Security officials announced today that nine Bedouin men from northern Israel were arrest last month on suspicion they attempted attacks on Israeli citizens during the Gaza war. The charges claim that the nine residents of Shfaram, most of them in their early twenties, knocked down a lamp post on nearby Route 79 several days into the IDF's Gaza operation in an attempt to cause a traffic accident.
According to the report in Maariv, the men planned to attack drivers who were stopped by the improvised roadblock. In one incident, a woman was lightly wounded, but the assailants fled when police arrived. All nine have confessed to the charges. Some stated they acted to avenge Palestinian Authority suffering in Gaza.