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| Two bombers were from Nablus camp raided by Israeli army last week
NABLUS, West Bank, Aug 12 (AFP) - The two Palestinians who carried out the back-to-back suicide bombings which left two Israelis dead Tuesday were from the refugee camp where the Israeli army staged a deadly raid last week, the families told AFP. The armed wing of the hardline Islamic group Hamas claimed responsibility in a statement for the suicide attack which killed one Israeli and wounded two others outside the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel and named the bomber as Islam Iqteshad. BizVantage – A Net clipping service that learns what you need: for business, investment or technology. A Nablus-based branch of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah party, claimed responsibility for an almost simultaneous suicide bombing which killed one Israeli and wounded 10 in a shopping mall north of Tel Aviv. They named the attacker as Khamis Jerwan. Both bombers were residents of Nablus' Askar refugee camp, where an Israeli army raid on a suspected bomb factory turned into a firefight which left four Palestinians and an Israeli soldier dead on Friday. In their statements, the groups the two militants belonged to said the suicide bombings were in retaliation for last week's raid. Yusef Iqteshad, who runs a small shop in Nablus selling school supplies, told AFP of his surprise when he found out that his 18-year-old son died in a suicide attack. "The last time I saw him last night, we ate sandwiches and drank Cola on the roof with the rest of the family. Then he went to bed, but this morning I didn't find him. I thought he had gone to work in the shop," said the 55-year-old, who has two wives and five other children. "I heard about my son on Al-Manar TV. Nobody can be happy when he loses his son. I feel that I lost a part of myself. I didn't expect that my son could perpetrate an attack like this," said the sobbing father. Seventeen-year-old Khamis Jerwan lived some 100 yards (meters) from the Iqteshads' home in the impoverished camp. "My son left the house last night and didn't return and today I heard about him from people in the camp who were watching Al-Manar TV," said 65-year-old Ghazi Jerwan, also crying. "When you put people in a cauldron and turn up the pressure too much, it ends up blowing up in your face," he said. str-jmm/pm/srj Mideast-Nablus-bombers
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