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IDF Arrests Bethlehem Bombmaker
(Ha'aretz) - Continuing its pinpoint actions against wanted terrorists, the IDF on Wednesday arrested Yahya Da'amseh, 40, an expert bomb-maker and senior Fatah operative from the Deheisheh neighborhood of Bethlehem. According to the Shin Bet, Da'amseh was responsible for the suicide bombing in Jerusalem's Beit Yisrael neighborhood this March that killed 11 people, including several children. The previous month he sent a suicide bomber to Jerusalem who blew himself up at a roadblock, killing a policeman. In July 2001, he allegedly planted a bomb that killed an IDF officer near Hebron. Da'amseh also sent suicide bombers into Israel on three other occasions, including his own 14-year-old niece, who was arrested before she could carry out her attack. After his arrest, the IDF destroyed his house.