Jerusalem – Palestine Dentist Arrested For Bombing Attack That Wounded IDF Soldier

Jerusalem – The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) announced Sunday that five Palestinians – including three dentists – were arrested in the alleged involvement of the May 10 terrorist-related pipe bomb explosions at the entrance of the Palestinian village of Hizma, north of Jerusalem.

The explosion of four pipe bombs on site left one officer, Shahar Roditi, severely wounded.

Dr. Samar Mahmoud Daud Al-Halbiyah, 36, of Abu Dis, was responsible for the cell-phone detonated pipe bombs. According to the Shin Bet, Al-Halbiyah, a dentist, was arrested for the use and possession of deadly cargo, including 56 small pipe bombs, two Molotov cocktails and one large pipe bomb. Al-Halbiyah planned to carry out another attack in the Jewish community of Ma’ale Adumim.

Arrested along with Al-Halbiyah were four accomplices, two of whom are also dentists: Dr. Dganah Paiz Gamil Navha’an, 36, of Qalandiya; Dr. Daud Shahadah Mahmoud Al-Halabiyah, 42, of Abu Dis, brother of Samar; Mahmoud Daud Shahadah Al-Halabiyah, 64, of Abu Dis, a nurse and Samar’s father, who was arrested under suspicion of concealing evidence; and Shadi Muhamad Ahmad Muhsan, 32, of Abu Dis, cousin of Samar.

The investigation revealed that Al-Halbiyah’s motive for the attack, which he planned at the beginning of February 2016, involved the “desecration of Al-Aqsa and Israel’s attack on Palestinian children.”