Israel's Growing Gang Violence Leads To Calls For Anti-Terror Tactics

Israel's Growing Gang Violence Leads To Calls For Anti-Terror Tactics
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Simon was standing in his shop in sight of Ashkelon's football stadium when he heard the bomb go off.

At first, said Simon - who declined to give his surname - he thought it was a Palestinian missile from Gaza, a short distance along the coast. "I shut the shop and smoked a cigarette to calm myself," he said. After a few minutes, puzzled he had not heard the air-raid siren, he stuck his head out of his door to see the flaming shell of a car. Its passenger, and the target of the blast, was a member of prominent Israeli crime organization the Domrani family.

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