A suspected terrorist allegedly responsible for Saturday evening's car ramming attack in the village of Husan surrendered to IDF soldiers and members of the Shin Bet security service late Saturday evening, according to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit. 



In response to the car ramming attack in the West Bank town of Husan, IDF soldiers, border police personnel, Shin Bet security service, and the Israeli Police arrested eight wanted persons suspected of involvement in terrorist activities, popular terror and violent disturbances against civilians and security personnel.



According to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, the suspects were transferred for questioning. IDF soldiers seized thousands of shekels worth of funds used for terrorism, two pistols, three air pistols and two stun grenades in overnight raids. </s> A suspected terrorist allegedly responsible for Saturday evening's car ramming attack in the village of Husan surrendered to IDF soldiers and members of the Shin Bet security service late Saturday evening, according to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit.



In response to the car ramming attack in the West Bank town of Husan, IDF soldiers, border police personnel, Shin Bet security service, and the Israeli Police arrested eight wanted persons suspected of involvement in terrorist activities, popular terror and violent disturbances against civilians and security personnel.According to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, the suspects were transferred for questioning. IDF soldiers seized thousands of shekels worth of funds used for terrorism, two pistols, three air pistols and two stun grenades in overnight raids.







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`; document.getElementById("linkPremium").innerHTML = cont; (function (v, i){ }); </s> Israel’s Shin Bet security service says it has arrested 10 Palestinians suspected of planning an attack against a navy ship off the Gaza coast.

The cell’s alleged leader was being indicted Wednesday. The Shin Bet says Amin Jamaa’s interrogation revealed a plan to send a decoy boat that would distract the navy ship, after which a rocket would be fired at it and militants would then try to abduct wounded soldiers on board as bargaining chips for future prisoner swaps.

The Shin Bet identified the men as members of the Islamic Jihad militant group.

The disclosure follows mass protests along the Israel-Gaza border last Friday in which 18 Palestinians were killed. </s> Prosecutors filed an indictment Wednesday against Security forces arrested 10 Gazans last month on suspicion that they were planning to attack an Israel Navy vessel.

In a joint statement announcing the arrests, the General Security Service (Shin Bet) and IDF Spokesman’s Unit said the men, residents of the city of Rafah, on the Gaza-Egypt border, were arrested on March 12 after a coast guard patrol stopped a Gaza boat that had violated the naval blockade on the Strip by leaving the Gaza fishing zone. The navy said the fishing boat was gathering information about Israel’s marine movements.

The statement said that Shin Bet and Israel Police interrogators believe that 24-year-old Amin Sa’adi Mohammed Jama’a, a fisherman from Rafah, is a terrorist affiliated with the Islamic Jihad group and was acting on orders from the group’s leadership as part of an operation to use several boats in order to plan the attack.

Jama’a told Shin Bet interrogators that one boat was to serve as a decoy to attract the navy’s attention, while a second boat would fire a Cornet missile at the navy vessel. A third boat would then approach the damaged ship in an attempt to kidnap Israeli sailors. He is also believed to have gathered intelligence about naval movements, including troop numbers and weapons on board navy vessels.

The arrest is the latest in a string of operations by intelligence and operational security forces to thwart potential attacks, including the demolition of several tunnels under the Gaza-Israel border fence and several more land infiltrations.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman praised the intelligence service, writing on Twitter that “once against the IDF and Shin Bet have prevented a terror attack against our forces. The challenges on the Gaza border are wide-ranging and complicated. Israel has (a powerful army upon which) to rely.

“I hope that this time our friends on the left won’t demand a commission of inquiry,” Liberman said. </s> Israel’s Shin Bet security service is reported to have arrested 10 Palestinian nationals suspected of plotting an attack on an Israeli naval ship in the Gaza Strip waters.

Amin Jamaa, the cell’s alleged leader, appeared before court on Wednesday. The Shin Bet service said that while being interrogated, he revealed a plan to deploy a decoy boat tasked with diverting the attention of the navy ship.

Separately, a rocket was set to be fired at it, and militants were poised to try to kidnap injured soldiers from aboard the ship to use them later in prisoner swaps.

The Shin Bet identified the group as Islamic Jihad militants.

The news comes right on the heels of mass protests, which started on Friday, along the Israel-Gaza border in the course of the so-called Great March of Return, in which 18 Palestinians died and roughly a thousand sustained wounds. </s> A terror cell based out of Gaza planned to carry out a coordinated strike against an Israeli navy vessel, Israel's Shin Bet Security Agency revealed Wednesday. 



The Shin Bet statement said the cell, led by 24-year-old Islamic Jihad member Amin Sa'adi Mohammad Jama'a, carried out surveillance activities while aboard fishing boats sailing out of Gaza.



