Israeli forces defused a bomb found in a bag a Palestinian youth was carrying on an Egged bus on its way from Jerusalem to the northern community of Kiryat Shmona. A bomb squad safely detonated the device after the youth raised the suspicions of the driver, who threw him off the bus.
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