Tel Aviv death toll rises to 10
2006-05-13 17:53
Jerusalem - An Israeli wounded in the April 17 suicide bombing of a Tel Aviv lunch stand died on Saturday.
Saturday's death raises the death toll for last month's suicide attack to 10. It was the deadliest suicide bombing in Israel in 20 months.
Israeli medicial sources said a 16-year-old American tourist, also wounded in the blast, remained in a critical condition in a local hospital.
The Palestinian group Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for the blast, which took place just hours before the swearing in of the new Israeli parliament.
Since the start of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000, 5 046 people have been killed, the majority of them Palestinians.
- AFP