Last Wednesday, police officers in the Old City of Jerusalem noticed a suspicious man who and detained him for questioning, during which the suspect, a 26-year-old resident of Hebron, was discovered holding a knife and a tear gas canister.
The suspect was immediately arrested by the police and taken to the police station. In a preliminary interrogation he claimed that he had entered Israel to pray, but eventually, it was discovered that the suspect's real intention was to carry out an attack.