IDF arrests father of TA suicide bomber
By YAAKOV KATZ, TALYA HALKIN
AND JPOST.COM STAFF

IDF troops raided a West Bank village near Jenin early Tuesday and arrested the father of a suicide bomber who killed nine people and wounded near 70 others in a terror attack at the entrance to a fast food stand in southern Tel Aviv.

The family of the bomber, Samer Hammad, had emptied the home of all furniture overnight for fear the army would demolish the building, as it often does to the homes of attackers, witnesses said. According to reports however, the army was not immediately preparing to destroy the building.

Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the bombing on Monday and identified Hammad as the attacker soon after the explosion at the Tel Aviv falafel stand. The group said that this terror attack was the first of 70, Israel Radio reported. the rest