Dramatic PLO trial gives terror victims stage for redress
Meshulam Perlman says he will never be able to forget the horror he witnessed after a deadly suicide bombing of a bus in a busy district of Jerusalem in 2004.
“Bodies, corpses were flying. They were flying onto balconies and rooftops,” says the 70-year-old flower shop owner. “People were severed in two, severed into pieces. … It was a worse scene than a scene of war.”
Perlman’s account gave jurors a taste of what’s to come at a trial stemming from a lawsuit claiming Palestinian authorities sanctioned the bus bombing and other terror attacks in Israel in the early 2000s.