Palestinian Suicide Bomber Kills Up to 5 at Nightclub; Israeli Officials Say the Attack Would Not Derail the Tentative Peace Efforts
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › February 26, 2005
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - A Palestinian suicide bomber carrying 20 pounds of explosives blew himself up in a crowd of young Israelis waiting outside a nightclub near Tel Aviv's beachfront promenade just before midnight Friday, killing at least four other people, wounding dozens and shattering an informal Mideast truce.
A senior commander of a Palestinian militant group, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah, which is funded by Iran and has been trying to disrupt the cease- fire, hired a Palestinian from the northern West Bank to carry out the bombing. Palestinian security officials also implicated Hezbollah.See the full content of this document
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Palestinian Suicide Bomber Kills Up to 5 at Nightclub; Israeli Officials Say the Attack Would Not Derail the Tentative Peace Efforts
A Hezbollah official in Beirut denied involvement: "As far as we are concerned, there is no need to respond to such lies."
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