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One person died and 16 more were wounded, said police in Iraq, when a suicide bomber blew on Sunday was in the midst of a demonstration in northern Iraq against Israeli air strikes in Gaza.

The attacker penetrated his bicycle in the demonstration, about 1,300 people at the center of the northern city of Mosul, said a police officer who asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak to the media.

The demonstration was organized by the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni cutting. His spokesman in Mosul, Yahiya Abid Mahjub, was that the police and army in Iraq had not taken precautions for the event.

So far nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack, said police.

"Those who attack our brothers in Gaza are the same ones that attacked us today in Mosul. They are agents of Israel," said Mahjub.

U.S. forces and Iraq maintain the fight against al-Qaida and other rebels in Mosul, the third largest city in Iraq, where tensions persist econ omicas + and policies. These issues have been complicated by tensions between Arabs and Kurds in the city.

Also on Sunday, police in Fallujah said that a bomb exploded on the outskirts of the city, killing two civilians and wounding four more,

A policeman said the bomb exploded in a parking lot, where farmers and merchants gathered to buy and sell.

The trucks and other vehicles are not allowed to enter Fallujah can not enter their charges to the city, west of Baghdad.

The police asked not be identified, was not authorized to speak to news media.