Menurut negara Yahudi tersebut, 117 penyerang bom bunuh diri potensial yang ditangkap pada 2006 berasal dari kota Tepi Barat itu, yang menjadi markas Brigade Syuhada al-Aqsa, sayap bersenjata partai Fatah kubu Presiden Palestina Mahmoud Abbas.
It said that 117 potential suicide bombers arrested in 2006 had come from the northern West Bank city, which is mainly a stronghold of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the violent, semi-independent, semi-official armed wing of President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party.