JERUSALEM?A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a main downtown Jerusalem shopping area Thursday in an anti-Israeli attack that killed two bystanders. At least 60 were wounded, police said.

In response to the blast, Israel canceled a round of U.S. brokered cease-fire talks with the Palestinians planned for later Thursday.

The explosion went off at the foot of the city’s tallest office tower, on King George Street near the site of several other recent shooting and bombing attacks.

The attacker, Mohammed Hashaika, had been jailed for attempting to carry out an earlier attack. But the Palestinians released him last week when Israeli troops entered the West Bank city of Ramallah, where he was being held.

The bombing came a day after an Islamic militant set off explosions on a crowded bus in northern Israel, killing himself and seven others.