The security services managed to thwart a kidnapping and shooting attempt in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, and seized a firearm and arrested two suspects.

Colonel Louay Irzeigat, the media spokesman for the police, explained that, based on information available to the General Investigation Branch about the presence of a suspicious vehicle in the town of Beit Ummar, inside which a group of masked men was on their way to kidnap a citizen and open fire on public property immediately, a force of the General Investigation and security services set up an ambush them downtown to catch them.

Colonel Arziqat added that when the suspicious vehicle approached the checkpoint, the suspects tried to shoot at the force and flee, which prompted them to shoot at them and injure one of them in the foot before the force managed to control two of them and seize a Kalashnikov firearm in their possession.

Colonel Arziqat confirmed the reservation of the two arrested until they were referred to the competent authority to follow up the necessary legal procedures against them.