A Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem has been arrested on suspicion of planning to carry out a shooting attack against a bus transporting police officers in Jerusalem, the Shin Bet says.
The Shin Bet, in coordination with the police, says it had been investigating Omar Abedeen for the past month after he was “suspected of being involved in security-related activities.”
Twenty-one-year-old Abedeen, a Shin Bet statement says, is affiliated with the Hamas terrorist organization, and was apparently involved with Hamas’s student organization at Bir Zeit University, near Ramallah.
He was allegedly in contact with a terrorist operative in Lebanon, and was asked to carry out a shooting or bomb attack, in which he was told he would be assisted by terror groups operating in the West Bank.
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