Police detectives and Military Police investigators raided an apartment in Jerusalem's Ramat Sharet neighborhood, uncovering a weapons cache including ready-to-use explosive devices, a missile, and grenades, some hidden in a closet behind dresses. The arrested man claimed the gear belonged to his soldier son who stored it there, according to The Zioneer.
Police investigators and Military Police detectives raided an apartment in Jerusalem's Ramat Sharet neighborhood and uncovered a cache that included a missile, grenades, and ready-to-use explosive devices, some hidden in a closet behind dresses, according to The Zioneer. The man arrested at the scene told investigators the equipment belonged to his soldier son, who had stored it at the home.
The Zioneer first reported the overnight raid and arrest at 11:22 Jerusalem time Friday (version 1 of this thread). Minutes later, a wire update (also at 11:22) added the suspect's claim that the military gear was collected by his son, an IDF soldier. The version now being published includes the fuller specifics of the weapons — including the missile and grenades behind the dresses — that were part of the original overnight report but were not highlighted in the wire updates.
The seizure comes amid a string of weapons busts in and around Jerusalem in recent days and weeks. On June 30, police uncovered a large cache of M16 rounds and weapon parts in a Ramla apartment (The Zioneer, Tue Jun 30, 12:15 Jerusalem). The same day, Border Police seized explosives and firearms in a village near Jerusalem as part of a foiled major terror plot that involved a 25-meter-deep tunnel shaft (The Zioneer, Tue Jun 30, 02:24 Jerusalem). On June 28, police found an operational vehicle in Tel Sheva containing a stolen IDF shoulder-fired missile and flammable materials (The Zioneer, Sun Jun 28, 15:53 Jerusalem). And on June 26, a large cache of rifles, explosives, and detonators was recovered from a drained water well in the village of al-Jib, north of Jerusalem (The Zioneer, Fri Jun 26, 12:48 Jerusalem).
The full details of the latest find — the missile, the specific hiding spot — were not independently confirmed beyond police sources at the time of this dispatch. The investigation was ongoing.
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