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| By Israel Insider staff July 27, 2008 |
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IDF soldiers killed Shihab Natsheh, the mastermind and bombmaker of the suicide terrorist attack in which a Dimona woman was killed in February. He had previously been jailed for terrorist activity in Israel, but had been released as a goodwill gesture to the Palestinians before the attack.
According to the IDF spokesman, Border Guard Police, Shin Bet (security service) and special IDF Yamam forces surrounded the house, demanded that Natsheh surrender. He refused to do so, and shot at security forces from inside. Explosions were heard from inside the house, believed to be from bombs stored there. After a gun battle, an army bulldozer arrived and flattened the house, crushing the Hamas terrorist. His body was pulled from the rubble.
The IDF reported that the dead bomb-maker was preparing additional attacks against Israelis when he was killed.
In the lethal attack last February, a Palestinian terrorist blew up in the commercial center of Dimona, killing resident Lyubav Razdolskaya, 73, and seriously wounding her husband.
A second suicide terrorist was killed by an elite unit police officer, Kobi Mor, who arrived on the scene.
Fatah, headed by pseudo-moderate Mahmoud Abbas, chief of the West Bank, initially claimed responsibility for the attack, but later it became clear that Hamas carried it out.
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