The occupation intelligence service, "Shabak", announced this Monday morning the arrest of a Palestinian resistance cell consisting of 9 people affiliated with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), who are residents of the town of Biddu, southwest of Jerusalem. 

An Israeli army statement explained that the cell members were able to secure firearms, prepare explosives and explosive devices, develop an escape plan, monitor a place where the Israeli army is routinely active, collect intelligence information, and prepare a place to hide an Israeli soldier whom they planned to kidnap. 

According to the occupation, individuals planned to carry out qualitative shooting operations and detonate explosive devices, and established a self-made laboratory to prepare explosives and prepare explosive devices, which were seized, and the laboratory was seized and closed. Raw materials for producing explosives and explosive devices were found inside it, as well as Carlo-type weapons and maps that identified the location of the attack and the withdrawal route.