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		Medical workers at the scene of the suicide bombing in Dimona on Monday. (Alberto Dankberg)

Last update - 11:35 05/02/2008

Day after Dimona bombing, Israel reverts to high security alert

By Amos Harel and Mijal Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondents, News Agencies and Haaretz Service

Tags: Suicide Bombing, Hamas

Israeli security forces were on high alert Tuesday after a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at a shopping center in the southern city of Dimona, killing one person and wounding 11 others.

Police were out in higher numbers at entrances to cities, shopping malls and bus and train stations, following the attack, which was the first of its kind in over a year.

Overnight, border police arrested 240 Palestinians who had entered
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srael illegally to work, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.

The woman killed in the suicide bombing in Dimona on Monday has been identified as Lyubov Razdolskaya, 73. Eleven other people were wounded in the attack, including Rodolskaya's husband, who remained hospitalized on Tuesday in a critical condition.

A total of five casualties from the suicide bombing, the first terror attack of its kind in over a year, were still being treated at Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva on Tuesday.

Hamas' armed wing claimed responsibility for the attack, the first suicide bombing inside Israel claimed by the Palestinian militant group since 2004, a Hamas source told Reuters.

Both the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Bridgade and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine also 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 suicide bomber blew himself up in the southern town of Dimona at around 10:30 A.M. Monday. Click here for map

Abu Fouad, a spokesman for the Fatah-allied Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - which claimed responsibility for the attack - said the operation had been planned for a month, but was made possible after militants violently opened Gaza's border with Egypt on January 23.

The militant group's spokesman said the attackers sneaked into Egypt after the border breach, then crossed into Israel using unspecified private contacts. He added that Dimona was chosen because it has never been hit before.

Security forces had been on high alert due to fears that the breach in the border fence between Gaza and Egypt would lead to an increase in terrorist attacks against Israel.

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2.	Homicide Bomber	13:05	\|	Carolyn	05/02/08

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