The Israeli army said on Tuesday that it had arrested four people whom it identified as members of Islamic Jihad and who were allegedly planning to carry out an attack in the northern West Bank, during operations in the villages of Qabatiya and Arraba in Jenin governorate.
Details of the arrests and allegations against the detainees
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quoted the army as saying that the arrests targeted “4 terrorists from Islamic Jihad who were planning to carry out an attack in the northern West Bank”.
The newspaper attributed details of the operation to the Israeli army spokesperson. The spokesperson added that Duvdevan forces had arrested, in a separate operation carried out during the same week, a wanted person suspected of smuggling combat equipment in the Beit Rima area, which he referred to as the Binyamin area. He said the detainees were transferred to the security forces for further questioning.
