Illustrative photo of Israeli security forces stopping a Palestinian man at the entrance to the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, on December 2, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Border Police officers arrested a 14-year-old Palestinian boy on Wednesday morning at the entrance to the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem after finding a knife in his possession.
Officers manning the checkpoint stopped the teen after noticing him jumping a turnstile in an attempt to evade their scrutiny as he exited the refugee camp.
A search of his clothes revealed the knife.
The youth told investigators he planned to carry out a terror attack, the Border Police said.
A pocket knife found on a Shuafat youth attempting to evade a checkpoint at the entrance to the East Jerusalem refugee camp, March 16, 2016. (Israel Police)
Overnight Tuesday, IDF and police forces uncovered a workshop for fabricating parts of firearms in the village of Sawahra near the Etzion bloc, which lies south of Jerusalem.
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Three men, identified as local residents, were arrested in the operation.
Troops found and confiscated an MP-5 rifle, a handgun and large quantities of ammunition, and destroyed the workshop, police said.
“The Israel Police operates in all parts of Judea and Samaria [the West Bank], in every place and time, against the phenomenon of the manufacture and possession of firearms, including improvised weapons,” a police statement said. “Severe indictments will be filed against the suspects,” the statement added.
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Another seven Palestinian suspects, including at least two members of Hamas, were arrested in overnight raids in the West Bank, the army said.
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