HAMAS PLANNED TEL AVIV PASSOVER BOMBING

Hamas Planned Tel Aviv Passover Bombing - Amos Harel
The Shin Bet announced Tuesday that it broke up a Hamas cell in the West Bank city of Kalkilya that had planned to detonate a car bomb in Tel Aviv during the Passover holiday. The driver, a suicide bomber, had crossed into Israel in a vehicle laden with about 100 kilograms of explosives. However, once he reached Tel Aviv, he changed his mind and returned to Kalkilya. Nineteen members of the cell have been arrested by the security forces. The would-be suicide bomber managed to enter Israel because he holds an Israeli identity card. He is married to an Israeli Arab from Taibeh and received residency status as part of the program of reuniting families. The vehicle he was driving had Israeli license plates. (Ha'aretz)