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Car bomb outside West Bank settlement neutralized by cops

2024-09-03

[IsraelTimes] Police say tinted windows on suspicious vehicle near Ateret made explosives hard to see, days after two car bombs exploded in southern West Bank

An abandoned car laden with explosives was neutralized by security forces at the entrance to a West Bank settlement on Monday, authorities said.

The attempted attack occurred with Israeli security officials in the West Bank and elsewhere on high alert following a twin car-kaboom Friday night, with the Hamas
Hamas

..always the voice of sweet reason...
terror group urging more such blasts.

Troops taking part in a routine patrol in the area were scrambled to the entrance of the Ateret settlement in the central West Bank Monday morning after the army received a report of a suspicious-looking vehicle near the community, the IDF spokesperson said.

Military forces initially had trouble determining what was inside the vehicle due to its tinted windows, according to a statement from the Israel Police. A Border Police bomb disposal unit called to the scene identified it as a boom-mobile before "neutralizing the vehicle," police said.

According to the Binyamin Regional Council, where Ateret is located, the car contained two gas canisters that were connected to a detonation mechanism, which was neutralized by the bomb disposal unit.

Israel Ganz, the chairman of the Yesha settlement council, called the thwarted attack "a huge miracle." He called on security forces to carry out a large-scale operation in the region, which covers a wide swath of the West Bank around Ramallah, and to "raze the terror infrastructure to the ground."

Army Radio reported later on Monday afternoon that the bombs were taken to a nearby hill and went kaboom!. Ateret’s residents, who had been told not to go out, were subsequently told it was safe to leave the settlement.

On Sunday, three Israeli coppers were rubbed out by a Paleostinian gunman near the Paleostinian city of Tarqumiyah.

Two days before that, two boom-mobiles went kaboom! near settlements in the southern West Bank, moderately wounding an IDF soldier and lightly wounding two others. Hamas took responsibility for the dual boom-mobileing attack Monday and said that the two terrorists, who were killed by troops at the scene, were members of the group. Both were from Hebron.

In a speech in Istanbul last week, former Hamas head Khaled Mashaal called for the resumption of suicide kabooms, according to reports in Arabic media.

Hamas claims responsibility for dual car bombing in West Bank last week

[IsraelTimes] Attack in Gush Etzion on Friday came amid major counter-terror operation in territory, following attempted suicide bombing in Tel Aviv that Hamas also claimed

The Hamas terror group claimed responsibility on Monday for twin car bombing in the southern West Bank days earlier, on the heels of a call from a top official in the terror group to resume suicide bombings.

In a statement, Hamas’s military wing took “full responsibility” for the attack, which consisted of a pair of coordinated bombings.

The two terrorists responsible — identified as Hebron residents Muhammad Marqa and Zahdi Afifa, both killed by troops at the scene — were members of the group, Hamas said.

In the first incident, a car exploded at a gas station near the junction, after which troops shot the terrorist inside the vehicle.

In the second incident, which occurred about 20 minutes later, a terrorist breached the nearby Karmei Tzur settlement before being shot dead, after which the car he had been in exploded inside the community.

At the gas station, a soldier was moderately wounded and a reservist officer who is the head of a local security team was lightly hurt, likely as a result of friendly fire. The two were taken to a hospital.

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