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Increased hostilities between palestinians and israel in and around the gaza border. in the past weekend a dozen rockets and mortars have been fired from militants in gaza into southern israel, wounding a small number of israelis. there have been retaliatory strikes from israelis that have taken place, injuring dozens of palestinians, in fact, killing ten palestinians since this past saturday. so we have seen basically a real ratcheting up of violence between the two sides in and around gaza. the fear is going to be in the rest of israel that this violence will spread to jerusalem and to other...

Going to shake israel. it hasn't happened in such a long time, this kind of attack there in jerusalem. it's going to shake people to their core and maybe take them out of a false sense of security. i don't know if you could go that far. >> you heard him, it hasn't happened in a long time, it's relatively safe here, and it brings back an awful lot of memories of what we've had to deal with year after year after year. sometimes there were dozens of deaths after such an attack, so i'm sure it has rattled jerusalem to the core. >> another important point to make, we are, of course, waiting for any...

Authorities in jerusalem still on the scene at the central bus station there. an explosive device went off. 20 to 30 people were injured on board a bus. students, all different kinds of people. students, two women who were pregnant went into labor on that bus after the explosion happened. they've been transported to the hospital. but authorities tell us there were no deaths and also no claims of responsibility for whoever planted this bomb. >> yes, indeed. let's get more on what is taking place right now in jerusalem, and, of course, an investigation is no doubt under way. mickey rosenfeld, na...

Israeli authorities now looking for secondary bombs in a bus station in jerusalem. as we've been telling you, a bomb did go off inside that bus station near a bus. we understand 20 to 30 people have been injured, maybe one person dead but we can't nail that down just yet. as i said, authorities are scouring that bus station for any more bombs. we're going live to jerusalem in just a few minutes when we get kevin flower back and he has more new information to share with you. elizabeth taylor died. she was 79 years old. a.j. hammer is on the phone. a.j.? can you hear me? >> hi, karen. i'm actu...

Bus inside of a bus station. we understand 20 to 30 people are injured. early reports say there's one person dead but cnn cannot confirm that. as i said before this has not happened. this kind of thing has not happened for quite some time in israel. i want to bring in wolf blitzer on the phone from washington. wolf, this scary stuff. >> reporter: is this near the central bus station. >> it's very close to where all of the major news organizations have their offices. it's been targeted before. there have been targets by terrorists -- >> not for some time, right? >> it has been several years. th...