The terrorist, Ibrahim Hasin Aviat, 33, from Bethlehem, was arrested hiding out in an apartment in Halhoul. Aviat was carrying a pistol and cartridges. Two other wanted terrorists were seized along with Aviat.
Aviat had been eluding capture since he gunned down his first Jewish victim, Sgt. Max Hazan, on October 2, 2000. Hazan was shot in an ambush near Beit Sahur, east of Bethlehem.
Barely a month later, Aviat took out his next victims. On November 1, 2000, he gunned down Lt. David-Hen Cohen and Sgt. Shlomo Adishina near Al Hader, west of Bethlehem.
Taking two years to make his next strike, Aviat murdered Avi Boaz on January 15, 2002, south of Bethlehem as he was driving toward Beit Jala.
Aviat’s last known victim, police officer Moshe Dayan, was shot in an ambush on March 2, 2002, as he was riding on a motorcycle near the Marsaba monastery, east of Bethlehem.
Aviat carried out his killing streak in the name of the Tanzim, a terrorist group affiliated with the Fatah, the terrorist organization and political party of Mahmoud Abbas, the chairman of the Palestinian Authority. Abbas is also known as Abu Mazen, the name he used as a Fatah terrorist.
Aviat was one of the leaders of the Tanzim which operates primarily out of the Bethlehem region, south of Jerusalem. Police suspect that Aviat has also been involved in selling weapons to other Arab terrorists and in maintaining contact with some of Israel’s most wanted terrorist murderers in Judea and Samaria.
Aviat had been eluding capture since he gunned down his first Jewish victim, Sgt. Max Hazan, on October 2, 2000. Hazan was shot in an ambush near Beit Sahur, east of Bethlehem.
Barely a month later, Aviat took out his next victims. On November 1, 2000, he gunned down Lt. David-Hen Cohen and Sgt. Shlomo Adishina near Al Hader, west of Bethlehem.
Taking two years to make his next strike, Aviat murdered Avi Boaz on January 15, 2002, south of Bethlehem as he was driving toward Beit Jala.
Aviat’s last known victim, police officer Moshe Dayan, was shot in an ambush on March 2, 2002, as he was riding on a motorcycle near the Marsaba monastery, east of Bethlehem.
Aviat carried out his killing streak in the name of the Tanzim, a terrorist group affiliated with the Fatah, the terrorist organization and political party of Mahmoud Abbas, the chairman of the Palestinian Authority. Abbas is also known as Abu Mazen, the name he used as a Fatah terrorist.
Aviat was one of the leaders of the Tanzim which operates primarily out of the Bethlehem region, south of Jerusalem. Police suspect that Aviat has also been involved in selling weapons to other Arab terrorists and in maintaining contact with some of Israel’s most wanted terrorist murderers in Judea and Samaria.