffee some five meters from the site," said a local resident. "Suddenly we heard a large explosion and I immediately thought that it was a suicide bomber.

"When we went outside we saw that the place had been destroyed and there were body parts everywhere. The blast was in a popular bakery where people came to drink coffee and buy baguettes."

The blast tore through the "Lechamim" bakery in a residential neighborhood, far from the strip of beach-front hotels.


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1. It would be absolutely the basest form of hypocrisy not to comment on

this cruelty and killing the same way that it's not right to comment on the Palestinians who die by violence and bombings. Sometime, somewhere, someone has to take the first step in stopping the dying, to take a good look at the issues and the differences (what a weak word) that keep the violence going and talk them out. Real efforts, not just words and then actions that prove those words were just noise, need to be made but both parties.