Israel has strengthened its control over important buildings, bus stops and commercial centers in Tel Aviv as security predicted that there could be heavy damage to Israel properties and persons at the hand of Palestinians military group.
A 16-year-old Palestinian committed suicide in an open-air Tel Aviv market, killing three people and injuring 32 others. The suicide bomber's real target was Jerusalem, Israel security said.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a leftist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, claimed responsibility for the explosion. It was the first suicide Palestinian attack since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was flown from his West Bank headquarters to a hospital near Paris for tests.
Israeli forces destroyed bomber’s home and those of two Palestinian militants who sent him on an attack..
29 people, including the parents and 10 siblings of the bomber, left homeless.