Israeli border police (MAGAV) officers caught a 17-year-old Arab terrorist with a knife taped to his body near the Old City’s Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on Saturday.

MAGAV officers stopped the teenager when they sensed he was acting suspiciously.

The teenager wrote on social media shortly before the arrest, ‘The important thing is to finish my life with satisfaction because there is no satisfaction other than paradise (heaven).’

SHABBAT TERROR ATTACK THWARTED NEAR OLD CITY

Israeli border police (MAGAV) officers caught a 17-year-old Arab terrorist with a knife taped to his body near the Old City’s Damascus Gate in Jerusalem this afternoon.

The officers conducted a routine check on the terrorist after… pic.twitter.com/jkBblpd1Wt

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