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Israel says Jerusalem bus bombing was Hamas suicide attack | |
(about 3 hours later) | |
Israel says Monday's bus bombing in Jerusalem, which wounded 20 people, was a suicide attack by a member of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. | |
Police named the bomber as 19-year-old Abdul Hamid Abu Srour, from near Bethlehem, who died on Wednesday of the injuries he sustained in the attack. | |
Hamas has said Abu Srour was a member but has not claimed responsibility. | |
A number of suspects from the Bethlehem area have been arrested in connection with the bombing, Israel says. | |
Correspondents say it was reminiscent of the suicide attacks by Palestinian militants in Jerusalem during the second intifada, or uprising, over a decade ago. | |
Aida camp resident | |
An Israeli hospital that treated casualties from the bombing said one of the two people who were admitted in a serious condition had died on Wednesday night. | |
Shaare Zedek Medical Center spokeswoman Shoham Ruvio said the man lost both legs in the explosion, and underwent multiple operations. | |
Soon afterwards, the Palestinian health ministry and Hamas identified him as Abu Srour, a resident of the Aida refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. | |
Palestinians subsequently paid their condolences to members of his family in the camp, where posters put up by Hamas hailed him as a "martyr". | |
Hamas, which dominates the Gaza Strip and carried out a wave of deadly bus bombings in Jerusalem in the early 2000s, had earlier called Monday's blast "a natural reaction to Israeli crimes". | |
On Thursday, Israel's Shin Bet security agency said security forces had arrested several suspected accomplices of Abu Srour in the Bethlehem area and that they were being questioned. | |
Hours after the bombing, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu linked it to the wave of stabbing, shooting and car-ramming attacks by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs over the past six months that have left 29 Israelis dead. | Hours after the bombing, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu linked it to the wave of stabbing, shooting and car-ramming attacks by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs over the past six months that have left 29 Israelis dead. |
About 200 Palestinians - mostly attackers, Israel says - have also been killed in that period. | About 200 Palestinians - mostly attackers, Israel says - have also been killed in that period. |
The assailants who have been killed have been shot dead either by their victims or by security forces as they carried out attacks. Some attackers have been arrested. | The assailants who have been killed have been shot dead either by their victims or by security forces as they carried out attacks. Some attackers have been arrested. |
Other Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops. | Other Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops. |