(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, APRIL 22 - Shin Bet, Israel's security
service, neutralised a three-member cell of Hamas activists that
were planning "a series of attacks against civilians and
soldiers", one of which was supposed to take place at the Teddy
football stadium in Jerusalem, said a statement from Shin Bet.
It said one member of the cell had an Israeli ID card and in December attended a football match at the stadium in order to study its security measures.
The three members of the cell attended Bir Zeit University in Ramallah and there they had been placed in a clandestine Hamas formation that Shin Bet said is still "very dangerous and in constant search of successes".
In the meantime, Hamas praised the attack that took place Tuesday in Abu Dis, near East Jerusalem, in which an Israeli soldier was hit by a van and stabbed.
The attacker, Ibrahim Helse, 25, was killed.
Hamas said the episode confirms that Palestinians are determined to fight against any Israeli project of annexation in the West Bank.(ANSAmed).
It said one member of the cell had an Israeli ID card and in December attended a football match at the stadium in order to study its security measures.
The three members of the cell attended Bir Zeit University in Ramallah and there they had been placed in a clandestine Hamas formation that Shin Bet said is still "very dangerous and in constant search of successes".
In the meantime, Hamas praised the attack that took place Tuesday in Abu Dis, near East Jerusalem, in which an Israeli soldier was hit by a van and stabbed.
The attacker, Ibrahim Helse, 25, was killed.
Hamas said the episode confirms that Palestinians are determined to fight against any Israeli project of annexation in the West Bank.(ANSAmed).
