(Ha'aretz) Israel Defense Forces soldiers arrested 15-year-old Ahmed al-Nadi from Askar with a bomb belt tied around his waist at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday. "The teenager was asked to lift up his shirt and it revealed a bomb belt containing two pipe bombs tied around his waist," an army spokeswoman said. The youth apparently intended to detonate the bombs at the checkpoint by igniting a crude detonator with a cigarette lighter, the spokeswoman said. It was the 14th time in the past two months that a Palestinian teenager had attempted to detonate a bomb or smuggle arms and explosives through a military checkpoint despite a de facto truce declared in February.
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