Police Arrest Suspects in Tel Aviv Bus Blast, Including Israeli Citizen
Source: The New York Times
JERUSALEM — An Arab with Israeli citizenship and several West Bank Palestinians have been arrested on suspicion of carrying out the bus bombing in the heart of Tel Aviv on Wednesday, the Israeli police and the internal security service, the Shin Bet, announced on Thursday.
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A Shin Bet statement said that the suspects were rounded up within hours of the explosion. Most of them, it said, were from the Palestinian village of Beit Laqiya in the Ramallah area of the West Bank, and were associated with both Hamas an another militant group, Islamic Jihad. It said the suspects had recruited a resident of Taibe, an Arab village in northern Israel, who was originally from Beit Laqiya but who had become an Israeli citizen through a family unification program.
None of the suspects were immediately identified. The Shin Bet said the group from Beit Laqiya had admitted to preparing the bomb, choosing Tel Aviv as the target and buying cellphones for the remote detonation of the device.
The Shin Bet and the police said that the Israeli man placed the bomb on the bus and then disembarked. He then made contact with the organizers in Beit Laqiya, who activated the bomb by a phone call, they said. The Israeli man fled.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/23/world/middleeast/police-arrest-suspects-in-tel-aviv-bus-blast-including-israeli-citizen.html?_r=0
Related LBN article here. There have been conflicting claims of responsibility, but it appears Hamas and Islamic Jihad were involved.
