The death toll from yesterday evening\'s suicide attack at Jerusalem’s French Hill junction climbed to seven this morning. Some twenty wounded victims remain in Jerusalem hospitals, ten of whom are listed in serious condition. Eleven people from the Gilo bus bombing remain hospitalized as well. The names of six Jews killed in the French Hill attack have been cleared for release:
* Noa Alon, 60, from the Shomron community of Ofrah, and her granddaughter Gal Eisenmann, 5, from Maaleh Adumim. Gal\'s baby brother and mother were seriously wounded. \"Given the rough situation that we have been facing this last period, happiness is the most important thing for us to develop now,\" Noa told a group of kindergartners whom she led in an end-of-year party only a couple of hours before she was killed.
* Gila Sara Kessler, 19, of the Shomron community of Eli. She was in the midst of a year of national service in the Jewish Agency, preparing daily educational broadcasts to young Jewish students around the world.
* Hadassah Yungreis, 20, from the southern Galilee town of Migdal HaEmek
* Shmuel Yerushalmi, 17, from the Shomron community of Shilo. Two of his classmates, Avraham Siton and Netanel Reiachi, were killed three weeks ago in a terrorist attack in Itamar. Standing over Avraham\'s open grave at the funeral three weeks ago, Shmuel said, \"Avi, we hope you will watch over us from up there, and we will try to keep your unwritten legacy to remain happy.\" Shmuel was on his way home from a high school matriculation exam and was waiting for a ride at the French Hill junction when he was killed.
* Michal Franklin, 22, from the Old City of Jerusalem
The Arab who murdered them was dropped off by car not far from the junction, from where he sprinted into a group of people waiting for rides at the bus stop and detonated his murderous bomb. Dr. Yehudit Medizinsky, who had been waiting at the stop and received a ride towards home only seconds before the blast, returned to the site to help with the wounded. \"We suddenly heard a loud explosion,\" she said today, \"and I turned around and saw white smoke. Then we looked out the window, and saw an arm right next to us on the street, so that left no doubt as to what had happened… They tell us not to come to the scene of an attack, for fear of another bomb, but... I waited a few seconds and then ran back to see what I could do to help; I\'m a doctor… It was very quiet, with people lying on the ground, and you couldn\'t tell who was alive and who was dead without examining them. I started to go from victim to victim, and then the ambulances came…\"
Yasser Arafat’s Fatah terror organization took responsibility for the French Hill bombing - but later in the evening, Arafat issued a written announcement, not for the first time, calling for an end to all \"attacks against innocent Israelis.\" A copy of a speech containing this message was disseminated last night, but for \"technical reasons\" he will not actually deliver the speech tonight as originally planned. Two leading PA officials - Sari Nusseiba and Hanan Ashrawi - led a public call yesterday to end the attacks against Israelis. Arafat\'s call referred to attacks against civilians living in pre-1967 Israel, but not against soldiers or residents of Yesha.
Funerals of the victims of last night\'s attack took place throughout the day. Hadas Yungreiss was buried in Migdal HaEmek, Michal Franklin in Jerusalem, Noah Alon and her granddaughter Gal Eisenmann in Ofrah, Shmuel Yerushalmi in Shilo, and Gila Sarah Kessler in Eli. The Binyamin Regional Council organized armored buses to the funerals in Shilo, Eli, and Ofrah from Binyanei HaUmah in Jerusalem. The buses departed an hour and a quarter before each funeral. Gila Nakav, killed in the Gilo blast, was also laid to rest today. In addition, Eliyahu Avraham Nechmad, 17 - the 11th victim of a suicide terrorist who blew himself up following a Bar Mitzvah celebration almost four months ago - died of his wounds, and was buried in Rishon LeTzion today. Eliyahu\'s brother and four cousins were also killed in the attack.
One victim from each of the last two attacks - French Hill last night and the Gilo bus the day before - have not yet been publicly identified.
* Noa Alon, 60, from the Shomron community of Ofrah, and her granddaughter Gal Eisenmann, 5, from Maaleh Adumim. Gal\'s baby brother and mother were seriously wounded. \"Given the rough situation that we have been facing this last period, happiness is the most important thing for us to develop now,\" Noa told a group of kindergartners whom she led in an end-of-year party only a couple of hours before she was killed.
* Gila Sara Kessler, 19, of the Shomron community of Eli. She was in the midst of a year of national service in the Jewish Agency, preparing daily educational broadcasts to young Jewish students around the world.
* Hadassah Yungreis, 20, from the southern Galilee town of Migdal HaEmek
* Shmuel Yerushalmi, 17, from the Shomron community of Shilo. Two of his classmates, Avraham Siton and Netanel Reiachi, were killed three weeks ago in a terrorist attack in Itamar. Standing over Avraham\'s open grave at the funeral three weeks ago, Shmuel said, \"Avi, we hope you will watch over us from up there, and we will try to keep your unwritten legacy to remain happy.\" Shmuel was on his way home from a high school matriculation exam and was waiting for a ride at the French Hill junction when he was killed.
* Michal Franklin, 22, from the Old City of Jerusalem
The Arab who murdered them was dropped off by car not far from the junction, from where he sprinted into a group of people waiting for rides at the bus stop and detonated his murderous bomb. Dr. Yehudit Medizinsky, who had been waiting at the stop and received a ride towards home only seconds before the blast, returned to the site to help with the wounded. \"We suddenly heard a loud explosion,\" she said today, \"and I turned around and saw white smoke. Then we looked out the window, and saw an arm right next to us on the street, so that left no doubt as to what had happened… They tell us not to come to the scene of an attack, for fear of another bomb, but... I waited a few seconds and then ran back to see what I could do to help; I\'m a doctor… It was very quiet, with people lying on the ground, and you couldn\'t tell who was alive and who was dead without examining them. I started to go from victim to victim, and then the ambulances came…\"
Yasser Arafat’s Fatah terror organization took responsibility for the French Hill bombing - but later in the evening, Arafat issued a written announcement, not for the first time, calling for an end to all \"attacks against innocent Israelis.\" A copy of a speech containing this message was disseminated last night, but for \"technical reasons\" he will not actually deliver the speech tonight as originally planned. Two leading PA officials - Sari Nusseiba and Hanan Ashrawi - led a public call yesterday to end the attacks against Israelis. Arafat\'s call referred to attacks against civilians living in pre-1967 Israel, but not against soldiers or residents of Yesha.
Funerals of the victims of last night\'s attack took place throughout the day. Hadas Yungreiss was buried in Migdal HaEmek, Michal Franklin in Jerusalem, Noah Alon and her granddaughter Gal Eisenmann in Ofrah, Shmuel Yerushalmi in Shilo, and Gila Sarah Kessler in Eli. The Binyamin Regional Council organized armored buses to the funerals in Shilo, Eli, and Ofrah from Binyanei HaUmah in Jerusalem. The buses departed an hour and a quarter before each funeral. Gila Nakav, killed in the Gilo blast, was also laid to rest today. In addition, Eliyahu Avraham Nechmad, 17 - the 11th victim of a suicide terrorist who blew himself up following a Bar Mitzvah celebration almost four months ago - died of his wounds, and was buried in Rishon LeTzion today. Eliyahu\'s brother and four cousins were also killed in the attack.
One victim from each of the last two attacks - French Hill last night and the Gilo bus the day before - have not yet been publicly identified.