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Palestinian Parliament Confirms Mahmoud Abbas as PM

HeadlineApr 30, 2003

Hours after the Palestinian parliament voted to confirm Mahmoud Abbas as the first-ever Palestinian prime minister, a suicide attack at a popular Tel Aviv cafe killed three people and injured more than 40. A spokesman for the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade told the Associated Press the attack was a message to new Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas that “nobody can disarm the resistance movements without a political solution.”

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