With Additional Reporting by IOL Palestine Office

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, June 19 (IslamOnline) A Palestinian resistance bomber blew himself up Wednesday, June 19, in Jerusalem, leaving seven people dead and about 40 wounded, in the second attack in the city in as many days.

The attack occurred at a busy bus stop in the French Hill settlement in Arab east Jerusalem, near the line separating the city's western sector from the occupied east.

Shortly after the bombing, Al-Aqasa Martyr Brigades, the military offshoot of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was a retaliation for Israel’s latest incursions into West Bank cities, and for its assassination of Fatah leader Mohammad Subeih.

The Israeli security services had received a warning about a Palestinian girl preparing to blow herself up in Jerusalem.

The latest martyr bombing came a day after a Palestinian bomber blew himself up on a bus in southern Jerusalem, killing 19 Israelis and wounding 50 other people.

U.S. President George W. Bush condemned the latest bombing, but he said he “is determined still” to work towards peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the White House said Wednesday, Agene France-Presse (AFP) reported.

“The President condemns this latest attack,” Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters “moments” after Bush learned of the attack, which left seven people dead and 40 wounded in the city's second retaliatory attack in two days.

Five Israeli soldiers were wounded in a clash earlier Wednesday with Palestinian fighters in the West Bank town of Qalqilya, where the army mounted an incursion the previous night, Israeli military sources said.

Palestinian security sources said the clash broke out near the building of the Palestinian security service, which was surrounded by Israeli troops.

The occupation army launched offensives into Qalqilya and Jenin in the northern West Bank Wednesday dawn. The West Bank town of Nablus was also reoccupied.

Israeli police also abducted some 1,200 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, claiming they had allegedly been found on Israeli territory.