A major terrorist attack in central Israel was thwarted this afternoon, when a large-scale manhunt found the suicide terrorists in a taxicab near Ariel. A second cell was caught in Bethlehem.

Around noon today, a specific warning was received of a planned attack by suicide terrorists who had already set out on their way. Checkpoints and roadblocks were quickly erected, police were deployed in large numbers, and traffic was held up in many areas in western Shomron. Arab taxis were isolated, and in the Barkan Industrial Zone, the forces closed in on a number of vehicles, until the terrorists were found, neutralized and arrested. The would-be mass-murderers were then taken into custody of the General Security Service.

In Jenin yesterday, IDF forces found two car-bombs designated for use in attacks against Israelis.

Outside Jericho today, IDF and Border Guard forces surrounded the house of a long-wanted terrorist and demanded his surrender. When the man tried to escape, the forces opened fire and killed him. A bomb was later found in his house. The dead Fatah terrorist was one of the murderers of taxi driver Simcha Ron in April 2001.

Later in the day, IDF forces arrested two women in Bethlehem for planning a suicide terrorist attack against Jews. One is suspected of devising and coordinating the attack, and the other was to have carried it out.

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