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Tamar Glustron and Shelly Bental, both 19, friends and
military police officers, had been chatting about clothes when
they first noticed the man and heard the sibilant sound as he
pulled his grenade key. Later that morning, stunned, they
rested side by side in hospital beds, pierced by shrapnel.
Plastered with bandages, they whimpered with pain and tried
to put on brave faces after a visit from President Ezer
Weizman. ''I remember,'' Ms. Glustron said, ''pulling myself to
my feet and thinking: 'No way. He wanted to kill me. He
wanted to kill all of us.' What for? It's for nothing that I was
hurt. They feel so helpless they know only to talk with
violence. It's very sad.'' Her mother, Hannah, sat at the
bedside, squeezing her daughter's hand.
''The peace process should be accelerated so these things don't
happen again,'' she said. At the hospital, Dr. Naftali Meidan,
the deputy director, said two patients, a 14-year-old boy and a
17-year-old girl, were in serious condition after shrapnel
penetrated their abdomens and chests. A 47-year-old man was
listed in critical condition after undergoing hours of surgery.
The police said the Palestinian, a West Bank resident, had
confessed to the attack. At a roadblock near Hebron, they later
arrested four other young Palestinian men driving an Audi,
whom they suspected of being his accomplices. An Israeli
radio report said the attacker lived in Dahariya, a southern
West Bank town under Israeli security control. But Palestinian
security officials have identified him as Salem Rajab al-
Sarsour, 29, a construction worker and father of five from the
Palestinian side of Hebron, Reuters reported.