WEST BANK: Israeli troops raid Jenin as Israelis bury dead of suicide bombing

Record ID: 398345

  • Title: WEST BANK: Israeli troops raid Jenin as Israelis bury dead of suicide bombing
  • Date: 30th December 2005
  • Summary: VARIOUS: PALESTINIAN YOUTH HURLING STONES AT ISRAELI TROOPS (2 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 14th January 2006 12:00
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  • Story Text: Israeli troops raided the West Bank town of Jenin on Friday (December 30), a day after a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at an army roadblock near the city of Tulkarm which was set up to prevent just such an attack. The Palestinian militant group of Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that killed an Israeli soldier and two Palestinian bystanders. Three soldiers and six Palestinians were also wounded in the blast. Following the attack, Israeli troops sealed off northern West Bank cities, imposing a blockade and restricting Palestinian travellers. The army also raided Jenin and arrested 10 Palestinian suspected of connections to the suicide bomber, the Israeli army said. The army said the roadblock where the bomber exploded himself had been set up in response to intelligence warnings that a bomber was heading to Israel to strike during the current Jewish Hanukkah holiday. A claim broadcast over loudhailers in the Palestinian-ruled city of Tulkarm named the bomber who carried out Thursday's attack as 19-year-old Suhaib Ajami from the nearby village of Attil. Sworn to the Jewish state's destruction, Islamic Jihad has helped spearhead a Palestinian revolt that erupted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 2000. It has carried out several attacks during a 9-month-old truce declared by militant groups. The bombing dealt a blow to a shaky 10-month-old truce by militants that is due to expire on Saturday, the last day of 2005. Growing violence has put peacemaking hopes on hold and could influence forthcoming elections on both sides. In the Israeli coastal city of Haifa, hundred of Israeli mourners gathered to bury Lieutenant Uri Binamo who was killed in Wednesday's (December 28) suicide attack.
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