  From the Associated Press, September 10, 2002 JERUSALEM. Hamas activists in the West Bank planned to blow up a Tel Aviv skyscraper with a huge truck bomb and to carry out a double suicide attack on an Israeli hospital, a newspaper reported Tuesday, citing court papers. The details emerged from an indictment filed in an Israeli military court against Mohammed Jarrar, 20, an activist in the Islamic militant group in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, the Haaretz daily said. The Israeli military said it was awaiting permission from the Shin Bet security service to release the indictment. According to the indictment cited by Haaretz, Jarrar joined Hamas in November. He received intensive training in making bombs, built two explosives labs in the Jenin camp and stocked them with hundreds of kilograms of explosives. Jarrar and other members of the cell recruited two suicide bombers who were to carry out a double attack on the Tel Hashomer Hospital near Tel Aviv, the indictment said. They planned to sneak into Israel disguised as Muslim clerics. A doctor employed by Jenin Hospital drove the two bombers, but the trio turned around when it spotted large numbers of soldiers at an Israeli checkpoint, the indictment said. Jarrar, the doctor and the two would-be bombers were arrested by Israeli troops on June 23, Haaretz said. Jarrar's cell also planned to blow up a Tel Aviv skyscraper, the newspaper quoted the indictment as saying. Jarrar produced hundreds of kilograms of explosives that were to be smuggled into Israel in a truck, the indictment said. There have been several previous attempts by Palestinian militants to blow up a high-rise building in Israel. Last week, police seized a truck bomb consisting of 600 kilograms (1,300 pounds) of explosives.
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