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Israeli Security Forces Uncover Two Palestinian Terror Cells in West Bank
(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Lappin - Security forces uncovered two terrorist cells in December and January that carried out shooting attacks on Israeli targets, the Israel Security Agency announced Thursday. One cell belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) carried out a shooting attack on Israeli vehicles in the Benjamin region, targeted an IDF position in Nabi Salih, and took part in fire bombings and pipe bomb incidents directed at IDF units in the West Bank. Security forces seized four firearms used to shoot at Israelis. "The members of the cell confessed to their intention to carry out more attacks, including a combined gun and pipe bomb attack on an IDF base, stabbings against soldiers, and kidnapping a soldier," the ISA added. A second cell from Bani Naim near Hebron carried out several shootings at Israeli vehicles on Route 60 near Kiryat Arba. During one gun attack, bullets were lodged in an Israeli vehicle. "The suspects turned in a gun, a rifle, and ammunition hidden in one of the suspect's homes," the ISA said. A PFLP operative in Hebron confessed to providing some of the cell's weapons.