IDF Foils Terrorist Attack in Gush Etzion
ONE DAY AFTER 100 ROAD BLOCKS ARE REMOVED
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
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(IsraelNN.com)
The IDF early Thursday morning caught three Arab terrorists, one of whom was carrying an eight-inch knife, approaching Meitzad in eastern Gush Etzion, located southeast of Jerusalem.
No one was injured, and the security personnel are interrogating the terrorists, who admitted they intended to carry out a stabbing attack in Meitzad.
The attempted attack came less than 24 hours after Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the removal of 100 security checkpoints and dirt roadblocks in Judea and Samaria.
The action was taken while U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell is in Israel for separate talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority leaders Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad. Previous removals of security measures also have coincided with visits by American officials.
The U.S. government has pressured Israel to ease its security measures to accommodate Arab motorists in the PA, which is obligated to halt all terror and incitement against Israel.
However, widespread stoning and firebombing attacks on Jewish motorists continued Wednesday night. One fire bomb was hurled at a bus near Beit Omar, south of Hevron on Highway 60, the only direct highway connecting the area with Gush Etzion and Jerusalem. No one was injured in the attack, and no damage was reported.
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