Forces from the Central Unit in the Jerusalem District, Border Police, and the Ministry of Defense’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau raided the homes of terrorists and families of terrorists in East Jerusalem who were released in hostage deals and continued to receive

Among the terrorists whose homes were targeted in the operation are Mohammad Abdel Rahman Abad, who was involved in a 2002 attempted suicide bombing in Jerusalem, and Ahed Faiz Ali Alnatsha, a Hamas operative who was involved in 2001 in planning a car bomb explosion in a parking lot in Pisgat Ze’ev and in planning the attack at the Clal Center in Jerusalem, in which two police officers and ten civilians were injured.