A bomb exploded this morning at the Sdeh Kalev cherry farm near Hevron, wounding three 15-year-old boys, one of them seriously. The wounded were part of a group of 50 high school and junior high school students from Kiryat Arba on a working-visit in the field, under the supervision of IDF soldiers. The bomb was placed about five meters from a bus that was to take the boys back to their schools, and exploded as the last of them were about to get on. The three were rushed by helicopter to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Two boys were initially listed in moderate condition, while one - Dvir ben Chanah - was wounded in the stomach and has reportedly lost part of at least one leg.



The cherry grove belongs to Menachem Livny, who was saved from a previous similar bombing attempt in his field. Terrorists attached an explosive to a cellular phone in his field last October, but he found it and had it dismantled before it could go off. One eye-witness student said that today\'s bomb was detonated by remote control. It is suspected that the terrorists are from the nearby village of Bani Naim.