Palestinian arrested for planning Tel Aviv suicide attack
Pastor Dale Morgan
Wednesday February 21, 8:21 AM
*Palestinian arrested for planning Tel Aviv suicide attack*
Israeli police said they had arrested a Palestinian man preparing a
suicide attack in the Tel Aviv area.
Police said the man, a member of Islamic Jihad who came from near the
northern West Bank town of Jenin, was arrested at an apartment in the
Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam.
They said he led them to the town of Rishon Letzion, south of Tel Aviv,
where he had hidden a bomb that he was going to use and that a bomb
squad carried out a controlled explosion of the device.
Another five people were arrested in connection with the incident, the
police said.
An official of Islamic Jihad confirmed to AFP that activist Omar Abu
al-Rob, 23, from the village of Jalbun near Jenin, had planned to carry
out an attack against Israel.
Earlier Tuesday, police had gone on alert following a warning about a
possible attack, setting up checkpoints on the approaches to Israel's
commercial capital.