Security Forces Foil Tel Aviv Terror Attack, Find Suicide Belt - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Arutz Sheva
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A four day long operation by Israeli security forces against a terror cell based in Shechem, in Samaria, ended with the successful prevention of a suicide terror attack Saturday morning.
Security forces had been looking for the suicide belt from the start of
the operation, early Tuesday morning. Paratroopers and Haruv battalion
fighters arrested the would-be suicide bomber, his recruiter and the
person who was to lead him to the intended target. The three were
interrogated by the SHABAK but apparently did not lead the
interrogators to the suicide belt. 36 other people suspected of
belonging to the joint Hamas-PFLP terror cell were arrested as well.
Staff Sgt. Ben-Zion Haneman was killed during this part of the
operation, and his comrades killed the terrorist who had killed him.
The workers who were present in the apartment Saturday morning put up a fight when the YASAM raided the apartment, and broke the nose of one of the policemen. The policemen managed to overpower the Arabs and located the suicide belt, which appeared to have been transferred to the apartment in parts and assembled there. They took the belt to the sand dunes between Rishon Letzion and Holon and blew it up in a controlled fashion. The charge was described as being of medium power, and containing ball bearings for added killing power.
Other holiday incidents
Friday night:
Arabs threw an explosive charge at IDF soldiers in Shechem and fired shots at them. No soldiers were hurt.
In another incident during the holiday, the IDF attacked a terror unit that tried to fire mortars into Israel from southern Gaza. There is no information on Arab casualties. Another terror unit fired a mortar which exploded on the Arab side of the Nahal Oz crossing in northern Gaza.
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