Two female Palestinian university students, under investigation for allegedly planning to carry out a twin suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, have surrendered to the Israeli army, military officials said Thursday. The women, Adilah and Lina Jawabre, both 21, turned themselves in to Israeli authorities after relatives informed them the army was looking for them. Family members said both women denied involvement in planning an attack and that they surrendered because they have nothing to hide.
However, military officials said the women confessed they planned to carry out an attack.
| "We dunnit an' we're glad! But we're innocent!" |
Adilah and Lina are distant relatives and childhood friends. They grew up in the same village, went to the same school, and now both are seniors studying education at the Al Najah University in the West Bank city of Nablus. Ayman Jawabre, Lina's brother, said Israeli troops came to the family home early Wednesday, demanding to see his sister. Soldiers told him his sister is wanted for security reasons and might be involved in planning an attack in Israel. The fathers of Lina and Adilah went to fetch their daughters from university on Wednesday and delivered them to the army, the family said. Military officials said the women were recruited by the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a militant PLO faction, to carry out a double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv last week.
| I thought DFLP was down to about 12 people, nine of them on Social Security? |
The military said the mastermind was DFLP operative Hani Akkad who was killed in a gunbattle with Israeli troops in Nablus on Wednesday.
| Make that eleven people, then... |
The officials said the two women turned themselves in just hours after Akkad was killed and confessed to their plans to carry out a suicide bombing.
| "Yez got me, coppers! I confess! They dunnit! Rosebud!" |
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