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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Islamic-Jihad-plotted-to-blow-up-venue-in-South-kidnap-IDF-soldier-470494

Islamic Jihad Plotted to Blow Up Israeli Wedding Hall, Kidnap IDF Soldier

(Jerusalem Post) The Israel Security Agency announced Thursday it had thwarted an Islamic Jihad plot to carry out a terror attack at a wedding hall and to kidnap and kill an IDF soldier for the purposes of bargaining with Israel. Mahmoud Yousef Hassin abu-Taha, of Khan Yunis in Gaza, was arrested last month while entering Israel through the Erez Crossing. Abu-Taha was enlisted by Wael Sufian abu-Taha, a senior Islamic Jihad official in Gaza, to form a cell to carry out the terror attacks. The three men whom Abu-Taha enlisted were also arrested. "This grave affair yet again exhibits the efforts of terrorist elements in Gaza to carry out murderous terror attacks in Israel," the ISA stated.

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