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Thursday, September 8, 2022
Police suspect armed Palestinian caught in Jaffa was planning attack
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Police arrest an armed Palestinian man in Jaffa on September 8, 2022. (Israel Police)
Police indicate that they suspect that the Palestinian man arrested in Jaffa with a firearm and two explosive devices was planning a terror attack.
According to Hebrew-language media reports, the man is from the Nablus area. Police say he did not have a permit to enter Israel.
Images circulating on social media and later released by the police show what appears to be a makeshift gun the man was armed with, rather than a Kalashnikov, as originally reported.
Police spokesman Eli Levy refuses to confirm if the man is suspected of planning an attack, but says “Yasam officers prevented a disaster today,”
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