Israeli security forces have nabbed a Palestinian Authority terrorist who tried to murder a Jewish couple on Saturday night. The arrest took place on Saturday night shortly after the attack, and was cleared for publication on Sunday evening.

The terrorist opened fire on a couple from Har Gilo in Jerusalem as they drove south of the city. The ambush took place near the Arab village of Walajeh.

The intended victims were not hurt in the attack. Their car was hit. An initial investigation found that the terrorist used a Kalashnikov in the assault.

The attacker, was identified as 34-year-old Mohand Mahmad Mahmoud Aza of Bethlehem. He was found in the village of Hussan and taken in for questioning. Under preliminary interrogation, he tied himself to the shooting.

"We flooded the area with soldiers," after the shooting, an IDF source said. "We saw his footprints and followed them." The terrorist knew he had soldiers on his trail and tried to escape in a new direction, but the new path was more difficult, the source said. "We found him after three and a half hours, on a steep hill leading down from a cliff. The terrorist tried to hide in the bushes, but when he saw the force heading in his direction he put up his hands in surrender."

A similar ambush one month earlier left a pregnant woman moderately wounded and her husband lightly wounded. The couple, Sharon and Netta Zucker, managed to drive to Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva despite their wounds; there doctors immediately delivered the baby by Caesarean section.

In August, four Jews from the town of Beit Haggai near Hevron were murdered in a terrorist ambush at the Bani Nayim junction. One day later, terrorists fired on a Jewish couple at the Rimonim junction, causing them light and moderate wounds.