I haven't seen it reported that the injured kid is Jewish, I have only seen that he is a 16yo Israeli.
I am wondering what the range of the anti-tank missile is. From a google search, it looks like the bus was 2 miles from the Gaza boarder. I would have thought that school buses would be kept out of range of those types of weapons.
The Gaza militants have fired Kornet anti-tank missles in the past few months. They have a 5500 meter range.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M133_KornetIsrael responded by killing a random guy in Gaza.
Then Hamas fired a bunch of rockets/mortars.
Then Israel ..... you know the drill.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/world/middleeast/08gaza.htmlMissile From Gaza Hits School Bus
By ISABEL KERSHNER
Published: April 7, 2011
JERUSALEM — A 16-year-old Israeli boy was critically wounded on Thursday when an anti-tank missile fired out of Gaza struck a school bus in southern Israel, according to police and military officials, setting off a new round of hostilities along the Israel-Gaza border.
The Israeli military responded immediately, firing artillery and tank shells into Gaza, and killing one Palestinian man, 50, according to a spokesman for the Hamas government medical services. A tank shell hit the man’s house, wounding four others and setting off a fire, the spokesman said.
In the hours after the strike on the bus, Gaza militants fired 45 rockets and mortars at southern Israel and the Israeli military said that its forces returned fire at the areas from where the rockets and mortars were launched.
This appeared to be the first time that an anti-tank missile hit a civilian target in the area. Short range rockets and mortar shells frequently fall in Israeli territory along the Israel-Gaza border, occasionally hitting houses but more often landing on open ground.
Violence along the Israel-Gaza border has ebbed and flowed in the past few weeks. The strike on the bus came after days of relative quiet.
In Gaza, the Popular Resistance Committees, a small armed group loyal to Hamas, the Islamic organization that controls the Palestinian territory, claimed responsibility for the attack.
One mortar shell hit a house in Ein Hashlosha, an Israeli village near the border, but no injuries were reported. Residents of the area had been told to take cover and enter bomb shelters.
The school bus was carrying only the driver and the youth at the time that it was hit at a junction near Saad, an Israeli communal farm near the border. The driver was lightly wounded. More than 30 other children who were on the bus had been dropped off at their homes shortly before the attack.
The bus was badly damaged and its windows were blown out. Roads in the area were closed.
Mr. Barak, the defense minister, instructed the Israeli Army “to quickly take all necessary measures and respond to the terrorist attack,” according to a statement from his office. He added that Israel holds Hamas responsible for all such attacks emanating from Gaza.