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Female corporal prevents suicide attack at checkpoint
By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel, suicide attack 

Corporal Michal Ya'akov of the Israel Military Police's Teuz Battalion was responsible for preventing a suicide attack at the Hawara checkpoint in Nablus Monday evening.

"The entire incident lasted maybe 30 seconds," Ya'akov related. "I was about two feet away from him and asked him to go through the metal detector.

"It beeped, and I asked him to raise his hands, and then I saw the explosive devices under his shirt, near his pants. I yelled 'bomb at the checkpoint,' and the entire force went into action, perfectly. We called him to lie down so the shockwaves from the explosion would be closer to the ground, but he refused.
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"Then I saw him lower his arms suddenly and the checkpoint commander shot him several times. I assume he was trying to activate the bombs in order to blow himself up," she said.

Ya'akov said that when she asked the terrorist how old he was when he approached the roadblock, he said he was 16. She added that there were no intelligence warnings about a specific attack threat.

An IDF investigation revealed that the man had been carrying three pipe bombs. The IDF spokeswoman said army sappers later detonated the pipe bombs at the scene in a controlled explosion.

A Palestinian security source in Nablus said the dead individual was a 16-year-old youth from the village of Beit Furik near the city. Other details were not immediately available.

The IDF said that a Palestinian man arrived at a checkpoint acting suspiciously while pacing back and forth.

The force manning the checkpoint called on him to identify himself, and noted that he was handling an object that appeared to be an explosives belt secured to his body.

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