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TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were indicted on Monday in an Israeli military court, having been arrested three months earlier on suspicion of plotting an attack, Israeli daily Haaretz reported.

The four men were allegedly planning to attack Israeli soldiers manning checkpoints and to abduct soldiers and settlers, Haaretz said.

Israel's Shin Bet said that the men were planning to kidnap a soldier to force Israel into exchanging prisoners, including PFLP leader Ahmad Saadat.

The group was planning to use the weapons of one member who worked as a security guard in the Palestinian preventative security forces, and a Kalashnikov and ammunition were found during one arrest in Ramallah, according to Haaretz.

"The affair reveals once against the efforts of terrorist organizations and the high motivations of their members to carry out abductions in order to bargain for the release of prisoners jailed in Israel," the Shin Bet said in a statement.