The suicide bomber who struck last week in Rishon le-Zion was 16 years old.
Issa Bdir, from the village of Dura, near Bethlehem, carried out the attack on behalf of the Al-Aksa Brigade of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah Party.
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