Schoolgirl suicide bomber kills two in supermarket

As if in defiance of Israel's declaration of war on terror, a schoolgirl suicide bomber killed herself and two Israelis in a suburban Jerusalem supermarket yesterday. Another 22 Israelis were wounded.

Family members identified the bomber as Ayat Akhras, 16, from Deheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem, who was engaged to be married. Like two Palestinian men who killed themselves on the way to the nearby Malcha shopping mall on Wednesday, she was a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a militia affiliated to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement.