Palestinian nabbed outside settlement with meat cleaver, Quran

A Palestinian man was arrested outside a settlement in the central West Bank on Thursday, after a search of his backpack yielded a meat cleaver, a knife, and a copy of the Quran, police said.

The suspect was spotted near the entrance to the Kochav Yaakov settlement, near Ramallah, by a firefighter who called police to inform them of the “suspicious man.”

A group of officers from the Israel Police’s Special Patrol Unit were called to the scene and, together with the firefighter, detained the man. A group of IDF soldiers later arrived at the scene as well.

Upon searching the man’s backpack, they found the weapons and the Quran.

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According to police, the suspect told the officers that the bag was not his, but that the knives were going to be used to carry out a terror attack.

The man has been placed under arrest and is being interrogated, police said.