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hen a Palestinian suicide
bomber blew himself up in
a Tel Aviv market known as
a rare oasis .of Arab-Jewish co-exis-
tence,.he shattered not only victims'
bodies, but the market's peaceful — if
sometimes raucous — give and take.
Splattered sweet potatoes and top-
pled stacks of children's clothing lay
strewn alongside the dead and injured
on the singed pavement of the open-
air Carmel Market after Monday's
deadly bombing, which took place
amid the bustle of mid-morning
shopping.
The bomber was a 16-year-old
Palestinian, Amar al-Far. His mother,
Samira, told AP: "It's immoral to send
someone so young. They should have
sent an adult who understands the
meaning of his deeds."
Here in the market's narrow alley-
ways, Arabs and Jews work side by
side, and foreign workers, immigrants
and native Israelis pick over the same
tomatoes.
"The people here are real, they yell,
they shout, but they are the most gen-
uine people you will ever meet," said
Ronen Gil, 37, who runs his family's
butcher shop a few yards from where
the bomb went off.
"You don't know who is Arab and
who is Jewish, we are all together
here," he said.
Both Arabs and Jews own shops in
the market, and Gil said one of the
injured was an Arab who makes a liv-
ing selling dates and guavas. Both
Arabs and Jews rushed to help the
injured.
The bombing killed three people —
Shmuel Levy, 65, of Jaffa; Tatiyana
Akerman, 32, of Tel Aviv; and Lea
Levin, 64, of Givatayim — and about
32 were injured. The Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine claimed
responsibility and identified the
bomber as teenager Amar al-Far, from
a refugee camp near the West Bank
city of Nablus.
Police officials on the scene said the
bomb itself was relatively small.
The sign over the Shamai Cheese
Shop hung broken in two, its glass

Teenaged bomber Amar al Far

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shattered on the ground below.
Nearby, in one of the market's busiest
sections, the bomber had detonated
his explosives.
"The bomber probably knew quite
well where he was," said Avi Chayo,
28, who was slicing chicken breasts at
his family's store when the bomb went
off, turning everything into a haze of
smoke and screams.
Police detectives and forensic
experts swarmed the area along with
religious members of the chevra
kadisha burial society, who wore white
plastic gloves as they picked through
the debris to collect body parts and
other human remains.
Ydakov Noah, 43, owns a cleaning
supply store diagonally across from
where the bomber blew up. He said
that Palestinian Authority President
Yasser Arafat — ailing, alive or dead
— should just leave Israel alone.
"He should just leave already, leave
us alone," Noah said.
Arafat is in Paris undergoing tests
for an undiagnosed illness.
Despite the chaos, a handful of
shoppers still arrived at a fruit stand
north of the bombing site. Money
was exchanged, bags of bananas
bought.
"It's natural that we are still open,"
said Moshe Avraham, 32, as he ate an
avocado sandwich at his stand. "You
cannot just close. This is our living."
On Tuesday, Israeli forces demolished
the home of the bomber in Askar
refugee camp near the West Bank city
of Nablus. They also destroyed houses
belonging to his dispatchers from the
Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine.

