Suspected Jerusalem Bus Bomber Dies in Hospital, Hamas Claims Responsibility

Jerusalem, 20 April, 2016 (TPS) -- An unidentified Palestinian man died on Wednesday from injuries suffered in the Jerusalem bus bombing earlier in the week that wounded 20, Shaare Zedek Medical Center has confirmed.

The man is presumed to be the bomber, Palestinian sources indicate, but his identity has yet to be released.

Hamas has claimed responsibility for the bombing, releasing fliers saying that the terrorist responsible is 19-year-old Hamas member Abdul Hamid Abu Sarur, from the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem. The fliers refer to Abu Sarur as a “martyr,” indicating that the man who died in the Israeli hospital was in fact the bomber.