Israeli security personnel check the remains of a rocket in Shlomi, northern Israel April 6, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Fadi Amun

i24 News — Israeli security forces arrested suspects on a central highway on Friday, after there was an explosion earlier in the day near Tel Aviv’s HaYarkon Park.

In a joint statement, Israel Police and the Shin Bet internal security agency said the events were linked through an arrested suspect.

“A few hours after the explosion, following rapid investigative actions by the Shin Bet and the police, two suspects, originally from Azaria (and living intermittently in Jaffa), were arrested,”  the statement read, adding that one of the arrested suspects admitted responsibility for the bomb explosion in Tel Aviv.

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The statement concluded that the investigation is ongoing, and “the rest of the details are prohibited from publication at this stage.”

The arrest occurred on highway Road 431. Shin Bet says no explosives were found during the arrest.

No casualties were reported in either incident. However, Israeli media were reporting that a serious security incident was thwarted.

“The suspicion is of a more serious incident than currently thought; we may have succeeded in thwarting a terrorist squad that planned to sabotage the [Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah] in a number of unusual terrorist incidents that we have not seen yet,” a senior Israeli security official told News 14.

Earlier reports said the arrested suspects belonged to a Palestinian terrorist group.

Meanwhile, Israel Police and Shin Bet arrested operators of unidentified aircraft that approached homes belonging to officials with heightened security details. It is unclear if the arrests are related to Friday’s other incidents.