Security forces thwart major terror attack in Jerusalem

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By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, The Associated Press and Haaretz Service

The Shin Bet internal security service and police thwarted a suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem on Tuesday after they caught a Tanzim cell from the West Bank city of Nablus that was being directed by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

News of the thwarted attack was released to the media only on Wednesday.

Precise intelligence information led security services to the village of A-Ram north of Jerusalem where they arrested three individuals involved in the planned terror attack. The suicide bomber himself, Ibrahim Abu Alayish, 18, of Nablus' Balata refugee camp, as well as his operator Basal Fathi Metalek Hamdan, 24, were among those arrested by security forces.

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The bomber had been transferred by Hamdan from Nablus to A-Ram where he received instructions to carry out a suicide attack in Jerusalem.

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Another life-saving success by Israel security forces and intelligence