Israel police and Shin Bet agents foiled a plot by an Arab Israeli to carry out a shooting terror attack in the Old City of Jerusalem during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, it was announced Sunday.
The suspect, identified as 24-year-old Uday Mobarsham, a resident of the village of Makr in the north, was detained in February after he purchased a homemade rifle and began training with it.
During his interrogation, he said he planned to open fire on coppers or Jewish Israelis near the Old City’s Damascus Gate.
The Haifa District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment against Mobarsham, charging him with security offenses. He is currently in detention.
Per the indictment, the would-be attacker underwent a religious revival in 2022, in which he became engrossed with Salafist ideology and started consuming Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...and ISIS-related content online.
Mobarsham began seriously considering carrying out a terror attack after the Hamas-led onslaught on October 7, 2023, expressing his desire to do so in writing. "Ramadan is coming, brother. The war is at the door," he apparently wrote to his friend in February 2024, a year prior to his arrest.
Before police arrested him on February 11, Mobarsham passed his gun along to his brother, Adham, telling him to hide it somewhere far from their family home.
Police found the gun in Adham’s possession and arrested him also. The main suspect apparently tried to recruit several others in his terror plot, whom police also detained for questioning.
Prosecutors charged Mobarsham’s brother with possessing an illegal weapon, a criminal offense, on Friday.
"Foiling this attack was significant, given that we assess that if his plan had been carried out during Ramadan it could have undermined the quiet and led to a dangerous escalation in the Jerusalem area during a period of high security tensions," a Shin Bet source said.
Police have kept Jerusalem’s Old City under tight watch during Ramadan, especially in light of tensions surrounding the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
war.
The site is the holiest place in Judaism, where two biblical Temples once stood, and the al-Aqsa Mosque is the third-holiest shrine in Islam, making the site a perennial flashpoint of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
Ahead of Ramadan in February, the Hamas terror group called on Paleostinian Moslems in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as Arab Israelis, to travel to the Temple Mount in large numbers and oppose what it said were attempts by Israel to "desecrate and control" the site using "any means."