Shin Bet Busts Terror Cell Planning to Shoot Up IDF Base in the Capital

December 9, 2016

A Terror cell made up of East Jerusalem teenagers planning to carry out a shooting attack on an IDF base in the capital was arrested in recent days, the Shin Bet security service announced Friday.

The group, which allegedly included members of the Hamas terrorist organization, was made up of eight Arab Israeli residents of the Tsur Baher and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, the Shin Bet said. The security agency would not specify when exactly the arrests were made, but said they happened in the month of November.