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heet=/news/2002/01/28/ixnewstop.html WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Woman suicide bomber shakes Israelis By Inigo Gilmore in Jerusalem (Filed: 28/01/2002) A PALESTINIAN woman was killed when the bomb she was carrying exploded in a Jerusalem street yesterday. It was the first attack by a female in Israel in more than 16 months of conflict. The woman, a student in her twenties, was blown to pieces when the device went off outside a shoe shop in Jaffa Street. An 81-year-old Israeli man was killed and more than 100 people were injured. One of the injured was Mark Sokolov, 43, a New York lawyer who survived the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre. Israeli paramedics take an injured woman to hospital The bomber was named last night by Hezbollah television as Shahanaz Al Amouri, from Al Najah University in Nablus. No group has yet claimed responsibility. Israel's Shin Bet security service described the university as a "hothouse for suicide bombers". While women have worked as accomplices on terrorist operations during this intifada, none had previously undertaken such a mission. As a woman, the bomber would have raised fewer suspicions, even on Jaffa Street, where 10 previous attacks have killed 96 Israelis and wounded hundreds. The use of female bombers marked a tactical shift by Palestinian groups seeking to exploit the security forces' hesitation to search Muslim women. While checks on Palestinian men at roadblocks and elsewhere are rigorous, they are much less so for women because of the acute sensitivities involved. Some Israeli sources said the woman could have been a bomb-carrier rather than a suicide attacker. But senior army officials were working on the assumption that she was a suicide attacker. One said: "This is big trouble. We are already stretched and, if we are facing women as well as men, it will make it much more difficult for us. "If women are now prepared to do this, the potential for recruitment is much higher than we suspected. It may take some time to work out how to deal with this." Ghassan Khatieb, a leading Palestinian commentator, said: "Not only will it make things more difficult for Israeli security, but it also shows there is now a wider range of Palestinians willing to kill themselves. "It will also encourage others; if the men see that women are prepared to do this, they may be more inclined to get involved." Gideon Ezra, the deputy public security minister, said that Israel had received intelligence warnings about women attackers in the past, but none recently. The Palestinian Authority condemned the attack. In a statement, it called on the United States, which last week postponed a truce mission, to send its envoy back to the region. A day before the attack, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, had called on his people to suspend attacks on Israeli targets. Islamic radicals among the Palestinian community may be gambling that the attack will trigger a cycle of conflict. The possibility of stricter checks on Palestinian women will inflame passions at a time of already high tension. At least six suicide bombers who have attacked Israeli targets were students at Al Najah University university, where the student council is controlled by Hamas. Mahmoud Al Zahar, the Hamas leader in Gaza, refused to say whether his group was behind the bombing. He said only that Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, "destroys homes and kills innocent people and then the Palestinians come and carry out suicide bombing attacks in Israel". There was further blow for Israel as a crowd of 70 people broke into a Palestinian jail in Bethlehem and freed six militants, including one man on Israel's "most wanted" list. 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