In the first such attacks in two months, a Palestinian suicide bombing killed three people near Tel Aviv on Thursday and an Israeli helicopter strike killed a senior Islamic militant and four other people.
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The suicide bomber struck a bus stop during rush hour at Geha, a major junction just outside Tel Aviv where Palestinian workers routinely gather to wait for people to pick them up for odd jobs.
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Rescue workers, who were having trouble reaching the scene because of heavy rush hour traffic, said three people were killed in the attack as well as the bomber. Another 15 were injured. The bombing was the first since an Oct. 4 bombing at a restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa that killed 21 people. "It appears that the bomber blew himself up alone, without a vehicle nearby," Yossi Sedbon, Tel Aviv district police commander told Israel's Channel 2 television. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the bombing in graffiti scrawled near AP's offices. |