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Israel Foils Hamas Bus Bombing
(Times of Israel) Emanuel Fabian - On April 2, Muhammed Nadir Mahajneh, 20, a resident of the Israeli Arab city of Umm al-Fahm, was detained for his involvement in a Hamas plot to carry out a bombing against civilians on a bus in Hadera, the Israel Security Agency announced Wednesday. Mahajneh scouted out a number of locations in Israel for the bombing attack, "with an emphasis on security sites and crowded places, and sent the information he gathered to Hamas in Gaza." A Hamas operative who was in contact with Mahajneh sought at one point to convince him to carry out the attack at mass demonstrations against the government's judicial overhaul plans, the indictment said. Ultimately, according to instructions he received from Hamas, he chose as his target a bus line from Haifa to Petah Tikva that passes Hadera. Two Arab Israeli men arrested in January for a similar bombing plot were likely recruited by the same Hamas infrastructure.