{"id":114564,"date":"2025-10-17T02:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/?p=114564"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:03:26","slug":"drone-footage-arms-trade-foiled-near-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/drone-footage-arms-trade-foiled-near-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Footage: Arms Trade Foiled Near Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"252\" data-end=\"802\">Jerusalem lives under the shadow of an ongoing threat: the illegal circulation of weapons. This week, a striking piece of drone footage revealed the dramatic moment when detectives from the Central Unit of the Shai District, alongside undercover Border Police officers in Jerusalem, arrested a 48-year-old man from Nablus in the middle of a busy road. Inside his car they discovered a pistol, an improvised &#8220;Carlo&#8221; submachine gun and a loaded magazine \u2013 a snapshot of a broader battle that defines the city\u2019s fragile sense of security.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"863\">Jerusalem\u2019s Struggle Against the Flow of Illegal Arms<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"864\" data-end=\"1296\">The arrest was not a coincidence. A prolonged investigation had led police units to the suspect, who is believed to have been transporting weapons intended for the black market. The chase ended quickly, but the meaning lingers: every such seizure is viewed by Israeli police as a small barricade against the spread of unlicensed weapons threatening Jerusalem, from the bustling Mahane Yehuda market to the narrow alleys of Silwan.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1298\" data-end=\"1663\">Officials from the Shai District Police later declared their determination to continue: &#8220;We will act resolutely and in cooperation with other security bodies to stop arms trafficking and protect public safety.&#8221; The words frame the arrest not as an isolated event, but as another chapter in an ongoing struggle over security, authority and daily life in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">(<a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/on-highway-1-dangerous-prayer-near-jerusalem\/\">On Highway 1 \u2013 Dangerous Prayer Near Jerusalem<\/a>)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage &#8211; Border Police and detectives in Jerusalem arrest a suspect with weapons and ammunition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":114558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"Drone Footage: Arms Trade Foiled Near Jerusalem","_seopress_titles_desc":"Footage - Border Police and detectives in Jerusalem arrest a suspect with weapons and ammunition","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"9319","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10327,9320,9314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-jerusalem-news","category-main-item"],"acf":{"subtitle":"Footage - Border Police and detectives in Jerusalem arrest a suspect with weapons and ammunition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}