(Oct. 10, 2024 / JNS) Israel security forces revealed on Wednesday the thwarting of a terrorist plot to blow up the Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv, following a month-long undercover investigation.

The Israel Police and the Israeli Security Agency arrested five suspects, residents of Tayibe, an Arab-Israeli city located in central Israel, in connection with the plot, Channel 12 reported.

The suspects, in their 20s, identified with Islamic State, or ISIS, which conquered large areas of northwestern Iraq and eastern Syria in 2014, only to lose control in 2019 to a combination of Iraqi, Kurdish and U.S. forces.