Police thwart large-scale terror attack in Tel Aviv

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Security forces on Tuesday thwarted a large-scale terrorist attack planned for Tel Aviv. Forces arrested a Palestinian resident of the West Bank and several other people at a Bat Yam house after receiving intelligence information from the Shin Bet security service.

A senior member of the Islamic Jihad said the group had planned the attack and had sent 24-year-old Omar Abu-Rob to execute it.

Following his arrest in Bat Yam, Abu-Rob led investigators to the nearby city of Rishon Letzion, where he had hidden a bag filled with explosives. Police said Abu-Rob confessed to planning to carry out an attack. He had apparently set out Tuesday morning from the Jenin area with the bag of explosives.

Security sources said the attack was to have been executed Tuesday evening at the central bus station in Tel Aviv. For unknown reasons, the sources said, Abu-Rob had hidden the explosives in a Rishion Letzion trash bin and returned to Bat Yam without them.

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