TEL AVIV (Sputnik) – "A female detonated an explosive device on [Route] 437, a policeman was slightly wounded," the police said, adding that the woman was also injured.
This appears to be the first suicide bombing attempt in the latest escalation of Israeli-Palestinian violence that has seen mostly knife attacks in nearly two weeks.
On Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mobilized reserve border police companies to boost security amid the wave of attacks, clashes, border breaches and an intercepted rocket launched from Gaza.
Retaliatory airstrikes targeting weapons-manufacturing sites belonging to Gaza’s de-facto governing body Hamas killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and her 3-year-old daughter overnight.
