Sunset News: Hamas claimed responsibility Tuesday for a homicide attack

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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Hamas claimed responsibility Tuesday for a homicide attack

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility Tuesday for a homicide attack in Israel, saying the attackers came from the West Bank city of Hebron.

In text messages to journalists and on Hamas' TV, Hamas identified the two attackers as Mohammed Herbawi and Shadi Zghayer.

One woman was killed and 11 people were wounded in Monday's attack in the southern Israeli town of Dimona.

Israeli security forces were on high alert Tuesday, sending beefed-up patrols to public areas such as shopping malls, bus stations and train depots a day after the first Palestinian suicide attack in more than a year.

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