Palestinian arrested carrying handgun near settlement

Border Police arrested a Palestinian man in the West Bank Friday evening after finding a handgun and bullets on his person during a routine search, Channel 2 news reported.

Officers posted at the Shiloh Junction, near the Shiloh settlement north of Ramallah, stopped a Palestinian taxi for a routine inspection. When one of the passengers aroused their suspicions they searched him, and found him to be carrying a handgun and several bullets.

Security forces checked the man’s identity, and found that he was wanted for questioning by the Shin Bet security service.

The man was arrested and taken for questioning.

On Thursday five people were lightly wounded when a Palestinian man opened fire at a bus and stabbed a man near an outdoor market in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva.

Police officers later arrested the West Bank man. He was identified by Palestinian media as Sadeq Nasser Abu Mazen, 18, from Beita al-Foka, a village south of Nablus.