Suicide bombers kill 3 in Tel Aviv

Even as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat considered the appointment of a Prime Minister to share the running of day-to-day government affair...

Even as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat considered the appointment of a Prime Minister to share the running of day-to-day government affairs once a Palestininan state is declared after January elections, two Palestinian suicide bombers killed at least three other people and wounded 40 others when they blew themselves up in Tel Aviv’s foreign worker neighbourhood, Israeli police said.

The attacks at a cafe and cinema on Wednesday followed a Palestinian bus ambush which killed seven Israelis near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Tuesday, shattering a month of relative calm and undermining hopes of reviving peacemaking.

‘‘There were two suicide bombers and they are dead,’’ Tel Aviv police chief Yossi Sedbon told Israeli television. ‘‘They blew up 15 metres from each other. The explosive charges were not large.’’

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The cafe was frequented by Romanian workers. It and the cinema were near the city’s old bus station. Police said the bombers killed three people, including a foreign worker.

The Lebanese Hizbollah group’s Al-Manar television station said the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jehad had claimed responsibility for the blasts in a telephone call.

Islamic Jehad officials in the Gaza Strip did not confirm the group carried out the attack but said it showed resistance to Israeli occupation would not be broken after 21 months.

Israel blamed the attack on President Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority, saying it had failed to prevent the attacks, but the Authority condemned the attack.

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