 A Palestinian would-be suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt who planned to blow himself up in Tel Aviv was intercepted by security forces near Kibbutz Nir Am in the western Negev on Friday night, the army said. In an operation conducted by the IDF, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Israel Police, Jihad Shahada, 18, a resident of the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza and a member of the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, was spotted by security forces shortly after he infiltrated into Israel. He was caught after a short chase. The five kilograms of explosives he carried were later detonated by sappers.
| Either that's an assumed name, or his Mom and Pop raised him to be a boomer from the egg. |
On Saturday police arrested Shahada's 25-year-old assistant, who had crossed into Israel with him and managed to make his way to a relative's home in Jaffa, the army said.
| What does a boomer's "assistant" do? Hold his turban? Or is he the guy who opens fire on the cops and ambos when they arrive? |
Under questioning, Shahada named his recruiter as Salem Thabet, and said Thabet had sent him to blow himself up in a populated area in Tel Aviv.
| Betcha Salem's listening closely for aircraft at this very moment. From Grandmaw's basement... |
Security officials noted that it was the first time this year that a terrorist had succeeded in infiltrating Israel from the Gaza Strip; security forces have thwarted 92 previous attempts in that time. It is the second time in barely a month that a would-be suicide bomber from Gaza, intending to launch an attack in Israel, has been caught. On June 20, Wafa Samir Ibrahim al-Biss, 21, also of Jabalya, was caught at the Erez crossing terminal wearing explosives stitched to her underwear. Biss had planned to blow up at the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, where she had been treated in the past for burns incurred in an accident in her home and was due to receive more treatment.
| She was the one who was a shrieking lunatic. I'd ask where the hell they get these people, but that's pretty obvious by now. |
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