(Ha'aretz) - The Shin Bet security service recently foiled a plan by Gazan Islamic Jihad activists to poison the drinking water at one of Jerusalem's hospitals, according to a charge sheet filed at the Erez Junction military court. The plan called for Iyad Salame, 18, from Bureij in Gaza, to go to Jerusalem for treatment at the hospital's ophthalmology department. He was then to drop the poison, made from a combination of baking powder and an unnamed liquid poison, into the hospital's drinking water reservoirs. Arab MK Issam Makhoul helped Salame get the pass for his medical treatment, but the army says Makhoul acted out of humanitarian motives, having no idea of the poisoning plot. Last week, Ha'aretz reported that a Hamas cell from Jenin planned a homicide bombing at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer.
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