A Hamas fighter and tunnel digger has given his interrogators in Israel a bevy of intelligence about the group's recent tunnel construction, planned attacks, battlefield strategy and military cooperation with Iran, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said on Tuesday.
The agency released the information after news of Ibrahim Adal Shahada Sha'ar's arrest was made public on Tuesday.
Sha'ar, 21, from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, was arrested by the Shin Bet and the Israel Police last month at the Erez crossing to northern Gaza, when he arrived to submit an application to enter Israel.
Sha'ar's application to enter was for "personal or humanitarian reasons," and officers at the crossing knew who he was and arrested him on the spot, a Shin Bet official said.
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