A suspected suicide bomber killed at least two people and wounded dozens in a blast at a Jerusalem cafe tonight, police and witnesses said.
The explosion occurred at the Hillel cafe in Jewish west Jerusalem just hours after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed six people at a bus stop near an army camp outside Tel Aviv.
"It was apparently a suicide bomber who entered the cafe and blew up. There are several people dead and dozens wounded," a Jerusalem police spokesman said.
The explosions followed a wave of Israeli attacks on militants of the Islamic group Hamas. Israeli troops killed two senior Hamas militants in a shootout in the West Bank city of Hebron hours before the bus stop bombing.
The violence has all but shattered a U.S.-backed peace plan aimed at ending three years of Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed.
"Innocent Israelis were targeted for a second time in one evening by Palestinian terrorists," said David Baker, an official in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office.
"The Palestinian Authority is doing absolutely nothing to dismantle its terrorist infrastructure," he said. "This inaction is a direct cause of the terror activity against Israel."