Police uncover weapons cache in east Jerusalem
Jerusalem police announced Tuesday that they uncovered a
massive weapons cache last month hidden inside a vegetable market in east
Jerusalem.
Police arrested five Israeli Arabs from east Jerusalem
and three Palestinians from the Hebron area over the past month. Two brothers
from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, the central suspects, were
indicted over the weekend in the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court and will be in
detention until the end of legal proceedings.
National police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police and
the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) are still investigating whether the
weapons cache was designated for carrying out terror attacks or for criminal
activity not connected to nationalistic motives.
On August 8, police raided a vegetable market on Sultan
Suleiman Street, in the economic heart of east Jerusalem, after receiving
intelligence that the building was housing a large amount of weapons. Police
discovered multiple explosives, hand grenades, different kinds of pistols and
bullets.
The room was hidden behind a vegetable market and had
photos of different martyrs on the walls as well as Hamas flags, head gear to
hide their faces, stolen berets from the border police and NIS 250,000. Police
also discovered a weapons silencer, something that Rosenfeld said illustrates
the fact that the people involved in obtaining the weapons are very advanced
and organized.
“This is a quality stash of different types of weapons,”
said Rosenfeld. “Silencers you don’t find every day. They were much more
focused and on a higher level. The fact that it was hidden inside a grocery
store, that it was clearly being hidden, that’s also very suspicious.”
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