Briton hunted after Tel Aviv bomb
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JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli police are hunting a British citizen who fled the scene of a suicide bomb at a Tel Aviv beachfront bar.
They say Omar Kahn Sharif was with another British citizen -- Asif Mohammed Hanif -- who they say set of his explosives, killing himself and three others on Wednesday.
A security guard who stopped the bomber entering Mike's Place, a blues club near the American Embassy, was seriously injured. Dozens of others also were wounded. (Full story)
Police said Sharif was not able to detonate his explosives and after struggling with some Israelis, he threw away his belt and fled.
Police said the two entered Israel from Gaza several hours before the attack. Both men spoke English, Israel police said, and Sharif may have altered his appearance.
British Foreign Office officials said they were aware of the report that the two were British and were working with Israeli authorities.
The militant wing of Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades -- a militant offshoot of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement -- said they carried out the attack jointly to send a message to the new Palestinian government that "nobody can disarm the resistance movements without a political resolution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
New Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas -- who is informally called Abu Mazen -- was sworn in Wednesday, pledging to end what he called the "chaos of arms" by curbing militant groups. (Full story)
But the cycle of violence continued Thursday when at least seven Palestinians were killed -- including a two-year-old -- and 12 injured after Israeli forces entered Gaza City and blew up the house of a Hamas activist, according to Palestinian security sources. (Full story)
The raid came hours after a road map for peace, drawn up by the United Nations, the U.S. the European Union and Russia, was handed to Israeli and Palestinian leaders. (Full story)
