A member of the Palestinian Fatah organization is arrested for allegedly carrying out the murder of Danny Gonen, who was shot from point-blank range near a natural spring in the West Bank, close to the Jewish settlement of Dolev, on June 19, the Shin Bet announces.
The suspect, Muhammad Abu-Shaheen, a 30-year-old resident of the Qalandiya refugee camp who receives a regular salary from the Palestinian Authority, confessed to six shooting attacks over the course of the past year, including an incident that wounded a soldier in a-Ram and the killing of Gonen.
Abu-Shaheen was arrested along with four other suspects, all residents of the Qalandiya refugee camp, north of Jerusalem.
The Shin Bet says that the members of the cell admitted to conducting reconnaissance around the spring before launching the attack and that, during questioning, Israeli security forces were able to locate the firearm used to kill Gonen.
— Mitch Ginsburg contributed to this report
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