Members of a Hamas terror cell used a beeper to remotely detonate bombs in two attacks in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv earlier this year, according to court indictments against the suspected terrorists. According to the charge sheets, a message sent to the beepers set off the bombs. In one attack, in Tel Aviv in August, 16 people were wounded. An Israeli soldier was lightly wounded in the second attack, on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus in September.
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