JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Palestinians planning to launch a terror attack on Tekoa in Gush Etzion were arrested by security forces outside of the West Bank settlement.

The two Palestinians affiliated with Hamas and from the Hebron area, reportedly confessed to planning to attack the community and one was carrying a knife. Police had been searching for the men for three days, after they went missing on Saturday, and intelligence reported that a terror attack was planned.

One of the arrested men is the nephew of Amar Abu Eisha, who is suspected of abducting and killing three Israeli teens in June from a traffic junction in Gush Etzion.

The arrests come a month after a Tekoa resident, Dalia Lemkus, 26, was stabbed and killed as she waited for a ride at the main Gush Etzion junction.