Six Palestinians arrested this week reportedly were trying to attack an Israeli warehouse that allegedly stores nuclear weapons. Army Radio quoted Britain’s Foreign Report as saying that the attack near Beit Shemesh was thwarted by information received by the Shin Bet security service and a subsequent manhunt in which the six were captured.
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