Israel Arrests Top Hamas Terrorist in Tulkarm, Wearing Women's Clothes
Israel Insider ^ | December 4, 2004 | Israel Insider staff and partners
 

Rami Abed Teikh, a senior Hamas commander in Tulkarm, was arrested Saturday night in a joint IDF-Shin Bet operation. One of Israel's most wanted terrorists,

Security source said he was part of the terror organization which perpetrated out the suicide bombing attack at Netanya's Park Hotel on Passover eve, 2002, which killed 29 people and triggered 'Operation Defense Shield' in the West Bank.

Haaretz reported that, according to the IDF, Teikh, 26, was responsible for carrying out an infiltration into the Avnei Hefetz settlement in March of this year, in which one man was killed and his daughter wounded.

Teikh received assistance from the local civilian population to evade arrest, wearing women's clothing to prevent detection. In recent years he recruited Hamas members and set up terror cells.

According to the Jerusalem Post, IDF combatants from the Egoz unit and the Nachshon Battalion surrounded a house in which Teikh was hiding and ordered him to surrender. Instead, IDF soldiers fired an anti-tank rocket at the house. "Don't kill him, we need him alive," one resident quoted a soldier as telling his comrades. Teikh then came out.

Security forces also arrested six other fugitives in the raid. They found two automatic rifles, a pistol and ammunition at the hideout, sources said.