Israeli authorities were set to charge over a dozen Arab citizens accused of planning to carry out attacks on behalf of the Paleostinian terror group Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,..., the Israel Police and Shin Bet security service said in a joint statement Sunday.
The 13 suspects, mostly from the northern city Sakhnin, are suspected of purchasing weapons from operatives in the West Bank, according to the statement.
Authorities said the plot had been unraveled during a months-long covert investigation.
In the midst of a war? Impressive.
According to Army Radio, Hamas intelligence documents captured by troops in 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 Hamas with 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip helped lead Sherlocks to the suspects.
Hamas intelligence documents, you say? Do tell.
Indictments against the suspects, some of whom were involved in rioting during the May 2021 Gaza war, were to be filed at Haifa District Court on Sunday.Two men, Muhammad Khaled and Muhammad Yusef, were accused by police of leading the cell and recruiting the other members.
One of the suspects, Muhammad Khalaila, maintained contact with Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip who provided him with instructions on how to manufacture explosives and told him to recruit additional members, the statement said.
Authorities said four firearms, ammunition, and other equipment were seized in raids on the cell. Some of the weapons originated from the Israel Defense Forces, the statement said.
Whoops! The IDF has not been taking that nearly seriously enough.
Additionally, Suheib Jalbush, a West Bank Paleostinian accused of weapons dealing was also arrested for his involvement in the plot.Authorities did not say where or when the arrests took place.
Police have been on high alert for violence amid rising tensions around the Ramadan holy month, which begins this week.
Police said separately that 20 East Jerusalem residents had been arrested on suspicion of incitement and support for terrorism over the past two weeks.
Some indictments have been made and the investigation is ongoing, they noted, accusing terror groups of attempting to stir up unrest in the capital around Ramadan by spreading "false information regarding the reality in Jerusalem, the Old City, and in particular the Temple Mount."
In the past, rumors of Israeli attempts to change the sensitive status quo at the Temple Mount, which Moslems refer to as the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, have threatened to upend any semblance of calm in Jerusalem.
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