A suicide bomber struck a pedestrian mall in a crowded Tel Aviv shopping area, killing himself in the explosion and wounding 24 bystanders, two seriously. The attack came just hours after Hamas said it would avenge a senior commander killed in an Israeli missile attack in the Gaza Strip late Thursday. In the attack, an assailant detonated nail-studded explosives strapped to his body shortly after 11 a.m. in a pedestrian mall near the abandoned old bus station in Tel Aviv, an area filled with ethnic restaurants, small groceries and sidewalk pubs catering mainly to foreign workers. In a march in Ramallah, thousands of Palestinians chanted in Hebrew "no security, no security," and some handed out candy in celebration of the Tel Aviv attack.
"Oh, chocolate! Who exploded?"
Looks like they're trying to do one exploder a day. |