Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Israel Police have recently uncovered a terror cell operating out of east Jerusalem, the local website Ynet reported Wednesday.
The cell, consisting of seven Arabs, six of them east Jerusalem residents, carried out two attacks in which two border guard officers were killed and two others were injured, it was cleared for publication on Wednesday.
Ten days ago, the Jerusalem District Prosecution filed indictments against the terrorists for murder, attempted murder, illegal possession of firearms and weapons trafficking.
The report said the head of the terror cell was identified as Mahmad Abu-Snena. On Jan. 24, Abu-Snena and an east Jerusalem resident Mahmad Julani shot a border guard officer and seriously injured a female officer at a checkpoint. They fled the scene with the officers' rifle.
On July 11, Abu-Snena and another people arrived by car in the Old City of Jerusalem and opened fire at the police, killing an officer.
A Shin Bet investigation revealed that the cell was also planning to assassinate a Jerusalem district police officer, carryout a shooting attack on the bus station located at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem, kidnap a civilian or a security officer, and stage a shooting attack on a police squad car driving along the Jerusalem-Dead Sea highway.
Since 2007 Israel has seen a significant rise in involvement of east Jerusalem Arabs in attack activity.
Just on late Monday evening, an Arab teenager driving a black BMW plowed into a crowd of people at a busy Jerusalem intersection near the Old City, leaving 19 people hurt.
This was the third such attack in the city in months. In last two cases Palestinians who lived in Jerusalem using heavy construction machinery killed three people and wounding many others.
Source:Xinhua
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