Today, Thursday afternoon, undercover Israeli Border Police officers from the Jerusalem unit, acting on precise Shin Bet intelligence, arrested a suspect in Jerusalem’s Abu Tor neighborhood who is accused of planning a terrorist attack during Jerusalem Day celebrations, Police said in a statement moments ago.

The suspect was located and detained while at a car wash facility. No injuries were reported and the suspect has been transferred for further Shin Bet interrogation.

Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim) marks the reunification of Jerusalem under Israeli control after the 1967 Six-Day War, and is celebrated annually on 28 Iyar (this year: May 14–15).