A suicide bomber’s accomplice reportedly admitted that a June attack in Jerusalem was planned a month earlier and wasn’t a response to Israel’s attempted assassination of a Hamas leader. Omar Salah Muhammad Sharif, 19, confessed to police that the June 11 bus bombing in downtown Jerusalem, which killed 17 people, was not a response to the botched assassination attempt of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantissi the previous day, as Hamas originally claimed, Israeli media reported.
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