A Palestinian from the West Bank city of Hebron Thursday stabbed and lightly injured an Israeli border patrol policeman providing security for Prime Minister Ehud Barak at the Hilton Hotel in Tel Aviv, reported The Jerusalem Post Thursday.
It said the Palestinian stabbed the policeman with a screwdriver after the latter asked to check him because the Palestinian “looked suspicious.”
The policeman chased after him and arrested him, said the report.
Meanwhile, Palestinian security officials told AFP on Thursday they have arrested four members of Fateh movement in connection with the killing of two Israeli civilians in the northern West Bank two days ago.
The death of Israeli restaurant owners Motti Dayan and Etgar Zeituni in the West Bank town of Tulkarem prompted Israel to temporarily suspend peace talks with the Palestinians that are due to resume in Egypt later Thursday.
"After the killing incident, four people were arrested from Tulkarem," a Palestinian security official told AFP, adding that all were members of Fateh.
Among those arrested was the nephew of Thabet Thabet, the top Fateh official in Tulkarem who was killed by the Israeli army in December in what the Palestinians denounced as "military terrorism."
The nephew was identified as Maslama Thabet, 36.
However, The Jerusalem Post quoted a Palestinian security official as saying that the four were detained to protect them from Israeli vengeance.
The paper said that Dayan and Zeituni were buried in Haifa Thursday morning.
Reports quoted a statement by naming itself as “Martyr Thabet Thabet Group,” as claiming responsibility for the Tulkarem killing after Hamas distanced itself from the incident – Albawaba.com
