Seven killed in terror attacks at Israeli port city

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JERUSALEM (CNN) -- At least seven people were killed and 20 others were wounded Sunday in two suicide bombing attacks in the Israeli port city of Ashdod, Israeli police said.

Two bombers also were killed in the terror attacks, police said.

One blast took place inside the port, police said, and the other just outside the port.

The Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades -- a military offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement -- have claimed joint responsibility for the attacks, according to Lebanese television reports.

Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and Hamas have been labeled by the U.S. State Department as terrorist organizations. Hamas' military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, has admitted responsibility for terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians as well as attacks against the Israeli military.

A terrorist bus bombing that killed eight people in Jerusalem also was claimed by Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades on February 22.