West Bank crash: 'Eight' Palestinian children killed

[dipsydoodle]

At least eight Palestinian children have been killed in a collision between a school bus and an Israeli truck on a road in the West Bank, police say.

The bus was carrying children as young as five or six on their way to school in Ramallah, just north of Jerusalem.

An Israeli police spokesperson told AFP news agency that the truck hit the bus. The bus overturned and caught fire.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17057579

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Tragic.

[azurnoir]

2. After Jerusalem crash, racist comments appear on Netanyahu's Facebook page

Racist comments appeared on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Facebook page after the school bus crash near Jerusalem on Thursday in which 10 children died and more than 40 were injured.

Satisfaction that "only Palestinians" were the victims and slogans such as "Death to Arabs, why do we help them?" were posted on the Facebook pages of Netanyahu, Wallah and the Israel Police.

Netanyahu expressed sorrow over the accident, but his aides did not remove the racist comments from his Facebook page or denounce them.

"Relax, it's Palestinian children," someone wrote on Wallah's Facebook page. Others wrote "Great! Fewer terrorists" and "May there be such buses every day." Similar comments were posted on the police's Facebook page, including "When they grew up they'd be terrorists .... God nipped them in the bud."

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/after-jerusalem-crash-racist-comments-appear-on-netanyahu-s-facebook-page-1.413370

It was a tragic accident however if the driver of the truck had been an Israeli Jew I suspect we'd be seeing more speculation from both sides things such as

"was it really an accident" from one side and "just why did the bus burst into flames" from the other

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. Oh FFS - it was a traffic accident.

Talk about crying spilled milk over losing a quarter in a payphone...

RIP kiddos - sorry you never got to live your dreams.

[azurnoir]

4. thanks for the reply, "crying over spilt milk" n/t

[Violet_Crumble]

10. That's some ugly stuff...

FB is like a haven for bigots and really disgusting people....

[LeftishBrit]

5. Horrible.

RIP, little ones.

[aranthus]

6. Awful

I don't want anyone to be hurt or killed, but especially not children. My heart goes out to the families.

[azurnoir]

7. some good news - Twin girls missing in deadly crash found alive

In the chaotic aftermath of a deadly school bus crash near Ramallah on Thursday, twin girls who were believed dead have been discovered alive and well a day later in a Jerusalem hospital.

Five primary schoolchildren and their teacher were killed when the vehicle collided with a truck near Jaba checkpoint north of Jerusalem. But Initial reports from the Red Crescent Society had indicated 10 were dead.

The parents of Dana and Lana Abdullah Hamdan told Ma'an on Saturday how they believed their daughters were among those casualties.

They trawled from hospital to hospital, and when their daughters' names were not found on any records, the parents believed that two charred unidentified bodies must have belonged to the twins.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=461258

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. What a blessing for the family.

Thanks for this update.

[Violet_Crumble]

9. Truly horrible and sad...

My heart goes out to the parents of those children...