In the 1980s Hebron , became the center of the Kach movement , a designated terrorist organization , whose first operations started there , and provided a model for similar behaviour in other settlements . Hebron is one of the three West Bank towns from where the majority of suicide bombers originate . In May 2003 , three students of the Hebron Polytechnic University carried out three separate suicide attacks . In August 2003 , in what both Islamic groups described as a retaliation , a 29-year-old preacher from Hebron , Raed Abdel-Hamed Mesk , broke a unilateral Palestinian ceasefire by killing 23 and injured over 130 in a bus bombing in Jerusalem
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