The IDF maintains an outpost at the Governor's House in Abu Dis and the Benjamin Battalion soldiers were observing it from an ambush to ensure its safety.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFFThe makeshift pipe bombs found in a car in Abu Dis, ready for use.(photo credit: BORDER POLICE)
IDF soldiers thwarted a terror attack in east Jerusalem near Abu Dis on Friday evening, when they opened fire at three Palestinian terrorists who lit a firebomb with the intent to throw it at them, an IDF spokesperson reported.The IDF maintains an outpost at the Governor’s House in Abu Dis. Troops from the IDF’s Binyamin regional battalion were protecting it when they spotted the three attackers and opened fire on them, to prevent the attack on the outpost.The three Palestinians were injured and are being provided with medical aid by the Red Crescent.No IDF soldiers were injured in the incident.The outpost is thus named because it was at one point intended to house the Palestinian governor of the Arab-majority part of the city.
