The military wing of Hamas has launched a rare suicide attack on Gaza’s border with Israel.
It came as a controversial meeting between Hamas officials and Jimmy Carter, the former US president, was concluding in Syria.
At least 13 Israeli soldiers were wounded, and three Palestinian fighters were reported to be killed.
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from Gaza.
The mothers of two suicide bombers who carried out an attack in southern Israel on Monday have been speaking to Al Jazeera.Despite the initial confusion over who was actually behind the explosions, both say they knew at an early stage that their sons had been involved.One woman was killed when the bombers targeted a shopping centre in Dimona.Nour Odeh reports.
The Taliban are being blamed for a wave of suicide bombings across Afghanistan in recent months said to be a renewed effort to gain territory and control.
And as Bernard Smith found out there’s no shortage of recruits.
He spoke with a young man who failed in his attempt to blow himself up.
Tony Birtley looks at the deadly suicide bombers in Sri Lanka, speaks to one who was intercepted before carrying out her mission, talks with the proud mother of a suicide bomber who succeeded and contrasts this with the singhalese woman who’s daughter and granddaughter were killed by a Tigers bomb. Three women, three viewpoints, three degrees of suffering.
A suicide bombing in northwest Pakistan has killed at least 50 people.The blast, apparently targeting Pakistan’s former interior minister, tore through a crowded mosque within the residential compound of Aftab Khan Sherpao, 40km from the frontier town Peshawar.Reports say the attacker positioned himself as crowds gathered to greet the ex-minister after prayers celebrating Eid.