‘PA arrests Hamas terror cell planning J’lem suicide bomb’
Nablus members of Izzadin Kassam Brigades were reportedly preparing to kill city’s Palestinian governor; group also planned to kidnap settlers, assassination of West Bank mayor.
Palestinian Authority security forces arrested several members of Hamas’s armed wing, the Izzadin Kassam Brigades, who were planning to carry out a suicide bomb in Jerusalem, the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency reported on Wednesday.
The operatives had planned undermine political stability and Fatah control in the West Bank, in addition to carrying out an assassination plot on a West Bank mayor.