Israeli Troops Take Out Would-Be Bomber In WBank
JERUSALEM - Israeli troops shot dead an apparent would-be Palestinian suicide bomber at a checkpoint near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Monday, the Israeli army said.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said troops ordered a man acting suspiciously at the Hawara checkpoint to stop but shot him when he lowered his hands in an apparent attempt to blow himself up.
The spokeswoman said army sappers later detonated five pipe bombs which were placed inside the belt in a controlled explosion at the scene of the shooting.
An Israeli soldier involved in the incident told reporters that it was clear to her that the man was intending to attack the checkpoint.
“There were no other Palestinians in the area when he tried to blow himself up, from his behavior it appeared as if he was not intending to get into Israel but wanted to blow himself up at the checkpoint and attack the soldiers there,” she said in a telephone interview.
A Palestinian security source in Nablus said the person killed was a 16-year-old youth from the village of Beit Furik near the city. Other details were not immediately available.
Israeli troops later entered the village to search for the house of the attacker’s family, local residents said.
Israel frequently carries out strikes and raids in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip aimed at stopping rocket fire into nearby towns and agricultural communities in southern Israel.
Clashes and attacks are not as frequent in the West Bank, where Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction holds sway.
(Additional reporting by Atef Saad in Nablus, Writing by Ori Lewis)
(Reuters)
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Hmmm…I guess those border walls and check points really do work! To00 bad our own government have slow down or even stop building our Wall of Border Protection because of our corrupt Politicians who want the cheap votes and the corrupt business who wants the cheap slave labor!
May 20th, 2008 at 4:40 amInteresting, is it not, that the enemies of Israel were so vehement in their opposition to the wall? Methinks they doth protest too much…
May 20th, 2008 at 6:30 amThe wanna be will never be; except burning in hell. Allah Akboom. Bang,
you are dead Hibib.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:43 amOnly one?
May 20th, 2008 at 10:22 amThis is gonna take like foreva at that pace….