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  • Terror cell arrested in Bethlehem hospital [terrorists used it to hide and plan terror attacks]

    04/01/2004 11:28:31 AM PST · by yonif · 14 replies · 417+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | Apr. 1, 2004 | MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
    An elite Israel Defense Forces unit, working together with the Shin Bet, arrested 12 Palestinian fugitives, some members of the Palestinian intelligence and preventive forces, who hid out in a local psychiatric hospital in the Dehaisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem and engaged in gun battles with soldiers. Before dawn on Thursday, acting on intelligence information, security forces surrounded the psychiatric hospital and using loudspeakers called on the fugitives to surrender. In response the Palestinians opened fire at the troops and engaged in a gun battle with soldiers that lasted over an hour before the Palestinians surrendered. Security forces found three...