A Palestinian teenager with a knife was arrested on his way to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, the Israel Police said on Sunday.
Border guards noticed that the teen was acting suspiciously while passing through a checkpoint near the pilgrimage site, at which point they approached the suspect and began questioning him. During the search, the teenager "threw a knife on the ground," police said.
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"The police then tackled the individual to the ground and arrested him," a police statement said, adding that the suspect was taken for questioning by the Shin Bet security agency.
