The Binyamin District Police, in a joint operation with the IDF, rescued an Israeli man who entered the Arab village of Beit Annan to search for his stolen vehicle.
The man, a 40-year old from Jerusalem, called the Binyamin District Police yesterday and reported that his commercial vehicle had been stolen hours earlier from Jerusalem. He told the police that he and one of his workers wanted to go to a village near Ramallah to try to get his vehicle back from the thieves, who had contacted him.
The police told him that he should not enter the Arab village under any circumstances and that they would handle the matter. In the meantime the man received word from the thieves that his car had been brought to Beit Annan.
Monday at 10 PM, the police received intelligence information that an Israeli had entered Beit Annan and was at a coffee shop there. The police detective unit, in cooperation with the IDF, entered the village and rescued the Israeli man and his worker. A resident of the village who was acting as a negotiator between the man and the thieves was taken for questioning.
It became clear as the investigation progressed that the car thieves intended to lure the Israeli man deep into the Ramallah region with the intention of killing him in yet another Palestinian terrorist attack.
The man, a 40-year old from Jerusalem, called the Binyamin District Police yesterday and reported that his commercial vehicle had been stolen hours earlier from Jerusalem. He told the police that he and one of his workers wanted to go to a village near Ramallah to try to get his vehicle back from the thieves, who had contacted him.
The police told him that he should not enter the Arab village under any circumstances and that they would handle the matter. In the meantime the man received word from the thieves that his car had been brought to Beit Annan.
Monday at 10 PM, the police received intelligence information that an Israeli had entered Beit Annan and was at a coffee shop there. The police detective unit, in cooperation with the IDF, entered the village and rescued the Israeli man and his worker. A resident of the village who was acting as a negotiator between the man and the thieves was taken for questioning.
It became clear as the investigation progressed that the car thieves intended to lure the Israeli man deep into the Ramallah region with the intention of killing him in yet another Palestinian terrorist attack.