ISRAEL FOILS PALI TERROR

Shin Bet foils bombing, shooting attacks at Latrun museum
Security forces have captured the members of a Palestinian terror cell who planned coordinated bombing and shooting attacks at the Latrun junction between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and the killing of soldiers in the Ramallah area.

Security forces arrested the three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine cell some three months ago, the Shin Bet announced Monday evening.

The cell members, from the Ramallah region, planned to dispatch two suicide bombers and a booby-trapped car to attack the Armored Corps museum located adjacent to the junction. They also planned to kill soldiers in a shooting attack on an Israel Defense Forces jeep in the Bir Zeit area and then hold their bodies as bargaining chips.

The three told investigators that the attack was meant to foil elections in the Palestinian Authority, Israel Radio reported.

In a separate incident, Shin Bet agents arrested a Hamas activist last month in Jerusalem, it was announced on Monday. Ashraf Dahiya, who lived in the Old City, admitted he was recruited by Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip to carry out terror attacks in Israel.

On Monday in the West Bank, IDF soldiers arrested two Palestinian youths at a checkpoint near Nablus. They were carrying three homemade bombs and one of the youths pulled a knife in an attempt to stab a soldier.