(AP/Jerusalem Post) - IDF soldiers arrested two Palestinian terror suspects at hospitals in the West Bank city of Nablus before dawn Saturday. In Nablus' Anglican Hospital, soldiers took Khaled Hamed, 25, a Hamas militant who was badly injured Wednesday when explosives inside a car he was riding in went off accidentally. A military source said Hamed had planned suicide bombing attacks. At Rafidiyeh Hospital troops arrested an armed member of the violent Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, linked to Arafat's Fatah faction. Jawad Ishtayeh, 27, was hiding out in the hospital's cellar and armed with a pistol. Palestinian security sources said the man was not a patient and was using the hospital as a hide-out. Israeli army spokeswoman Maj. Sharon Feingold said Palestinian militants were making a new strategy of hiding out in hospitals to avoid arrest. "Hospitals should not be used to harbor terrorists," Feingold said.
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