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29/12/2005 |
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Following high security alerts of a suicide bomber who intended to infiltrate into Israel to carry out a suicide bombing in Israel during the Hanukkah holiday, IDF forces had set up temporary roadblocks in the Tulkarm area in an effort to prevent the bomber from entering Israel.
At 9:15 A.M., a Palestinian taxi approached a checkpoint. Lt. Ori Binamo, the platoon commander in charge of the checkpoint, instructed the three occupants to get out of the taxi, and asked that one, wearing a large overcoat, open the coat to be searched. The Palestinian refused and blew himself up, killing Binamo and the other two occupants of the taxi instantly. The soldier who was guarding the inspection was seriously injured, and two other soldiers, as well as the occupants of several nearby Palestinian vehicles, were lightly injured.
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