A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself Tuesday up after being pushed off a bus near a West Bank settlement. The Palestinian detonated an explosive charge seconds after the driver and passengers, who considered the man’s bearing and his heavy coat suspicious, prevented him from boarding the bus near Mehola in the Jordan Valley.
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