Cleared for publication: Suspects from the Hizme bomb attack which occurred on Holocaust Remembrance Day are in custody. Back in March 2016, IDF officials announced progress in the case. They are now confirming suspects are in custody in the attack that left an IDF officer with serious injuries near the northern Jerusalem checkpoint.

The primary suspect is reportedly a dentist, 36-year-old Dawid Halabiyeh from Abu Dis. He prepared the bombs to be used in other attacks. He is in custody along with his brother, also a dentist. He reportedly told interrogated he was motivated by the “desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque” on Har Habayis.

His bombs were to be activated by mobile phones and he had them stored in his dental clinic. When security agents checked the premises, 56 bombs were uncovered!

Other suspects in custody as well including Dr. Dagana Faiz Navhan, a 35-year-old dentist from the Kalandia refugee camp. Another relative of Halabiyeh in custody is employed as a nurse in a hospital.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)