Five Palestinians apprehended for murdering Danny Ganon

In a joint operation, the IDF Duvdevan unit, the Binyamin Brigade and police finally caught up with the suspected murderers of Danny Ganon, who was killed and a second Israeli seriously wounded on June 19 while hiking near the Dolev junction on the West Bank. Captured with the suspect, Mahmoud Abu Shahin, 30, from Kalandia, north of Jerusalem, were four Palestinians from Ramallah, who confessed to complicity in the crime. All five have spent years in Israeli jails on charges of terrorism and were found in possession of firearms and surveillance instruments. They also admitted to carrying out additional attacks on Israeli targets, including gunfire at Israeli troops soldiers manning checkpoints.