The security forces have arrested a man suspected of aiding the
suicide bomber who perpetrated Monday's attack on Dizengoff Street.
The detainee is suspected of conveying the terrorist from the Gaza
Strip to the site of the attack.
According to the application for warrant of arrest, the man
established contact with a hostile organization in Gaza for the
purpose of smuggling a person into Israel. On Monday, March 4, the
suspect carried in his truck a resident of the Gaza Strip who was
carrying a big bag. He put him down on Dizengoff Street. A minute
later, the explosive charge was detonated.
The counts of which the detainee, resident of a Beduin village in
the north of Israel, is suspected, are rendering service to a hostile
organization and aiding in murder. Police sources reported that
he received $1,100 for his services. Under interrogation, the suspect
confirmed that he had carried the terrorist but denied knowledge of
his intentions. The suspect engaged in carrying iron from the Gaza
Strip. He was arrested on Monday evening, after the attack.
A Justice of the Peace in Tiberias remanded the suspect in custody
for 14 days to enable the police and the GSS to question him.
Astonishment was expressed in the suspect's village following the
arrest. Correct to this evening, the name of the village has not
been approved for publication, but some of its residents reportedly
serve in the IDF. Villagers say the suspect owns a great deal of
property, also including two trucks, and it is accordingly not
reasonable that he would have committed such an act for $1,100.