CHASDEI HASHEM: Yamam counterterrorism officers and Menashe Brigade forces arrested five members of a terror cell in the northern Shomron planning an imminent terror attack against Israeli targets.

The arrests were carried out with intelligence information from the Shin Bet.

A joint statement from the IDF, Israel Police and Shin Bet on Sunday said that the terrorists were arrested overnight in the Palestinian village of Barta�a.

The IDF is still operating in the northern Shomron as part of a broad counterterrorism operation it launched in the area last week.