Tunisia which killed ten people, may not have been a accident, BosNewsLife learned Saturday April 13. Six Germans, including an 11-year-old boy, and four Tunisians were killed in the explosion on the island of Djerba Thursday, April 11, when a truck carrying cooking gas exploded when it crashed into a wall of the building, whose foundations are believed to date from 586 BC.
Tunisian authorities said it was an accident, but the Israeli Government has expressed its doubts, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported. "All the evidence points to a truck bombing and not an accident," said Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon in an interview with BBC News Online.
However the head of the local Jewish community, Peres Taraboulsi, said he still believes that "it’s an accident, and that it has no link to the situation in Israel."
Analysts point out that the attack comes amid growing concern about anti-Semitic violence across Europe, including France, where several synagogues and other sites were attacked.
The island of Djerba, off Tunisia’s southeast coast, is a popular holiday destination and is home to around 1,000 of Tunisia’s 3,000 Jews, the BBC said. There is also concern that Tunisia may experience a new wave of violence.
Many Jews left that country after the synagogue in the Capital was burned down during the 1967 Middle East war. Earlier Jewish people left when Israel was created in 1948.
