IMRA Newsletter
Details: Arafat's Fatah Tanzim trick Boy into being Suicide Bomber
15 March 2004
Background Information
Attributed to official Israeli "security sources"
Twelve-year old carrying bag with bomb stopped at IDF checkpoint.
IDF soldiers thwarted an attempted terrorist attack today, following an alert by the GSS that a terrorist attack was going to emanate from Nablus, stopping a 12-year old Palestinian boy who was carrying a bag containing explosives.
The soldiers stoppped to check the youth who transported goods through the checkpoint. He earned money transporting bags at the checkpoint and in this case aroused suspicion amongst the soldiers. Tanzim operators from the city Nablus took advantage of the innocent appearance of the boy and used him, without his knowlege, to transport an explosive device across the checkpoint. The youth was briefly interrogated and subsequently released.
The device, which was concealed in the bag, with wires protruding from it, contained a large amount of explosive material as well as pieces of metal. Border Police sappers, who arrived at the checkpoint, detonated the device in a controlled manner. The information leads to the conclusion that terrorists planned to activate the explosive device against the soldiers by use of a cellular telephone as the youth was passing through the checkpoint; namely to use the youth as a homocide bomber, without his knowledge. The thwarted terrorist attack was directed by a Tanzim terrorist in Nablus.
It should be noted that this type of activity seriously harms innocent Palestinian population which passes through checkpoints on a daily basis and is evidence of the need for conducting checks at checkpoints.
The thwarting of the terrorist attack, reemphasizes the way in which terrorist organizations abuse Palestinian children and youth who are able to pass easily, and without suspicion in crowded areas.
Since the beginning of the violence in 2000, 29 suicide attacks were carried out by youth under the age of 18.
Since May 2001, 22 shootings attacks and attacks using explosive devices were carried out by youth under the age of 18.
Since the beginning of 2001, more than 40 youth under the age of 18 were involved in attempted suicide bombings that were thwarted (of them, three during 2004).
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