A Palestinian woman was killed and her son badly wounded when a bomb exploded at a West Bank farm on Thursday. The explosion occurred at a chicken farm owned by an Islamic Jihad fugitive, Palestinian officials said. Also, Israeli troops arrested a Hamas leader in the West Bank town of Kalkilya on Wednesday night and two Hamas members in the West Bank planning to carry out a terrorist attack on Thursday.
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