Hamas terror cell sought to kidnap Likud MK Glick

A Hamas terror cell had planned to kidnap Likud MK Yehudah Glick and the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson during the Hanukkah holiday, but later scrapped the plot, according to media reports.

The Nablus-area cell was busted by the Shin Bet security agency and its three members are indicted on Wednesday.

According to reports, before their arrest, the three Palestinian suspects backtracked on their original plans to abduct Glick and the IDF’s Avichai Adraee and were plotting to kidnap an Israeli soldier or settler instead.

Glick, a former Temple Mount activist, was shot several times in 2014 by a Palestinian terrorist in a failed assassination attempt. After recovering, he went on to become a Likud lawmaker in the Knesset.