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A rchive Date
[ 17-02-2002 ]
Category
[ International Relations ]
sub-Categoy
[ Palestine ]
      [http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2002/02/16/mideast_020216

      Suicide bombing escalates Mideast violence
      Last Updated Sun Feb 17 07:46:22 2002

      JERUSALEM - A bomb witnesses said was filled with nails ripped through a shopping centre in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank Saturday, killing two Israeli teenagers and a Palestinian suicide bomber.

      The blast wounded 27 other people, six of them seriously, according to ambulance workers. It also gutted a restaurant. Police estimated the bomb contained about 10 kilograms of explosives.

      Early Sunday, Israeli helicopters retaliated by firing missiles at Palestinian buildings in the West Bank city of Nablus. A resident of the apartment block was lightly injured.

      The Israeli military issued a statement a short time later, saying that it had attacked Yasser Arafat's offices, Palestinian Authority headquarters and a police command post, "following murderous attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers."

      People at the scene of Saturday's blast said the mall was crowded with teenagers at the time. Many were asking how a suicide bomber could infiltrate the Karnei Shomron settlement, which is heavily guarded.

      A radical PLO faction, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, claimed responsibility for the explosion in a telephone call to the Qatar-based al-Jazeera television.

      The group identified the bomber as Sadek Abdel Hafeth, 18, from the West Bank town of Qalqilya.

      Earlier in the day, Israeli tanks and bulldozers attacked a Palestinian security compound in a refugee camp south of Gaza City. Three Palestinians were killed and 13 injured.

      Israel said its incursion was in response to Palestinians shooting over the camp fence into Israel.

      Also on Saturday, a leading member the militant group Hamas was killed when a car near him exploded in the West Bank town of Jenin.

      Palestinian security officials accused Israel of assassinating the militant.

      Written by CBC News Online staff


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