Israel has foiled scores of Palestinian suicide bombings this year, the head of the Shin Bet security service said. Briefing the Cabinet on Tuesday, Yuval Diskin said 88 attempted suicide bombings had been prevented since the beginning of the year, around a dozen of them within an hour or two of the planned attack.
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