It has been disclosed that police arrested a 27-year-old resident of the Judean Palestinian Authority village of El-Khader on suspicion of planting a powerful explosive device on the Husan bypass road in the Gush Etzion area.
In his interrogation, the Arab admitted that he had placed the explosive charge and claimed that he had planned to harm Israeli soldiers traveling on the route. Police have filed a prosecutor's statement of intent to try the suspect in the military court in Ofer, which extended his detention by five days.