by Lilach Shoval
According to indictment, cell also planned a terror attack against Israeli security personnel at Temple Mount • Cell leader Nur Hamdan, 25, confesses to planning attack, says inspired by YouTube videos depicting previous attacks against Jews in Jerusalem.
According to the indictment,
members of the terror cell planned to carry out a terror attack against
Israeli security personnel at Temple Mount.
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Indictments were filed on Wednesday against
members of a recently apprehended terror cell, residents of east
Jerusalem, who allegedly conspired to kidnap and murder an Israeli in
order to steal his weapon.
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and the
Jerusalem police arrested the cell in March. According to the Shin Bet,
during one of their outings, three cell members had picked up a Jewish
hitchhiker, but upon learning that he was not carrying a weapon, decided
to let him go. The Shin Bet says that the cell had also planned to
carry out a terrorist attack at Temple Mount, including firing weapons
at Israeli security personnel stationed there.
The indictment, filed with the Jerusalem
District Court, charges the cell members with a host of crimes,
including conspiring to commit a kidnapping, conspiring to commit
murder, conspiring to assist an enemy in wartime, assisting an enemy
during wartime, contact with an enemy agent, carrying illegal weapons,
attempted purchase of illegal weapons, attempted robbery, attempted
murder, illegal military training and obstruction of justice.
According to the Shin Bet, the leader of the
cell, Nur Hamdan, 25, confessed that he had planned to carry out an
attack on Temple Mount "to protect Al-Aqsa mosque." He reportedly said
that he had been inspired by YouTube videos detailing terror attacks in
Jerusalem, especially the 2008 attack at Mercaz Harav yeshiva (in which
eight students were killed).
Hamdan allegedly approached Al-Aqsa Martyrs'
Brigade in Gaza and in Nablus seeking assistance in preparing a shooting
attack against Israeli targets on Temple Mount. He eventually recruited
four friends from east Jerusalem to assist in the attack, the Shin Bet
said.
The members of the cell allegedly trained
several times near Kalandiya in northern Jerusalem, and even planned to
travel to Nablus to meet with a Tanzim activist and ask him for weapons
and money. In addition, the cell had allegedly planned to steal weapons
from Israeli police officers, and had even built several makeshift pipe
bombs for that end.
The weapons already in the cell's possession
were discovered at the east Jerusalem home of additional suspect Firas
Djani. The police discovered two handguns, ammunition and a pipe bomb.
Lilach Shoval
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=8699
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