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Lede: The Israeli army has announced that the West Bank city of Tulkarem is now under their direct military control after a suicide bombing at a nearby roadblock. Manar Jibrin reports from the West Bank.
Lede: The Israeli army has announced that the West Bank city of Tulkarem is now under their direct military control after a suicide bombing at a nearby roadblock. Manar Jibrin reports from the West Bank.
A Palestinian man blew himself up at portable Israeli military roadblock near Tulkarem today, killing one soldier and two Palestinians. Also injured in the bombing were three soldiers and six Palestinians. The Israeli army claimed that the bomber was intending to blow himself inside Israel.
Adnan Hattab, a journalist from Tulkarem, stated that the bombing happened meters away from an installed Israeli checkpoint that leads to Israel, adding that the bomber blew himself near a Palestinian car
"The incident took place at a portable checkpoint, few meters close to a main military checkpoint that leads to Israeli areas. Apparently a Palestinian young man in his twenties with a beard who was riding a Palestinian car, blew himself up after the Israeli soldiers stopped the car, and asked him to get out and take off his Jacket. The explosion killed three Palestinians and one Israeli soldier and wounded many others"
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Several Israeli jeeps and ambulances rushed to the scene of the blast after the bombing closed the area, and a imposed curfew. Palestinian police have been warmed not to carry their weapons. Islamic Jihad has been blamed for the bombing but the group has not confirmed this accusation.
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