The IDF announced that two Palestinian terrorists were intercepted yesterday on their way to carry out a suicide bombing attack in Rosh Ha’ayin, east of Tel Aviv.
Early yesterday morning Saliman Abu Ruis, a 20-year old resident of the Balata slums, and his counterpart Tzaber Abu Sris, a 37-year old husband and father of seven from Shechem, set out to carry out a suicide bombing in a central population center. The two were members of Yassir Arafat’s Fatah movement.
The men traveled together through the Kafr Kassam checkpoint into pre-’67 Israel while Latifa Abu Doar, a 40-year-old mother of seven, drove in a separate car carrying a 19-pound explosive belt. The terrorists, according to the IDF, took advantage of the fact that soldiers do not normally search Arab women as thoroughly as they do men.
After they passed the checkpoint, the mother accompanied the terrorists by foot through another IDF checkpoint and then handed the explosive belt over to Abu Ruis, the would-be suicide bomber. Latifa Abu Doar then turned around and returned to Shechem.
Abu Ruis and Abu Sarif walked toward the town of Rosh Haayin but turned back when they spotted the stepped-up presence of security forces due to a widespread terror alert that had brought the region to a standstill. Realizing they could not make it back to Shechem the two terrorists decided to hide the explosive belt and flee to the community of Hablah.
They were arrested by security forces near Kalkilya and were transferred for further interrogation to the Shabak (General Security Service). Overnight, Latifa Abu Doar was taken into custody.
The 19-pound explosive belt was discovered this morning as a result of information gained from the interrogation.
Four months ago, on August12th, a terrorist succeeded in crossing a security checkpoint and blowing himself up in a supermarket in Rosh Ha’ayin. 43-year-old Yechezkel Yekutieli was murdered in the attack and nine others were wounded.
Arutz-7’s Kobi Finkler reports that seven pounds of explosives were used in the August attack, causing serious damage. Yesterday’s attempted attack, using 19 pounds of explosive material, was intended to murder an even larger number of Israelis.
Early yesterday morning Saliman Abu Ruis, a 20-year old resident of the Balata slums, and his counterpart Tzaber Abu Sris, a 37-year old husband and father of seven from Shechem, set out to carry out a suicide bombing in a central population center. The two were members of Yassir Arafat’s Fatah movement.
The men traveled together through the Kafr Kassam checkpoint into pre-’67 Israel while Latifa Abu Doar, a 40-year-old mother of seven, drove in a separate car carrying a 19-pound explosive belt. The terrorists, according to the IDF, took advantage of the fact that soldiers do not normally search Arab women as thoroughly as they do men.
After they passed the checkpoint, the mother accompanied the terrorists by foot through another IDF checkpoint and then handed the explosive belt over to Abu Ruis, the would-be suicide bomber. Latifa Abu Doar then turned around and returned to Shechem.
Abu Ruis and Abu Sarif walked toward the town of Rosh Haayin but turned back when they spotted the stepped-up presence of security forces due to a widespread terror alert that had brought the region to a standstill. Realizing they could not make it back to Shechem the two terrorists decided to hide the explosive belt and flee to the community of Hablah.
They were arrested by security forces near Kalkilya and were transferred for further interrogation to the Shabak (General Security Service). Overnight, Latifa Abu Doar was taken into custody.
The 19-pound explosive belt was discovered this morning as a result of information gained from the interrogation.
Four months ago, on August12th, a terrorist succeeded in crossing a security checkpoint and blowing himself up in a supermarket in Rosh Ha’ayin. 43-year-old Yechezkel Yekutieli was murdered in the attack and nine others were wounded.
Arutz-7’s Kobi Finkler reports that seven pounds of explosives were used in the August attack, causing serious damage. Yesterday’s attempted attack, using 19 pounds of explosive material, was intended to murder an even larger number of Israelis.