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“When I saw the pictures of my destroyed bus, I realized the extent of the disaster that was averted,” Adi Jegna told JNS.
When 26-year-old Adi Jegna first noticed the white bag on one of the seats at the back of her city bus in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam on the way home from work Thursday evening, something didn’t feel right. So she got up and took a closer look.
Inside the bag, she saw rolls of toilet paper, and a container with some yellowish liquid.
“Frankly speaking I debated whether I should say anything,” she recounted to JNS on Sunday.
However, Jegna moved the bag a bit and saw some lettering in Arabic. “Then I understood I could not ignore it,” she said.
Still worried she was over-reacting, she walked up to the bus driver as her stop was approaching and told him that there was a suspicious bag towards the back of the bus, before getting off. Though the bus was almost at the end of its route, there were still some other passengers aboard.
The driver immediately contacted his superiors, who instructed him to head straight to the nearby bus depot while the police bomb squad was alerted. No sooner had he gotten off the bus himself than a huge explosion ripped through it.
Jegna heard the blast from her home, but didn’t immediately connect it to her warning. It was only when a friend texted her that there had been a bus bombing, and that someone had alerted the driver to a suspicious object, that she realized.
“I felt incredible,” she told JNS. “I felt that I was the messenger from God to save many people.”
Soon, the enormity of the thwarted attack became clear: Two additional blasts went off prematurely on other city buses— both empty—one in Bat Yam and one in the nearby city of Holon. Security forces subsequently found that an additional bus had been rigged with explosives.
One of the bombs reportedly bore an Arabic message referencing the Palestinian city of Tulkarem which, along with Jenin, has been a hotbed of terrorism. Israeli forces have been carrying out a comprehensive counter-terrorism operation in the area where the two cities are located, for weeks…
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