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| Suicide bomb kills three Israelis | |
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| A suicide bomber has killed three people in the southern Israeli town of Dimona, Israeli police say. | |
| There was no claim of responsibility. Five people were injured in the attack. Israel has been on alert for possible militant attacks after thousands of Palestinians poured out of the Gaza Strip when its border was breached. | |
| The border between Gaza and Egypt has now been resealed, nearly two weeks after it was blown up by Palestinian militants who control the strip. | The border between Gaza and Egypt has now been resealed, nearly two weeks after it was blown up by Palestinian militants who control the strip. |
| Monday's explosion happened a few kilometres from the Dimona base which houses Israel's top-secret nuclear reactor. | |
| Police officials said there appeared to have been two attackers, although only one managed to detonate his explosives belt. | |
| Analysts said towns in the Negev desert, where Dimona is located, would be the most vulnerable if Palestinian attackers entered Israel from Egypt through the open border across the Sinai desert. | |
| Israel was pummelled by series of suicide bombings in the 1990s and 2000s, peaking after the Palestinian intifada or uprising broke out in 2000. | |
| However there were only two such attacks between April 2006 and today, the last being in January 2007 when a bomber blew himself up in a bakery in Eilat, killing three people. | |
| Monday's blast is also the first since renewed efforts to come to an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal were launched with US support last November. |