Security forces arrest 2 brothers of Beit She’an terrorist inside Israel, police say

Police announce that security forces have arrested the two brothers of the culprit in yesterday’s deadly terror attack, which left two dead in northern Israel.

The suspected assailant, Ahmad Abu al-Rub, was shot and injured by a passerby yesterday after ramming several people with his employer’s car, killing an elderly man, and fatally stabbing a young woman at a bus stop near the northern city of Beit She’an.

Rub hails from the northern West Bank city of Qabatiya, near Jenin, and lived and worked illegally in Israel for some time. Police now divulge that the apprehended terrorist had been living with his two younger brothers, aged 30 and 33, within the Green Line.

The pair was nabbed in a hiding place on agricultural lands near Arraba, an Arab town in the Galilee, by fighters in the police’s Yamam counter-terrorism unit and Shin Bet forces. They will be brought to the Nazareth Magistrate’s Court for a remand hearing later tonight.

Police add that in the hours following the attack, officers arrested Rub’s Israeli employer, whose pickup truck he used during the rampage.

The Nazareth Magistrate’s Court has issued a gag order barring the publication of details of the investigation. It is set to last until January 26, 2026.