Arab Who Planned Old City Stabbing Attack Charged

The Yerushalayim District Prosecutor’s Office today filed an indictment in the Yerushalayim District Court against Suleiman Kafisha, 26, from Chevron for offenses of preparing a terrorist act of murder, illegal entry into Israel, and carrying a knife.

According to the indictment, at the beginning of August the defendant decided to carry out a suicide attack in the Old City, where he intended to murder a Jew wearing a yarmulke.

For this purpose he equipped with a folding knife with a fixed blade about 10 cm long and a pepper gas canister, intending to locate a suitable victim, first spray him with pepper gas and stab him in the neck or back while he could not defend himself.

He instead aroused the suspicions of a local police officer and was arrested before he could begin his attack.

Read more at Arutz Sheva.

{Matzav.com}