ATTACK AVERTED

Suicide attack in gas station thwarted By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
The arrest on Friday of three Islamic Jihad members in the village of Tubas, southeast of Jenin, prevented a planned suicide attack in Israel, security officials revealed on Saturday. The three terrorists, arrested by soldiers from a reconnaissance unit of the armored corps, include the suicide bomber to-be, the man who recruited him and the man who planned the attack.

The three apparently planned to launch an attack in a petrol station in the northern Jordan valley- Beit She'an area. The suicide bomber was to have entered Israel from a Jordan Valley area where the security fence has yet to be completed.  In his interrogation with the Shin Bet, Shadi Nawaf Daraghme, 24, of Tubas, admitted he had planned to blow himself up in Israel.
Daraghme was recruited by Sama'a Rafik Daraghme, 19, who was also arrested Friday, together with Fares Mahmud Ahmed Tawafta, who planned the attack.

Security forces nabbed the terrorists' 15-kilogram explosives belt, which was blown up in a controlled explosion by IDF forces.

Security officials said that over the weekend 57 terror threats were registered.