Ten members of the cell were arrested on March 12 and taken into Israeli custody for questioning. </s> The Israeli military arrested two Palestinians suspected of the murder of Cpl. Dvir Sorek over the weekend, the IDF announced Saturday evening.



The two terrorists were identified as 24-year-old Nazir Saleh Khalil Atafra – a Hamas activist – and 30-year-old Qasem Araf Khalil Atafra. Both are from the Palestinian village Beit Kahil, north of Hebron in the West Bank, and have had no previous arrests.

Tovah Lazaroff contributed to this report.

Earlier on Saturday, four suspects – including a woman – were arrested in a raid in Beit Kahil, the Wafa Palestinian News Agency reported.According to the report, troops arrested four members of the Asafrah family, including 26-year-old Enas Asafrah.During the arrest, Qasem’s car – in which they carried out the attack – was also confiscated.A large riot of 100 Palestinians broke out during the arrest, leading to troops having to resort to riot dispersal means against the demonstrators.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “I praise the ISA and the security forces for apprehending the murders of Dvir Sorek within 48 hours."“In recent years, our forces have laid hands on all of the Palestinian murderers who have attacked Israelis and today, they have done so again,” Netanyahu said.“We will continue to forcefully fight terrorism on all fronts,” he added.President Reuven Rivlin said, “A tense Shabbat, closely monitoring events. I salute our forces working night and day in Judea and Samaria and in Gaza.“Thank you, the intelligence and operational units, for capturing the abominable terrorists responsible for the murder of Dvir Sorek (z"l). Thank you, the observers who sit with concentration and professionalism at the monitoring devices, and the heroic soldiers for stopping the severe terrorist attack planned by the criminal terrorist squad,” Rivlin said.Large numbers of troops from the IDF, Israel Police and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) had been conducting searches for Sorek’s killers since his body was discovered with multiple stab wounds on Thursday morning near Migdal Oz, south of Jerusalem.Sorek was enrolled in the Hesder military program at the Orthodox Machanayim Yeshiva in Migdal Oz, by which he would have simultaneously served in the IDF as both as a soldier and yeshiva student.Earlier in the day, he had been in Jerusalem, and told his friends that he planned to be back in school by about 8:30 p.m. He was last seen getting off the bus at around 8.00 p.m before walking towards Migdal Oz. His body was found at 3 a.m. near the road leading up to his school, which is located on the edge of Migdal Oz, by the gate.As part of the manhunt, security forces have been closing off villages as they looked for the perpetrators. This included Beit Fajar, where, according to local Palestinian reports, IDF troops arrested Ammar Thawabteh, 29, on Friday and confiscated his car.Security officials had been concerned that the cell, which is believed to have been getting help, could have attempted to commit other deadly attacks and inspire other copy-cat attacks."This is a very tense time,” IDF spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis said on Saturday, explaining that the heightened tensions come ahead of the Jewish fast day of Tisha Be’av and the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.While no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the Shin Bet announced last month that it had foiled a series of attempts by the military wing of Hamas to establish terror cells in the West Bank.On Tuesday, the agency cleared for publication the arrests of two Hamas operatives who were operating under the direction of the group’s military wing in the Gaza Strip to carry out attacks against Israeli and Palestinian Authority targets.Cell members were instructed to establish teams to carry out kidnappings, shooting and stabbing attacks, to purchase weapons and to recruit others to carry out terrorist attacks, the Shin Bet said.“The military wing of the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip continues to invest considerable efforts in establishing terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank with the aim of promoting terrorist attacks in Israel aimed at undermining regional stability,” a senior Shin Bet officer said.While security forces were able to foil large-scale attacks and arrest 130 Hamas operatives planning them, terror attacks by lone wolves have claimed the lives of 13 Israelis, including Sorek, in 2019.In March, 19-year-old St.-Sgt. Gal Keidan and 47-year-old Rabbi Ahiad Ettinger were killed in a shooting attack outside Ariel by 19-year-old Omar Amin Abu Lila, who escaped from the scene of the attack. He was found and shot dead by Israeli troops two days after the attack near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

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`; document.getElementById("linkPremium").innerHTML = cont; (function (v, i){ }); </s> Armed terrorists infiltrate into Israel from Gaza Strip, only to be captured by Israeli security forces.

Arab terrorists operating out of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip infiltrated into Israel early Tuesday morning, apparently as part of a planned attack.

The two terrorists were armed with a knife and grenade, Israeli security officials said, and were apprehended close to Israel’s security fence along the Gaza border shortly after they entered Israeli territory.

The IDF transferred the terrorists for interrogation.

Tuesday’s infiltration is the latest attempt by terrorist elements in the Gaza Strip to escalate tensions with Israel.

Since March 30th, tens of thousands of rioters have clashed with Israeli security forces along the Israel-Gaza frontier, hurling firebombs, flaming tires, and stones and Israeli soldiers, and even using kites to drop explosives to attack Israeli positions across the security fence.

