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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: March 2, 2005 |
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Police foiled a planned terror attack in Jerusalem, Channel Two reported, as police called off a high security alert in the capital.
Police had set up extensive roadblocks and conducted searches for hours in northern Jerusalem and surrounding villages, after solid information of an imminent suicide bombing.
Security forces arrested a Fatah activist at the Jat junction in the West Bank, near Nablus, on suspicion that he was planning to carry out a terror attack, Israel Radio reported.
It has not been confirmed whether this arrest was linked to the Jerusalem alert, and its subsequent cancelation.
Earlier Wednesday, Israel Defense Forces troops uncovered a large bomb factory workshop near Jenin. The explosives lab, s run by Hamas, was hidden beneath a welder's shop.
IDF troops also found a Qassam rocket ready for use and three other rockets. The Hamas activists apparently planned to fire the rockets at Israeli communities. Earlier in the week, security forces announced that a captured terrorist from Islamic Jihad said that his cell had planned to fire rockets at the city of Afula in north-central Israel.
Security forces have arrested 14 Hamas activists in recent days.
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