The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades,
an offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed today a failed attack in Tel Aviv in a statement faxed to AFP.
The potentially deadly attack was thwarted by an Israeli security guard outside a Tel Aviv discotheque, who fired on a car which was heading directly for the door of the club.
The car blew up, killing the occupant and injuring five Israeli bystanders.
The Brigades said it carried out the attack "in response to Zionist terrorism embodied by the occupation of Palestine and to avenge the heroic martyrs Mahmud al-Titi, Imad al-Khatib and Iyad Abu Hamdan".
The three men, all members of the radical movement, were killed by the army on Wednesday in a refugee camp near Nablus.
The Brigades also claimed a suicide blast Wednesday night in Rishon Letsion, in the industrial outskirts of Tel Aviv, which killed two people as well as the bomber and wounded dozens.
The movement said it had carried out that attack to avenge the death of its three members as well as that of Jihad Jibril, a senior official of the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC).
Mr Jibril was killed on Monday in Beirut when his booby-trapped car exploded. Israel has denied responsibility.
Radical Palestinian groups, notably the Al-Aqsa Martyrs and the Islamic movement Hamas, are ignoring an order by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for an end to "terrorist operations against Israeli civilians".
AFP