The Kedumim bombing was a

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which occurred on May 30, 2006 in a vehicle near the

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Kedumim Kedumim (), is an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank. Founded on Hanukkah 1975 by members of the Gush Emunim settlement movement, it later became a local council. In it had a population of . The consensus of the international commu ...

in the

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. Four Israeli civilians were killed in the attack. The Palestinian militant organization

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claimed responsibility for the attack.

The attack

On Thursday, March 30, 2006, at around 21:45, a

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, disguised as an

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and wearing hidden explosives attached to his body, boarded an Israeli vehicle. The suicide bomber blew himself up near the entrance to the Israeli settlement

near the gas station outside of the village. The blast killed four Israeli civilians (three inside the car and another person who was near the vehicle).

Aftermath

In response to the attack, Israeli warplanes destroyed a number of targets in northern Gaza that the IDF claimed were used by Palestinian terrorist organizations for launching rockets into Israel.

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