2 brothers of terrorist arrested after deadly attack in north; IDF seals West Bank home |
Israeli security forces continued a large-scale counterterrorism operation in the northern West Bank town of Qabatiya on Saturday, a day after a deadly ramming-stabbing attack in northern Israel that killed two Israelis.
A full curfew remained in effect in the town, the IDF said, with movement heavily restricted.
In the attack, Ahmed al-Rub, a Palestinian from Qabatiya, murdered 68-year-old Mordechai Shimshon and 19-year-old Aviv Maor during a minutes-long terror rampage on a highway near Beit She’an.
A 16-year-old who was wounded in the attack remained hospitalized on Saturday, according to media reports.
Two of the terrorists’ brothers were arrested overnight inside Israel, in a joint operation between the Yamam counterterror police force and the Shin Bet, police said. The pair were located in an agricultural building in Arraba, a Galilee town where they and their brother had worked illegally.
Rub himself was released from the hospital on Saturday after being treated for his wounds at HaEmek Medical Center in Afula, and was transferred to Shin Bet custody for interrogation.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir held a situational assessment Saturday at the Menashe Regional Brigade headquarters in the northern West Bank........