Vehicle primed to explode outside West Bank settlement neutralized
Security officials approach a suspicious vehicle outside the West Bank settlement of Ateret on September 2, 2024. (Israel Police)
A vehicle rigged with explosives was neutralized outside the West Bank settlement of Ateret early this morning, the Binyamin Regional Council says in a statement.
The council says the vehicle was found connected to two gas cylinders and an activation mechanism. Security forces arrived on the scene and deactivated the explosive at around 4:30 a.m.
Council head Israel Gantz says that a “great miracle” occurred in Binyamin as a potentially deadly terror attack was prevented.
“The terrorism in Judea and Samaria requires military action just like in Gaza and Rafah,” he says, using the biblical name for the West Bank. “The [Palestinian] population must be moved and the neighborhoods and terrorist infrastructure must be razed to the ground.”
