A 17-year-old Palestinian who killed himself and an Israeli man in the West Bank on Sunday was the 100th suicide bomber to attack Israel since 1993, according to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz. The newspaper, citing Israeli security sources, reported that 66 of the bombers were recruited by Hamas and 34 by Islamic Jihad.
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