Two alert IDF soldiers prevented a mega-terrorist attack in the city of Afula early this morning. The soldiers pulled into a gas station close to 2 AM on their way southeastward to Beit She'an and noticed a suspicious bag near one of the pumps. Upon inspecting the bag and discovering a bomb-like device inside, they alerted police, who then called sappers to the scene. The soldiers’ suspicions were validated when the device was found to be a bomb containing several kilograms of explosives, and the sappers dismantled the device without incident. Police describe the early find as a "miracle," saying that an explosion at the gas station could have caused scores of casualties. Security forces searched the area for potential suspects.
In Shechem last night, a 17-year-old Arab turned himself to Israeli forces, saying that he is the suicide terrorist they have been pursuing for the last couple of days. He was accompanied by his mother as he gave himself up. An IDF force destroyed the home of a terrorist in the Jordan Valley last night - he murdered a Jewish mother, her 11-year-old disabled daughter and a soldier in Hamra this past February - and it is assumed that the fear of similar punishment is what led the Shechem family to turn in their son last night.
Three bombs were found and safely neutralized last night near the greenhouses of Morag in Gush Katif, on Israel's southern Mediterranean Coast. Israeli forces had received intelligence information on the presence of the powerful bombs, and were able to locate them after they arrested a young Arab who apparently served as the guide and scout for the cell of bomb-placers. The terrorists had planned to place the bombs on the road around Morag, and then to detonate them beneath the IDF tank that "opens the route" each morning. Israeli army sources say that a large attack was most definitely averted.
A resident of the PA territories attempted to murder an Israeli motorist late this morning by hurling a Molotov cocktail at his car on the Jerusalem-Shilo highway. No one was hurt.
In Shechem last night, a 17-year-old Arab turned himself to Israeli forces, saying that he is the suicide terrorist they have been pursuing for the last couple of days. He was accompanied by his mother as he gave himself up. An IDF force destroyed the home of a terrorist in the Jordan Valley last night - he murdered a Jewish mother, her 11-year-old disabled daughter and a soldier in Hamra this past February - and it is assumed that the fear of similar punishment is what led the Shechem family to turn in their son last night.
Three bombs were found and safely neutralized last night near the greenhouses of Morag in Gush Katif, on Israel's southern Mediterranean Coast. Israeli forces had received intelligence information on the presence of the powerful bombs, and were able to locate them after they arrested a young Arab who apparently served as the guide and scout for the cell of bomb-placers. The terrorists had planned to place the bombs on the road around Morag, and then to detonate them beneath the IDF tank that "opens the route" each morning. Israeli army sources say that a large attack was most definitely averted.
A resident of the PA territories attempted to murder an Israeli motorist late this morning by hurling a Molotov cocktail at his car on the Jerusalem-Shilo highway. No one was hurt.