Article: Israeli forces arrest suspect in West Bank settlement attack

Naomi Segal
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
09-06-1995
Israeli forces arrest suspect in West Bank settlement attack.

Israeli security forces have arrested the person believed responsible for Tuesday's stabbing of a Jewish family in the West Bank.

The assailant was identified Wednesday as Hamdalleh Abdel Hadi Abdel Aziz, 20, a resident of an Arab village near the settlement of Ma'aleh Michmas, which is north of Jerusalem and near the West Bank town of Ramallah.

"He had a criminal background and recently began a process of becoming more religious. He went to the mosque daily," the Israel Defense Force said Wednesday.

"Fingerprints were found linking him to the attack," the IDF added.

Aziz is believed ...

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