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Explosives belt designated for holiday attack found in Tel Aviv apartment
By Amos Harel, Avi Issacharoff and Roni Heruti-Singer, Haaretz Correspondents

A suicide attack in Tel Aviv was thwarted on Saturday when security forces found an explosives belt in an apartment in the city, designated to be used in an attack over the Yom Kippur holiday.

The belt was found Saturday morning in an apartment near the southern end of Allenby Street by the Shin Bet security service, operating with Yarkon District Police.

The apartment was occupied by Palestinians residing there illegally. It was apparently smuggled in parts from the West Bank City of Nablus.

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The residents attempted to resist arrest, and, in the process, one officer was wounded and needed medical attention. They were ultimately arrested and taken in for questioning.

Sappers came to the scene and blew up the belt in a controlled explosion.

The belt was intended to be used in an attack to be carried out by a suicide bomber who was arrested in Nablus late Thursday, after a three-day operation by the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet officers.

The IDF had deployed large forces in the Beit Ilma refugee camp in Nablus, in an effort to capture a cell of militants that included members of Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

The security services had received intelligence information that the cell was planning to carry out a suicide bombing attack in central Israel during the holidays.

The Shin Bet security service had picked up the trail to the explosives belt when it arrested Nihad Shkirat, the head of the joint Hamas-PFLP cell on Thursday, the army said. Shkirat told investigators he passed the belt to another Palestinian who works in Tel Aviv.

Police arrested that suspect Friday night and were led to the Tel Aviv apartment where they found the belt.

