IDF Nabs Senior Hamas Terrorist

[Jerusalem Post] Yaakov Katz - Muhammad Harwish, a senior Hamas terrorist and one of the planners of the 2002 Park Hotel Seder night suicide bombing, was arrested Tuesday in Zurif in the West Bank by the Border Police's counter-terror squad. Harwish, head of Hamas' military wing in Tulkarm, was apprehended along with his personal aide, Adnan Samara. Security officials also announced Tuesday that in July and August, they arrested five Fatah-Tanzim operatives near Ramallah, including a member of the PA security forces and a Palestinian who lived in the U.S., who were involved in a number of shooting attacks near Route 60, a main highway.


2009-09-17 08:00:00

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