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Suspected car thief arrested in West Bank settlement after false terrorist infiltration alert
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePolice and army forces arrest a suspected car thief in the West Bank settlement of Nili, after residents received a false warning about a terrorist infiltration.
The IDF Home Front Command sent an alert to the town’s residents at 9:45 a.m. telling them to lock their doors and hide in a protected area.
Police now clarify that the incident is not terror-related and instead concerns a suspected car thief who had entered the settlement.
Officers from the Modi’in Illit police station and IDF troops arrested the suspect following a manhunt and transferred him for interrogation, police say.
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