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Roundup: Palestinian Suicide Attack Hits Jerusalem, Killing Seven

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At least seven Israeli civilians were killed and nearly 40 others injured in a Palestinian suicide bombing attack Wednesday evening in Jerusalem, the most vulnerable city during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The bombing attack, the second in the city in two days, took place at about local time 19:10 (1610 GMT) at the French Hill intersection.

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant wing affiliated to the Palestinian mainstream Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred after a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in southern Jerusalem Tuesday morning.

Tuesday's suicide bombing attack, carried out by the PalestinianIslamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, was the deadliest in the city for recent six years, which left 19 civilians dead and some 70others injured.

"The wave of Palestinian terror attacks continues to be unleashed against Israel's civilian population," said David Baker, a spokesman of the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

"The war (fight against bombing attackers) continued yesterday, continues today and will continue tomorrow," Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert told Israel TV from the scene of the blast, calling for "an ongoing military operation...so there won't be anything left that can threaten us with terror."

The two latest suicide attacks took place on the eve of U.S. President George W. Bush's speech on the Middle East, which is expected to accent how to create an independent Palestinian state with a constitution and a unified security force.

The Bush administration, however, has postponed Wednesday the president's speech in the wake of the two attacks in Jerusalem.

The attacks occurred also against the backdrop of the newly-launched Israeli security fence along the Green Line, the actual control border before the 1967 Middle East war, which is aimed at preventing Palestinian extremists from entering Israel territories to carry out violent attacks.

The Israeli government on Tuesday night decided to strengthen military operations against Palestinian "terrorists" in the West Bank, vowing to reoccupy the Palestinian territories in retaliationfor the terror attacks.

The last suicide attack ahead of the two in Jerusalem was on April 12 at the Mahaneh Yehuda open-air market, leaving six civilians dead and some 80 others wounded.

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