The Palestinian Authority’s official newspaper is blaming Israel for Wednesday’s attack on a U.S. convoy in Gaza. A columnist for Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Ali Sadek, wrote that he doesn’t rule out the possibility that Israel detonated the bomb by remote control “because their actions in the past, especially against the Americans, are known,” according to the Jerusalem Post.
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