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12.05.02, 13:50
A Jewish Organization Plans Attacks Against Palestinians
JERUSALEM, May- The Shin Bet security service is searching for Jewish
extremists suspected of planning attacks on Palestinians, Israel Radio
reported.
Jerusalem district police and the Shin Bet have detained four Jews on suspicion
of planning mass terror attacks against Palestinian residents of A-Tur and East
Jerusalem. Two of those detained were arrested around two weeks ago, while they
were apparently planting a bomb near a hospital in East Jerusalem.
Officers from the Shalem police station were patrolling the A-Tur neighborhood
of Jerusalem when they spotted a suspicious vehicle with two passengers -
Shlomo Davir and Yarden Morag, both residents of the Bat Ein settlement. The
officers followed the suspicious vehicle and called for reinforcements. When
they approached the Al-Mukasad hospital, the suspects unhooked a trailer from
the rear of the vehicle, and placed it at the side of the road, next to the
hospital and a nearby all-girls high school.
The officers approached the two suspects and asked then to explain their
actions, but the two refused to answer. The officers took the two suspects into
custody. A search of the vehicle discovered unlicensed weapons. An army sapper
was called to the scene and found a powerful explosive device, with a time-
delayed detonator, inside the trailer. The device was programmed to explode the
following morning. Bomb squad officers neutralized the device.
Following the interrogation of Davir and Morag, two additional suspects were
arrested - Ofer Gamliel, 42, also from Bat Ein, and Yossi Ben-Baruch from the
Havat Ma'on settlement. All four suspects are currently under arrest.
Meanwhile, an extreme right-wing organization, going by the name of 'Gilad
Shalhevet,' threatened Friday to assassinate singer Yaffa Yarkoni, if she
performs at Saturday's peace rally at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square. The threat was
made in a telephone call to the Peace Coalition, which is organizing the rally.
A Peace Coalition activist reported the incident to police, who have begun
investigating.
'Gilad Shalhevet' has claimed responsibility for a series of anti-Arab terror
attacks last year, including the shooting attack in which a Palestinian truck
driver was killed near Mishor Adumin.
Yarkoni was interviewed recently on Army Radio, where she was highly critical
of the actions of some soldiers during Operation Defensive Shield. Her words
created a public outcry, with many people calling for a boycott of the veteran
signer.
In response to the threat, the Peace Coalition called on "the moderate Israeli
public not to give in to the extreme right."
