A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday at the Erez checkpoint on Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, Israeli military sources said. The military sources said four security officers were injured in the blast. They said the bomber blew himself up on the Israeli side of the checkpoint, near an army post at the entrance to an industrial complex inside the crossing. Hundreds of Palestinians workers cross the checkpoint every day to work inside Israel.
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The Palestinian militant groups Hamas and al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is part of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction, claimed joint responsibility for the attack in an anonymous phone call to Reuters. The caller identified the bomber as al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades member Fadi al-Amudi, 22, who came from the Palestinian village of Beit Lehiya near Erez. |