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(a) A1-so on the same morning an erpl-osive device planted on the upper shelf of a grocery store went off in Pard.es-Katz, a suburb east of TeI Aviv,qoziarrq'lrr r.roqnfling a pregnant female shopper and also injuring another customer as well- as the grocer

of $12.4 billion, and stresses the need to draw upon those roaowces for the dcv lopment of food and agricul ture; 19 m the need fo r co -ord ina ted i n t e rna t iona l a c t i on to t ack le the l o n g - t e r m 1:oblems o f m i g r a t o r y p e s t c o n t r o l , p a r t i c u l a r l y in Afr i ca , and, expressing gratitude for the support of donors and recognising the efforts mcde by the a f f ec t ed coun t r i e s Jn the f i gh t aga in s t t he g ra s shopper and locus t i n f e s t a t i on , calls upon donors to continue to give high priority to the implementation and continued co-ordination by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations of emergency control programmes, as well as longer-term mea8ure8, against gra s shopper s and locus t s at praaent affecting v a s t a r e a s o f Afr i ca , a s we l l a s other regions of the developing world, and to remain prepared to prov!.

It was a Friday and the market was crowded, mainly with women engaged in their Sabbath shopping, The hour was close to the morning class intermission in a nearby school. The explosion resulted in twelve killed, among whom were two Arab shoppers. Fifty-three were wounded, seventeen of them seriously, including two Arabs, a father and child. Extensive damage was caused to shops, residences, market stalls and vehicles parked in the area.

In the first attack, a car bomb went off in a vegetable market on Tin Street teeming with shoppers, while in the second attack a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in the midst of civilians gathered near the Dhiyabiyah entrance to the city.