Terrorist Bombing in Jerusalem

One woman was killed and about 50 wounded when a bomb weighing between 1-2 kilograms (2.2-4.4 pounds) exploded at 3 p.m. across the street from the Jerusalem Convention Center, near the Central Bus Station. The bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop next to Egged city bus #74. The explosion was caused by a bomb placed at a telephone booth near the bus stop. The victims had been standing at the bus stop or nearby when the device exploded.



The woman (59) was critically wounded as a result of the bombing, and rescue services transferred her to hospital, where doctors fought for her life for about an hour and ultimately were forced to declare her dead.

David Amoyal worked at the kiosk at the bus stop where the bomb exploded. The kiosk had been rebuilt after being completely destroyed when a suicide bomber detonated next to it in 1994, and renamed "Pitzuz Shel Kiosk," which literally means "an blast of a kiosk." He saw a suspicious bag and told some youths who were nearby to move away while he called police. During his call, the bomb exploded. Amoyal was only a few feet away from the bomb when it detonated, and suffered moderate injuries.

Please Pray:

Psalm 122:6-9 "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, prosperity with your palaces. For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say Peace be within you. Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek your good."

Lord, we lift up Israel to you today. Prince of Peace come in the midst of this situation and hear the cry of your people to defend them. We pray for Your perfect love which casts out all fear to come and fill the Jewish people. Lift up their eyes to see You in the midst of the battle. We prophesy "Peace be within your walls, O Israel."

Psalm 125:2, "As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people from this time forth and forever.

Psalm 124 "If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, Let Israel now say-
If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us, then they would have swallowed us alive, when their wrath was kindled against us; Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul. Then the swollen waters would have gone over our soul. Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as prey to their teeth. Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers(persons who catch birds in a trap or snare); the snare is broken, and we have escaped. OUR HELP IS IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH."

Lord, we speak that Your people will be as birds that have escaped from the fowlers. We declare that the snare of the enemy is broken in Yeshua's name and Israel has escaped. We proclaim help comes in the Name of the Lord, who made the heavens and the earth.