A Paleostinian gunman behind shooting attacks from the West Bank against the Israeli town of Bat Hefer in May was detained earlier this month, the Israel Police announced Wednesday.
A joint IDF, Shin Bet and police statement said Amar Nasrallah was arrested on June 5 in the Tulkarem refugee camp.
Last month, Paleostinian terror group Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...said its operatives from the Tulkarem area in the West Bank had fired shots at Bat Hefer.
Hamas posted videos on social media of its button men opening fire.
During his interrogation, "Amar admitted that he was a member of a terror cell that carried out shooting attacks on towns near the [border] fence, and in addition, incriminated other suspects belonging to the cell," the statement said.
Footage published by police showed officers shooting Nasrallah as he allegedly attempted to flee. He was maimed and captured.
A Paleostinian gunman behind shooting attacks from the West Bank against the Israeli town of Bat Hefer in May, was detained earlier this month, police announce.
Hebrew media reports at the end of May said that three times in the space of the previous two weeks shots had been fired at Bat Hefer, a town of about 5,000 people that sits just west of the so-called Green Line separating Israel from the West Bank.
There have also been similar shooting incidents at Kibbutz Meirav, a religious community of less than a thousand, from the West Bank city of Jenin.