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Saturday, April 2, 2022
Police chief: Islamic Jihad cell was headed to carry out shooting attack in Israel
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai says members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad who were killed by troops this morning planned to cross into Israel from the West Bank and carry out a shooting attack, similar to the one earlier this week in Bnei Brak in which five people were killed.
“I just visited the Yamam fighters, who at pre-dawn eliminated a cell of terrorists that was en route to commit an attack inside Israeli territory,” Shabtai tells reporters at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, where several officers hurt in the incident are hospitalized.
“This is a chance to give a good word to the Shin Bet security agency for exceptional work in thwarting terror attacks in recent days, with the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Police,” he says.
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