FOREIGN AFFAIRS STATEMENT ON GAZA BOMB EXPLOSION

Issued by: Department of Foreign Affairs

MEDIA STATEMENT BY THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS CONCERNING THE BOMB EXPLOSION NEAR GUSH KATIF, GAZA, THURSDAY, 29 OCTOBER 1998

The Department of Foreign Affairs expressed its dismay and its strong condemnation of the bomb attack at Gush Katif near Gaza which was clearly aimed at claiming the lives of innocent civilians. This attack was moreover predictably designed to disrupt the positive impetus created after the Wye Plantation Agreement.

The Department accordingly called on all parties concerned not to allow acts of this nature perpetrated by extremists, to derail the peace process.

ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS PRETORIA 29 OCTOBER 1998