Hamas claims Dimona attack, says bombers came from Hebron

Hamas' armed wing claimed responsibility for a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed a woman in Dimona on Monday, the first such attack inside Israel claimed by Hamas since 2004, a Hamas source told Reuters.

Both the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Bridgade and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack earlier in the day.

Palestinians had reported that the militants, who they said were from Gaza, entered Israel through Egypt, but the Hamas source said the two Palestinians who died during the attack came from the West Bank city of Hebron. Israel Police were still investigating. The last time Hamas' armed wing claimed responsibility for suicide bombings inside Israel was August 2004, when 16 people were killed and 100 wounded in explosions on two buses in the southern Israeli city of Be'er Sheva.

The suicide bomber blew himself up in the southern town of Dimona at around 10:30 A.M. Monday, killing a woman from the town and wounding 11 others, in the first terror attack of its kind in over a year.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/951028.html

why Israel doesn't negotiate with Hamas. Kinda hard to negotiate with a group that is trying to destroy you by killing as many civilians as possible via homicide bombers.

that Palestinians feel the same way towards Israel? Not to say who would be more right or wrong on that, but the point is that both sides need to change their ways

Definitive.

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From Ha'aretz...

Hamas on Tuesday claimed responsibility for Monday's suicide bombing in Dimona, saying it was carried out by two operatives from Hebron. The organization identified the bombers as Mohammed al-Hirbawi and Shadi al-Zaghair.

Hirbawi, 20, had been arrested when he was 15 and spent two and a half years in an Israeli prison.

Hamas' announcement put an end to more than a day of speculation about the identity of the terrorists and their place of residence. A gag order remains on publishing details of the Shin Bet security service's investigation. Palestinian sources in Hebron said that the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet have arrested several relatives of the two bombers.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/951556.html

Considering that all the militant groups are eager to say that they or their men were responsible?

If it was a Hamas group in the WB, that is egg on Abbas;s face.

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