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| Two Arrested Outside Settlement As Possible Attack Thwarted |
| 2014-12-10 |
| [IsraelTimes] Two Paleostinians, one of them armed with a knife, were detained by security forces as they approached a settlement south of Jerusalem on Tuesday. The men were apprehended near Tekoa, in the southern West Bank, by the settlement?s security coordinator and a group of IDF soldiers who were called to the scene. During initial questioning the men confessed to planning an attack on the community, according to reports. The Paleostinians were identified as two Hebron-area residents who had been sought by Israeli security forces since Friday, after the army received information of a possible planned terror attack. One of the detained men was identified as Hebronite Muhammad Abu Aysha, 34, a relative of Amer Abu Aysha, one of the two men who kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers in June, according to the Paleostinian Ma?an News Agency. The second man was named as Jabrin Muntaz, 17, from the town of Yatta outside Hebron. A large manhunt was dispatched in the Hebron area Monday night to search for the two, the army said. A statement from Tekoa said the two had approached near the settlement to carry out a terror attack, but were thwarted by ?alert security.? Pictures circulated on social media Tuesday morning allegedly showed one of the suspects handcuffed and a weapon that appeared to be a cutlery knife. During the incident, residents of the settlement were instructed to stay indoors as security forces swept the area to ensure it was safe. |
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