Suicide bomber kills woman in Israeli town
By Yehuda Peretz
DIMONA, Israel (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber killed a woman in southern Israel on Monday, the first such attack in the Jewish state in a year, but Israeli officials said peace talks would not be derailed.
Police said they prevented a second blast in the shopping centre in the town of Dimona by shooting dead another attacker before he could detonate an explosives belt.
"It was like a war. People were running like crazy. I saw a piece of a human being right there, next to my leg," witness Rosa Enberg told Israel's Channel Two television.
Hamas's armed wing said it was responsible for the Dimona bombing, the first such attack inside Israel claimed by the group since 2004, a Hamas source in the Gaza Strip told Reuters.
The source said the two attackers came from the West Bank city of Hebron, rather than from the Gaza Strip, which the Islamist Hamas group seized in June after routing secular Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The last time Hamas, which opposes Abbas's peace talks with the Jewish state, claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing inside Israel was August 2004, when 16 people were killed and 100 wounded in explosions on two buses in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.
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