SYRIAN REBELS BOMB AND KILL SCHOOLCHILDREN - ISIS DECAPITATES KURDS - US State Department aghast at Jews building homes in Jerusalem

Israel builds new homes for Arabs & Jews in Jerusalem

• School children and rescuers torn to pieces by two Syrian rebel bombs.
• Kurds decapitate Kurdish men and women and display their heads.
• But the State Department harshly criticizes Israelis for building homes in their capital city, Jerusalem. 

Syria school blasts kill 32, including 10 children.  The area is populated by the Alawite sect of president Bashir Al Assad.  That would make it a target for rebel insurgents.  Parents search frantically for children after first bomb goes off; second car explodes as bodies are carted away.

 

Twin bombings near an elementary school in Syria killed at least 32 people on Wednesday, including at least 10 children, with the second blast going off as screaming parents frantically searched for their sons and daughters in a street littered with school bags and body parts. 

 

Syrian children are frequently among the victims of attacks in the country’s civil war, but on Wednesday they appear to have been the target. The first vehicle exploded as children were leaving school, and the second struck as adults carried away bodies, sending a new wave of panic through the crowd.

 

The attack occurred outside the Ekremah al-Makhzoumi elementary school in a government-controlled area of the central city of Homs dominated by minority Alawites, the Shiite offshoot sect to which President Bashar Assad’s family belongs. It was one of the deadliest incidents in the area in months.

 

The SANA state news agency said at least 32 people were killed and 115 wounded in the attacks. A local official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media, said immediately after the bombings that at least 10 of the dead were children.

 

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll in the twin attacks at 39, including 30 children under the age of 12. It said the second blast was caused by a suicide bomber.

Meanwhile Islamic State - ISIS - continues with its bloody rampage

 

The Observatory reported Wednesday that militants of the Islamic State group beheaded nine Kurdish fighters, including three women, captured in clashes near the Syria-Turkey border. Dozens of militants and Kurdish fighters were killed in the fighting, it said.

 

Images posted Wednesday on social media networks show women’s heads placed on a cement block, said to be in the northern Syrian city of Jarablous, which is held by militants. The photos could not be independently verified but corresponded to Associated Press reporting of the event.

 

The Kurdish fighters were taken prisoner during the battle over the northern Syrian town of Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, according to the Observatory, which gathers its information from activists inside Syria.

 

The chief Kurdish group fighting in Syria, known as the YPG, advocates gender equality, and women fight alongside men.

 

US hammers Israel over East Jerusalem housing plans

 

Using uncharacteristically harsh language, Washington officials launched a coordinated attack on Israeli plans to push forward new housing in East Jerusalem, saying the move would call into question Israel’s commitment to a two-state solution with the Palestinians. 

(The homes will be for both Jews and Arabs.)

The nearly identical comments from State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki and White House spokesman Josh Earnest came hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrapped up a meeting with US President Barack Obama during which he was expected to pitch Arab involvement in a peace process

 

Psaki said the US was “deeply concerned” over Israel’s approval last week to advance the construction of some 2,500 housing units in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat Hamatos.  “This step is contrary to Israel’s stated goal and it would send a very troubling message if they proceed with tenders or construction,” Psaki said, adding the move would “call into question Israel’s ultimate commitment to a peaceful negotiated settlement.”

With reports from:
-  http://www.timesofisrael.com/syria-school-blasts-kill-32-including-10-kids/
-  http://www.sana.sy/en/?p=14608
-  http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-hammers-israel-over-east-jerusalem-housing-plans/

Cartoon - http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.il/2014/10/priorities-man-priorities.html#links 
 

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