Dozens of people were wounded in a suicide bombing in the coastal city of Netanya on Sunday. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The group’s secretary, Ramadan Shalakh, said the attack was, in part, a show of solidarity with the Iraqi people.
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