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TA: Palestinian who threatened guards at UK Embassy arrested
Reported Shin Bet informant Nadim Injaz, who barricaded himself inside British embassy last year, apprehended again after demanding to speak to embassy, Israeli defense ministry officials. His temporary resident's permit was set to expire today
Twenty-nine-year-old Palestinian Nadim Injaz, who claimed to have been a former informant for the Shin Bet and Israel Police, was arrested Thursday after threatening guards at the British Embassy in Tel Aviv and other secure government buildings.
In August 2006, the Ramallah resident barricaded himself in the embassy's complex on Hayarkon Street, carrying what was later found to be a toy gun and threatening to kill himself if he was not granted political asylum in the UK.
Injaz demanded that authorities provide him with a plane that would fly him from the Sdeh Dov airport to Europe.
Israel police commandos eventually stormed the compound and apprehended him. Injaz was convicted and sentenced to one year in prison. He finished serving his term a few weeks ago, and his temporary resident's permit was set to expire today.
A few days ago Injaz arrived at the Kirya compound and at the British embassy on Hayarkon Street, threatened the guards and demanded to speak with officials inside the buildings. The guards summoned the police, but the Palestinian fled before they arrived. Yarkon Sub-District officers tracked the suspect down Thursday morning and brought him in for questioning.
Injaz will be brought before the Tel Aviv Magistrates Court on Friday to have his remand extended.
A few days prior to last year's incident at the British embassy, the High Court of Justice rejected Injaz's appeal to receive protection from the State after he was apparently exposed by militant Palestinian groups.
