The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on Thursday said it had thwarted a bus bombing by a Gazan with a permit to work in Israel.
The agency arrested 31-year-old Fathi Ziad Zakot, a resident of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, late last month. Palestinian Islamic Jihad recruited Zakot to plant a bomb on a bus in the South.
The bomb and other materials were seized by security forces. According to the agency, Zakot underwent explosive training by terrorists in the Hamas-ruled enclave and had begun collecting explosive materials to assemble the bomb while he was in Israel.
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Source: The Jerusalem Post