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Shin Bet accuses Hamas of recent attempt to smuggle explosive material from Gaza
2023-09-21
[IsraelTimes] Security agency says 2 former West Bank residents, expelled to enclave as part of prisoner swap, are behind the recently foiled effort

The Shin Bet security agency on Wednesday accused the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
-ruling Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group of directing a recent attempt to smuggle kaboom out of the coastal enclave.

The Defense Ministry announced earlier this month that guards at the Kerem Shalom Crossing found several kilograms of "high-quality" kaboom hidden in a shipment of clothes being exported from the Gaza Strip to Israel. Citing initial assessments, the ministry at the time said the explosives were intended to be used for terror activity in the West Bank.

The September 4 incident led the military to order a halt to commercial deliveries from Gaza to Israel, before resuming nearly a week later.

The Shin Bet blamed the smuggling attempt on Arafat Natash and Muhammad Abu Awwad, both of whom originally hail from the West Bank but were expelled to Gaza as part of a prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas. Citing their pasts, the security service asserted their alleged involvement was an effective "fingerprint" indicating the "West Bank headquarters" of Hamas was behind the effort.

According to the Shin Bet, the explosives would have "allowed the elements that hold it to carry out mass terror attacks" if it had reached its destination.

The agency also said the shipment was sent by a Gaza-based transport company that regularly sends goods through the crossing and arranged with the help of a woman named May Mansour. A statement from the Shin Bet did not specify if the firm or Mansour were aware of the seized shipment’s contents.

"The cynical exploitation by Hamas elements of the route for transporting goods from the Gaza Strip directly harms the regular fabric of life for residents of the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria," a security source said, using the West Bank’s biblical names.

"These same citizens pay the heavy and immediate cost of the crossing’s closure, the economic harm that comes with it and the [increased] rigorousness of issuing permits for future goods," the source added.

The Shin Bet announcement came amid rising tensions along the Gaza border, with Paleostinians staging riots along the security fence the past three days.

The riots, according to military assessments, come as Hamas seeks to resolve a dispute it has with Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
over monthly funding the Gulf nation provides to Gaza.

Hamas apparently launched the riots on the Gaza border to pressure Israel, which would in turn pressure Qatar to solve the issue.
Related:
Kerem Shalom Crossing: 2023-05-15 Israel reopens Gaza crossings, shut since launch of Operation Shield and Arrow
Kerem Shalom Crossing: 2023-05-13 Palestinian militants fire rockets toward Jerusalem
Kerem Shalom Crossing: 2021-05-31 Security officer stabbed in south by man who entered Israel from Gaza
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Posted by: ACA JOE    2023-09-21 12:21  

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