Tira woman indicted for planning terror attack in Ra'anana

[Behind the Aegis]

An Israeli Arab was indicted on Sunday on charges of assisting terrorists in the attempted bombing of a Ra'anana restaurant.

The defendant, Warud Qasem, a 20-year-old Tira resident, was arrested on October 4 and the attack was thwarted, the security services said on Sunday at the Tel Aviv District Court, where she was arraigned.

Qasem was charged with joining the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah's military wing, three months ago, and helping it plan a bombing in Ra'anana's Spagettim restaurant. The prosecution said Qasem maintained contacts with militants of the Brigades in Nablus and Tul Karm and agreed to their request that she smuggle an explosive device into Israel.

At the time the defendant worked in a Ra'anana supermarket, and the group had planned for her cousin, a Palestinian illegally residing in Israel, to place the device in the local branch of the Spaghettim chain.


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