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Eight women were killed and some fifty people injured in a major road accident in southern Israel on Tuesday afternoon.
The accident occurred after a bus and a truck carrying a tractor, travelling in opposite directions, collided with each other on Road 31, a two lane road near Lehavim Junction in the Negev.
The bus was conveying female worshipers who were at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City as part of an Islamic Movement project.
The Islamic Movement’s northern branch organizes daily visits of Israel Arab Muslims to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in order to increase Muslim presence at the holy site.