Jafar Ashtiye
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/ 29 December 2005

Bomber kills Israeli soldier, Palestinian civilians

Two Palestinian civilians and an Israeli officer were killed on Thursday by a suicide bomber who blew himself up at an army checkpoint set up to avert a major attack during a Jewish festival. The bombing near the northern West Bank town of Tulkarem served to further undermine a shaky truce as the army pounded the northern Gaza Strip with artillery fire.