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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14786-2003Jan5.html
Palestinian Attack Kills 23 in Israel
(Washington Post) - Two Palestinian bombers blew themselves up a block apart in a busy immigrant neighborhood in Tel Aviv Sunday, killing at least 23 people and injuring an estimated 108 others in the deadliest attack in Israel in more than nine months. The force of the coordinated explosions turned a busy workday evening into a scene of carnage, flinging body parts more than 100 feet from the blast sites, blowing out plate-glass windows 300 feet away, and sending hundreds of screaming shoppers, commuters, and residents scrambling for cover. The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, linked to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, asserted responsibility for the bombings. Al-Jazeera identified the two bombers as Boraq Halfa and Saver al-Nouri from the West Bank city of Nablus, about 35 miles northeast of Tel Aviv. This was the first suicide bombing in more than six weeks and resulted in the second-highest death toll of any Palestinian attack inside Israel since the violence began 27 months ago.