Palestinian Bomber Strikes in Israel
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up, critically wounding two guards at an Israeli bus station on Sunday in the first such attack since the eviction of Jewish settlers from Gaza and part of the West Bank.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in Beersheba, three days after troops killed five Palestinians in a raid on a militant hideout in the West Bank city of Tulkarm, drawing a vow of revenge from the Islamic Jihad group.
A police spokesman said nearly 50 people were treated at hospital, most of them for shock. The two guards, who chased the bomber, were critically hurt, the spokesman said.
The explosion, at the entrance to Beersheba’s central bus station, followed a call by President Bush for the Palestinians to respond to last week’s pullout from occupied Gaza by showing “they will fight terrorism.”
Source: Reuters.
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