Bank city of Jenin. According to the Shin Bet, in March and in April the agency obtained intelligence information according to which Abd al-Rahman Uthman, who is serving a life sentence for his role in a 2006 shooting attack, and his accomplice in that attack, Assam Zin al-Din, were planning a new crime together with a third prisoner, named Abd Al-Haq. The three began planning the attack in 2012, the Shin Bet said, and to that end they contacted a Hamas activist in the Gaza Strip through another prisoner and secured the necessary funds. At first the plotters planned to have released prisoners carry out the abduction, but they later changed their minds. Under interrogation they said they had given Uthman’s brother Nazia and brother-in-law Nader instructions toprepare for the kidnapping, including finding a hiding place and obtaining a vehicle, weapons and tranquilizers.

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Restriction of movement

Israel bars Pakistan soccer coach from entering West Bank

Haaretz 10 May — Israeli authorities stopped Pakistan’s soccer coach Mohammed Shamlan en route with his team from Jordan to the West Bank, Pakistani media reported on Saturday. According to reports in Dawn and The News International newspapers, Shamlan, who is a Bahraini national, was not permitted to continue with his team to the West Bank to attend the Al-Nakba International tournament. Pakistan is scheduled to face Jordan on Sunday as the tournament opens at the Faisal Al-Husseni Stadium in A-Ram, near Jerusalem. Pakistan Football Federation secretary Col. Ahmed Yar Khan told Dawn on Friday that “Shamlan is stuck in Jordan and is