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Attack Drives Israel To WallTHE first suicide bomb attack in Israel in more than a year is fuelling demands for new measures to protect the 300-kilometre border with Egypt, including a fence to run from the Gaza Strip to the Red Sea. According to initial Israeli reports, the two terrorists who carried out the attack took advantage of the recent collapse of the Egypt-Gaza border to cross into Egypts Sinai region and then into Israel. Liuvov Rodolskaya, a 73-year-old woman, was killed and 11 others injured when a man detonated a suicide belt at the entrance to a shopping centre in Dimona. A second attacker was seriously injured in the blast and was shot dead by police after medics treating him realised he wore an explosives belt. A hardline wing of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah party claimed responsibility. In Gaza City, Fatah flags flew outside the family homes of two men identified by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades as the bombers. However, an Israeli television channel reported that the faces of the Dimona suicide bombers did not seem to match the faces in videos recorded by the Fatah pair before they left Gaza. Reuters reported that an anonymous Hamas source in Gaza said that it was responsible for the attack, but that the two bombers came from the West Bank town of Hebron, not from Gaza. Speaking off the record, a Hamas political source said he believed Hamas members were responsible, although it was up to the groups military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, to confirm it. Hamas has not carried out any suicide bomb attacks in Israel since August 2004. Whatever the bombers origin, the attack came amid heightened alerts triggered by Hamass blowing up of Gazas border with Egypt two weeks ago. With Israel blockading fuel, exports and all but emergency shipments of food and medicine, up to half of Gazas 1.5 million people used the breach to flock to Egypt in search of supplies. Among them, Egyptian and Israeli authorities say, were militants from various groups seeking weapons and training or planning to cross Egypts remote Sinai border to launch terror attacks in Israel. Defence Minister Ehud Barak promised that a new fence would be in place along the Egyptian-Israeli border by the end of 2010. Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationBlow for Britain as Helmand’s ’cleanest’ governor is sacked...Victims of Colombian Conflict Sue Chiquita Brands... Lebanese Army Surrounds Militants... For Sale: Undeveloped Korean Land. DMZ Views.... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - Attack Drives Israel To Wall |
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