An Israeli Arab was arrested for allegedly planning to help two Hamas terrorists stage a double-suicide bombing in Beersheba. Israeli officials said that the man, a resident of the Bedouin community of Rahat in the Negev, planned to use his Israeli identification card to help transport the Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip to Beersheba’s central bus station.
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