IDF, Shin Bet say they thwarted plan to target troops in the West Bank with 100 kg bomb

Israeli security forces have foiled an attempt to target troops operating in the West Bank with 100 kg of explosives, the IDF and Shin Bet say in a joint statement.

It says that the plan was thwarted due to intelligence information received by the Shin Bet during an interrogation of two terror suspects.

The two suspects, both from Nablus, were arrested as part of a joint operation between the IDF, the Shin Bet, and the Border Police, which was aimed at apprehending terrorist cells in the Jenin area believed to be planning attacks against Israel.

The two men, members of a terror cell in Qabatiya, near Jenin, were apprehended with two M16 assault rifles in their possession while driving to what the IDF says was the location of a planned shooting attack in Huwara.

During the Shin Bet interrogation, they revealed that they had acquired, through operatives in the Jenin Battalion, a 100 kg bomb that they were planning to use against IDF troops operating in the area.

Using the information given to them by the suspects, the statement says that security forces carried out a raid in Qabatiya last night, in which they seized the 100 kg bomb, along with other weapons, and apprehended additional terror suspects.