Man Arrested Near Jerusalem With Knife, Incendiary Device Suspected of Planning Attack

Police in the Jerusalem Envelope district arrested a masked man in his 20s on Sunday in the village of Al-Eizariya, who was allegedly planning an immediate attack. The suspect was apprehended after security forces received intelligence that he had expressed intentions to carry out an attack. Officers from the Ma'ale Adumim station and the Jerusalem Envelope Border Police unit responded to the intelligence, setting up roadblocks and conducting searches in the area. The suspect was found in Al-Eizariya, and a search of his belongings revealed a knife and a glass bottle filled with paper and nails, believed to be intended for use as an incendiary device. He was taken to the Ma'ale Adumim police station for questioning and subsequently detained. The investigation into the incident has been assigned to the counter-terrorism unit of the Judea and Samaria District Police and is ongoing. This arrest follows a series of security operations by Israeli forces in the West Bank recently. In recent weeks, security forces have made several arrests of individuals suspected of terrorist activities, including a pharmacy student indicted for planning attacks with poisons and explosives, and three wanted individuals apprehended for suspected involvement in terrorism in the village of Bir Nabala prior to the High Holidays.