AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – Following a month-long manhunt, Zionist troops have arrested a Palestinian who lives in the occupied territories suspected of perpetrating a deadly stabbing attack in February, the security source said on Sunday.
A statement released by the Shin Bet security forces said that Abd Al Karim Assi, 19, was captured in the West Bank city of Nablus early on Sunday, in an overnight joint operation of the Shin Bet, military and police.
The forces also arrested several persons who allegedly assisted Assi to hide or knew his whereabouts and did not reported to the occupying regime’s authorities, the statement said.
The military said in a separate statement that the arrests were carried out following "many activities, and overt and covert intelligence efforts."
Zionist war minister Avigdor Lieberman said the arrest had "brought a closure" and lauded the security forces for "a successful intelligence operation."
On February 5, Assi, armed with two knives, stabbed to death Itamar Ben-Gal, a rabbi from the Har Bracha settlement, at a bus station outside the settlement of Ariel in the northern West Bank.