A letter bomb was discovered this morning in the Jerusalem sorting office, police announced this afternoon. It was defused harmlessly. The letter was addressed in Arabic and mailed in Nablus with Israeli stamps and a Nablus postmark. It contained 60 grams of explosive and a detonator.
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