Security forces apprehended a terrorist gang on the Golan Heights reportedly preparing to strike at Israel, it was announced Tuesday. The gang was headed by a youth from the Druze village of Masada and is linked to George Habash’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Damascus-based terrorist organization. Its members will be tried by a military court.
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