Bombers targeted staff at Israeli Embassies in India and Georgia on Monday, the Foreign Ministry said, with a bomb going off in New Delhi but a second device in Tbilisi defused. Indian police said a bomb hit an embassy car and wounded a woman. She was not immediately identified and there was no word on her condition, but some reports said she was the wife of an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi. There was one attempted attack, and one successful, as it were, said Paul Hirschson, a spokesman for Israels Foreign Ministry. In both cases, the people concerned worked with the Israeli Embassies. He also confirmed that a bomb had been found in a car belonging to a staffer at the embassy in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, which was defused by local police. Hirschson said the Israeli ambassador to India was not hurt in the New Delhi attack. Israel had put its foreign missions on especially high alert ahead of the February 12 anniversary of the assassination, in 2008, of Imad Mughniyeh, the military mastermind of Lebanons Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah. Iranian-backed Hezbollah had vowed to avenge Mughniyehs 2008 death in a Damascus car-bombing, blaming it on Israel. Israelis had also warned of possible reprisals ordered by Tehran for the assassination of several scientists involved in Irans controversial nuclear program. No one has claimed responsibility for the Iran killings. An explosion tore through an Israeli diplomats car on the streets of New Delhi on Monday, injuring one person, Israeli officials said. The explosion took place in the late afternoon close to the embassy, said spokesman David Goldfarb. He did not identify the person injured in the blast. Since Mughniyehs assassination, there have been several attempts by Hezbollah to avenge his death, including through attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets abroad. Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor would not discuss the person hurt in the India blast Monday nor the extent of the injuries because it was a security matter. We are looking into the incident and cooperation with local security forces is excellent, Palmor said. Television footage showed a charred minivan with blue diplomatic plates, its rear door apparently blown out. Indian police said only that a car was on fire on the street outside the embassy. Meanwhile, also on Monday, airport police evacuated two terminals at Amsterdams busy Schiphol Airport after receiving a bomb threat, a spokesman for the force said. Officers evacuated two departure halls as they investigated the threat, said airport police spokesman Martijn Beelen. He gave no further details of the threat. There was a bomb threat and as a precaution we have evacuated departure halls one and two, Beelen said. Local media reported that a man had shut himself in a restroom and claimed to have a bomb, but another airport police spokesman, Robert van Kapel, said he could not comment on the reports. Beelen said he did not know if the threat had caused planes to be diverted. An hour after the incident began, spokespeople for the airport said they could not comment. The airports website made no mention of the threat, but an increasing number of departures were being delayed by early afternoon. Hezbollah on Sunday marked the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Mughniyeh, said to be the groups chief of intelligence and security unit and mastermind of some of Hezbollahs deadliest attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets. Hezbollah marks the date with a variety of events and rallies, and the groups leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is also expected to deliver a special speech this week. About three weeks ago, security forces in Azerbaijan arrested three citizens on suspicion of planning to assassinate a Chabad emissary in the capital of Baku. And about a month ago, Thai authorities uncovered a terrorist cell with links to Hezbollah in Thailand. Security forces in Bulgaria also recently thwarted a terror plot against Israelis there. In a special report commemorating Mughniyeh that was aired Friday on Hezbollahs TV network, Al Manar, a senior official in the group was quoted as saying that Israel can never be calm. Hezbollah will avenge the murder of the blessed Mughniyeh even it takes 100 years.
