A suicide bombing intending for Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv was thwarted when IDF security forces found an explosives belt in an apartment in the city. The belt was found on Yom Kippur morning in an apartment by the Shin Bet, and was apparently smuggled in parts from Shechem.

According to Haaretz, the terrorists attempted to resist arrest, and, in the process, one officer was wounded and needed medical attention. Sappers came to the scene and blew up the belt in a controlled explosion.

The belt was intended to be used in an attack to be carried out by a suicide bomber who was arrested in Shechem late Thursday, after a three-day operation by the IDF and Shin Bet officers – which left one IDF soldier R”L dead.