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Article: Suicide Bombings Injure 11 Israelis in Gaza Strip; Attacks Follow Islamic Jihad Vows of Revenge
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- The Washington Post
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- November 3, 1995
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A pair of Palestinian suicide bombers in the self-ruled Gaza Strip
attacked two convoys of Israelis within minutes this morning, but
they killed only themselves.
The two car bombs, which slightly wounded 11 Israelis, exploded
some distance from their targets because Israeli troops in armored
jeeps provided close security around the convoys. Israeli forces were
operating on high alert because the radical Arab group Islamic Jihad,
which buried its slain leader in Damascus on Wednesday, had vowed to
mount revenge attacks against the Jewish state. Israel is widely
believed in the Arab world to have dispatched the assassins who
gunned down the Jihad leader, Fathi Shiqaqi, in Malta last week.
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