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2025-02-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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2 Jewish Israelis, Palestinian said arrested in connection with botched bus bombings
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[IsraelTimes] IDF says it’s bolstering West Bank presence with 3 battalions after apparent attempt at large-scale terror attack thought to have originated there; Katz: bombs ‘will not deter us’
Israel Police and the Shin Bet security agency were said on Friday to have detained two Jewish Israelis and a Paleostinian in connection with explosions on three buses in central Israel Thursday night, as the IDF bolstered operations in the West Bank following what is thought to have been a narrowly averted large-scale terror attack.
The arrests come after three empty buses went kaboom! in quick succession in parking lots in the Tel Aviv suburbs of Bat Yam and Holon on Thursday night and the discovery of two more unwent kaboom! devices on additional buses in Holon. No casualties were reported as a result of the earth-shattering kabooms.
The case was placed under a gag order by the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Friday, and the Shin Bet did not comment on the reported arrests.
The Kan public broadcaster said two Jewish Israelis, one of whom is a taxi driver, were detained on suspicion of having driven the faceless myrmidons to the scene of the attack. According to the report, the two, from Bat Yam and Holon respectively, are also suspected of attempted murder.,
The perpetrators of the attack are still on the lam, the report said, adding that Sherlocks have video footage of the explosives being laid.
According to Channel 12, police also detained a Paleostinian who was in Israel illegally.
The report added that one of the Jewish Israelis was detained at around 4 a.m. on Friday, some six hours after the bombs went off.
The suspect was being brought for a remand hearing at the Tel Aviv court on Friday, according to the network.
Public transportation returned to normal Friday after buses were halted following the previous night’s explosions, pending security scans.
After police sappers neutralized the two undetonated explosives found on the Holon buses, Tel Aviv’s police chief told the press that the devices were affixed with a stopwatch, which he said was typical of those created in the West Bank.
According to Hebrew media, the bombs contained five kilograms (11 pounds) of makeshift explosives, and some bore written messages indicating they were placed in response to the IDF operations in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem.
Though Hamas
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’s so-called Tulkarem Battalion lauded the earth-shattering kabooms, it stopped short of claiming the would-be attack.
According to a Channel 12 news report, the devices were slated to explode on Friday morning, when the buses were in use, but went off early. Giora Eiland, a former IDF operations chief, speculated that the timers were incorrectly set.
"We may be lucky if indeed the faceless myrmidons set these timers to the wrong hour," police front man Aryeh Doron said. "But it’s too early to determine."
In a statement, the Bat Yam Municipality said that "miraculously, the buses arrived at the parking lots a moment before the earth-shattering kaboom," and were already empty of their passengers.
One of the undetonated devices was reportedly found due to an alert from a passenger, who notified the driver of a suspicious bag.
In security consultations following the earth-shattering kabooms, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the IDF to carry out a massive counterterrorism operation in the West Bank, his office said.
The military said Friday that it would bolster its presence in the West Bank with three additional battalions after confirming on Thursday night that it had blocked several checkpoints leading into the West Bank in specific areas and would ramp up activities in the so-called seam zone between the Green Line and Israel’s West Bank barrier.
The army has been carrying out a major offensive in the northern West Bank, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, since January 21. On Friday, the army said it had detained some 90 terror suspects in the West Bank over the past week, including five overnight in the town of Iktaba near Tulkarem, and seized 15 firearms.
Visiting Tulkarem on Friday, Defense Minister Israel Katz said the previous night’s explosions "will not deter us," adding that he had ordered the IDF to step up counterterrorism activities.
"We are at war with murderous Moslem Islamic terrorism and we will win, here, in Gazoo
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, and everywhere," said Katz.
Referring to hundreds of Paleostinian prisoners released amid the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal, Katz, using the West Bank’s biblical name, added: "I warn the faceless myrmidons who were released to Judea and Samaria, we have our eyes on you, and will hunt down and eliminate everyone who is involved in terrorism."
Escalating violence in the West Bank has spilled over to the Tel Aviv area on several occasions since October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led faceless myrmidons stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
In October 2024, Hamas faceless myrmidons from the Hebron area shot seven people dead at a train station in Jaffa.
The terror group also claimed a failed suicide kaboom in Tel Aviv in mid-August. The assailant was killed when his backpack went kaboom! early, injuring a passerby, in the first attempted suicide kaboom in the city in years.
Earlier that month, a Paleostinian man killed two people in a stabbing attack in Holon, near Tel Aviv. On Thursday, the IDF razed the terrorist’s home in the northern West Bank.
Since October 7, 2023, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas, according to the military.
The Ramallah-based Paleostinian Authority health ministry says that more than 900 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time.
The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or faceless myrmidons carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 48 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
Bus driver got passengers off minutes before bomb detonated Thursday night – report
[IsraelTimes] Israeli TV says woman alerted driver to suspicious item aboard bus, after terrorist attempted to conceal bomb under seat before alighting
A driver told passengers to get off his bus and evacuate the area minutes before a bomb placed under a seat detonated, according to an Israeli television report Friday night on the botched bus bombing plot outside Tel Aviv a night earlier.
Three empty buses exploded in quick succession in parking lots in the Tel Aviv suburbs of Bat Yam and Holon Thursday night and one or two more bombs were discovered on additional buses in Holon. No casualties occurred as a result of the explosions.
There have been conflicting reports on the matter, which is thought to have been a narrowly averted large-scale terror attack, and much of the case is covered by a gag order.
Channel 12 news reported that a terrorist boarded one of the buses shortly after 8 p.m. with a bomb held in a bag, while several people were onboard.
He sat down in the back and attempted to hide the bag below a seat, the network reported, before leaving. A woman who saw him told the driver there was a suspicious item on board.
The driver then called his Dan company superiors, who told him to get all the passengers off, and he did so. As he told his bosses he was minutes from a bus depot, they urged him to head there to keep the vehicle away from passersby.
After parking the bus, the driver got off and police were called, but the bomb went off before they could arrive, destroying the vehicle.
The TV report said all the bombs apparently had the writing, “Revenge from Tulkarem” on them, in reference to the Palestinian city where Israeli forces have been operating as part of a major counterterrorism offensive in the northern West Bank.
Though Hamas’s so-called Tulkarem Battalion lauded the explosions, it stopped short of claiming the would-be attack.
Earlier Friday, the Israel Police and the Shin Bet security agency were reported to have detained a Palestinian and two Jewish Israelis in connection to the bus explosions, with Channel 12 reporting that one of the Jewish Israelis who is suspected of transporting the terrorists denied any connection to the incident.
“It’s important that you know I’m an Israeli Jewish patriot who loves the country,” he was quoted as telling investigators, while insisting that “I never in my life was involved with” Palestinians who illegally entered Israel from the West Bank.
He also reportedly complained that officers with their guns drawn burst into his home at 4 a.m. to arrest him, saying he thought they were Hamas terrorists coming to kill him.
“What motive do I have to harm my country, have you gone crazy?” he was said to add.
The Kan public broadcaster earlier reported that the Jewish Israelis are suspected of having driven the terrorists to the scene of the attack, and that the pair, from Bat Yam and Holon, are also suspected of attempted murder.
The perpetrators of the attack are still at large, the report said, adding that investigators have video footage of the explosives being laid.
Public transportation returned to normal Friday after buses were halted following the previous night’s explosions, pending security scans.
After police sappers neutralized the two undetonated explosives found on the Holon buses, Tel Aviv’s police chief told the press that the devices were affixed with a stopwatch, which he said was typical of those created in the West Bank. 
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