Cops nab Palestinian suspected of plotting attack during Trump visit
Tulkarem resident arrested by border guards at Jerusalem-area crossing; police mum on details
Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel's religions and Diaspora affairs correspondent.
Border guards arrested a Palestinian man at a West Bank checkpoint on Monday on suspicion that he planned to carry out a terror attack during US President Donald Trump’s state visit to Israel, police said.
Details of what the police believed the man to be planning were not immediately released.
The Walla news site reported the man planned to carry out a terror attack in Tel Aviv. The police would not confirm that this was the suspicion.
A spokesperson for the police would only say they believed the man had “terror attack tendencies,” without elaborating.
The man was picked up at the Hizme checkpoint, near Jerusalem, police said Tuesday.
He was identified as a 38-year-old Palestinian man from the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem.
The Border Police said in a statement that he had been handed over to “security figures,” which generally denotes the Shin Bet security service.
“His motivations are being investigated and have yet to be determined,” police said.
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