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 the Prime Minister\'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. Yitzhak Gershon said that the terrorist cell was on its way to carry out another large-scale attack at the time of the IDF mission.
According to the Prime Minister\'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. Yitzhak Gershon said that the terrorist cell was on its way to carry out another large-scale attack at the time of the IDF mission.