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A Palestinian suicide bomber has blown herself up killing 19 Israelis at a Haifa restaurant

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The restaurant was an unlikely target - jointly owned by an Arab and a Jewish family

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And members of both communities had packed the place for lunch

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It was one of the worst incidents of violence in the past three years of the intifada

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Children were not spared the impact of the bomb - among about 50 injured many were children

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The elderly were also caught in the carnage - coinciding with the holiest day in the Jewish calendar

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The scramble to get in contact with loved ones comes first in a society so prone to such cruelty

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The might of the Israeli security forces had proven powerless to halt the attack