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Suicide Bombing Kills Woman in Israel
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Israeli authorities did not release the dead woman's identity. Israeli news media said she was 20 years old and had lived in Dimona.
In Gaza, Abu Walid, a spokesman for the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, said his group had carried out the attack. The group is an armed wing of the Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The attackers came from a neighborhood just outside Gaza City and from the central Gaza city of Khan Younis, said Abu Walid, who gave only his nom de guerre.
"We are assuring that they got from Point A, Gaza, to Point B, which is Dimona," without crossing into Egypt, Abu Walid said.
In a poor neighborhood on the edge of Gaza City, the mother of a 19-year-old identified as one of the bombers wept as neighbors and gunmen came to console or congratulate her over her son's death.
Loay al-Lahwani left his home Wednesday evening, telling his family he was going off with friends, said his father, Zaki al-Lahwani.
Lahwani laid part of the blame for the attack on Israel, because of the restrictions it has imposed on Gaza. "A young man, he can't work; there's a siege all over Gaza; the borders are blocked and people dying everywhere" in Israeli airstrikes. "We don't know what he is thinking in this moment," the father said.
An Israeli airstrike struck Gaza hours after the bombing, wounding a senior Palestinian official and two others, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.
Special correspondents Nora Younis and Islam Abdulkarim in Gaza contributed to this report.
