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Monday, April 4, 2016
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Monday, April 4, 2016
Ramallah man held after saying he planned to hit soldiers with car
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePolice say they have arrested a Palestinian man who admitted to planning to run over Israeli soldiers in a suicide attack.
The man, identified by police only as a 23-year-old Ramallah resident, was arrested in the central West Bank Sunday after being stopped with a stolen car at a pop-up checkpoint.
During interrogation, the man said he had planned to use the car to run over soldiers and become a martyr “because of the occupation of Palestinian land,” but was caught off guard by police at the checkpoint, according to a police statement.
He has been transferred to Ofer Prison outside Ramallah, police say. It is not clear if he has been arraigned.
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