Israel fired missiles at the home of an Islamic Jihad leader after a suicide bombing in Haifa. Morshet Shahin escaped the attack, Palestinian witnesses told The Associated Press. Israel also imposed a curfew on the West Bank city of Jenin, the home of the Islamic Jihad bomber who carried out the Haifa attack.
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