Israeli security forces claim they have thwarted a bombing at a Jerusalem shopping mall when a car police ordered to stop during a security check exploded, killing the two Palestinians occupants.
Acting on intelligence reports warning of an attack, dozens of police had surrounded Jerusalem's Malha Mall in recent days.
The mall had not been attacked before by Palestinians, who have carried out strings of bombings and shootings in Israel in the past 18 months of violence, including in shopping areas.
The mall had been crowded this week with shoppers preparing for the Jewish holiday of Passover, which begins at sundown tomorrow.
Last night one Palestinian man was killed and at least two wounded when Israeli tanks and armoured bulldozers entered a refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.
Witnesses said the bulldozers, under covering fire from the tanks' machineguns, demolished buildings in the Brazil refugee camp near the border with Egypt.
Palestinian security officials said Palestinian gunmen had been shooting at the Israeli force.