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Panic on the Internet: "Suspects photographed houses", the police: "There is no suspicion of attacks" Surfers published posts on social networks in which they claimed that suspects were seen taking photographs near residential buildings: "They are scanning the area! It is clear that they are planning something" • The police clarified that all the reported incidents were investigated and there was no suspicion of an attempted terrorist attack or involvement in terrorism: "In order to avoid panic, the public is asked not to forward these messages" • Police spokesman: Some of the photos are not authentic, maybe a foreign country...

Salah Hamouri, the Palestinian-French lawyer and researcher who went on a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment without charge by Israeli authorities for the past six months, has now been linked to a Palestinian terrorist group. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.- and E.U.-designated terrorist organization, inadvertently revealed on Sept. 25 that Hamouri—a lawyer and field researcher for the Palestinian NGO Addameer—is a member of the PFLP. Until now, Hamouri has strongly disputed such claims when Israel has leveled them…. The article on the official PFLP Lebanon website explicitly names Hamouri, as does a different...