The Israeli army said Saturday it had intercepted a car bomb in the West Bank city of Qalqilya believed headed for an attack on the Jewish state.
According to Israeli reports, troops had already intercepted three car bombs and arrested 15 would-be Palestinian suicide bombers since they reoccupied nearly all the West Bank three weeks ago.
The Israeli army said it had carried out a controlled explosion of the vehicle, which carried Israeli licence plates. The car had been spotted on a road leading out of the West Bank Friday evening and a search had revealed it contained four bombs connected to gas cannisters.
Nails added to the bomb inside the vehicle, whose passengers fled after troops fired warning shots on the road near Qalqilya. This town is one of two West Bank towns on which the Israeli army had lifted curfews earlier Friday.
