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Would-be Palestinian bomber
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GAZA
CITY, October 12 (News Agencies) - A Palestinian man was killed by the
Israeli occupation army east of the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis
in the morning of Saturday October 12.
Arafat
Abu Rujeila, 21, was shot in the head by machine-gun fire from an
Israeli tank, said Palestinian hospital sources.
No
further details were available on the incident, reported the Agence
France-Press (AFP).
His
death raised the toll from the two-year-old Palestinian Intifada to
2,579, including 1,912 Palestinians and 617 Israelis.
Meanwhile,
alert security personnel foiled an attack targeting an Israeli café
late Friday October 11, as Israeli officials hailed their growing
success in countering attacks by Palestinian fighters.
The
abortive attack came just a day after a bus bombing in the city left
just one dead.
Security
personnel close to the
U.S.
embassy overpowered the would-be bomber and separated him from his
explosive belt after he was prevented from entering the Cafe HaTayelet
just before
9:00 pm
(1900 GMT) by a security guard, the Israeli public radio reported.
The
guard, who had spotted the bomb with a metal detector, ran after the
bomber firing in the air to alert police around the compound.
The
security personnel overpowered the man, taking the belt off him before
he could detonate it.
Officers
carried out a controlled explosion and took the man in for
questioning.
"The
suicide bomber is still alive -- we have no one injured in the
incident," Tel Aviv police commander Uri Bar Lev told the radio.
A
spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, as always, placed
blame for the attempted bombing on the Palestinian leadership,
claiming it made "no efforts to stop terror attacks."
On
Thursday October 10, a bomber was prevented from boarding a bus
crowded with soldiers in the eastern suburbs of Tel Aviv when the
driver and a passenger wrestled him to the ground after he tripped and
exposed his explosive belt.
He
succeeded in getting away but was forced to make do with detonating
his device in the open, fatally wounding a woman and injuring another
29 people at an adjacent bus stop.
Thursday's
bombing was the first attack in
Israel
since a Palestinian killed himself and six people on a bus in central
Tel Aviv on September 19.
Hamas
said it carried it out to avenge an Israeli air raid on
Gaza
City
in July in which 15 civilians were killed, including Hamas military
wing leader Sheikh Salah Shehada.
It
was also intended as retaliation for an army incursion into the Gaza
Strip town of Khan Yunis Monday October 7, in which 17 people were
killed, most of them civilians.
"In
the present situation, Israeli restraint would be a display of
strength in the context of an
U.S.
attack against
Iraq
," Regional Cooperation Minister Roni Milo told army radio before
Friday evening's failed bombing attempt.
The
hard-line prime minister, who is traveling to
Washington
next week for talks with U.S. President George W. Bush, has been
reprimanded by the
United States
several times in recent weeks for his heavy-handed crackdown on the
Palestinians.
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