A major terrorist attack in Jerusalem was thwarted last night, as Israel's security forces arrested three terrorists in Ramallah who planned to commit a suicide attack in the capital today.
Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reports that a combined IDF-Border Guard force located and arrested the three with the help of newly received intelligence information. The terrorist who planned to explode amidst as many Jews as possible is 22 years old, and the other two were his accomplices. The three led the soldiers to a garbage can in Ramallah in which was hidden the explosives belt that was to have detonated today in Jerusalem.
It was also announced today that a Palestinian terrorist who blew himself up this past May at a Jordan Valley checkpoint had actually planned a major attack in a restaurant in northern Israel. This information was learned following a recent wave of terrorist arrests, after which one of the captured terrorists told investigators that he himself had trained and sponsored the Jordan Valley terrorist. He and his terrorist apprentice were on their way to northern Israel for the attack when they decided that because of the fear of being caught, the explosives-laden Arab would strike amidst Jordan Valley soldiers instead. An alert Nachal-hareidi soldier noticed the suspicious figure, who then prematurely detonated his explosives, killing himself and wounding three Arabs and an IDF officer.
Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reports that a combined IDF-Border Guard force located and arrested the three with the help of newly received intelligence information. The terrorist who planned to explode amidst as many Jews as possible is 22 years old, and the other two were his accomplices. The three led the soldiers to a garbage can in Ramallah in which was hidden the explosives belt that was to have detonated today in Jerusalem.
It was also announced today that a Palestinian terrorist who blew himself up this past May at a Jordan Valley checkpoint had actually planned a major attack in a restaurant in northern Israel. This information was learned following a recent wave of terrorist arrests, after which one of the captured terrorists told investigators that he himself had trained and sponsored the Jordan Valley terrorist. He and his terrorist apprentice were on their way to northern Israel for the attack when they decided that because of the fear of being caught, the explosives-laden Arab would strike amidst Jordan Valley soldiers instead. An alert Nachal-hareidi soldier noticed the suspicious figure, who then prematurely detonated his explosives, killing himself and wounding three Arabs and an IDF officer.