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Tel Aviv terrorists entered through hole in fence

(JTA) — The two alleged gunmen in the June 8 terror attack that killed four people in Tel Aviv entered Israel through a hole in the security fence, police said. The two alleged terrorists, Palestinian cousins from a West Bank town near Hebron who had not been authorized to enter Israel, snuck in near Beersheba and then took a taxi from there to Tel Aviv, Israeli security authorities said. A joint investigation by the Shin Bet, the Israel Defense Forces and the Border Police found that Mohammed Ahmad and Khalid Mahamra entered a wide gap in the security fence leading to the Israeli settlement Meitar. Both alleged gunmen were arrested soon after. Once on the Israeli side of the fence, the two, according to security forces, were helped by a Palestinian man working illegally in Israel, who drove them to a Bedouin village near Beersheba and gave them the clothes they wore for the attack. The alleged accomplice was also arrested.

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