The two Arabs that were apprehended Friday morning by an IDF elite anti-terror unit in the Arab village of Tel, near Shechem, were responsible for the bus attack that killed ten Jews and wounded nearly thirty outside Emmanuel three weeks ago.
According to Prime Minister Sharon\'s spokesman Ra\'anan Gissin, the names of the Arabs had been turned over to the PLO before the Emmanuel attack, but Arafat never attempted to apprehend them. A third Arab was killed in the raid during an exchange of gunfire. Commander of Judea and Samaria Forces Brig-Gen. Yizhak Gershon said that this terrorist cell was on its way to carry out another large-scale attack on Israeli civilians at the time of the IDF mission.
According to Prime Minister Sharon\'s spokesman Ra\'anan Gissin, the names of the Arabs had been turned over to the PLO before the Emmanuel attack, but Arafat never attempted to apprehend them. A third Arab was killed in the raid during an exchange of gunfire. Commander of Judea and Samaria Forces Brig-Gen. Yizhak Gershon said that this terrorist cell was on its way to carry out another large-scale attack on Israeli civilians at the time of the IDF mission.