A number of attempted terror attacks on Israeli security forces were thwarted since the riots, dubbed the “March of Return” began. The riots are expected to last through May 15th, culminating in a mass demonstration marking “Nakba Day” (Catastrophe Day), coinciding with the day after Israeli Independence Day.

Forty Gazans have been killed since the riots began, including more than a dozen individuals identified as Hamas terrorists. </s> Security forces arrested a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group off the Gaza coast suspected of planning to sink an Israeli naval patrol boat and kidnap any survivors last month, Israel revealed on Wednesday.

The plan was to use three boats to lure in a navy ship, fire a missile at it and then seize the wounded and slain soldiers, according to a joint statement by the Shin Bet security service and Israel Defense Forces.

This plot was foiled on the night of March 12, when the navy’s 916th Patrol Squadron stopped a Palestinian boat that had left the designated Gaza fishing zone.

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A video of the nighttime arrest shows well-armed naval special forces boarding the fishing boat and calling for the 10 people on board to put their hands up and get down. The boat was impounded in the Ashdod port.

The crew was brought into Israeli custody for questioning, including Amin Saadi Muhammad Jumma’a, 24, a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad who told interrogators that he had received instructions from his commanders to prepare to carry out the attack on Israeli Navy ships, according to the Shin Bet and IDF.

The planned attack was meant to be a continuation of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s vendetta against the IDF for the demolition of the group’s tunnel on October 30, in which several of its members were killed.

Two of the others on board are also suspected of having been part of the plot. The other seven were released after their interrogation, the Shin Bet said.

Jumma’a, a resident of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, told interrogators that the plan was for one boat to act as a diversion by leaving the fishing zone so that a navy ship would approach it.

“A second boat would attack the ship, firing a Kornet (anti-tank) missile at it, with the intention of causing injury and death to the soldiers on board,” the statement said

A third boat would then arrive on the scene and take the wounded soldiers hostage and steal the bodies of those killed, the security forces said.

“In order to prepare for the attack, Jumma’a conducted a number of observation missions on navy ships and collected intelligence about the location of the navy ships, the number of soldiers on them and the types of weaponry on board,” the statement said.

Jumma’a was indicted in a Beersheba court on Wednesday on a litany of charges, including planning to conduct a terror attack, acquiring weapons and belonging to a terrorist organization.

According to the charge sheet, Jumma’a joined the Islamic Jihad in 2016. A year later, he agreed to conduct the attack on the navy in exchange for $5,000.

In addition, he was charged with transporting 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of explosives on a fishing boat from Egypt to the Gaza Strip on behalf of the Hamas terrorist organization sometime in either 2012 or 2013, and of transporting 150 packages of fiberglass from Egypt to Gaza for Hamas for the purposes of manufacturing weapons in 2014 or 2015.

He was also accused of smuggling four AK-47 assault rifles and a pistol from Egypt to Gaza through an underground tunnel for Hamas in 2015.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman hailed the joint IDF-Shin Bet operation. “The complexities of the Gaza border are varied and complicated. [But] the nation of Israel has someone it can count on,” Liberman wrote on Twitter.

Netanyahu said the plot showed “true intentions of the terror groups in Gaza, who are trying to camouflage their murderous plans by organizing provocations along the security fence.”

On Friday, over 30,000 Palestinians demonstrated along the Gaza border, in what Israel describes as a riot orchestrated by the Hamas terrorist group, which rules Gaza, and what Palestinians say was supposed to be a peaceful protest.

There were discrepancies in Palestinian reports on the Gaza death toll from Friday. While Hamas claimed Monday that 18 had died, the official news agency of the Palestinian Authority had the number at 16. Israel has no official death toll figures.

IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis said on Saturday that all those killed were engaged in violence. Manelis said on Friday evening that the army had faced “a violent, terrorist demonstration at six points” along the fence. He said the IDF used “pinpoint fire” wherever there were attempts to breach or damage the security fence.

The Shin Bet and IDF accused the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad of taking advantage of the “civilian comforts” granted by Israel to the residents of Gaza, specifically fishing rights, in order to “advance terror attacks.”

In addition to the planned naval attack, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad has already carried out at least two other acts of revenge on Israel for destroying its tunnel on October 30.

One month later, the group fired a barrage of mortar shells at an army position northeast of the Gaza Strip, causing damage but no injury. In December, the group also fired mortar shells at southern Israel in order to disrupt an event honoring an IDF soldier who was killed in the 2014 Gaza war and whose remains are currently being held by the Hamas terrorist group.
Shin Bet and the Israel Defence Forces detain eight suspected terrorists, including one suspected of conducting a vehicle-ramming attack earlier in the day. Guns, cash, and stun grenades are seized.