During the three-day operation, IDF Staff Sergeant Ben-Zion Henman was killed, as were two Palestinians, a civilian and an armed PFLP militant.
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  1.   well done! 19:38  |  Adam 22/09/07
  2.   Congratulations 19:44  |  indrajaya 22/09/07
  3.   explosive belt fond 20:02  |  Gad 22/09/07
  4.   Don`t stop there 20:02  |  Jeffrey 22/09/07
  5.   Thank G-d for the Security Forces 20:02  |  Daniel 22/09/07
  6.   Yom Kippur - good time for the bigots and bashers to take a break 20:14  |  GZLives 22/09/07
  7.   we are proud of u 20:15  |  Arie 22/09/07
  8.   Kol haKavod 20:15  |  Hannah 22/09/07
  9.   and the world remains silent 20:17  |  vik 22/09/07
  10.   To # 2 indrajaya 20:18  |  Mike 22/09/07
  11.   Stop calling their towns refugee camps! 20:24  |  naro 22/09/07
  12.   Thank you Security Forces 20:28  |  Benjamin 22/09/07
  13.   What a crock 20:42  |  Natallie Durson 22/09/07
  14.   TA bomb 20:52  |  RS 22/09/07
  15.   TA bomb 20:58  |  RS 22/09/07
  16.   Natallie Durson`s crock, what`s it full of? 21:14  |  Joe Sittizen 22/09/07
  17.   And we, Israelis, are being asked to stop using checkpoints, one 21:20  |  David Green 22/09/07
  18.   Natallie #13 continue living in your own world 21:21  |  Alan 22/09/07
  19.   thanx idf 21:29  |  beso 22/09/07
  20.   Bravo Shin Bet!! 21:29  |  Rafa 22/09/07
  21.   Bravo the Shin Beit 21:40  |  KUTW 22/09/07
  22.   More checkpoints and roadblocks needed 21:45  |  KUTW 22/09/07
  23.   Re Natallie #13 21:47  |  Esther 22/09/07
  24.   Worrying 21:48  |  Nina 22/09/07
  25.   good job Shin-Bet 21:48  |  Joey 22/09/07
  26.   #13 Natalie Durson 21:54  |  MR 22/09/07
  27.   to adam 22:01  |  abu jihad 22/09/07
  28.   To Joe on #16 22:06  |  Shmuelshachor 22/09/07
  29.   Natallie Durson # 13 22:06  |  ChanahS 22/09/07
  30.   #2 - FAKE INDRAJAYA ALERT 22:17  |  indrajaya 22/09/07
  31.   Natalie Durson 22:19  |  Connie 22/09/07
  32.   Thanks for showing us why 22:20  |  Common Sense 22/09/07
  33.   to intelligent natallie durson 22:25  |  rose 22/09/07
  34.   More reasons to remove roadblocks - NOT! 22:33  |  B`Galil 22/09/07
  35.   #2 Indrajaya 22:35  |  * BEN JABO 22/09/07
  36.   #6 GZ Lives 22:39  |  * BEN JABO 22/09/07
  37.   On our holiest day 22:41  |  Yonatan 22/09/07
  38.   Re Natallie #13 22:48  |  Esther 22/09/07
  39.   Fake Natalie 22:50  |  Dr. Jack 22/09/07
  40.   General Durson 22:55  |  Maven 22/09/07
  41.   To Natalie Durson 23:02  |  DM 22/09/07
  42.   #28 Dr. Jack -Canada 23:24  |  * BEN JABO 22/09/07
  43.   who said moder interegation techniques do not work 23:24  |  ralph 22/09/07
  44.   "ALLAH AQBAR" why would any body give them jobs after this 23:25  |  PETER S.M. 22/09/07
  45.   NDURSON Showed the world when you attacked Israel on Yom Kippur 23:29  |  PETER S .M. 22/09/07
  46.   Ben-Zion Henman 23:29  |  Mike 22/09/07
  47.   Durson # 13 23:32  |  Philippe 22/09/07
  48.   Ben Jabo # 24 23:34  |  Philippe 22/09/07
  49.   Second thoughts about Natallie 23:36  |  Esther 22/09/07
  50.   Bravo the Shin Beit 23:38  |  KUTW 22/09/07
  51.   More checkpoints and roadblocks needed 23:39  |  KUTW 22/09/07
  52.   Vik # 9 23:39  |  Philippe 22/09/07
  53.   Abbas will demand and Olmert will acceed to releasing the arreste 23:40  |  Absolute Sweden 22/09/07
  54.   "Work accident" 23:47  |  Sea Mouse 22/09/07
  55.   olmert, ramon and explosive belt in tel aviv 00:04  |  marv 23/09/07
  56.   Seems that the wall is working and IDf for that matter 00:06  |  Lavy 23/09/07
  57.   Natalie and Iran 00:13  |  amazed american 23/09/07
  58.   i have a poem for Nattalie Durson to celebrate Yom Kippur 00:42  |  Richard S 23/09/07
  59.   Delighted the plot was stopped, but wonder 00:45  |  Mark Lincoln 23/09/07
  60.   #9 - to vik 01:05  |  Kaelinda 23/09/07
  61.   Bravo the Shin Beit 01:30  |  KUTW 23/09/07
  62.   More checkpoints and roadblocks needed 01:30  |  KUTW 23/09/07
  63.   Shomer Yisrael 01:34  |  Yoram 23/09/07
  64.   About #17 David Green 01:47  |  MaryRose 23/09/07
  65.   The puzzle is How did the Illegals rent the apt. 01:58  |  * BEN JABO 23/09/07
  66.   and Haim Ramon wants to give them Jerusalem. A Sicko 02:36  |  Ken Jurist 23/09/07
  67.   IDF counter terrorism action 03:00  |  Sheikh Rattle & Roll 23/09/07
  68.   Obviously youve never been in service 03:13  |  Paul 23/09/07
  69.   They will never rest 03:14  |  Paul 23/09/07
  70.   Evil tactic 03:19  |  Paul 23/09/07
  71.   Good but ehh.... 03:20  |  American Dude 23/09/07
  72.   What verse is that? 03:24  |  Paul 23/09/07
  73.   Natallie#13 - if you already know about it... 05:48  |  William 23/09/07
  74.   Question for Indrajaya (and Hamas) 05:49  |  William 23/09/07
  75.   #13, Natallie Durson 05:54  |  Anna 23/09/07
  76.   Paul #68, 69, 70 & 72 05:59  |  * BEN JABO 23/09/07
  77.   Lincoln 06:01  |  * BEN JABO 23/09/07
  78.   Fake Natalie 12:32  |  Gabe 23/09/07
  79.   Amazing use of apartments 17:20  |  Robert 23/09/07
  80.   Kol HaKavod 23:35  |  Fran 23/09/07
  81.   #65, Ben Jabo... 05:22  |  Silvienne 24/09/07
  82.   #81 Silvienne 05:57  |  * BEN JABO