horrific attack on hilton in taba, egypt

Right next to Eilat, Taba is just over the Israeli-Egypt border and many Israelis filled the Hilton hotel there during this end-of-summer holiday. At this moment, 29 have been pronounced dead in what looks like a suicide truck bombing at the front of the hotel. Ambulances from Eilat's hospital plus Israeli firefighters have crossed the border to aid and evacuate the wounded, and put out the blaze that started after the blast. As well, two other blasts have been reported from the camping areas south of that location, but as yet no more news. This is very scary, and my daughter is supposed to go on an all-day trip (2 hrs. by bus) to the south of the country early tomorrow morning. I don't know that it's a good idea to send her. We'll probably be up pretty late following the news as it develops.

-->UPDATE: We watched the news unfold till after 1am, and then I didn't sleep well. I was already up at 6am checking to see what had happened and trying to intuit whether we should send the kid on the bus trip -- camel ride from Dimona to a Bedouin camp, where they are enjoying the traditional "hafla" (feast, I believe). Called one of the organizing mothers who was surprised I'd worry, couldn't see why it should influence the trip, so I let the kid decide, and she wanted to go. Why wouldn't she? She's had a mostly bored-to-tears holiday up to now. But a 2-hour bus ride is a turnoff, since she has frequently thrown up on them during school trips. I decided to solve that problem by not feeding her breakfast. She has a peanut butter sandwich if she's starving. When we got to the meeting point at 7:30am, it seemed no one had considered not sending their kids, and everyone was excited by the trip. It was especially good to let her do this today, as last night she had her second major anti-Israel meltdown since returning to the country. "Everything is stupid here!" is the refrain, and by that she means a) the homework (both the difficulties she's having with the language and the bible-laden subject matter), and b) the lack of extended family to take her mind off it. The long holiday with no reliable friends around, and the fact that her parents have been raising the tension level lately have certainly not helped either.