The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Israel late Wednesday night in which two soldiers were wounded, according to the Jerusalem Post. The Palestinian who blew himself up along Israel’s border fence with the northern Gaza Strip was wearing an Israeli army uniform. It was the first suicide bombing claimed by a secular Palestinian group.
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