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West Bank security arrests alleged IS recruit targeting Israel

Palestinian Authority security services tell Israeli media they arrested a Palestinian woman they believe was going to blow herself up in Israel for the Islamic State.
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A 23-year-old woman allegedly plotting a solo suicide attack against Israel for the Islamic State (IS) was surrounded by two dozen Palestinian Authority (PA) security officers and arrested while she was teaching the Quran in a West Bank mosque, Israeli news media reported May 26. 

The arrest took place May 9. A high-ranking PA security official told the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth that security officers arrested Alaa Bashir, who is from Qalqilya in the northern West Bank. Authorities said she was planning to blow herself up inside Israel using a self-made explosive belt.

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