Over 25 Israelis were wounded, some severely, in a bus explosion in Tel Aviv Wednesday noon, Zionist media reported.

Over 25 Israelis were wounded, some severely, in a bus explosion in Tel Aviv Wednesday noon, Zionist media reported.

Israeli Channel 10 quoted Israeli police as saying that “someone planted explosives in the bus and left,” while other police sources said that another bomb is still in the bus, but it has not exploded yet.

The explosion took place in Shaul HaMelech Street in Tel Aviv, which has many security bases, in an area close to the Zionist "Ministry of Defence”.

The blast took place as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in a visit to the occupied terrotories for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on ways to end a deadly attack on Gaza.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed the attack which Netanyahu's dubbed “a terrorist attack”.

For its part, the Islamic Jihad Movement welcomed Tel Aviv’s operation, congratulating “the Palestinian people in Palestine and abroad, and the Palestinian resistance especially in the Gaza Strip which enters its eighth day of ourageous violence, for the Zionist bus explosion in Tel Aviv and in a high-security area.”

In a statement published on Paltoday, the movement considered that “implementing this operation in the center of “Tel Aviv” is a victory for the blood of Gaza’s victimes, especially the women and children.”