ISA ARRESTS YOUNG PALESTINIAN WOMAN INVOLVED IN 21.March.2002 JERUSALEM
BOMBING
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)
Sunday, June 02, 2002

The ISA on Friday, 24.May.2002 arrested Sanaa Muhammed Hassin Shehada, 27
year old resident of the Kalandiya refugee camp, who was involved in the
infiltration of the terrorist who committed the suicide bombing of
Jerusalem's King George street on 21.March.2002 in which three Israelis were
killed and dozens wounded. She was arrested based on information that
came out of the interrogation of Abed-el Karim Awis, a senior Tanzim
leader in the West Bank who was arrested during Operation Defensive
Shield.

Sanaa revealed under questioning that she was the friend and
collaborator of Nasser Shawish, a senior Islamic Jihad figure in Jenin
who was responsible for the organization of the Jerusalem attack, and
agreed to his request to infiltrate the suicide terrorist, Muhammed
Hashaika, into Jerusalem with the assistance of another woman named
Kahira, and two other men.

Sanaa reconstructed the events of the attack for the ISA investigators
including the pre-attack preparations, the methods used to get around
the IDF road blocks, the props and disguises used to blend in with the
surroundings and the method of escape.